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One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

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Borealopelta markmitchelli

Known as a nodosaur, this 110 million-year-old armored plant-eater, is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found. It still has preserved skin remnants on its face and toe pads.

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are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?

concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me

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JACOB ANDERSON as Louis de Pointe du Lac + (●'◡'●)

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uh oh! I appear to have lost the notebook where I've been recording the title of every book that I've read for the past five years! hahahhahahahahaahahaahahahahahahaaahaha!

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thinking fondly of my lucky amulet that i put on right before all those terrible things happened

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The noble Bus is a mode of transportation befitting the descendants of hunter-gatherers. Bus is a sort of urban beast that must be tracked, pursued, and taken, by force if necessary. It brooks no cowardice; by its own fortitude it engenders nobility in its hunters. Driving is faster, granted— but cold, solipsistic, enervating of body and spirit. The car is an apparatus of regression; the driver cocooned in womb-like solitude meets no hardship, no test of his mettle, and reacts to all discomfiture with the dyspeptic grumbling of an opium-eater prodded from his stupor. To travel and arrive by Bus requires resourcefulness, grit, alacrity, patience, and guile. The Bus-rider laughs at adversity and looks upon his fellow-passengers as brothers. What though the road construction waylay him? What though the rain wet his shoes? Shoes— pah! What cares he for such baubles? Not for him the base ignominy of "road-rage" hang on my stop's coming up I gotta finish this post

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whatever. go my scarab

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Since the holiday toy drive post is circulating again, I figured this would also be helpful! Food insecurity is such a massive problem in America, in general, and if you have the means to help feed others, I think you should take that opportunity. Here are some other tips:

1. If you’re planning on donating items from your own pantry, please check the expiration dates on the packaging. Think of your donations as gifts to bestow, not castoffs to be rid of. It’s awful to think of people feeling like they got scraps someone else just didn’t want. Everyone deserves dignity with their meals.

2. If you’d rather give money to a food bank, that’s also great since they buy food in bulk and know what items are most wanted/needed!

3. Not everyone has access to appliances like stoves or microwaves or hot plates so if you can donate items that don’t need to be heated up, that would also be greatly appreciated!

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Francisco Goya - Boy Staring at an Apparition, (1824–25)

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Interesting how in The Tale of the Body Thief when Lestat can finally consume human food again he starts by chugging four glasses of wine after not having eaten anything for the past 200 years, proving once again that he's Just One Of The Girls

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throwing children by Ross Gay

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does anybody else drunk night sword

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Christina Bothwell, Awakening, 2021, Cast glass, raku ceramic, oil paint