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mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

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This FB post by Rebecca Solnit is the thing keeping me sane this morning,so I’m sharing it here in case it helps you all, too:

“They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving. You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love.

The Wobblies used to say don't mourn, organize, but you can do both at once and you don't have to organize right away in this moment of furious mourning. You can be heartbroken or furious or both at once; you can scream in your car or on a cliff; you can also get up tomorrow and water the flowerpots and call someone who's upset and check your equipment for going onward.

A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary. Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.

People kept the faith in the dictatorships of South America in the 1970s and 1980s, in the East Bloc countries and the USSR, women are protesting right now in Iran and people there are writing poetry. There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not require you to feel good. You can keep walking whether it's sunny or raining. Take care of yourself and remember that taking care of something else is an important part of taking care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed.”

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Crying bc the events of Pacific's Rim are literally happening right now. January 8 was the day Mako and Raleigh fought those kaijus in the Hong Kong double event. January 12 is the triple event where they close the breach. In two days we cancel the apocalypse.

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I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year

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The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) Dir. Brian Henson

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Genuinely so angry I can't live in the places I grew up because they are fundamentally too expensive for me to go home.

I miss San Diego. I miss Monterey. I miss my home so much every time I go back and visit my parents. But living in the place they live, in the place I grew up, is so wildly expensive that it might as well be Narnia. All I want to do is go home, and I simply can't. There is something fundamentally wrong with the world.

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Having to tell my kids this morning that Kamala Harris lost, that we once again elected a racist, sexist, criminal con man who has ran a campaign on hatred of people I love, to the presidency of the United States, is obviously not the worst of the bad things that will be coming, and certainly it is not very significant. But it was the first bad thing, and my only accomplishment of the morning is that I got them to school before I started sobbing.

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reblog if you need a hug

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Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.

The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien

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absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

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Here to provide your regularly scheduled MB fanart 😌🤝😌

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Over lunch today I was grousing to a colleague about the class I'm teaching this afternoon, about how no one says anything no matter how hard I try, and I'm ready to just give up on the class. And then I checked my email when I got back and found an email from one of those students, saying they wouldn't be in class today and they were sorry, they were having mental health issues and it was making class challenging, but they really appreciated my enthusiasm and excitement about the subject because it made them glad to be in college again. So now I'm sitting in my office trying not to cry. I really, really needed that today. Not giving up on this class after all.

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Everyone Go Read The Murderbot Diaries Right Now

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Some days you think the whole parenting thing is going okay. And some days you call your kids in for dinner and discover your four year old has smeared ash from the outdoor fire pit over every square inch of his body