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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

[NBA @NBA]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆

New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

KNICKS SHUT IT DOWN.

New York is one win away from its first championship in 53 years 🏆

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN. KNICKS WIN.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things the recovery industry will not tell you:

1. The drug worked. That is why people use it. Not weakness. Not moral failure.
A neurological event so complete and persuasive that any honest account of addiction has to start there.
The problem is not that the drug fails. The problem is that what it does is unrepeatable, and you will burn your entire life to the ground trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.

2. Shame is not guilt. Guilt says I did something bad. Shame says I am something bad. Guilt is appropriate. Shame is a cell with no windows. Most people use the words interchangeably. That mistake is lethal.

3. You cannot shame someone who has already named the thing you are holding over them. Say it first. Say it in plain light. The weapon drops.

4. Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time. I know because I live there.

5. Radical honesty does not give you back who you were. It hands you the clean slate of who you always wanted to be. The mask comes off. The cartoon other people drew of you stays on the page.

6. Nobody gets clean on a winning streak.

7. You have to be almost self-delusional in your forgiveness of yourself. (Go watch Chase Hughes)

8. The greatest sin was not the chaos. It was the absence. Being unavailable to the people who needed you.

9. Sustainable recovery starts with one thing: honesty with yourself. If you love an addict and want to help, that is the only door in.

10. I am only an expert on my recovery. Nobody is an expert on anyone else’s.

[sarina @sariverse]

I was drawing in the park yesterday and honestly it wasn’t groundbreaking or exceptionally beautiful, but i was sitting in the park and I was drawing while my boyfriend was reading next to me and I thought to myself ‘Wow, this is a beautiful day, I’m going to be doing this when I’m 85 too.’ And that’s what art is, a lifestyle, a process, a thing to do. Sometimes you make the exceptionally beautiful work, most times you’ll just be drawing an okay drawing in the park, and if you’re going to be an artist in any day and age you’re going to have to love that too

[⚭ @lekimgym]

Enjoy being while becoming

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Literature is humanity’s longest conversation with itself about what it means to be alive. It has been going on for thousands of years. You are not late, you are not unqualified, you are not too much or too little or too broken. Pull up a chair. This conversation was always about you.

[Nik @_NikSpace]

Love is real & deep for me. I don’t even allow people to know me deeply unless I feel safe. Whether that person has created an illusion of safety is one thing, but knowing I respected my own wishes means a lot to me. Way more than the validation of said company

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today is Trans Day of Visibility.

Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York.

Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue.

We’re fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

I don’t know, I just keep coming back to this idea that children are supposed to outgrow you. That’s the whole point, right? You give them everything you didn’t have & pray they run farther than you ever imagined. You hand them a map & whisper…please, find the roads I was too afraid to walk, let the world be kinder to you than it was to me, step into the future like it’s yours, because it is. And honestly, the idea of being jealous of them feels so backwards. Because a parent who envies their child has forgotten the assignment entirely. If my children surpass me, GOOD, that means the story didn’t end with my mistakes. Envy has absolutely no place in a room where you’re teaching someone how to grow. I want them to take every beautiful thing I ever did & every bad thing I survived and use it as scaffolding. Please, climb so high the sun is forced to learn your name. Please, fly so high you never have to look back to see where I stopped. And if all I ever do in this life is give my children the ground to launch from, then that’s enough for me. More than enough.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

[• L • K • @laetitiakafunda]

📍I agree. I would just say safe people instead of “good people”. I don’t believe in the binarity of being strictly good or bad. I believe in the intentional commitment of being safe or working toward it. You fail to be safe when you take advantage of people’s vulnerabilities.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

i’ve noticed that making people feel seen is either the reason they love being around me or the reason they keep their distance. it does one of two things and nothing else

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

interesting that a regard for others, non-white, will arouse in racists this extreme reaction: as if, supporting equality for all, one is believed to "hate" one's own race.
not at all. look in the mirror. your skin hue is an accident of birth. you did not earn it, deserve it, merit it: it was chance. pride in being of the white majority in the US is absurd.
it will be a shock to you to know that only 15% of the world's population is described as "white." so God did not favor you quite as much as you'd been led to think by your elders.

[sneep @sneepsnorp3d]

free way to improve your life- say “it’s worm out” when it’s warm out. people don’t know you can do this

[✒️ @Literariium]

being a self-aware person doesn’t mean i view myself as a good person. i think a lot of people get that confused. it literally means that i am vigilant of both my light and dark side. i have also made peace with my flaws even though i’m always working through them