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updating again because i like this post. i keep going to the gym but i also keep getting nerfed by getting sick / having a natural hedonistic disposition but i am seeing progress! i got a more consistent job which still doesnt pay very well but its much better for me. and im still learning the drums but im feeling it and enjoying it a lot <3. also my friends still havent killed each other yet

this term im gonna keep going to the gym and im gonna learn the drums and im going to land any one of these countless jobs ive applied for and im going to do good in my classes and my friends arent going to try to kill each other again and it WILL Be fine.

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And through the power of being deeply unwell, you can do anything

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So today I watched this interview with the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast and they demonstrate the phenomenon "space ship acting"

and they all go

and it just cracks me up, ESPECIALLY Sir Patrick Stewart

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i cant stop thinking about the people who expected to finally go home today must be feeling right now. some have been in those torture chambers for decades. and israel just got their hopes up and sent them back to their dungeons. barbaric entity

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Like a lot of people warned, Texas has now introduced a bill to ban all trans healthcare at any age.

It is literally the same bill they used against minors, but with "child" replaced with "person".

At the same time, Iowa is passing a bill to remove civil rights protections from trans people, legalizing discrimination

Again: It was never about protecting children. It was about getting their foot in the door towards increasingly extreme and genocidal policies. This was obvious from the start and they even admitted to it more than once, but the media continuously underplayed it and pretended it was reasonable.

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Coming across these numbers is heart-wrenching on levels I can't even begin to describe.

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You don't have to like weed but I find people who are vehemently anti-weed but claim to be left leaning infuriating. If you go into a rage because you smelled someone smoking pot, how the fuck do you expect to form community with people addicted to meth? It's easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users in leftist spaces because one makes you sound a bit like a square while the other is the writing on the wall. You aren't anti-weed, you're anti-drug user and anyone who uses substances is not safe around you.

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RFK joined the war on disease on the side of disease huh

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i know that makes my music taste look insufferable. and it is. but i listen to more than that i swear

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I'm Waiting For the Man - Velvet Underground

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

The Clampdown - The Clash (lol)

Blues Run The Game - Simon & Garfunkel

Swingin' Party - The Replacements

Straight To Hell - The Clash

It Mek - Desmond Dekker and the Aces

Unsatisfied - The Replacements

I've Got A Feeling - The Beatles

Gangsters - The Specials

thank you for tagging me!! @piarata and anyone else, im too shy to tag my mutuals 💔

Tagged by @celestialsmiles thank you!

Rules - Shuffle your "on repeat" playlist and list the first 10 songs that come up, then tag 10 friends

I'll tag @kirbythulhu (or @kirbys-jams for music posting), @turnandface @ktrum84 @carrotline @frostytherobot @galactic-squiddo @malkon-dova @notascreepyasyouthink @legobabyofficial @funfaerie

1. When I Come Around - Green Day

2. Because The Night - Patti Smith Group

3. Walk On By - Cake

4. Krystle (URL Cyber Palace Mix) - Machine Girl

5. Summer Madness - Kool and the Gang

6. Pick Up The Pieces One By One - A.A.B.B.

7. Someone to Watch Over Me - Ella Fitzgerald

8. Talk Dirty To Me - Poison

9. Fly - Sugar Ray (ft. Super Cat)

10. The Man In Me - Bob Dylan

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Prince is underrated as a musician to be honest. How many guys do you know can play every instrument on a track? Have you ever heard his guitar solos? His 90s experiments with hip hop? This man can play every genre well. There’s few musicians who can dream of achieving what Prince did in his lifetime.

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“KEEP IT THE FUCK TOGETHER OR THE WHOLE THING FALLS APART” collection

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led zeppelin is little girl music. music for babies. i listen to alpha male music. For adult men with sweaty hogs. like for example.  t he monkees

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georgia SB390 seeks to cut ties to any library that is associated with the american library association. the american library association is the ONLY accrediting insitution that the state of georgia recognizes. so, SB390 seeks to essentially do away with librarians--and, thus, libraries--completely. the rationale behind this is that libraries are "marxist" in that they are a free public service and they provide information.

another bill, SB394 seeks to introduce a "rating system" to public AND school libraries that will "cut down on inappropriate books distributed to minors." we can all see where this is going.

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Personally I love HDB as a man struggling to relate to the world around him in a way that doesn't make him want to end it all. A man who looks at his surroundings and his place within them and thinks there has to be a better way, or there must be a way out, but he can't find one. I could enjoy this as a precursor to him discovering a transgender identity but I think handing him a minority status kind of sidesteps the problem the story really wants to talk about. Like him being bisexual is already a decent avenue to explore his deviance from the norms of the culture he exists within, as it is a touchstone with which he COULD connect with people if he could Truly leave his context behind. But the context is the problem. He's a cop. And he will continue to be a cop until he decides that being anything else is more important to him than being a cop. And after he's done being a cop he will have to contend with Having Been A Cop. Because the context matters. And that's why the narrative doesnt vindicate him when you make him a communist. His revolutionary politics are comical. Because he's either an idiot fascist or he's the greatest hypocrite that anyone could ever be

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near every fucking party in europe has moved to the right on immigration and are willing to sacrifice both undocumented people and documented/turned citizen immigrants to appease the far right hysteria. wake up, this is the issue of our lifetime, this is what we need to fight for, especially as climate change accelerates and makes much of the third world uninhabitable and as companies use undocumented labour as slavery. this is our hill to die on