ladyintheattic

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#meeeeeee rn #dont wanna do my feakin taxes bro i hate

[ladyintheattic]

”but men fertility window longer its natural for old man and young woman to marry” i dont know how to explain to you that having your father die when youre a child bc he had you at 50 is a net negative for society. Youve never thought about the needs of another person a day in your life.

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During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.

It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.

That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.

I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.

One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.

My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.

I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.

I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.

All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.

None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.

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Shamelessly stolen from r/baldursgate3

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Hah.  I’m game, though I think adoption’s a better idea.  Biology may not cooperate.

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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) dir. Robert Wise + dancing

for @serendipiatoyle 💕

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DON’T FORGET 3. OCT. 11

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greedling is such a fucking funny combo of characters. like. greed is a pathetic little meow meow trying really hard to look like a cool dude who knows what he’s doing. and ling is a cool dude who knows what he’s doing pretending to be a pathetic little meow meow and they’re both in the body of a fifteen year old

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So yeah I rewatched the finale last night since my mother was finishing the series and…yeah I’m still crying

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I know shadow the hedgehog is the laughingstock of the gaming community because "haha edgy hedgehog" but I think so much about how a major canonical development for him was he saw a chronically ill 12 year old girl (who was his only friend) shot to death by the army in front of him because for some fucking reason Sonic the Hedgehog has the most batshit insane lore nobody fucking talks about

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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 (2022)   dir. Jeff Fowler

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Map of broad U.S regions

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It really is a huge disservice to equate colonization with missionary work because the priests who chose to do missionary work had to strip themselves of their wealth, cultural roots, and comfortable lifestyle in order to minister to the salvation of the indigenous people of the new country they moved to, while colonizers went to those countries in order to exploit them for their resources. It’s the extreme contrast of selflessness and selfishness. And often times, missionary priests had to stand against the colonizers in order to protect the human rights of the indigenous people much to the detriment of their own lives.

To associate missionary work with colonization is to dismiss their self-sacrificial work for the sake of the Heavenly kingdom hereafter while colonizers worshipped their earthly kingdom at the expense of their own salvation.

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yes i'm over it. yes i think about it 20 times a day

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