i might delete this

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Hi everyone. It’s been a long time since I’ve logged on, huh? I heard about tumblr’s new NSFW policy. Weird and bad, huh? What a site.

I just logged on to ask, do any of my followers on the east coast have a couch i could crash on for a bit?

I’ve got some bad life/family circumstances going on that I describe under the read-more.

I’ve been living in fear with an unstable relative who just this morning kicked me out and threatened to call the police if I return. A couple hours later, she’s asking me to come back, and I can’t bring myself to. She’s terminally ill and I don’t want to leave her living alone, but living with someone that unpredictably hostile has been taking too big a toll on my own mental health, and now I can’t trust that she won’t decide to call the police and confabulate some kind of story about me.

For months, I worried that something like this might happen, but I didn’t expect it to happen so suddenly. Right now, I feel numb. I’m sitting at a cafe with nothing but my driver’s license, my debit card, my phone and laptop and chargers in my backpack, and the clothes I’m wearing.

One of my parents (who I also have reasons for wanting to avoid) had offered me a place, but currently insists I try to reconcile with my relative, which as I stated above, I don’t feel is a safe thing to attempt.

I realize all this must sound rather suspicious and i have no proof (besides a one-sided sequence of text messages from my relative I could screenshot), so I don’t expect you to believe me, let alone have the resources and inclination to offer help.

Idk. I just wanted to vent.

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reminder to opt out of discords arbitration-only ToS if you havent already

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🧡🎃I love autumn 🎃🧡

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(-_-)zzz

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The Sad Decline of Yemen, the Best Country You’ll Never Get to See

Yemen is one of the world’s oldest centers of civilization. Nestled in a corner of the Arabian Peninsula along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, many of its towns were already thriving and trading for spices and frankincense when the Greek geographer Ptolemy depicted them on maps 2,000 years ago. The land was called Arabia Felix, or Happy Arabia, for its fertile land and adequate rainfall.

I’ve traveled in more than 160 countries, and Yemen is my favorite. Sanaa is the country’s jewel. According to tradition, this ancient city was founded by Shem, the son of Noah of the Biblical ark. The entirety of Sanaa’s old town, cram-filled with six- to eight-story “tower houses” made of mud bricks, has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. Many of these venerable old houses are now tilting with age, leaning toward each other like elderly couples reaching for support. Their sand-colored exterior walls are fancifully decorated with artistic designs on the plasterwork and enlivened by colorful geometrically shaped stained-glass windows that are highly effective to draw in light. Sanaa has thousands of these houses, which have been called the world’s first skyscrapers.

Throughout my travels around Yemen, I often gasped in amazement encountering sights that pulled me into medieval times. In Yemen’s far eastern Hadhramaut Valley is the oasis town of Shibam. Inhabited for more than 1,700 years, the town contains a tight collection of some 500 skyscrapers soaring up from the desert sand and surrounded by a protective earthen wall. It is deservedly called the Manhattan of the Desert.

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From my own experience, Yemen is indeed one of the best places on earth, if not the best. 

Although I’ve only lived there for 4-5 years, they were the best years of my life. Everything about Yemen was beautiful and enchanting, whether it was the culture, cuisine, nature, climate, history, or the people and their kindness and hospitality. 

I’ve lived in many places in the diaspora after fleeing Palestine, and Yemen was the only place that felt closest to home. While living there, not for a second I felt as a stranger, people over there treated me as if I was one of them. 

I remember I would walk down the streets of Sana’a, where the weather was spectacular and random people who I walked past would greet me and whenever I walked by street restaurants or street vendors people would invite me to eat with them and whenever I did, they would refuse to take my money and would be insulted if I ever tried to pay them. And I remember whenever I took a cab to get somewhere and the cab driver knew I wasn’t from around, he too would also refuse to take my money and would tell me “till next time” (although I would never see him again) or “you’re a guest in our country, you’re not supposed to pay.” 

And wherever you went in Yemen, the nature over there was just breathtaking, My favorite thing in Yemen was going on road trips, where you would get to drive on high and narrow mountain roads that would literally let you drive into clouds. 

I am so lucky that I got to live in Yemen and I wish and hope the country and its people witness peace again.

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The brutal genocide of Yemeni people will go down as one of the landmark atrocities of the 21st century.

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the guy who designed scythes definitely knew that shit was badass. he didnt care about wheat

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This didn’t go as anticipated lmfao

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from 0 to 100 reall quickkkk, not bad not bad

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wtf tho

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I was enjoying some nice piano and then oh look some nice lesbians

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this couldn’t have went in a better direction honestly

[anxious-sloth17]

Suddenly…. Lesbians!

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Oh my god is this a cat or a sheep?

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a shat

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Dont call it that please

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[splendidland]

gamer life

[sovietshopaholic]

“In the last instance I am a Marxist because only Marxism makes it possible to keep believing in humanity and its future without self-deceptions—despite all the terrible experiences of the twentieth century, despite Auschwitz and Hiroshima, despite famine in the ‘Third World’ and the threat of nuclear annihilation. Marxism teaches us to take a positive attitude toward life and human beings and to love them, without a false gloss, without illusions, in full awareness of the never-ending difficulties and unavoidable setbacks in the millions of years which it has taken our species to progress from ape-like creatures to global investigators and stormers of heaven. To conquer conscious control over its social existence has today become a matter of life and death for this species. In the end it will succeed in realizing the noblest of all its aspirations: the construction of a humane, classless, non-violent world socialism.”

— Ernest Mandel

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An unexpected guest

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There are actual humans on here who believe Elon Musk is the only person who can save them from climate change and what you need to understand is Elon Musk does not care about you. He doesn’t care about climate change either bc his wealth will prevent it from affecting him. Elon Musk is not designing electric cars or rocket ships he’s paying people to design toys for himself. He’s a grown man who behaves like a child and actually has the wealth to say “I want a rocket ship and a submarine and an electric car” and then exploits people into producing it for him. That’s it. He would sell you and your family for one flamethrower. He would watch your home sink into the ocean while he happily has his submarine delivered there to loot any valuables from it.

[leviathan-supersystem]

it’s also worth noting that the idea of elon musk as some kind of savior figure is something he himself went to great pains to generate- this is part of what makes his crashing and burning such an amazing spectacle. he wanted so badly for us to accept him as a messiah, but instead everyone except the most chronically gullible sees him as the slimy little parasite he is, and that tears him up inside.