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justinhubbell

To those we love

To those we lost

And those of us

Whose paths have crossed.

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About this: I’m in therapy. I am in recovery. I am healing.

This triptych is part of a book I’ve been working on.

I’ve been suicidal since the third grade. What I’ve learned over the years is, being suicidal is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s not your fault. You’re not “broken” or “worthless” or any of that.

We have the power to change our relationship with anything. We can find balance within ourselves. It’s there.

If you were looking for, or needing a sign? Here it is.

If you needed permission? Take mine.

It might take you a few tries, yes, but there are many people who can help. It’s a slow process but you are worth it. Don’t give up!

I love you and I’m proud of you!

-Justin

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Learning this was an intentional genocide changed me.

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I know most of those following me know this, but just to make it super clear. An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger/the Great Famine) was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people. There was enough food grown in Ireland to make sure everyone was alive and healthy and survived. Instead it was exported, sent to England and elsewhere for profit while men, women, and children starved in the streets. While the English landlords fucked off and evicted starving families who couldn’t afford rent. While babies were too weak to cry and died at the side of the road.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. And we owe so much thanks to the other oppressed peoples, in particular the Choctaw Nation and the Masai, who sent money and grain to us.

Let me repeat that. The Choctaw Nation who had just gone through the Trail of Tears sent us money to try save Irish lives. It’s led to an understanding between Irish people and Native American tribes, most recently when we donated to the Navajo and Hopi fundraisers for COVID-19 relief, because while it may be a different tribe, Irish people will never forget those who helped us and we’ll help back.

The entire population of the island is less than seven million people. We’re still a million less on this island than pre famine. And it’s not that long ago. My grandmother’s grandparents lived through it. We’ve told the stories, it literally changed the DNA of the country. We have a national fear of renting, because so many people were evicted. People joke about Irish people always offering loads of food, but it’s because there’s that cultural memory of not being able to.

They tried to kill us, but they did not succeed. We will not let them take our lives, we will not let them take our language. We lost so much, but we will not lose it all.

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Other nations tried to send aid. The Ottoman sultan sent ten ships loaded with grain to be distributed as disaster relief. The Royal Navy turned eight of them back. On the orders of the Crown.

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.stomachaches.

viejospellejos

Parece que ya hay fecha de estreno de Matrix 4

keithturban

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy fucking ass crackers, the same cast and the Wachowski sisters again?!?? I’m so fucking excited!

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Horror Illustrations by lilcthulhu on Twitter and Instagram

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hobsdove

Me thinking this was just gonna be an embroidery video: 👁👄👁

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keithturban

Yeah and the supervisor is screaming at the guy up top to work faster while he sits on his phone all day, meanwhile the worker is getting paid $12 bucks and gets called a pussy when he asks for PPE or a fall arrest system. Nothing like becoming permanently disabled over a shitty check. I worked for a company and knew the owners quite well and one of the things they’d say was “you’re fired before you hit the floor” and then have their supervisors toss you in a 20 foot attic stomping out the drywall below you with zero safety gear. If you asked for safety equipment, they sent you home.

All while the owner of the company charges the customer double for materials and triple for labor. Living in a badass house that’s paid off with all sorts of cars and toys and vacations, while you risk your life for $12 bucks.

It’s not just billionaires people, it’s your contractors, your big flooring companies, your asbestos abatement services, your large electrical centers, truck fleet owners, fencing companies, it’s everywhere in the construction industry.

Don’t help Jeff Home Builder fund his third vacation to Italy this year, don’t help Jerry Abatement contractor buy another summer home. All while the people who performed the actual labor live paycheck to paycheck and risk their bodies for it.

Hire an independent contractor, help their family directly by paying them for what you need. Every dollar you spend directly benefits their family. Helps pay medical bills, helps put their kids through college. And maybe they might get to take their family on a vacation too.

That’s my piece

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Bus drivers who see you running and open their hole are better public servants than any cop.

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their what now?

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redchrominance

their ‘bussy’ you might say

sugarcoatednightshade

i might not.

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and they say romance is dead

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I STILL LOVE THIS

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SIS!?!? WYDDD

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the cia owns the international dope trade that's how they finance themselves so the senate can't control them with budget cuts. pretty sure they took over italy's heroin market right after ww2 and then just kept things going but its been a while since i dug into the research material

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I recommend Gary Webb's Dark Alliance. He's the first (I think) journalist to expose the CIA-Contra link to American public and he died a gruesome death in return! (RIP)

Yes, perhaps there are better book about this out there but I haven't read them yet.