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🧸🪐🪶📜🤎

[-kαt. @patroclus__]

"𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵."
-𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘭𝘬𝘦

#heautifuIharries

[varya ⋆౨ৎ˚ @discovarya]

I will SOB

[✒️ @Literariium]

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦, “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦? 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦, 𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦?”

𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥, “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

[goma @soigomaa]

there are people who write more honestly in a language they learned later in life than in the one they grew up speaking. and that sounds strange until you realize that your first language absorbed every rule your culture ever had about what's appropriate to say out loud, what feelings are acceptable to name, how much honesty is too much honesty at a dinner table. and sometimes a second language arrives with none of that-it's just words. clean ones. and in those clean words some peoplefinally say the
-thing they were never given permission to say in the language that raised them. that's what language actually does before it's had time to learn your family's rules.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

May you heal so hard you do your hobbies again.

[𝜗℘ @lacedli]

The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.

[m. @poetcinematic]

having a very elena ferrante summer this year

[Pauline @therowsmvse]

I’m asking you to dedicate a summer to reading the four books because they’ll change your life

[amanda @THECOOLISSUE]

no cause that's exactly it

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In May 1860, she kissed her six children goodbye. She thought about the dinner she would cook later. She thought about the laundry. She thought about the quiet life of a mother in Illinois.

She had no idea that when the front door clicked shut, it would stay locked for three long years.

Her husband, Theophilus Packard, was a respected minister. To the neighbors, he was a man of God. But inside their home, he was a man who could not stand a wife who thought for herself. Elizabeth Packard liked to read.

She liked to debate religion. She had her own opinions about life and faith. In the 19th century, for a woman to have a brain was considered a danger.

Theophilus decided to end the argument once and for all. He didn’t need a crime. He didn't need a witness. In those days, the law in Illinois said a man could commit his wife to an insane asylum without any evidence or a public hearing. He simply had to say she was "disturbed."

One morning, a group of men arrived at her home. They didn't listen to her logic. They didn't care about her tears. They dragged her away to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum. Elizabeth was 43 years old, perfectly sane, and suddenly a prisoner.

When she entered the asylum, she expected to see people who needed medical help. Instead, she found a warehouse of "inconvenient" women. There were wives who had argued with their husbands about money. There were daughters who refused to marry men they didn't love. There were women who were simply too loud or too independent.

"This is not a hospital," Elizabeth realized. "It is a cage for the unwanted."

The doctors tried to break her spirit. They told her that if she just admitted her husband was right and she was wrong, she could go home. They wanted her to say she was crazy for wanting her own thoughts. Elizabeth looked them in the eye and said, "I cannot buy my liberty by a lie."

She didn’t give up. Instead, she started to write. She hid scraps of paper in the linings of her clothes. She tucked notes under floorboards. She recorded every abuse, every scream in the night, and every story of the women around her. She became a secret journalist inside a living nightmare.

After three years, she was finally released, but her husband locked her in a room at home. He planned to move her to another asylum in a different state. This time, Elizabeth’s friends helped her get a message to a judge.

A trial was finally ordered to determine if she was actually insane.

The courtroom was packed. Theophilus was confident. He brought "experts" to say that her religious doubts proved her mind was broken. But then, Elizabeth stood up.

She didn't shout.

She spoke with the calm power of the truth. She explained her beliefs. She showed the jury that having a different opinion is not a disease.

The jury only needed seven minutes. They came back with a single word: Sane.

Elizabeth walked out as a free woman, but she found that her husband had taken everything. He had sold their furniture, taken her money, and disappeared with their children. She was alone and penniless.

Most people would have disappeared into the shadows. Elizabeth did the opposite. She spent the next forty years traveling the country. She stood before the legislature and demanded new laws.

She said, "A woman's mind is her own, and the law must protect it."

Because of her, states changed their laws. They made it illegal to lock a person away without a fair trial and a medical exam. She turned her private pain into a public shield for thousands of other women.

