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Remember children—this tactic is really annoying to the police, so YOU SHOULD NOT become floppy—it’s frustrating to them and makes them look bad and is a waste of resources and no one wants that…

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looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

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"It was no coincidence that one of the era's new pop psychology terms was 'burnout.' When New York psychologist Herbert Freudenberger went searching for an evocative metaphor for the syndrome he was beginning to diagnose, he found it in the fire-ravaged building. 'If you have ever seen a building that has been burned out,' he wrote at the start of his internationally bestselling 1980 book, Burn Out: How to Beat the High Cost of Success, 'you know it's a devastating sight.' He continued: 'As a practicing psychoanalyst, I have come to realize that people, as well as buildings, sometimes burn out.'

Freudenberger's epiphany came at the St. Mark's Free Clinic, where, in the early 1970s, he served as a volunteer counselor to the throngs of hippie youth who congregated in the East Village. He would arrive around six p.m., after putting in a full day at his private practice on Park Avenue. To get to St. Marks Place, he had to traverse an East Village pockmarked by burned-out buildings. Some areas, particularly blocks with a large number of Puerto Rican residents, lost more than half their housing during the decade. The peak hours for arson in these years fell just after midnight, right when Freudenberger tended to leave the clinic.

In 1971, after a year of sixteen-hour days, the psychologist found himself unable to get out of bed, having succumbed to what he would soon term 'staff burn-out'—a condition that he associated with over-dedicated and overachieving professionals, especially care workers like himself. Years later, when Freudenberger related the experience for a broad audience, he reasoned from the ruins surrounding the clinic: 'What had once been a throbbing, vital structure is now deserted.' Not reducible to stress, depression, or exhaustion, Freudenberger's burnout was a symptom of high expectations that went unfulfilled. 'The American dream is no longer a reality,' he told the Los Angeles Times in 1982, 'but many of us are still operating as if it were.' If Freudenberger was looking for a symbol that could evoke those dashed dreams, he couldn't do much better than the burned-out building. Though he failed to acknowledge it in his own exploration of the term, those torched buildings had generated value by being destroyed. Freudenberger's burnout unwittingly suggested how depletion, even to the point of destruction, could be profitable.

Despite its poignance, burnout had obscured the conditions that gave it meaning. Gone were the landlords and underwriters, the agents of government austerity, the torches, and the constellation of other forces that obliterated the built environment. Freudenberger even evicted from his analogy the tenants who had in actual fact been burned out. He described his prototypical patient in this way: 'I came from a pretty good home, I went to school, settled into a career, married someone I loved, had children. We're a pretty successful family. Money, home, cars—but something is missing.' In this early formulations Burn Out was thus reserved for the well-to-do suburbanite: the byproduct of accumulation, rather than dispossession. An indifferent worker putting in twelve-hour days on the assembly line was definitionally unfit for the diagnosis. 'It would be virtually impossible for the underachiever to get into that state,' Freudenberger wrote. That the tenants who had literally been burned out were deemed ineligible for the diagnosis was typical of an arson discourse rife with elisions, smokescreens, and amnesia."

—Bench Ansfield, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (2025), Ch. 4, "'We Went to Bed With Our Shoes On'"

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your life is not an optimization problem

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2007: old navy is having a sale on jeans so everyone should come on down to the old navy..

2016: #MyJeans keep me connected with the community while I do Activism. Identity

