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Listen guys, you don't need to look nice to go outside. Your health is more important than appearances.

I just went on a walk in my pajamas, greasy hair in a shitty bun, acne, and a pair of new balance sneakers. Cars passed by and I said hi to everyone who passed. Did I feel self-conscious? Of course, but it was worth it.

Now I feel a lot better, because I didn't A. Overextend by forcing myself to shower/get dressed/put on concealer beforehand or B. Avoid doing anything because I felt like a mess.

Go outside and be however you are. It's not your job to look good to random strangers, you deserve to go outside.

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it's always either of 2 extremes: either we can't risk ever boosting and donating to individual fundraisers because whaf if it's a scam OR we can't risk not boosting or donating to a random fundraiser because what if it's not a scam?

why can't it be the happy medium (learning to recognize genuine Palestinian fundraisers vs fake ones by actually reading and getting to know even just a little the people behind the campaigns you are sharing, following Palestinian users who are doing the work of vetting new fundraisers, making the bare-minimum effort of looking up a url and scrolling through the tag documenting their scam activites, looking out for each other)

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he saw his reflection for the first time

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BMX at Easton, PA High School (1982)

Source : Youtube/19king14film

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Me & the other drivers were really impressed when you swerved around all of us at high speeds & got to the red light before anyone else

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Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

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the usamerican concept of generations worked exactly once, kinda, a little, and since then people have been trying really hard to insist that it's a universal principal

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Heritage Raffle

Join our Heritage Raffle and get a chance to win a collection of authentic items from Ramallah! For every donation of €5 or more, you will be entered to win a special package that includes:

• Premium olive oil

• Wild thyme (Za'atar Barri)

• Sage (Miryamiyya)

• A traditional Kufiyah

These items come from my family's land in Ramallah, where my grandparents originally hail from.

Your support not only gives you a chance to enjoy these unique and culturally rich products but also helps preserve our heritage.

This raffle is open until June 25, 2024. After donating, please fill out the form to enter for a chance to win this special box from Palestine.

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The destruction of Gaza, by USA weapons.

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Hello I do not know how to say this in a way that would do numbers on tumblr.com but if you are a citizen of an EU country this your reminder to vote in June. Elections for the EU-Parliament take place from the 6th to 9th of June depending on where you live, you can find more details on when and how to vote here.

I know that the EU can seem like this far away thing that you can have many complicated feelings about. But at this point so many key decisons are made at the European level, where the Parliment really can make or break a law. And I am talking about big topics like climate change and global politics but also everyday situations like buying stuff online or getting a refund for your delayed flight.

So even if it might not always be visible, who makes those descions in the EU-Parliment does and will to affect you. Use your vote to determine in which way.

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picking up litter is worth it!!

individual environmentalism gets a lot of flak in the face of corporate pollution but picking up litter makes a significant, noticeable impact. I spend about an hour a week picking up litter from around my dorm complex and I'm literally outpacing my community's litter production. Just an hour a week from one person is enough to offset nearly 200 people's worth of littering.

it would take less than 100 man-hours of labor per week to keep my whole college campus entirely litter-free. If you got two classrooms' worth of people to spend two hours per week each picking up litter, the whole campus would end up spotless and they'd straight up fucking run out of things to pick up.

If you're looking for some way to make a noticeable and positive impact on the world around you, go pick up some litter.

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i learned the hard way drawing this that NO, my shoulder is NOT healed yet 

toph expands her vocabulary

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Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022

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"Based on data gleaned from the nearly 10 million military dependents it insures, the U.S. Department of Defense has repeatedly called the evidence supporting ABA “weak,” noting there is no research to determine whether the small number of participants who show improvement — 15% — do so because of treatment or simply because a child has matured. After a year of the therapy, the department reported to Congress in 2019, 76% of 16,000 participating autistic children saw no change, and 9% worsened."

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