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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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we're not kids anymore.
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Hey, Versobooks have made the above ebooks free to download
These resources challenge zionist ideology and offer a clear history of the occupation, Israel's military industrial complex, and the BDS movement. (X)
Download here because some of you can use some reading tbh
i want to add: if anyone is having trouble with this site, or if you just want a ton of research material, this is a link to a giant google drive 🇵🇸
Free Palestine - Google Drive
”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”
congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!
Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?
Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!
If they hate then let them hate and watch the money pile up
Madness: A Bipolar Life, Marya Hornbacher
Corporate Bootlickers: "If it requires the labor of someone else, it isn't a human right."
Corporate Bootlickers: "Profit, which requires the labor of someone else, is a human right."
Trans women protesting outside Scottish Parliament.
I love it when trans women protest topless. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as legally male. It helps their cause either way.
The entire system is designed to make suffering people suffer more. Other examples include:
jailing people for drug use
fining homeless people for loitering
That chaise sure can lounge
You must excuse me,
My Flesh Vessel
has mutinied and is now committing unspeakable acts of violence against me
After years of living in the adulting world, I think I’ve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when you’re in a bad mood.
When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.
It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.
That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.
Because most of the time, it’s not the waiter’s fault that the food you ordered wasn’t what you expected. It’s not the clerk’s fault that your account is overdrawn. It’s not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you can’t summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.
This is very wise and very well put.
Just also remember that manners aren’t morality. And that they aren’t universal. So what is polite to you may be rude to someone from elsewhere and vice versa.
Too often people start making moral judgements about people who have different cultural mores of what is polite.
I think people let JK Rowling's transphobia define her too much, we need to acknowledge her other aspects.
She's also a racist, antisemitic, and a Holocaust denier, we can't forget that!
The UK’s first trans judge, Victoria McCloud, brings action against the UK and has appealed to the ECHR over the Supreme Court ruling.
Source.
no one follows the trees warning
You know the parable about how the foolish man built his house upon sand and the wise man built his house upon rock and it’s always about having a sturdy foundation well there is also the fact of location which is that the sand probably used to be rock except it’s been eroded to sediment because it’s a FUCKING FLOODPLAIN
I feel like a dumbass, but @rapidashmascot just revolutionised my understanding of that parable.
I thought everyone knew why that parable is about sandy ground vs solid (bedrocked) ground... Huh.
But yeah NEVER BUY A HOUSE in a floodplain. Where I live there are fantastically fancy new houses down by the river, and old fixer uppers up here on the heights.
I bought on the hill.
Christmas 🎄: depressed in a festive way
