lol you beauty maxi g babes are killing me. Because you lot are inching closer to Eurocentric beauty standards and self hatred for your black features.
A Ghanaian woman raised in South Africa was left homeless after her Durban salon was looted in anti-migrant violence in May. She and her 14-year-old son now sleep on the street next to some 200 other migrants https://t.co/uSm8cL6fqz
Today marks 9 years since the Grenfell Tower fire.
But 9 years on, there is still no justice.
9 years on & people still live in unsafe buildings.
We must not forget those killed because of dishonesty and corporate greed.
The lack of embarrassment Nigerian politicians feel is CRAZY!
But tbh when they’re welcomed with fanfare instead of thrown rotten tomatoes, why would they be
My own cup is empty. This is why I am currently unable to pour into others. If anyone cares about me, this is the time to pour into me. Even the strongest soldiers sometimes get vulnerable and need rest.
“Low effort friends,” meanwhile the whole time they may be at rock bottom, fighting for their lives, but still forcing themselves to show up because they don’t want to be those friends who always ruin plans or make excuses.
I have said it before: money makes you a better friend, partner, sibling, parent, colleague, etc. When you don’t have money, you cannot bring your thoughts to life. You turn down invites from friends to avoid embarrassment, and lowkey they begin to think you don’t like them like that.
Okay, then you decide to show up with the little you have, probably because your friends insisted that it doesn’t matter and they understand your condition. But you get there and realize everyone came correct, and suddenly you begin to feel small. You start overthinking everything; how you look, what you wore, what you ordered, what you could or couldn’t contribute.
I know we are all assuming because we do not know these people’s stories. However, it is not nice to label strangers “low effort friends” just from a video they made and posted themselves.
Also, if you are not liquid enough to comfortably show up for an event or gathering like this, I strongly advise that you don’t show up tbh. They will still see you as a bad or low effort friend anyway. But they’ll be alright. Only you truly know your story, your struggles, and how hard you are trying to stay afloat.
“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”