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Hi stephanie,

I hope this email finds you, as the search and rescue team is otherwise completely out of ideas

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Bravo, Gisele Pelicot [19.12]

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So Aer Lingus broke my friend's wheelchair

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDz1Rboysdz/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could interact with her reel about it ans boost the engagement. So far the airline is giving her a case number and telling her to come back in a week.

As y'all are aware, "just don't move for a week" isn't a great answer, and "maybe it'll actually take more than a month!" is more unacceptable.

So it's time for United Breaks Guitars strategy. If anyone has an Instagram account, can you please go boost engagement on it? It only costs a little bit of time to leave a like or a comment or share it to your story (or all three) and it might really help get someone to take her seriously.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDz1Rboysdz/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Thank you all so much!

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“カワセミはよく勢い余って木に突き刺さると聞いたので、心と壁に突き刺さるカワセミ画鋲作りました。ついでにキツツキも。”（いしかわかずや｜アイデアクリエイター@issikazu20）

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Look, you'll get no argument from me about the various problems inherent to the popular conflation Dungeons & Dragons as a corporate brand with the tabletop roleplaying hobby as a whole, but yelling at people on Tumblr for tagging all tabletop RPG posts with "#dungeons & dragons" probably isn't going to be terribly productive, given that this is a website where – in my experience – a non-trivial number of people tag tabletop RPG posts as "#video games" because they can't be arsed to make a second tag.

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A hairstyle

[eng by me]

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I'm so sick of gentiles boycotting Starbucks for "Palestine." Here are the facts:

The CEO of Starbucks is Jewish.

Starbucks has no stores in Israel or Palestine

Starbucks corporate has not donated any money or coffee to the IDF or Israel.

Starbucks has repeatedly debunked a letter that claimed Starbucks gave money to the Israeli military. Its author, Andrew Winkler, came clean about the hoax. Winkler is a conspiracy nut.

A Starbucks union employee posted a picture celebrating October 7th (when 1,200 people died and even more were sexually assaulted, brutalized, or kidnapped) to the Starbucks Union account. Starbucks corporate started a lawsuit against the union, because the union was, in theory, encouraging terrorism and corporate could maybe use this to dismantle the union entirely.

Starbucks isn't Zionist. It's not encouraging genocide or harming Palestinians. It's just a coffee shop.

The BDS boycott against Starbucks is nonsense. It's always been nonsense.

But here's the rub. Here's what really pisses me off.

Starbucks sucks. They engage in all sorts of union busting tactics. They used children to pick coffee. They didn't pay taxes to the EU. They ripped off Ethiopian coffee farmers. There's a whole Wikipedia page about Starbucks controversies. (Note the "allegations" in "Allegations of support for Israel and boycott".)

Those are real problems. There are reasons to actually boycott Starbucks, and there has been for years. Personally, I haven't patronized them in over a decade. (Mostly because a friend was incredibly mistreated by his Starbucks manager after a coworker assaulted him.)

That's not why people are boycotting though. They're boycotting for something that is demonstrably false. They don't actually care that Starbucks has stolen money from Black farmers or used child labor.

It's just... Virtue signaling.

It's the bare minimum. "I'm not going to buy an unnecessary item!" It's not something difficult to do. You're not spending extra effort to avoid it. You aren't walking places for a bus boycott. You aren't writing letters or sending money to NGOs in Palestine. It's simple. It's the easiest boycott to do. It helps no one. It's people doing the bare minimum to show their "support" without lifting a finger to actually do something.

Case in point, plenty of people post about boycotting Starbucks and attack people for going there. But people boycotting other companies rarely mention it. I've never seen someone post on insta about boycotting Hershey, Nestle, Amazon, Wal-Mart, or any of the hundreds of companies deserving of a boycott.

Meanwhile, those same people who post about boycotting Starbucks are all too happy to use Israeli electronics in their phones and computers and take medications produced in Israel. Giving up your smartphone is difficult, so no one will do it.

The only reason people are boycotting Starbucks is antisemitism. That's it. It's not antizionism, because Starbucks isn't zionist. It's attacking a company because its CEO is Jewish. It's believing a fucking conspiracy theorist who believes that a Satanist group is sacrificing children just because the accusation is leveled against a Jew.

(A Starbucks in Beirut, picture from the Toronto Star)

If you're going to boycott Starbucks, be honest with yourself. You're not boycotting to help Palestine. You're boycotting because you hate Jews.

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I'm obsessed with characters we only hear about second or third hand, especially when those accounts are conflicting. No, you don't get to see them, but here's a warped mirror of what other people thought they were. Enjoy your contemplation of how being known is an act of translation and communicates only aspects of the self.

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danielle_mckinney_

Chrysalis, 2023 oil on linen 14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

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True freedom.

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i love u tzatziki i love u pita i love u olive oil i love u foccacia i love u hummus i love u flat bread

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the united health ceo shooting once again examplifies to me how people do not know how to take direct action etc adjusted to current times.

i know that social media only represents a tiny subset of people, but the weird way mangione shooting the ceo is talked about just reminds me of all the online "activism" i get to witness on social media sites day in day out.

obviously no one knows his exact motivation yet but this kind of assassination just screams young man with a hero complex committing a murder for his ego. and everyone can feel good, since someone did something so drastic that all you have to do now to be one of "the good guys" or change the us insurance company system for once and for all is to write snarky comments under the fastfood place's social media site and talk about how hot he is. there were - as far as i know - protests done this year against the system and new legislation on the way to break up insurance companies etc but maybe i am a cynic but i feel that most people who are obessessing over mangione as "based" atm did not go to those or didn't do some political action themselves...

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this is how I write smut btw

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had a lovely meet cute with @shijiujun yesterday!!! slowly hunting down my mutuals like pokemon (i am lying, she graciously texted me when she was in my area)

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the fact that as a thick thighed cunt i have to get new pants every time i chubrub a hole through the inseam is a deep injustice. if i wear my old jeans and you catch a glimpse of soft inner thigh through the holes you should be getting down on your hands and knees and thanking me for what i've done. you should be trying to get your tongue in there

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santa put me on the Nuanced list this year