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Drinking water

Pros:

It lubricates the joints

Forms saliva and mucus

Cushions the body’s sensitive tissues

Regulates body temperature

Boosts skin health

Flushes body waste

Maintains blood pressure

The airways need it

Your digestive system relies on it

Allows nutrients and minerals accessible

Prevents kidney damage

Boosts performance during exercise

General help with weight loss

Helps with a hangover

Maintains balance of body fluids

Helps to control calories

Energises muscles

Energy levels and brain function will suffer

Prevents or treats headaches

Relieves fatigue

Flushes our toxins

Boosts immune system

Prevents cramps and sprains

Puts you in a good mood

Saves money

Better mood, concentration, memory and pain tolerance

Prevents back pain

Helps with heart health

Prevents bad breath

Fights against some types of cancer

Helps keep alert

Protects cartilage

Relieves congestion

Boosts productivity

Prevents osteoporosis

Cons:

“Oh no I have to pee again”

Make sure you drink enough water. Don’t be dumb 💕💕

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honeyrococo

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Kwame Ture. Always relevant.

mygardenoffantasies

To the person reading this, I hope tonight treats you gently, and that tomorrow looks brighter

ratchetrev

Cotton -Preach

Looking at my Rolex its about that time Dry clean my green gods cause they cotton line A label connoisseur stay dressed to the nine I’m cash sighted for small change Have to squint like blinds We built this shit here We built this Ankles locked & whipped Yea we built this shit Shucking and a jiving and the cotton picking niggas Back broke Sun stroked Neck stretched like a hard dick hanging from a rope Like a human wind-chime Kidnapped Rapped Separated for a life time Slavery was real & it still is young bucks The touch The feel Of cotton Its the fabric of our lives Its a new time These a good years We’ve arrived now No oppression here Look at us now We are fashion plates Trendsetters Number one consumer No one does it better Ballin, hustlin, and robbin just to get this cheddar Herded up like livestock Living in high rise boxes Bentley, Benzes line the project parking lot Sing a song of bling bling All the rappers sing Jigga Master Pdiddy Money aint a thing And we built this shit here We built this while the man taxes shake our poor ass down and fatten the pockets of the rich Balancing budgets on our backs & still we cotton pick Oh Yes From store racks now instead of fields & capitalism kills America don’t give a damn about the poor No not forreal Steady cracking the whip on the oppressed masses as we work to death to pay the bills No proper healthcare, No welfare, Prisons in abundance everywhere As we build and build and build Yea we built this shit We built this shit Dressed down Iced out Still slaves Thats it The touch, The feel of cotton

loloftheday

Accurate

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I’m trying to push back.

On social media, there are so many ways that people are characterized. To make it make sense, to turn into into data. Sometimes I get lost, so I turn externally for validation.

Not a good idea. 😂

I’ve been on social media for the vast majority of my life (millennial hive). My validation, particularly as a young woman, lived and breathed based on the opinion of others. I want to do better now.

Particularly as I step into the scary world of entrepreneurship, I find myself scanning the horizon for an assessment of if I’m doing this right. It is a bad habit that kicks into high gear when my ego tells me I’m not good enough.

I’m tying this all together. Community need + my owns desires and definitions, which will hopefully make sense at the end of the day.

….I have been deep lately. Which may be boring. But winter is the season for turning inwards. I’m just trying to figure it out, y’all. I can only hope this journey is meaningful to someone, somewhere. Maybe that someone just has to be me. https://instagr.am/p/CJTlLvDDQJR/

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Remake of the white remake of Living Single ‘Friends’ in the music video for Jay-Z’s ‘Moonlight’ directed by Alan Yang

Issa Rae… Rachel

Tessa Thompson… Monica

Tiffany Hadish… Phoebe

Lel Rel Howery… Joey

Lakeith Stanfield… Chandler

Jerrod Carmichael… Ross

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I am fucking here for this.

True, so True

Yep!!

Agreed. It’s called 🧬

ratchetrev

““What’s going on between the Black man and the Black woman is that neither of us understands how white supremacy works. How it is messing with us as individuals. How it juggs with us when we try to get together to establish something that is called a family. We try to form this thing called family, looking at the magazines and reading how families are supposed to function. But when we can’t duplicate that, frustrations build, which leads to the alienation that exists between Black men and Black women. All because we don’t understand the system. We think we’re living in a democracy and since we’re Americans determining our own destinies, it must be that as individuals we are imperfect. But it’s hard to say that ‘I am the imperfect one,’ so you start to blame the other person. So it’s the ‘no good Negro male” or the ‘no good Negro female’ and ‘what I need is a white woman.’ Society plays that up. 'Right, Julia, you don’t need a Black man. All you need is a white man to give you a job.’ Or in the movies, 'Black man, you don’t want a Sapphire, what you want is a white woman.’ Or, 'Black man, it isn’t cool being a man, what you really want is to be a woman’…The Black man knows that it is easier to be a Black woman than it is to be a Black man any day, because we are not a threat. The system understands that in order to oppress Black people it has to oppress the men. Let the woman do what they want, within limits. I don’t mean that you are unoppressed as a Black woman, but you are not the prime target.“ Frances Cress Welsing”

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ratchetrev

“I am black first. My sympathies are black, my allegiance is black, my whole objectives are black. I am not interested in being American, because America has never been interested in me.”

— Malcolm X