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this is not even an internet persona i am just like this and i think thats even worse

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I just want to get dicked down again =/

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deadbeat tumblr mutual

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me drowning in a lake while my friend, 11th century french rabbi and prolific scriptural commentator Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a) stands nearby: help im drowing help me rashi

Schlomo "Rashi" Yitzchaki (zy"a): "drowing" is likely a scribal error for "drowning." "im drow[n]ing" is to say: my lungs have become filled with water, and i am struggling to breathe. "help" once followed by "help me" a second time: the first [help] is directed to the Holy One, blessed be He, and means: "may He help us by swiftly delivering the World to Come;" the second (i.e., "help me") is to invoke direct assistance in this world, spoken as if to a personal friend. the meaning of "rashi" here is unclear.

#really really good post

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there should be a socially acceptable way to say "im not sure what to say to that. can you say something different"

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I love arguing with people on the internet it rejuvenates me

#mine

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I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :)

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I asked my friends on Discord if they used "psipsipsi" or "swswsw" when they are trying to call kitties, and I got a wide array of answers and it got me wondering--

How do you

Thank you to @space-glitter-gay, @frogs-under-logs, @justoneofthosebibliophiles, and Virginia for the blessing and the other options!

And to thank you for your answer, here's a photo of our adopted kitten:

#pspsps up close kitty kitty from far away

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crabs are literally being forcefemmed by barnacles every day and no one ever talks about it

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That ontological dimension is what is missing from the progressive populist model, in which the masses cannot but appear as a dupes, fooled by the lies of the elite but ready to effectuate change the moment they are made aware of the truth. The reality, of course, is that the “masses” are under few illusions about the ruling elite (if anyone is credulous about politicians and “capitalist parliamentarianism”, it is the middle classes). The Subject Supposed Not To Know is a figure of populist fantasies — more than that: the duped subject awaiting factual enlightenment is the presupposition on which progressive populism rests. If the most crucial political task is to enlighten the masses about the venality of the ruling class, then the preferred mode of discourse will be denunciation. Yet, this repeats rather than challenges the logic of the liberal order; it is no accident that the Mail and the Express favour the same denunciatory mode. Attacks on politicians tend to reinforce the atmosphere of diffuse cynicism upon which capitalist realism feeds. What is needed is not more empirical evidence of the evils of the ruling class but a belief on the part of the subordinate class that what they think or say matters; that they are the only effective agents of change.

k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)

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Fun fact about the early Catholic church is that, despite spending generations being persecuted by the Roman empire, it took less than 15 years under Theodosius I to go from “the empire is Catholic now” to “and also every other religion is banned.” You can literally read St. Augustine move from “state religious persecution is unacceptable” to “state religious persecution is cool actually” over his lifetime as Catholicism came to power. I’m sure there’s no broader lessons to be learned there

#last sentence of continuing appeal etc

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areyoumadatme.com/careers

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today btw the children insisted that I as an adult could not possibly have a mommy, but I MIGHT, they conceded, have a "plain mom," the definition of which is, apparently, "she goes up in a rocket ship." every day I am paid to have totally comprehensible conversations

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Happy birthday, Pete Seeger! (May 3, 1919)

A triumphant troubadour for labor, civil rights, and the environment, Pete Seeger was born into a musical family and learned how to make songs and play at a young age. Dropping out of Harvard to pursue his dreams of a career in journalism, he instead became active in the radical labor movement and its singing tradition, learning the guitar from Lead Belly and joining forces with songsmith Woody Guthrie. The two would form the Almanac Singers with several other radical folksingers, creating songs for the labor movement and the Communist Party. Seeger found mainstream success in the 1940s and 50s with another group, the Weavers, but the House UnAmerican Activities Committee killed the Weavers’ fortunes, as Seeger was cited for contempt for refusing to testify or plead the Fifth. Seeger’s career languished for years, barred from radio or television, but he found success in the college campus circuit, cultivating a generation of radical youth who would play a major role in the explosive activist scene of the 1960s. Seeger was right there alongside them, singing for the civil rights movement and contributing songs of his own, including an old spiritual he reworked into “We Shall Overcome.” In the late 60s and early 70s, amidst a jaded counterculture embittered by the failure of their radical politics, Seeger threw himself into environmentalist causes, organizing to clean up the Hudson River. He remained active in music and activism until his death in 2014. He is remembered both for his activism and for his contributions to music, popularizing the use of tablature in string instrument notation and coining the terms “pulling off” and “hammering on.”

“In the largest sense, every work of art is protest… A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it…  A hymn is a controversial song — sing one in the wrong church: you’ll find out.”

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um you literally cant abolish serfdom just like that 🙄 like i know some of you want a GLORIOUS serfs revolution but lets be realistic here, it just cant happen 😑 like oook wow get your pitchfork and torch, bravo!!! more violence!!! and do you know whos ACTUALLY going to get hurt??? 🤡 Umm thats right, the servants and noblemens guards and private armies, some of us have cousins serving there and its not like they WANT to burn your fields when you didnt pay the tax, but they have to make a living somehow 🤷‍♀️ instead we need to organize and help our local communities. learn to sew clothes from flour sacks. learn to water the plants with well water. while youre busy with your dreams of being next matija gubec ill continue living in the real world. 💅