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Do schools in other parts of the world try to raise additional money for their programs by dragooning children into pyramid schemes selling sub-par and overpriced candy bars or is that just an American thing

#ughhh I hated those fundraisers #it was just another bit of classist BS at the end of the day #because the poor kids mostly didn’t have access to adult social networks #if they did then those adults were also too poor to buy overpriced goods #(it wasn’t always candy bars sometimes there was a catalog of random frivolous things) #but the higher class kids did have access to adults who could buy #now that in itself wasn’t the problem because at least they were funding things #what was the problem was that you got rewarded based on your sales #and it was one more way that the world told us poor kids #that we didn’t deserve things and were unsuccessful #but of course what it did to kids didn’t matter #as long as money was coming from somewhere #oh and they used to warn us not to go door to door because of stranger danger #but some kids did it anyway because they didn’t want to feel like failures

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Jane Crowther aka Bug Art (English, b. York, England) - Snowy Cat, Painting

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this would pull me too because i’ve been really into hot salsas lately and i need to talk to someone about it

#ha yeah that’s actually good conversation there

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artbyjulia.png on Instagram

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#and price gouging

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#that looks like one of my cats and he absolutely would do that

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#ha ha I’m allergic to secondhand smoke apparently so no #it’s not terrible in open spaces but #if I’m in a closed space with it things get bad #my face will puff up and I won’t be able to breathe right for a few days

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Info dumping with the bestie

Finished this wip I had hehe

#critical role

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Stray cats 🐈

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having adhd makes all of your thoughts feel like a 7-way venn diagram

#accurate

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reblog for the most chaos PC we can manage

#this is going to be the coolest PC ever

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Something I do really love about The Tumblr Experience™️ is that you get everything. The whole blog, in order, not by popularity or (usually) tailored to fit an audience.

I followed this person for one thing, but this is a really gorgeous picture of a bird. A gifset of a movie I never would have seen. A poem about brothers or frogs or ribbon or love.

It's odd but it's meditative, almost. I think it's part of why mutuals, especially ones we don't really talk to, are such a specific phenomenon. I've never spoken to you, you stopped talking about the thing I followed you for forever ago, I don't even remember what it was, but I like seeing you there, still reblogging gifsets of 1990s cult classics and parasocially blogging about Bob Dylan.

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#that road just turned into an amusement park ride

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more adhd things

#truth

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source

#oooooh pretty

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Sometimes I grieve places that don’t exist anymore. It’s partly because I miss them but more and more it’s because I’m sad that younger people will never get to experience them.

Malls that have been torn down but that once gave teens a place to hang out or work and had CD/record stores, toy stores, book stores, stores full of things like rain lamps and treasure trolls and the best pens I’ve ever used, amusing fountains, and weekend events like comic book sales or antique shows or fun fashion shows for kids.

Certain restaurants with the best gyros or egg rolls or fried mushrooms that none of us will ever taste again.

Areas at a local water park that were once lush with trees and meant for picnics and areas full of waterfalls and slides through rocky formations that felt like a river adventure that were mowed down and replaced by neon tubes and pavement.

That spot by the creek where you could walk right up to it and climb trees but now the trees are gone and it’s fenced in private property.

That empty lot that once held small fairs and festivals but now it’s a gated community.

When you could drive north a few miles on one of the main roads and find yourself in an orange grove and get fresh orange juice but now its solid suburbs through the entire county.

That one store that was like if a Walgreens was way cooler.

Just… so many great places I wish people could still experience…

#mo’s ramblings and such #this is such small scale stuff compared to what other people have lost in the world #but sometimes it’s these small things that can #maybe spark empathy and compassion for those who have lost so much more #and maybe help us learn to sometimes be less destructive #or to rebuild things better or sustain natural spaces #or to do what we can to help others