i wake up, i cry over spilt milk, put all of my eggs in one basket, bite off more than i can chew, jump the gun, fly off the handle and then die on that hill
Zohran Mamdani spoke at a Rikers Island graduation ceremony honoring 57 incarcerated people who earned their high school diplomas.
One graduate, Elijah Smith, said he didn’t expect the mayor to show up, but his presence meant something: “It helped. Someone cares about the incarcerated individuals in this jail.”
Sometimes dignity starts with simply showing up.
I watched a man film his daughter's first steps and he watched it through the screen. she walked toward him and he was not there he was in the rectangle and she reached for a ghost. that is the whole thing now. we are building a perfect archive of a life no one attended
. @ChipotleTweets I ordered these burritos 15 minutes apart from the same store today. The one on the left I ordered in person and it’s twice the size as the one on the right (online order). My online order is always significantly smaller. Every time. Stop ripping us off.
watched a little old man set his dog on a table and leave it stranded there while he ran inside the diner to use the bathroom. this thing did not move aside from swiveling its head to look around pathetically the entire time
in my depression therapy group you have NOOO idea how often guilt about not responding to texts from loved ones came up. and the fear of this kind of response created a vicious cycle where they were then too ashamed to reach out/reply after any time had passed
men need to realize that when they say “i want 4 kids” what women hear is “i want you to birth and raise 4 children while my life stays 30-70% the same”