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Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

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I love u narrative songs 💖💖💖

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Over the weekend, Jews around the world observed Tisha B’av, Judaism’s day of mourning that commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. On Monday, Netanyahu opened his cabinet meeting with a reference to those events: “1,955 years ago, following Tisha B’av, we suffered the greatest defeat in our history,” he said. “At that time, we were divided, splintered, and fighting with one another.” Today, by contrast, “we are in the midst of a great war in which we attained historic achievements because we were not divided, because we stood together and fought together.”

Netanyahu’s boast of Israeli solidarity—made as protests against his war policy and his attempt to fire the attorney general investigating his government roiled the country—rang hollow. But the prime minister’s reference to Tisha B’av was apt, if not for the reasons he thought.

As the Talmud tells it, when the Romans first laid siege to Jerusalem and the Second Temple, the walled city had supplies to withstand the blockade for years to come. The rabbinic sages counseled patience, seeking a diplomatic accommodation that would avert mass bloodshed. Instead, a group of Jewish zealots burned the city’s storehouses in order to force the population to fight rather than wait out or appease their adversaries. Jerusalem was conquered and the Temple destroyed. A radical minority yoked the entire polity to a messianic policy—and the result turned out to be a national catastrophe.

Israel’s Settler Right Is Preparing to Annex Gaza: A radical campaign that began in 2023 is entering its final phase.

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Harvesting my wheat

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maybe growing up is just becoming who you were at 14 again but learning how to love her this time

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The United States — ALL of it

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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honestly it is sort of charming to me that the ATLA fandom has been hung up on the same imaginary teenage love triangle for fifteen years...personally I feel like it is NOT my business if Katara and Aang want to get married too young and have like a million children. godspeed to them, or whatever. but Sokka and Suki should definitely absorb Zuko into whatever they've got going on, mostly because I think it would be hysterical for two non-benders who can pass for straight if they do not open their mouths to have a regular third who is the hereditary monarch of the fire magicians. can you imagine. there's just a king in your house sometimes, rummaging half-naked through your fridge for snacks and complaining about how people keep trying to have him assassinated, and you can't tell anyone about it. hilarious dynamic.

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I would actually pay money to see that ^^^

Disney bragging about how Bluey is responsible for 30% of their streaming traffic these days.

Brah, man. You just told me Bluey’s dad has more star power than Marvel or Star Wars.

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STAR TREK "The Immunity Syndrome"

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The reason you shouldn't be an asshole to ex-Trump supporters who are genuinely making an effort to change is the same reason why we all felt like shit when our parents went "look who decided to join us!" when we built up the energy to leave our rooms and overall it made us even more reluctant to join family activities.

You don't punish behavior you want to see.

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learning that ofc means ‘of fucking course’ is such bullshit. she’s ‘ofcourse’ to me

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“It’s clear to me that the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 was a mistake which should be undone. ICE should be abolished and replaced by something more like the Immigration and Naturalization Service that preceded it. At a minimum, though, the mega expansion of ICE happening under Trump II should be undone. Making these things explicit now greatly improves the chances that they will actually come to pass.”

— The Fires Next Time 

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I'll always talk up internet radio stations because I don't think the average person is aware that they're free, can run in your browser (or in any program that can connect to them), work on your phone, run better than a youtube tab, and give you a much better selection of music than you could get from a general algorithmic playlist

(also lots of them have live shows which you can tune into for free)