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Love for all my Muslim brothers and sisters, especially those in New Zealand and Australia presently.

please consider donating to the christchurch shooting victims’ fund to help financially support those affected by this horrific event (note that the page may be down intermittently due to traffic, if it won’t load right now try again in a few minutes)

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here is the official gofundme page (by victimsupport.org.nz) if u cant reach the givealittle site

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me roleplaying as tectonic plate

*drifts slowly over millions of years unaware of even myself* *subducts*

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😼

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Bats illuminated by lightning

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In this low-income North Minneapolis neighborhood, fresh vegetables are hard to come by. But 10 teens have begun a bakery to change that.

In the part of North Minneapolis where 17-year-old Leensa Ahmed grew up, drugs and crime are and more easily found than produce.

But four years ago, Leensa and nine of her friends came up with an idea to ensure children and adults alike in her area can not only eat fresh vegetables — but also enjoy them.

Leensa is the CEO of the completely teen-run Green Garden Bakery, which uses vegetables to create desserts like jalapeno chocolate chip cookies, beet brownies, and carrot pumpkin bread.

“The kids didn’t really like vegetables, so that was the start of it to try and get them to eat their vegetables,” said Jacobi Simmons, 18, one of the teens working at Green Gardens.

The teens began concocting the idea for a bakery in 2014 when they met at a community center cooking class that also taught nutrition and gardening and was hosted by national community planning and development non-profit Urban Strategies.

Initially, they began baking as a way to raise money for a friend who was in a car accident. But soon they began to develop a business plan in the class — eventually earning a $10,000 grant for their idea.

What Green Garden has given back has helped to buy security systems for families who were robbed, provided meals for the hungry, and supported adult exercise classes. They also run a youth development program, which helps about 100 middle school kids learn to bake, to garden and the basics of business.

Currently, the teens are working out of a borrowed kitchen, which they travel to on a 45-minute bus ride after school. But after receiving a recent $100,000 grant, they hope they’ll soon be able to own their own commercial kitchen.

Although providing their community with healthy baked goods is the teens’ main objective, they’ve also grown closer and found solace in the kitchen and with one another.

Jasmine Salter, 17, who helps prepare the vegetables, said the day her father died she still came to work at the bakery, feeling it was one of the few unchanging parts of her life.

“It’s like a home. It’s like one of the only stable things in my life right now. So it’s like I’m welcome,” she said.

via NBC News

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Their website is Green Garden Bakery. They are also accepting donations here.

#AMAZING!!!!!!

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Tiny mushrooms growing on a Douglas fir pine cone.

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“i dont know how to feel”

feb 2015

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Eartha Kitt speaking truth to power at a 1968 luncheon at the White House hosted by Lady Bird Johnson which resulted in Kitt being blacklisted in the US for nearly a decade.

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let it be known that on January 18th, 1968, Eartha Kitt stood in a room full of white women at The Women Doers Luncheon, GOT IN LADYBIRD JOHNSON’S FACE, and told her that the government was sending the best of the youth off to be shot and killed and, in not so many words, that THAT was the reason the youth were rebelling. She ALSO stopped President Johnson after he made a statement claiming that mothers should be responsible for stopping their kids from becoming criminals and asked about “the parents who have to go to work, for instance, who can’t spend time with their children as they should”. It was brushed off by LBJ who only mentioned the funding for day care centers put in place by the recently passed Social Security bill, and then more or less said that the women at that luncheon should figure it out for themselves.

She was blacklisted, but she defended every word she said that day.

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SHERO

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Respect Mother Sister

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y'all better put some respect on her name

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A heroine. An icon. A legend.

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me to my cat: pleas stpo pushn every goddamnd thing off my desk im beggin pleas

my cat:

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Valley Foliage and Snowy Hills, Inyo County. 2019

James Watts

Hey Riley friend, how have you been? What are up to these days? <3

Hey!! <3I’ve been having a gigantic existential crisis about climate change and spirituality that has basically boiled down to to me going outside every night to pray to all of the other beings on the planet and our Creator, saying “I feel like it would be way better for the collective health of the planet and maybe even humanity if I killed myself and just stopped existing but I don’t trust my own logic or intuition and also I would really like to be good and to help the world heal and it would mean everything to me if you could continue to guide me about what that looks like and then when my time’s up in this life I’ll gladly go with you because I would really really really like to be a methane-eating microbe that would be SO GREAT THANK YOUUUU”

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I have a lot of teenage friends/mutuals who are “mature” and cool and whatever, but the bottom line is, unless you’re helping them with gender, sexual orientation, mental illness, abuse, etc. you shouldn’t be having conversations with a minor that you wouldn’t have in front of their parents.

The internet is weird. Some of my favourite artists on here are, like, sixteen. Teenagers are talented! They’re funny! They’re cool! They’re people.

But they’re also kids, and you have to respect and understand that, because ultimately, any friendship you have with a minor is also a responsibility, and if the fact that y'all both like the same cartoons is enough to make you “forget” that, or enough to make you “overlook” that, it isn’t a responsibility you’re ready for.

The only reason you should ever be in a kid’s life as an adult is because you’re prepared to be the kind of adult you needed at their age. That’s it.

If the relationship gets more intimate than “older sibling”, you’re being gross. If you’re saying anything to them that could be taken as a sexual advance or as emotional abuse “out of context”, you’re objectively being gross! If you’re relying on a kid to be your best friend in the same way a fellow adult would, your probably being, you guessed it, super gross. Full stop.

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I don’t want any of my younger mutuals to see this and feel like I don’t respect you or care about you or like you, by the way. It’s the exact opposite! I think you’re great, and I want you to be healthy and happy, and part of that is establishing boundaries and understanding how we’re different, even if we have a lot in common that makes us great friends! That’s a great thing to do in any friendship.