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this tweet is my own personal drug

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Heinrich Lefler (Austrian, 1863--1919)

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what if unicorn cowboy

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sometimes I get hopeful like hey maybe I can figure out my medical shit. and then I have to pay about 3 days of work for a telehealth nurse to tell me there's nothing else I can do except take more knock off meth

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Just found out about protestantism... please tell me nobody is doing that 😢

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I feel like a lot of the time (white) ppl complain about how much harder it is to make a living wage nowadays without going to college + having direct job experience, they rarely bring up the fact that a lot of this....is due to racism.

like yeah sure, YOUR parents could comfortably afford to feed a family of five on a high school degree. mine sure as hell couldnt. a lot of black ppl couldn't. so then we started fighting to go to college to get the same opportunities as whites with high school degrees, and suddenly, not only is a college degree not enough, but getting a college degree costs ten times more than previously.

and we have to start fighting to get into STEM fields but then THATS not enough, now we need ~job experience~ even though most people only get those comfy high paying jobs via nepotism.

which black ppl dont get cuz we've been barred from most social and work spaces for hundreds of years that no one knows us.

like, you can complain all you want about capitalism and how CEO's have become more greedy, but failing to acknowledge that this road was paved by your very same racist parents who didn't want black and brown people to even have the same chance at the same opportunities....you're missing the whole picture, 1. and 2, we will never get anywhere until you grapple with this first and recognize the damage racism has done to the very fabric of society.

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

How could would it be to have swords for teeth? That's exactly how the Palestine kukri snake got its name! This species has especially large, curved back teeth which look similar to a type of large knife known as a kukri.

(Image: A Palestine kukri snake (Rhynchocalamus melanocephalus) By Aziz Avci)

If you send me proof that you’ve made a donation to UNRWA or another organization benefiting Palestinians, I’ll make art of any animal of your choosing.

Remember, the donation can be in any amount– every dollar counts!

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Nobody fucking believes me that putting on a mask helps the wearer stop coughing and sneezing.

Coughing and sneezing are generally caused by the body trying to clear irritants. And very frequently, this irritation is exacerbated by dusts and pollens in the air. So by wearing a mask, you can cut down on the thing that is further triggering your cough and sneeze. Further, masks also condition the air and make the air you're breathing in moister, which reduces further irritation of the lungs.

If you were dusting, and the dust was making you sneeze, you could put on a mask and make the sneezing stop. (Note: a startling number of people also refuse to believe this, even though it's really obvious that "keep the dust out of your face" reduces "sneezing because there is dust in your face".) If you're already irritated, you can end up getting triggered by a lower threshold of dust.

When I have a cough, one of the first things I do is mask up, even when I'm entirely alone. Because if I'm not actually sick, the mask will often cut the coughing to zero (especially if my cough is asthma-based). And if I am sick, it'll cut it dramatically (and reduce post-nasal drip, which causes more coughing).

I have convinced exactly one person of this. Yes, masking is uncomfortable. (It helps a lot if you have a comfortable mask, though.) But also, so is coughing a lot, which also happens to spray gross stuff into the air.

For your own sake, put on a mask and stop complaining about how uncomfortable you are because you keep coughing.

I promise, it really works.

#i learned this trick during cedar season in tx when it turned out im dangerously allergic to cedar

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My arm is all fucked up and now I can’t go with Prince Achmed to cowboy camp

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something I very much needed to read today

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you grit your teeth and manage to send an important text. and what happens? the person actually responds. so now you have to brace yourself and do it all over again PLUS you have to bring yourself to read the response first too. it never ends.

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being able to identify plants is so powerful. the old ladies love me. I get 15 to 30 seconds of glory

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the thing is that every billionaire is as dumb and profit-hungry as musk is you just don't hear about it as much

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okokokok if you're interested in clothes or history please google "antique pattern library" and click on dressmaking. you'll find a book in german about eastern european folk costume. even if you don't read german, the illustrations are very good and very detailed and wonderful.

I was curious about the making of this book cause like... uh interwar germany talking about eastern europe. but I looked up the author and he has a really cool story. the highlight for me is that he did illustrations for Magnus Hirschfeld's project on cross dressing and he's also featured in the book. a legend.

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