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is the castle on the album cover of through the deep, dark valley cair paravel or am i overthinking?

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i love you visible brushstrokes. i love you glue warped scrapbook pages. i love you awkward poems. i love you junk journal with faded receipts. i love you poorly composed journal layout. I love you unintentionally blurry photographs. i love you asymmetrical beading. i love you curling freeform crochet. i love you fingerprints on pottery. i love you reused materials. i love you improvised instruments. i love you mistakes. i love you bravery to make it anyway. i love you creativity that hasn't been wiped clean of every drop of humanity and sanitized and commodified.

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Howdy folks, the Senate will be considering the first ever resolution blocking arms to Israel. This is huge and historic; it would block government contracting and about $20 billion in arms and support. This is an uphill battle, PLEASE urge your senators to support S.J.Res114-115. This is maybe the most important piece of legislation relating to Palestine that we have ever gotten and we must seize this opportunity.

This doc has information on the resolutions and their process, as well as sample messages and a phone script you can use. Please, use this moment to hear witness for your neighbors.

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just screamed so loud it was heard across multiple state lines

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peachtober 7-13 🖍

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Julien Baker covers No Children by the Mountain Goats + an introduction from John Darnielle

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Excerpt from “I Hope We Both Die: How The Mountain Goats Wrote The Ultimate Anthem To Dysfunction” an interview with John Darnielle

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Please if you can reblog or donate I will be forever grateful 🥲

I know there are a lot of people in need in the world right now so I feel really bad for asking, but if by any chance some of you can donate a little bit to help me out with my bills and rent I will forever be grateful! 🥰 My account is overdrawn by 300 and I need an extra 500 for the end of the month. I'm on the autism spectrum and I work as much as I can but I won't be able to make it without help this month.

Thank you all so much 🙏

193/800 CAD

P4yp4l

Kofi

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does anyone want to do sidequests together

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Then why stay in a state that clearly hates you? Why don’t you leave instead of acting helpless

do you have “move out of state” money to give? do you have a support system set up for after i leave my friends and family behind here? do you have money to give me for a car that can drive more than 45 minutes from home without risk of breaking down? do you have a job lined up for me in a blue state that accounts for a change in the cost of living? are you going to pay off all of the bills that keep me tethered here? shut the fuck up.

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ok, so this year I made a submission for Folio Society illustrations contest..since the theme was Howl’s moving castle, it was a real challenge to draw illustrations somehow different from the movie! If you want you can vote for me here (but there are so many better artworks…decide for yourself :D )

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A night in Kelsingra

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Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "The Possessed,"

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uh oh! owner's being sued for worker abuse! get out the boop meter so everybody forgets

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blueberries & teeth

linocut prints on lokta paper

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John Byam Liston Shaw (British, 1872-1919) Blessed Damozel, detail, 1895 Guildhall Art Gallery, London

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god i hope the cpsc takes the shot. i think this would dramatically change their entire business model. amazon makes so much money by selling defective or mislabeled or just plain dangerous products and then faces little liability because this stuff is actually being sold by random third-party sellers that don't get vetted at all and can be hard to prosecute because they're in china or wherever. this is a big part of what makes amazon so powerful and it would be good for everyone if they were forced to bear more responsibility for the damages caused by the crap available on their website

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