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Thoughts?

No thanks, I'm trying to cut back

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hello friendly reminder that you do not need a special occasion to use nice things! if you wait long enough your nice bath bomb won't be as fizzy! your favourite fruits will go out of season! candles are meant to be burned, not looked at! you're not enjoying your special tea if it's just sitting in your cupboard! you're allowed to have nice and special things on completely ordinary days! heck, it might just make that day special!!

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Every fucking time. I must just be lazy then hah 😬

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it feels like I just rediscover the fact that I'm disabled every few weeks. Like I'm hit suddenly with my limitations and the consequences of those limitations and I'm like oh yeah lol

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We have paper straws to use less plastic, but plastic christmas trees to use less trees.

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Never and I say never underestimate the Gundam generation.

Exoskeleton suit prototype from Japanese innovation lab “Skeletonics” | source                          

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I used to be like "aww pandas are just cute and harmless haha look at them gobbling up HARMLESS GREENS"

Then I moved to a country that has bamboo and realized that bamboo wood is SO TOUGH?? Pandas as total badasses for being able to chew though that shit like it was a Twinkie.

Pandas subsist almost entirely on bamboo, eating from 26 to 84 pounds per day

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Every day I am merely a whim away from dropping everything I have going on in my life in order to fully immerse myself in the exploration of how dinosaurs may have lived.

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Whoever it was who first clued me in to adding "for seniors" or "for toddlers" to my exercise searches to find stuff that actually is gentle and designed to tackle chronic pain or frequent injury you have saved my life. Arthritis website for hip exercises my beloved

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I feel like we definitely did a version of this with our three daughters. They're all named something ending in "ri", consisting three syllables.

Belgians must be stopped

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My Neighbor Totoro となりのトトロ

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Justice at last!! I sincerely hope this will help men speak out about DV and break that awful stigma of “It can only happen to women”

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On JD vs AH and how we failed victims of domestic abuse (based solely on my own, personal opinion).

I've read a title to an article which was about how we, as society, failed Amber Heard. And then I heard the closing word of her lawyer and what kind of message is being sent to actual victims of domestic abuse. And I want to give my two cents, because this s Tumblr and I can.

The only people we've blamed are ordinary (ordinary as in not famous) victims of domestic abuse.

It doesn't matter whose "side" you're on. The fact that we, as public, are choosing sides is already how we failed these victims. The fact that this was made into telenovela, with trends of people rushing to their TVs with theme song of Pirates of the Carribbean in the background, and memes and clickbait videos and articles. That's where we failed them first. Because this stopped being a trial (or, well, several trials) the moment this public shitstorm started and became an entertainment material like nothing else.

We failed them because we are proving that it doesn't matter what law is, what the judge thinks or even what juries think. No honey, the only thing that matters is what the general public thinks. "Oh please, don't worry about if your neighbor's going to judge you, their opinion doesn't affect you." Well tough luck bud, it appears that's not exactly true is it (proof: look at how Johnny was treated RIGHT AFTER Amber released the allegation, or the numerous petitions to end Amber's deals with this and that after Johnny's evidence was released)?

We failed them cause we sent them a message that it doesn't matter if you're a victim, if your abuser is more popular than you (bonus points if they're a man), you have to be faking it and we're just waiting for you to slip up to prove that. We failed them cause we sent a message that no, you can't be a victim if you're a man, even less if you're a popular man.

We failed them because we have shown that it's not about truth. Or justice. Or their well-being. It's not actually about the abuse victims at all! It's about whose more popular, who has a better spin on the story, who has a better media team. And then it's not even about that. It's about entertainment, and gossip and people fulfilling their own saviour/activist complexes through the victims and their suffering.

And that's how we, as society, failed abuse victims in this particular case and in this particular scenario.

So tomorrow if someone is scared to turn in their abuser, don't blame any of the sides in this trial, blame the context in which it happened.