The Arrival Attempts of Brendon O'Brien

Brendon O'Brien is a Spoken Word poet from Trinidad and Tobago, performing since 2008.

[circusheart]

cant stop thinking about this this was sooo crazyyyyy

[traurigtoby]

Up late.

Tokyo, Japan

[lilac--lacerations]

[tikkunolamresistance]

ICJ has ruled that Israel’s settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories is in breach of international law.

The "transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank and Jerusalem as well as Israel's maintenance of their presence" is "contrary to article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention", a panel of 15 judges from around the world said.

The court said Israel must end the construction of settlements immediately - acts which render "Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful".

Israel's continued presence is "illegal" and should be ended as "rapidly as possible", the ICJ added.

[lazyyogi]

We shrink away from the experiences that make us feel squeamish: fear, awkwardness, shame, self-consciousness, and the like. Not knowing how to manage the involuntary cringe, we try to force a deliberate ignorance to make it go away. We avert our gaze, cover our face, or look at our phones.

Some people want so badly to avoid feeling cringe that they will carefully shape their words and actions, continuously monitoring and censoring themselves until it becomes conditioned into their consciousness.

When we kill the part of ourselves that is cringe, we become rigid and contrived. We lose access to the freshness and authenticity discovered in unconditioned spontaneity. As a result, we also become predictable and more easily manipulated.

What is the alternative? Freedom, of course.

If instead of hiding you stay with the experience, feeling all the cringe and enduring all the squeamishness, you create the opportunity to see through its illusion. You weaken and eventually break the power these experiences had over you.

Continue on that path long enough and you will awaken from the cringing fake self entirely.

[bibyebae]

[lazyyogi]

from Tantra Illuminated by Christopher D Wallis

[xiranjayzhao]

Multiple sclerosis treatment is notoriously expensive even if you're not stuck in a war zone. Please contribute if you're able and boost this to help Nahed get it and for her family of 11 to get out as soon as the crossing opens again!

[sayruq]

[beaujes]

pretty interesting how critical role has a whole storyline about their gods being in threat and possibly destroyed, when said gods are owned by wizards of the coast, right when the new ogl releases which says all d&d content you make belongs to wizards of the coast

[boeing747]

artists please divorce yourself from the internet attention machine and focus on becoming weirder and having more fun instead of creating more engagement for corporate social media giants

[funnytwittertweets]

[lackadaisycats]

When Twitter is trending on Twitter

[thearrivalattempts]

Are we genuinely back on tumblr now? Did it really just take a lazily written Bond villain to remind us that this place could be cool again? Do I get to go back to reblogging 90's Charmed collages on weekday afternoons?

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Please? Please, give me this back. Please.

[wilwheaton]

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[thearrivalattempts]

Wanted to take a pic of my new @wyrmwoodgaming tarot deck box, but Raisin had other ideas...lol Happy to finally have one of their premium woodwork products (oh, the things I'd do to afford to get one of their MGT...). I do kinda wish that these boxes held sleeved decks, but I'm starting to get the idea that I'm the only person who sleeves tarot cards anyway lol. Either way, my #CorruptedTarot has its perfect home, and my most troublesome cat likes it, so that's good enough for me... (at Trinidad and Tobago) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClB3X7_uunR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[3go]

i downloaded this god damn episode just so everyone could watch this fukkin clip

[soundssimpleright]

The feedback bit is inspired.

[stagemanagerssaygo]

Accurate.

[prrofessionalcynic]

I laugh way too hard at this every time I see it it’s too real lmao