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For anyone who is still around.

#yes nobody has both his hands here #as a treat

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it’s been a while, coming

perhaps overdue by a couple years

i feel like i’ve been on this blog long enough

on my part: long enough for most of the folks who look at it

i think maybe it’s time to archive it, pick up my bags and head somewhere new or something

for ppl who see this, it’s been really nice! great even

i hope for you- you find all the things that settles your heart easy and makes all the changes in your life hold as few sorrows as possible

#take care and live good #the end

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Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

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Deborah Sengl — Von Schafen und Wölfen (Of Sheep and Wolves)  [taxidermic preparation, wax, 2008]

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#lmaooooo #me hopefully soon #but only the quitting part #tho if i had to choose........ #untitled resignation letter is how i'd do it

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#heehee

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unimaginably cruel

#jack #john #asterisk

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#happenings

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My curse is that I have so much bottled up oc lore but can only talk about it when someone asks very specific questions about my characters

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Simple explanation of the bills that farmers in India are protesting - in TikTok form!

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I see posts like these about other kinds of reminders, but never about glasses! Here’s your reminder to give your glasses a good clean!

#ah................. eyes

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doggie bowl

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February 6, 2021. St Louis

Inmates at St. Louis Justice Center demonstrate against the US genocide occuring in prisons. Inmates are being left to die, and are in some cases being punished with exposure to COVID-19. Despite earlier pleas and protests within and outside of the jail, safety conditions have not improved. The COVID pandemic is in its 10th month now.

For people incarcerated in US prisons, COVID infection rates are triple the outside rates and mortality is double the outside rate.

Even court efforts to reduce the prison population are being disobeyed by local police departments.

Prisons aren’t race neutral, they were created to target and oppress Black, Indigenous, brown, and immigrant people.

Poverty produces underlying health conditions and is killing BIPOC at rates over double that of white Americans.

People are being left forced to die from COVID because the government doesn’t represent nor care about these community members. It’s a genocide

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My favorite bit of folk medicine is that we’re supposed to take wormwood for intestinal parasites. It’s actually really effective, which is how wormwood got its name, but the reason it’s effective is that wormwood is literally just poison and it happens to kill the worms slightly faster than it kills you.

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Looks like I’m gonna be full of ‘controversial’ opinions today so I’m just gonna be real about this next topic that’s been itchin’ at me for a while:

I genuinely don’t think a lot of white leftists understand just how integral anti-black racism is to keeping class oppression in power and they often gloss over their own internalized racism while using the argument of ‘uwu don’t assume all poor/rural white people are racists and have more compassion uwu’ as a way to try to ‘band’ together as a community of lower class people.

Here’s the thing, though: you CANNOT ‘defeat’ this class struggle, especially in the United States, if you CANNOT acknowledge the pivotal role that anti-blackness/racism in general has played in keeping poor communities struggling. Race has always played a part in determining rent, mortgage, education, and other basic human necessities within a community because if that community just so happened to have a lot of black folks in it, the ‘value’ of that area was inherently seen as ‘lower class’ or ‘unworthy’ of fair opportunities that could improve that area.

This should not be a surprise to ANY so-called leftist but I’m starting to see more and more white leftists try to weaponize the whole ‘don’t call rural white people rednecks, they’re not all racists’ and ‘we need to band together to defeat the rich and stop focusing on little things that divide us’ as a way to deter any deep conversation about the inherent racism involved in the class struggle.

Y’all really need to start reading more articles and books from past black/non-white leftists who have already talked about this entire subject YEARS before any of us became the ‘leftists who occasionally make good points on a public blogging platform’.

Because I’m tired of seeing white people complain about how poor/rural white folks are seen as racists and it’s ‘not fair’ to them while I’m an Afro Latino person who has lived in a rural area for MOST OF MY LIFE and has experienced nothing but racism from poor/rural AND rich white people, with no mercy.

White leftists need to stop using ‘class struggle’ as a way to band people together and actually work on their own internalized racism, do more research by actually READING information given about this subject by previous non-white leftists, and then confront the anti-black racism in their own communities. Especially if those white leftists live in poor and/or rural areas themselves.

Relying on black/non-white people to do all the heavy lifting for you and risk their lives by having to ‘educate’ rural/poor white people on how to be decent human beings to poc is not a good look.

EDIT: y’all can reblog this but if you start being disrespectful, I will block you.