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thank you to walt peregoy for making scooby doo where are you! even more memorable as a child

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been offline. didn't really know where else to put this aside from my journal, but god. i am so fucking devastated about liam. i'd already been revisiting 1d's albums in the days leading up to his death, and it still feels so unreal that he's gone. it feels so terribly, terribly wrong.

i've been thinking a lot about the impact one direction had on me during my formative years -- so much so that i mentioned them in my own father's eulogy. he was always very particular about what music played on the radio - mainly opting 80s hair metal - but anytime he was driving with me and heard a 1d song playing, he'd stay on the station and quietly turn the volume up so we could listen together. he knew how much i loved them -- i had their faces plastered in posters from teen magazines all over my bedroom, an abundance of t-shirts, and every album on CD that i played on repeat on a small blue stereo i kept on my dresser. in a way, him listening to one direction with me was a silent "i know you love them, and i love you."

i'm not a stranger to grief. even nuanced, complicated, ugly & uncomfortable grief. i lost my dad when i was 16 years old, and i grieved as a child who spent 16 years of ups and downs with her father. somehow, i feel like i'm grieving liam as an 11, 12 year old girl. all i thought about day and night from the 5th-10th grade was one direction. my heart breaks for my younger self with her teen magazine posters and tumblr blog and scribbled lyrics with hearts on her math homework. my heart breaks for all of my middle school friends who i danced around with making music videos to their songs at slumber parties. my heart breaks for the boys, for liam's family, and for him.

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Marisol Muro

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are you a phannie queen?

Is this a new slur ?

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noncon friendship

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Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.

I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.

It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.

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Back in 2017 I signed up for one of the Cards Against Humanity sillies and did their Cards Against Humanity Saves America. Basically they were like fuck Tr*mp and his border wall and used the funds from the campaign to buy land and to make all 150,000 contributors part owners of said land across the US/Mexico border.

It was fun and silly and I got a little certificate.

Today I got an email that Elon Musk illegally annexed that land for SpaceX and that CAH are suing him over it. So possibly I’ll get like $100 if they manage to win a lawsuit and stick it to Musk. It’s like even more bang for my original buck.

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assortment of Romanian Stamps

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my kitty cat has the biggest prettyest most big beautoful wet eyes i’ve ever seen….. but i know it’s alljust a trick. shes going to bite me

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In fairness to King Kong, if I had a tiny adorable primate in my hand I would also be very resistant to someone taking it away from me.

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hey kids did you know that computers didn't used to automatically connect to the internet. it used to make this screaming noise. we should have listened.

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someone posted this image of rob to pinterest and half the comments are calling him a lesbian and the other half are just holy shit its mac mcdonald.

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WOMAN TWEETING: girls go to college to get more knowledge 😁 boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider 😝

MAN RETWEETING: And women wonder why men abuse and kill women. Pretty telling, isn’t it?

ELON MUSK, REPLYING: Fascinating