2025: these jeans were given to me by adolf hitlerrrr

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Have you ever imagined yourself, on a visit to a major museum, busting through a wall, arms full of ill-begotten African artifacts and ready to return them to their rightful homes? No? Well, you may soon have the chance, thanks to South African video game studio Nyamakop. Earlier this month at the annual Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, Nyamakop unveiled its latest project, Relooted, a side-scrolling puzzle platformer—think early Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia games—where players join a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate heists to take back stolen artifacts from Western museums, and repatriate them to the peoples from whom they were taken. As Nyamakop lays out on the game’s listing on the online video game marketplace Epic Games, Relooted takes place in a near future where “the political powers that be brokered a Transatlantic Returns Treaty, promising the repatriation of African artifacts from museums.” But the hitch in the treaty is that it only applies to artifacts on “public display,” leading museums to circumvent the requirement by placing the pieces in highly guarded private collections. And that’s where players come in: scoping out a given facility, carefully constructing an exit route, and then, of course, stealing the artifact and escaping. As Ben Myres, the creative director of the game, explained to Epic in a news post, all of the artifacts in Relooted are based on real-world pieces in Western museums. In crafting the various missions, the developer team spent two years of research narrowing done the list of which pieces, of the hundreds still held by Western museums, into something manageable.

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TOP 5 SOUPS! LET'S GO!!

miso fennel butternut squash soup. i have a few variations i have designed myself but that variation is my fave.

44 clove garlic soup by smitten kitchen. delicious.

French onion soup and it is required to have bread and cheese on the top

a damn hot chili with beans

Tom kha gai

honorable mention: pho

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Ask me my "TOP 5/TOP 10" anything!

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Ok whats your guys favorite mountain goats song except you arent allowed to say no children or this year . Mines unicorn tolerance. If you cant think of any other favorites may I recommend listening to goths. That entire album. And also Tallahassee and the sunset tree (the ones no children and this year come from.) This isnt passive aggressive or anything I just really like tmg and if you liked those there are a LOT more like it. Please. Take my hand

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it makes me sad to see people who try to classify each aspect of genitalia into "intersex" and "not intersex." to have people ask questions about whats "normal" and whats not.

not only is the line blurry between perisex and intersex, but all genitalia is "normal." all genitalia is "natural." you dont have to pathologize your own or other peoples genitalia.

it only makes me upset to see people asking if parts of intersex genitalia are "normal", or if things are "in the wrong place", or assume resources about natural genitalia variations exclude intersex people.

we are normal. we are correct. parts of your body do not need to be common to be normal or natural.

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STOP CENSORING YOURSELF ON THIS WEBSITE. FUCK SHIT SEX MURDER ALCOHOL DRUGS FAGGOT DYKE QUEER TRANS BITCH SLUT WHORE SEX SEX SEX SEX!!!!!!!!!!!

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NOOOOO MY ART GOT NUKED

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These Trees Survived Hiroshima, Group Plants Their Seeds Worldwide to Preserve Their Memory https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/these-trees-survived-hiroshima-organization-cultivates-their-seeds-around-world-preserving-their-legacy/

In Japan, an organization is planning how to help ensure the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are remembered for thousands of years, rather than hundreds.

Its plan revolves around the hibakujumoku or the A-bomb-surviving trees of Hiroshima.

With the 80th anniversary of the bombings having just concluded, it’s worth taking a moment to learn about the trees that survived one of our nation’s darkest decisions.

The giant fireball that proceeded the detonation of the atom bomb, if it can believed, couldn’t wipe out all the trees in the blast zone. This eucalyptus tree, for example, was only half a mile from the epicenter.

Called Green Legacy Hiroshima (GLH) and launched in 2011, the organization works to cultivate seeds of peace and hope from these woody survivors, and transport them around the world to be planted and raised in memorial peace gardens not unlike the World Peace Pagodas of the inspirational Buddhist leader Fuji Guruji.

When the roots of the idea that would become GLH were first planted, there were 170 hibakujumoku, but like the human A-bomb survivors, called hibakushi, time was beginning to reduce their number.

Some died of natural causes; others were cut down by accident. Organizers Nassrine Azimi and Tomoko Watanabe realized that they had to act faster than they had realized, and so sprouted GLH to try and protect the trees which at that point had no official protection whatsoever.

They were outside the bounds of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that encompasses the bombing site and other related memorial infrastructure, so any protection had to come through awareness raising.

They accomplished this in part by taking GLH global, and as of 2025, 41 countries around the world have received and planted seeds from the hibakujumoku, ensuring their legacy continues, even if they don’t.

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor