lauren

whimsical AND cynical! • 26

[lauren @L_RPayne]

me, at a party, yelling about how we need unions

[Tom Zohar @TomZohar]

Laura showing the gentleman caller her glass menagerie:

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.

This was the last poem he published.

[Finn (Permanent Hiatus) @YIAYTime]

Transcript:

"When I tell people I'm Palestinian, a lot of the time, they assume I am Muslim, and I'm not. I love my Muslim brothers and sisters, but I am not. I am a Palestinian Christian, my Grandpa's family is Catholic and my Grandma's family is Orthodox. And being a..."

[Keifer @DannyVegito]

It’s truly incredible how many activists have successfully demonstrated at a mass-televised event like this. Their bravery and courage should be commended. The cowards trying desperately to look away will be immortalized in history for their complicity.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

BREAKING: South Africa’s🇵🇸 President Cyril Ramaphosa pledges solidarity with the Palestinian people, saying they are struggling against occupation and apartheid.

[swiftie struggle tweets @swifferstruggle]

fasten your seatbelts, we’re back in 2014.

[John Green @sportswithjohn]

In part because you are monopolizing the distribution of bedaquiline, a life-saving medication that most people who need don't get because you keep the price of the drug artificially high.
Because of your bad business and ethics decision, MDR-TB can spread further and faster.

[lauren @L_RPayne]

@_ccinderella_ @sarelifry SERIOUSLY so good ❣️

[lauren @L_RPayne]

@hankgreen <3

[lauren @L_RPayne]

anyone else get the primal urge to rearrange furniture?

[lauren @L_RPayne]

they should end succession like this

[lauren @L_RPayne]

i've said it once and i'll say it again. no one gets me like lucy dacus gets me

[lauren @L_RPayne]

don't like seeing teslas in the wild. they're too smooth. i find them unsettling

[lauren @L_RPayne]

making big plans to put on a double feature of Southpaw (2015) and Jump In (2007)

[chuck 🏔 @crowcialist]

Feel like mental health has pretty safely hit the “breast cancer zone,” where literally everyone is now aware of it but awareness campaigns are all we are ever gonna get when what we really need is free universal healthcare

[lauren @L_RPayne]

i'm not the first one to say this but we need more teen romcoms based on classic literature

[lauren @L_RPayne]

almost had a full emotional breakdown this morning. why? couldn't tell you. did get better when i are some bacon and toast though