You need to be annoyingly outspoken about what you love. Wear your interests on your sleeve. Make the city your entire personality. Bring up your friends so much that strangers feel like they know them. Do it because you can't help it. Impossible to lose with a heart this full
Highly recommend being friends with ambitious people. Their drive pushes you to work hard for yourself. They also inspire you to do better, be better. Their good traits rub off on you. You start to want better for yourself and you grow.
writing is a technology for thinking. put words on a page and you slow your mind; in that slowdown you expose the joints of your argument. speed hides cracks. slow reveals structure. read to gather material; write to test it. reading enlarges what you know; writing shows what...
what people don’t realize is that to write is to think. by outsourcing your writing you are outsourcing your thinking. you are paying for the degradation of your own mind. don’t use AI to “structure” your thoughts. structure them yourself. a shortcut to nowhere
I honestly cannot believe that 2 years into a genocide we're still having conversations about the concept of BDS, as if it is still radical or controversial and not the absolute bare minimum.
ever since i found out the prophet SAW never criticised food i knew i had to start adopting that aswell. it’s such a ni3ma to even have anything on the table when there’s people that can’t afford a breadcrumb. Alhamdulillah
A patient needed a pillow rest as part of their occupational therapy assessment. Why did the NHS pay £123 for it when it costs £10 on Amazon? It’s all for the benefit of rich people with connections
One of the most disgusting tendencies in British politics is always ensuring the Home Secretary is a person of colour, just so they can then weaponise their own identity while advancing reactionary policies.
capitalism has ruined people’s outlook on the world and made people think it’s ok to be extremely selfish and greedy when it isn’t.
it’s not normal to think human beings should go without shelter, food, and healthcare if they have no money. it’s so dystopian
the concept of a new york mayorial race being more important than the bolshevik, cuban, vietnamese, & chinese revolutions… american exceptionalism is a disease