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ALLBLM| Virgo ☉| Virgo ☾ | Libra ↑ | former PhD student| pedestrian

[27. @dimvji]

you just have to get really good at continuing

[Adéṣẹ̀tọ́ @Illusionist_126]

Your heart is not a state secret. You are meant to declare allegiances. You are meant to have favourites. Write the letter. Miss the train. Stay up until dawn talking. You should be caught red-handed loving something, someone.

[Jon Kent @jonkentcomrade]

Zohran is just showing that Dems could have been doing this shit the entire time, while they were going oh but our hands are tied bullshit.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[HAYES, JAYSON @JaysonHayes19]

“I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I have said.”

— Ida B. Wells

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

dunno if it’s possible to overstate how potentially transformative it is to have a player like wemby become the face of the nba. a bunch of boys/young men growing up seeing this kind of unabashed raw emotion and care factor is big time

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

In case you forgot, we live on a planet where lightning turns sand into glass, dolphins give each other names, the ocean glows in the dark, and rain has a scent before it falls. You stand here with a beating heart, a steady moon above, and a world quietly, absurdly beautiful.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School

[Bri @wordsandsense]

My good friend Ursula K. Le Guin has some thoughts on this

[Free Rodney Hinton 🇸🇳 @onlineva_]

hearing the the flotilla activists say that their worst torturers had american accents just shows us once again that this horror is our responsibility

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

Reading books is dangerous because books slow the mind down enough to notice how unnatural modern society actually is.

[g @34rths]

Learning to say compliments out loud instead of just keeping it to myself because people deserve to hear beautiful things

[J.S. Park 박준 @jsparkblog]

“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.”
— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1962, p. 8)

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

caring is cool!!!!!!!!!

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

I promise to watch every single second of Spurs v. Knicks

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

If you're a teacher, you'll know why I'm forever keeping the shortest teacher eval a student ever gave me.

[꩜ @adorewordss]

im embarrassing myself for the pursuit of human connection if you wanna join

[Noah Verrier @NoahVerrier]

My oil painting of an Uncrustable

[Mingu @lowgradef]

In fiction evil is often written to have depth and complexity while good is written to be simple and boring. But in real life evil is boring and predictable while good is complex and unique every single time.