She proved that even if you take away a woman’s home, her money, and her children, you can never truly take away her voice.

[AkikazeHanae 🏵 (working on commissions¡🎋) @akikaze_hanae]

Tap me 🤑

[𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔯 @SelectedCinema]

Stalker. 1979 / Andrei Tarkovsky

[goma @soigomaa]

VIRGINIA WOOLF SAID THIS IN 1920s!!! AND IT SOMEWHAT STILL HOLDS TRUE

[bea @beabolter]

it’s like abba, heart, blondie, evanescence, mazzy star, sade, paramore, fleetwood mac, the runaways, the cranberries, siouxsie and the banshees, the pretty wreckless, hole, florence and the machine never existed

i wonder why none of them made it to the list…

[Katharina Gurgel @Kathgurgel]

A marca britânica de produtos para gestantes chamada Mothercare decidiu mostrar o pós-parto real após descobrir que 50% das mães sentem vergonha de seus corpos por culpa de padrões irreais.

Depois de realizar uma pesquisa com 1.500 mães e descobrir que mais da metade dela não sentiam orgulho de seus corpos nesse período, por compará-los a imagens publicitárias idealistas, de corpos sem nenhuma marca, cicatriz ou gordura.

O seu corpo não está errado; ele é uma máquina incrível!

Vergonha deve sentir quem lucra com o sofrimento alheio.✨🤰

#MaternidadeReal #Maternidade #MaternidadeSemFiltro

[Asura 🔥 @Asura0599]

gw kasih satu fun fact wkwk

Pernahkah kalian merhatiin kenapa banyak perempuan mengetik di layar smartphone (khususnya android) dengan dua tangan, sementara laki-laki banyak yang bisa menggunakan satu tangan dengan nyaman?

Karena ukuran smartphone standar di pasaran dikalibrasi untuk rata-rata bentang tangan laki-laki dewasa.

Dampaknya apa? Gak hanya sulit dioperasikan dengan satu tangan oleh mayoritas perempuan, ponsel ini juga banyak yang tidak muat di saku celana perempuan (yang dari sananya juga sudah didesain lebih kecil atau bahkan palsu).

Oia satu lagi

Siri, Alexa, Cortana, hingga Google Assistant sadarkah kamu bahwa secara historis, hampir semua voice assistant diluncurkan dengan suara default perempuan?

Menurut laporan PBB dan sosiolog, hal ini terjadi karena para engineer (yang mayoritas laki-laki) secara tidak sadar memasukkan bias kultural ke dalam kode mereka.

Mereka mengasosiasikan peran asisten yang patuh, sabar, melayani, dan siap membantu tanpa mengeluh dengan stereotip perempuan.

Sebaliknya, suara laki-laki dalam AI kebanyakan digunakan untuk aplikasi yang bersifat instruksional, dominan, atau ahli (seperti navigasi militer atau sistem perbankan awal).

[Mark Wright @markeology]

My daughter Annika is proudly autistic and 12 years old.

She drew this butterfly from a photo she took herself — every vein, every scale, rendered by hand on a tablet.

She signs everything she makes. Dates it. Like she already knows it matters.

She's turning 13 tomorrow. Please share this for her birthday. Let's make her day.

[lily 𐙚๋࣭˚࿔ @angelfromeroda]

Kissco songs as famous paintings:

a thread

[🇯🇵砂川 泉🎌 @Izumi_Sunagawa]

これは、被害者が加害者に見つからないように助けを求めるために作られた、ユニバーサル(万国共通)のSOSサイン。

みんな覚えておいて欲しい。

[Bridgerton @bridgerton]

Quite the shock indeed.

[HSD💋🪩 @hsdaily]

Harry’s interview with Runner’s World is in conversation with one of his favourite authors of all time and legendary writer, Haruki Murakami, author of Norweigan Wood and Kafka on the Shore.