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liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

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playing this game felt like watching MPGIS but on mega steroids (positive)

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Nicole is a heartbreaker

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I think about this scene a lot

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more like the FLOPside amirtie?

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Day 4: modern

it's 2024 and they're 33 now, also bonus of how Nicole got shorter hair

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Found this in my files lol

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nicole class of 09 with a death note. is this too niche

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wanna be sexed up abusive lesbians?

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Jeckole Good Luck Babe Animatic.

TW: Nicole is hanging around at the end. Aka death.

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The Growth of Sauce Cat.

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Regardless of religion, people are allowed to be ticked off and uncomfortable when their customs and holidays are stripped down into a vague, distorted, and easily-marketable husk.

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#said something to this effect in lonerbox's chat but: some people want to be able to label you so they can just dismiss everything#you have to say. for rwingers its to label us as feminists/leftists/liberals. for the far left its to label people alt right/rw/liberal-#but i find a lot of people- in 'debates' are actually just sitting there trying to figure out to categorize you to see if they will actuall#listen which is! so easy to manipulate if you're aware people are doing that.#like if you're some dickshit online who realizes thats what a lot of people do you could manipulate that in a way to where people avoid#an entire group of people. like if you're some asshole online w a lot of influence- you could convince your audience- if they're culty and#loyal enough- to never ever engage with x type of people. so then when people get in an argument a lot of people arent actually focusing#on the subject so much and dont. yknow. actually try to fucking convince ppl of their beliefs- the whole fucking point- they're instead#trying to sleuth out the talking points or whatever they were told the beliefs/traits of x group were in the conversation to decide#if they can label you that way and then dismiss you entirely.#people are doing it rn with the term 'zionist'.

I am deeply distrustful of anyone who cares so much about adhering to their political alignment and to the letter of theory that they no longer see people as individual human beings, each with complex and different lived experiences, and instead sees them as homogeneous blobs or as a means to an end. "I'm a leftist," "I'm right wing," "I'm a liberal," "I'm a communist," "I'm a socialist," and so on and so on.

Yeah, but do you still see people who disagree with you as people? Or as the automatic Other? Do you care so much about having the "correct" beliefs that your humanity and the humanity of those around you fades into unimportance?

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my family is lucky enough to own a 26 acre mountain property, log cabin and all. Most people would go up there and think that it is fairly pristine nature. There’s the cabin, and a few dirt roads for 4-wheelers, but the surrounding woods look untouched.

But we actually carefully maintain that nature. We cut down the deadfall. We pull invasive plants. We trim the elderberry bushes. We get more animals than almost anywhere else on the mountain because we put up salt licks and water troughs.

some of these same things are true of national parks. A lot of places that you think of as “untouched wilderness” are influenced heavily by human care and maintenance. And this isn’t a bad thing. We are animals too. In many ways, our ecosystems depend on us to keep them healthy. Many “wild” plants that are useful for food or building materials are actually semi-domesticated because indigenous groups cared for them and encouraged their growth so they do better with human care.

we have a place in nature. We just need to be conscious of our actions.

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In Iran, a woman who was accosted by the “morality police” for not wearing hijab removes her clothing & roams the streets in defiance. She has since been arrested by IRGC forces and forcibly disappeared. This is the brave face of true resistance. | The regime’s propaganda spokespeople have allegedly stated that her actions reveal a “severe mental disorder” & that she will be “treated” at a mental hospital for this. As we know, the regime commits its crimes in the shadows so we must keep a light on her case to protect her. -Elica Le Bon/Daughter of Iran

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I'm sorry but if Sami people can be understood as other-than-white and lighter featured First Nations people can be understood as other-than-white and individuals of our sisters the Romani when similarly afflicted by melanin deficiency can be understood as other-than-white....

Your classification of Jews, who span the whole gamut of color but share the racialization and experience of being othered among any majority, including whiteness in the north/west, is only further evidence of your racism. Because in doing so you continue to perpetuate double standards for Jewish people, which is dangerous when merged with perspectives that view whiteness as a merit signifier. Not that our identity isn't a fair bit older than this pretty reductive view, but

Regardless, I'll remind that the minority indigenous groups I mentioned are in the context of a white majority, but white people do not have a monopoly on colonialism. Plenty of people don't want to be called Arab in MENA and plenty of people aren't sure that they'd classify themselves as Chinese or Russian in the sense that the West views national identity. But that kind of nuance probably isn't something I should bother with if we haven't made it past point 1.