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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

~ Howard Zinn

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no time for wallowing, bullshitting, or stupidity. work only.

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one thing is that a certain political party in this fucking wretched country doesn't know how to wield power so they can't keep it

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Shibata Zeshin, White Heron and Raven Flying, circa 1880

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not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

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urgh

my mother in law gave my stepdaughter a sachet of lavender, on the grounds that it's good for anxiety. I explained for the third or fourth time that I am allergic to lavender. "oh really? you should get her to keep it in her room"

yes, inside a box where the smell will not come out into our very tiny house. she's fucking obsessed with lavender as a mood thing, it is the very worst trigger herb for my migraines, I have explained this to her but she doesn't remember because she doesn't care about me. lmao.

she also spent a bunch of time yesterday repeating back what I said to her about my stepdaughter's anxiety as if she was informing me because she absolutely must be the only one who knows anything or gives a damn about the kids. us, her parents and stepparents, are just observers or something. she, the grandmother, is the one doing the work.

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so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

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the league of nations and UN constantly fail(ed) because they’re the dream of a white supremacist (woodrow wilson)

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i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

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well… *pushes up glasses* i’m something of a fucking idiot myself 😏

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my baby has no idea it's Yom Kippur and just wanted to romp around all evening.

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I'm definitely not able to safely fast from water at all this year and not entirely from food either so to minimize my food I will be restricting myself to Boring Ass Food. Rice (cold). Bread (brown, no butter). Banana (urgh). Lettuce (no dressing). If I need protein, plainest cheese.

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realizing I thought as a child that many children's books were written by Black authors as a kid because of Reading Rainbow

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any mutuals wanna.... beta read my children's book M.S.?

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omfg I thought these were dave strider and gamzee. we're approaching the homestuck/locked tomb fanart singularity. I hope tamsyn muir is happy

i just taped up my old art tablet cable any here we are i'm very tired but here they are!! i stayed up really late just to finish gideon the ninth and i absolutely loved it sm

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I did finish my draft of my children's book! it is 9k words, which is on the upper end of books of its type, but I can't resist a description of a meadow, so, there you have it