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Meg Ryan, 1987.

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The "Nettle" Skirt | Simple stretchy skirt PDF pattern | pdf printable sewing pattern by PatternApothecary

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“I want nothing else, only a hand, a wounded hand if possible.”

— Federico García Lorca, from Qasida of the Impossible Hand; Collected Poems (ed. by Christopher Maurer)

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i think a lot about exactly 1 thing from the roman empire: the concept of bread and circus. the idea was that if your population was fed and entertained, they wouldn't revolt. you are asking us to give up our one small life, is the thing - for under 15 dollars an hour.

what would that buy, even. i am trading weekends and late nights and my back health. i am trading slow mornings and long walks and cortisol levels. i am trading sleep and silence and peace. for ... this. for what barely-covers-rent.

life really is more expensive right now. you aren't making that up. i make almost 3 times what i did 5 years ago, and despite an incredibly equal series of bills - i am still struggling. the most expensive line item i added was to own a dog. the money is just evaporating.

we were okay with it because it's a cost-benefit analysis. i could handle the customer harassment and standing all day and the manager's constantly changing temperament - i was coming home to hope, and my life planned in a blue envelope. three hours would buy me my dog's food for a month. i can give up three hours for him, for his shiny coat and wide, happy mouth. three days could be a new mattress, if i was thrifty. if i really scrimped and saved, we could maybe afford a trip into the city.

recently i cried in the car about the price of groceries.

business majors will be mad at me, but my most inflammatory opinion is that people should never be valued at the same place as products. your staff should not be a series of numbers in an excel sheet that you can just "replace" whenever you need something at that moment. your staff should be people, end of sentence.

it feels like someone somewhere is playing a very bad video game. like my life is a toy. like someone opened an app on their phone and hired me in diner dash ultra. they don't need to pay me well or treat me alright - they can always just show me the door. there is always someone more desperate, always someone more willing.

but i go to work and know i could save for years and not afford housing. i am never going to own my own home, most likely. i have no idea how to afford her ring, much less the wedding. my dog doesn't have his own yard. everything i love is on subscription. if i lose my job, i have no "nest egg" to catch my falling.

this thin life - they want me to give up summer for it. to open my mouth and throat and swallow the horrible hours and counted keystrokes. they want me to give up summer and any non-federal holiday. to give up snow days. to give up talking to my mom whenever i want. to give up visiting the ocean and hearing the waves.

bread and circus worked for a while, actually. it was a the kind of plan that would probably now be denounced by republicans as socialist commie liberal pronoun shit.

but sometimes i wonder if we should point them to the part of the history book that says: it worked until it didn't.

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List of Palestinian GoFundMes

Below are a list of fundraisers that I have been sent. All of these have been vetted by either @/90-ghost, @/el-shab-hussein, @/nabulsi, @/apollos-olives, @/moayesh.

If you see this, please help in anyway you can and if you can't assist financially, please reblog this post.

Dated: 26th August 2024

samerpal: GFM (kr126,500 SEK raised of kr450,000)

rehamoworld: GFM (£2,061 raised of £35,000)

nourashoure44: GFM (£1,607 raised of £80,000)

ahmedabuomar: GFM (€2,530 raised of €30,000)

ahmedalnabeeh11: GFM (€24,203  raised of €30,000)

safaakhatib: GFM (€23,093 raised of €35,000)

ghaziyounes1967: GFM ($4,233 USD raised of $50,000)

ahmedabuyamin: GFM (€53,727 raised of €59,000)

haneenmohamaad: GFM (€637 raised of €25,000)

abedallhferwanagaza: GFM (€3,145 raised of €35,000)

aymanayyad82: GFM ($37,963 USD raised of $50,000)

aymanisharif: GFM ($4,388 USD raised of $40,000)

mohammedshehabnew1: GFM (€6,766 raised of €25,000)

khaled-gaza: GFM ($13,000 CAD raised of $20,000)

abuadamfamily: GFM (€57,830 raised of €60,000)

yasminalbalawiigaza: GFM (€37,875 raised of €85,000)

ahedalshaer: GFM (€4,825 raised of €80,000)

save-mohamed-family: GFM ($11,517 CAD raised of $50,000)

ayaalanqarsblog: GFM (€9,856 raised of €15,000)

hillesmahmoud: GFM (€24,818 raised of €47,000)

hamzaahmed21: GFM (€2,877 raised of €21,000)

noor-alanqar: GFM (€20,754 raised of €40,000)

rasha-ibrahim: GFM (€2,380 raised of €35,000)

malkzaim: GFM ($23,812 CAD raised of $50,000)

ahmed4palestine: GFM ($16,725 USD raised of $20,000)

azaxa: GFM (€35,926 raised of €45,000)

islamgazaaccount2: GFM (€1,548 raised of €30,000)

hossamalbardawel: GFM ($9,132 CAD raised of $20,000)

The following GFM have been vetted by their association with other verified GFM's.

ahmadresh: GFM ($8,708 USD raised of $10,000)

abdalhadiaburas: GFM (kr126,500 SEK raised of kr450,000)

shadowyavenuetaco: GFM (£1,806 raised of £50,000)

kefahfamily: GFM ($971 USD raised of $40,000)

These GFMs are unvetted at this stage from what i can see but they appear to be legitimate so I am going to include them anyway in the event that they are vetted sometime after this is posted.

save-ahmed-family1: GFM (€1,141 raised of €20,000)

yazanfamilly: GFM (€11,804 raised of €50,000)

malakalmughrabi: GFM (€551 raised of €25,000)

d-imtthal: GFM (€3,756 raised of €50,000)

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pete seeger's banjo 🪕

"this machine surrounds hate

and forces it to surrender"

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life is often so cringefail. and yet we must go on

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ST side tie top - PDF sewing pattern by StephTimePatterns

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Paul Klee - Ancient Harmony (1925)

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Alberta Ferretti Fall 2023

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Ron Hicks (African-American, b. 1965, Colombus, OH, USA) - The Embrace II, 2018, Paintings: Oil on Canvas