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[rederiswrites]

Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.

[thebookquotes]

“I think that sometimes we have to lose ourselves to find ourselves again.”

— Ava Reed, “The Lost Queen”

[soft-lovely]

amalfi, Italy

[theotherkingdoms]

Yi Lei, Mother

[thoughtkick]

“If you’re lonely, bored or unhappy, remember you are young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.”

— Ezra Koenig

[feral-ballad]

Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; “You are on the floor crying”

[perfectquote]

“But then it passed, as all things do.”

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

[thewildetyme]

“i read the book you recommended” is a love language.

[0912408179182]

Romanticizing your own loneliness and turning it into a cool girl thing only works for like a few months and then it just becomes a throbbing black hole i think. Not that ive ever experienced anything like that

[snoopy-dyke]

love is attained through embarrassing yourself by asking for it instead

[imaaa]

— the love hypothesis, ali hazelwood

(your story is just as valid :’))

[euripideez-nuts]

lake como, italy // lago di como

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

[ritikajyala]

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Mahmoud Darwish

[intelligentchristianlady]

[pupdotcom]

your honor, in my defense: who cares like omfggggggggg who cares???????????? like. come On

[dostoyevsky-official]

more than 1,000 russians were arrested in protests in 44 cities over the last six hours. some well-known activists were preemptively arrested as they left their house; others were arrested as soon as they unfurled placards. by the looks of it, there were large protests in st. petersburg. over 100 local government officials signed a letter opposing war, and over 170 journalists and intellectual figures signed a similar letter. this is a promising sign, but it’s feeble. as war drags on, protests will grow.

russian civil society is battered and demoralized; its most prominent figures have either been murdered or jailed. i predict that russia will become “totalitarianized” in the coming weeks, with full control over the internet and social media. it isn’t clear how extensive this will be, or how quickly it will happen. already, moscow’s largest theater announced that anyone disrupting the performances to say anything about the war will be arrested for treason. this has severe ramifications for what the postwar occupation of ukraine will look like