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"lol tiktok users would rather learn mandarin than come to tumblr" yeah man that's crazy. who would have thought that people from the video-based dopamine-machine app wouldn't decide to join the text- and image- based no-algorithm website?

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Shit this got me out here cryin in the club

TERFS do not interact

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Rotten Girl and Plus Boy

If I was forced to interact with either of these teenagers I would pull my hair out

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If you're thinking of "how you're doing nothing" or "how useless you are", remember that you are doing amazing just to use your brain and improve your well-being. You're not useless, useless are the ones who agree with that shit. The world yes need you, but not like the way they say, as if by trying to be ok you would be ignorant, that talk is for take out the real guilty off of the capitalists. Study and move if you can, but first of all: Take care of yourself. This is the most important, without you ok, anyone that you might help will be ok bc they love you and want you good. I say that not talking just about friends and family, but about the old lady who everyday you give "good morning". You are important, and you are helping a LOT. Dw, we are together, take care of yourself.

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Don't fail me now!

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So I just now learned about Stagecoach Mary and how have I never heard of this absolute LEGEND of a woman before

She was born a slave and freed when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued (she was about 30)

She was about six feet tall and 200 pounds and once she was free she decided she’d never take shit from anyone ever again

When one of her close friends, a nun by the name of Mother Amadeus, became ill with pneumonia at her convent in Montana, Mary headed alone into the frontier to nurse Mother Amadeus back to health

After Mother Amadeus recovered, she gave Mary a job as the foreman of the convent. She repaired buildings, took care of chickens, made the long and dangerous journeys into town for supplies, and did other odd jobs.

She could drink most men under the table, and one saloon offered five bucks and a free shot of whiskey to any man who could take a punch to the face from Mary and remain standing. 

She was once said by a local paper to have broken more noses than anyone else in Montana

She was outspokenly Republican, which at this time was the liberal party in America, and would get into political debates with the more conservative townsfolk

One time a man insulted her outside the saloon so hit him in the face with a rock, and only stopped when other cowboys held her back.

On one supply run into town, her wagon overturned and the horses fled. Mary spent all night single-handedly fending off a pack of wolves with her guns before she righted the heavy wagon by herself and tracked down the spooked horses. The only thing lost in the accident was a jar of molasses.

She lost her job at the convent when she got into a gunfight with a male employee who did not want to take orders from a black woman. She reportedly shot him in the ass, which angered the local bishop.

After losing her convent job, Mary spent a brief time running a restaurant, where she welcomed and served all comers

When a job for a mail carrier opened at the local US Post Office, Mary got the job because she managed to hitch six horses to a wagon faster than any of the male candidates

She was sixty at the time

This made her the first black woman mail carrier, and the second woman mail carrier in US history

When the snows were too deep for the horses to manage the long and dangerous delivery routes, Mary would strap on snowshoes, put the bags of mail on her shoulders, and do it herself

At one point she apparently had a pet eagle????

She only retired from the mail route when she was about 70 years old, and instead made a quieter living by babysitting and running a laundry business in the town of Cascade

She was a huge baseball fan and often gave the local team a big bouquet of flowers from her garden

The people of Cascade loved Mary so much that they closed the schools annually on her birthday

When a law was passed in Montana that forbade women from drinking in saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted Mary an exemption. 

When her house burned down, the whole town got together to help her build a new one

She continued drinking, fighting, and going to baseball games until she died of liver failure at 82 in 1914

Mary (far right) and the local baseball team

Anyway sorry for gushing I just now heard about her and I’m in love

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Hi. Things are bleak, I know that. I know that we paid for Trump's last term with blood and it is likely the price will be blood again.

But listen to me. LISTEN.

You do not have to force yourself to witness horrors as an act of activism. It is not a form of activism. You can put your phone down, you can block that horrific video. We cannot win if you cannot fight and you will not be able to fight if you are hopeless.

Do not let them guilt you into this. People who are exhausted are easier to walk over. Take care of yourself, find community where you find joy.

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Please, as someone who once coordenate a socialist cell for disabled (and as a disabled) I need to say that that post is completely right, and people that "forget" about disabled is not a socialist/communist. And the most important of all disabled is not puppet, the disabled can and shal talk for themselves, no more waiting for those whos not us to talk, if you have an autistic child, let them speak by themself, they also have freedom and wishes and fucking mouth! Same for any disability, both physical or mental. Below two wonderful titles about the subject:

Marta Russel - Disability and Capitalism (about marxist view of disability and what to do)

Marta Harnecker and Gabriela Uribe - Explorados e Exploradores (literal: Exploited and Exploiters) (social relations of production detailed and explained) / I couldnt find that text in english, sorry!

Never stop learning. Never stop your screams. Never stop to fight first for yourself, because just health comrades can help each other, independent of a revolution.

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Show some respect, people.

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like to charge, reblog to cast <3

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Here is a list of books that Project 2025 is looking to ban and the reasons for each.

These are the books they are afraid of. These are the books we need to be reading.

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Reminder to people upon gaining power it took Hitler only 57 days to dismantle German democracy and declare himself dictator and start purging the "undesirables"

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AND SO ROMANI/"GYPSIE" PEOPLE!!!

in light of recent events, i am seeing a lot of posts talking about punching nazis and fighting nazis. and that is good and all, but at the end of the day it is worthless if your activism starts and ends at condemning the nazi salute. antisemitism and nazism are more than sieg heiling and spray painting swastikas on a wall.

if you truly care about nazism, learn about its characteristics. learn what it really means. learn how it has affected and still affects jewish people. learn about antisemitism, about dogwhistles, about stereotypes. learn how to identify it when it's hidden, when it's not coming from right-wing white supremacists who openly hate jews, when it's coming from friends, or relatives, or other left-wing groups. identify what antisemitic beliefs you hold. fight antisemitism even when it is directed at jews you don't like or you disagree with.

and, above everything, support the jewish community. learn about their history, their culture, their customs. love jews more than you hate nazis.

international holocaust remembrance day is next week (january 27th). if you truly want to be an ally to the jewish community, condemning elon musk is not enough.

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Reblog to save a life.

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I’m just gonna say right now. If you think Elon musk doing a gesture that could get you arrested in Germany and the Netherlands means nothing. If you truly think it’s just a “Roman” salute?

You’re a racist, a fascist, and you deserve to be in a sewer.