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found a rock in the kitchen and as I was about to throw it in the trash I thought "wait this is cruel I should let it outside" as if it was a living thing

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the rundown job is a good segue into the finale, establishing that parker, hardison & eliot can and will be okay running the team on their own. but i also love that the frame up job largely exists to assure the audience, "don’t worry, sophie and nate won’t suddenly start being normal when they retire. in fact, they’re clearly only going to become 10x MORE weird and insufferable when left to their own devices". and that’s beautiful.

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Jackie Urbanovic, 1996

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when I started to become more openly black online instead of a generic furry trans artist, I noticed I have been facing a lot of racism from it

my characters and myself being more fetishized by reactionaries-

people questioning if I'm truly black, saying they'll just "pretend I'm a white person" (weird)

my vents about my grudges with white people being anti black to me is twisted into being too "mean to white people and that I'm on white devil speech and I need to be nicer to them"

it's just crazy how I'm treated no differently for being black online than I am IRL, and this is mostly done WITHIN leftist spaces. it's exhausting.

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can we talk about how absolutely vile the color scheme of Nate's room is?

the walls are gray. the sheets are gray, which would be fine actually, but with gray walls it's too much. but the worst part is the disgusting (Fleabag voice) yellow green duvet.

you know Sophie made him redecorate before she slept with him in there

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I can’t stop thinking about how there is actually NO reason why they all needed to go see Sophie’s play before they picked her up in the Nigerian Job and the only real explanation is that Nate was trolling the fuck out of them so he could set them up to be extra impressed when they saw her on her real stage.

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sources confirm. "get you a girl who can do both" is explicitly, conclusively about sophie devereaux, who can go full cockney scrapper yelling, "oi, does your mother sew? stitch that!" before socking a thug across the jaw. but also takes out a man by sabreing a champagne cork into his eye. in the most elegant dress .

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The funniest part about Person Of Interest is that the all-seeing plot device has an evil twin

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If there's anything that drives home how much Parker's grown since season 1 its the Girls' Night Out Job where she says "I don't want money." which three seasons ago would be a very un-Parker-like sentence.

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when u are holding a hammer everything looks like a nail -> when u are holding a point and shoot camera every sight looks incomparably ephemerally beautiful

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I want to make this post separately because I know this is one of those insidious misinformation spiels that seep into regular Australian conversations.

Aboriginal is not a bad word. It's an identity. The idea that it means "original people" is true, sure, but it's just one of the many words that mean Indigenous to the land. All countries have their own version. That does not negate it's meaning as an identity.

You need to understand that what they called us before is a slur. Aborigines is a slur, and it still comes up when you search Aboriginal People. There are people in tumblr who still tag posts with that. Australians even.

It was our Elders, that fought hard to change the name from Aborigines to Aboriginal People. They fought during the White Australia Policy, they fought during the Stolen Generations and they still fight today. I say Elders, because they're still alive. The Uluru Statement From The Heart was proposed by Elders.

I won't let you dismiss and undermine the very identity of our people, the identity that my people fought to carve out, so that the later generations could hold their head up high. So the horrors of the past would never be forgotten, but would never be repeated.

I simply, will not let you disrespect the Elders that came before us in that way.

Call me Aboriginal, capitalise the 'A' and if anyone ever tells you that Aboriginal is not a real name for our people, tell them to shut the fuck up.

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so yeah i just made some uhhh black hole inspired cursors! also i figured out how gifs work lmao so you get to see which ones are animated! you can download these over here

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A good rule of thumb whenever a non-fiction author has "Dr." or "Phd" next to their name on the cover is to check if:

Their doctorate is real and from an accredited institution

Their doctorate is relevant to the subject matter of the book

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”autistic people don’t do [ extremely common higher support need , higher level autistic trait / symptom ] , that just stereotype”

you need include us too : you need include childish autistic person , you need include nonverbal autistic person , you need include autistic person who drool , you need include autistic people with intellectual disability , you need include autistic person with loud messy public meltdowns .

can not hide behind “it just stereotype” because that not true . there are many people very disabled by autism , you need remember us and include us .

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i just came across this song for the first time and i’ve been listening to it on repeat for the last three hours