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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

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@3fingerjack178 @NotAvgLiberal

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@atensnut

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@atensnut You believe all AI slop. No wonder you suck Trump's asshole. Moronic MAGAt. Go eat a bag of extra spicy dicks.

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@alf_hornseadog You would be very good at hide and seek, Alfie. 😆

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

The Somerset Farmhouse of 1 North Street, Williton were approached by a "food influencer" that wanted to charge them £2,000 for a review.

They put out a video of Sally eating a sausage roll instead 😆.

Lets make Sally and the Somerset Farmhouse famous for free.

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@TheMeldrew OMG I'm going to have nightmares. 😱😵‍💫🤢

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

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@RedWaveCrewHP "92% of people fail this." You mean 92% of Americans fail this.

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@IsabellaofMar @mjfree This is quite well thought out. I appreciate the 'zero effort after setup'. It's a nice, sustainable touch.

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@Sayjack41 @AntiTrumpCanada @beachlifelinda1 2nd bottle or 2nd case? 😁

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@TheJoeySwoll My gym doesn't allow any photography at all. It's so peaceful there without these annoying people.

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@andgofigure @keading_david @atensnut

[🧚‍♀️✨ Pixie Storm Studios ✨🧚‍♀️ @PixieStrmDesign]

✨💖 Hi! I'm Lora/Pixie. I am 30 and live in South Carolina, USA. I am an Eating Disorder Survivor in Recovery.
I started my journey with art as a part of my healing process & it has continued to bloom from year to year. In 2018 I started Pixie Storm Studios with the dream of supporting myself on my artwork. Ink pens & bright colors have always been a huge passion of mine.
As well as creating unique ink pens, I highly enjoy creating resin art that glows in the dark! I also create stickers & prints of my original artwork. As well as Candles & Jewelry. Most recently my mom and I have added handmade plushies to my shop.
Thank you so much for your interest in my work! Your support helps with the costs of my medical bills and continued treatment.
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[King Randall, I. @NewEmergingKing]

Could your daughter tell emergency services exactly where she is if she ever needed help?

On Day One of The X For Girls, King Randall taught the girls how to use mile markers in an emergency. Small sign. Life-saving knowledge. 💗

Thank you to our donors and supporters.

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@TheMeldrew Don't confuse them with actual facts, Ian. 🙄

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@keading_david @atensnut I wouldn't be calling anyone a retard with that profile pic.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Just watched a news segment on the ebola outbreak in Congo.

One doctor and his staff of just a few nurses suit up every day, multiple times a day, in head to toe protective gear in the blazing hot sun, to enter tents where sick and suffering ebola patients are quarantined with no available treatment, no vaccine, no cure.

It's a crisis and an incredibly dangerous situation, and yet this doctor and his staff enter these tents to bring comfort to the patients, like a 10-year boy, scared and alone in a tent.

When the doctor was asked about the toll the work takes on him, he said he does the work "with humanity."

Contrast that with the soulless billionaire and smug Republicans who gutted USAID, an organization that helped people like that doctor with vaccines, safety gear, and containment of a deadly disease.

And they gutted it with no humanity.

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@megbasham For a Christian, you're not acting very Christ-like.