Daft Punk Is Playing At My House

[michellekpoems]

I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.

Michelle K., I Know I Deserve More.  (via reygf)

[meladoodle]

my granddad just called me to tell me how big his cauliflowers are growing and it was so cute theyre “TWICE as big as the ones you get in the shop”

[meladoodle]

[meladoodle]

i told my granddad this post has 3,500 notes and he said ‘who are they? do i know them?’ he wanted me to list everyone and see if he knew anyone

[auburngal]

If you don’t reblog cauliflower granddad, then you’re just a mean person.

[niktipolos]

If you’re poor, the only way you’re likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car. But if you’re tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you’re the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers – the US and Russia – still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth. So do the carbon barons. But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above. […] People revolt when their lives are unbearable. Sometimes material reality creates that unbearableness: droughts, plagues, storms, floods. But food and medical care, health and well-being, access to housing and education – these things are also governed by economic means and government policy.[…] That’s a tired phrase, the destruction of the Earth, but translate it into the face of a starving child and a barren field – and then multiply that a few million times. Or just picture the tiny bivalves: scallops, oysters, Arctic sea snails that can’t form shells in acidifying oceans right now. Or another superstorm tearing apart another city. Climate change is global-scale violence, against places and species as well as against human beings. Once we call it by name, we can start having a real conversation about our priorities and values. Because the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence, Rebecca Solnit. (via aishawarma)

[lifeinpoetry]

i’m trying to love the shattered window of myself: the hands: the rocks: the broken religion left behind: my inheritance is a body of vandalized cathedrals: light me on fire: strip my god from my breath: watch as i dance amidst the flames:

George Abraham, from “Apology,” published in Tin House (via lifeinpoetry)

[deathcarpets-deactivated2019042]

*republicans flip gender switch on and off* welcome to hell! welcome to hell!

[nursemchurt]

[holdnarrytight]

thanks

[would-you-b-so-k-ind-deactivate]

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day

[everentropy]

The GOP once again showing they have no clue how to protest properly

[erikjohnsons]

im losing my mind at these ‘refs fans’ at the avs/islanders game

[gold-kushkloudz]

[miss-lucyrose]

Romance.

[lcryduringsex]

[harryedward]

Boy: I like you :) Me: Congratulations… you played yourself

[zelldas]

no other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. love is all about choices. no one is going to be perfect for you, and i think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was “made for you” because it isn’t true. no one is made for you, besides you. other people belong to themselves. if you want to make it work with someone, it’s about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and choice

[gentlemanhoneyfarmer]

[soracities]

I didn’t fall to temptation – I rose to it. I ate that apple because I was hungry. I wanted what lay outside of Paradise, a world without the burden of perfection. Now you call all sinful women my sisters. I say, let them claim their own damn sins. The apple may not be perfect, but it’s mine.

Diane Lockward, from ‘Eve Argues Against Perfection’ (via soracities)

[alwaysbewoke]

always remember that american schools are not concerned with truth but with americanization. if it were concerned with truth, it wouldn’t be still be teaching that abe lincoln was some kind of messiah who came to the rescue of black people. 

[meandlucifer]

me: haha hey guys do u dare me to eat this whole thing of ice cream

them: no

me: *shaking my head and chuckling* i cant believe you guys are making me do this

them: we're not

me: *eating right out of the thing* this is so wild you guys you're so fucked up for making me do this

[6lacksoul]

[nitramaraho]

[dirtyrotteninfidel-deactivated2]

Holy shit im dying right now..prob the best one

[christianmetalhead2112-deactiva]

This actually probably is the best one hahahaha

a lot of my faves

[gothicprep]

imo we need to swap the phrase “no one will love you until you love yourself” with something to the effect of “if you dnt recognize your own value, you’re a lot more likely to put up with mistreatment that you dnt deserve”

it’s not rly a matter of self-love as much as it is being able to stand up for yrself when you need to, and even though the latter is part of that process, it’s still not the same thing