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Me: I wish I could afford basic living necessities and medical care.

Baby Boomer:

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Rare Photos of Black Rosie the Riveters

During World War II, 600,000 African-American women entered the wartime workforce. Previously, black women’s work in the United States was largely limited to domestic service and agricultural work, and wartime industries meant new and better-paying opportunities – if they made it through the hiring process, that is. White women were the targets of the U.S. government’s propaganda efforts, as embodied in the lasting and lauded image of Rosie the Riveter.Though largely ignored in America’s popular history of World War II, black women’s important contributions in World War II factories, which weren’t always so welcoming, are stunningly captured in these comparably rare snapshots of black Rosie the Riveters.

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Matchy-matchy, Stefand Raschan

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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski, Factotum (via quotespile)

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While there are still two months left in the calendar year, I feel extremely comfortable with awarding this year’s MANSPLAINER OF THE YEAR award to Steve Santagati. 

Dear fucking christ.

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Watch: Hilarious Party Over Here sketch gets at the dark truth behind “mansplaining.”

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Flower arranging, Raku Inoue

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Donald Trump's Speeches As An Early 2000s Emo Song

THIS IS PURE GOLD

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currently

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GUYS. GUYS. THE FULL VERSION HAS ARRIVED. 

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Twenty years ago, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published.

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal.”

― J.K. Rowling

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Lace Journal, 6/22/17

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Once again I’m putting items found in used books into my journal. The mountain-n-trees on the lower left is half of a appointment-reminder postcard sent to someone I assume was a previous owner of the book. It has a date and time (September 28, 2010, 2pm) but whatever the appointment was for, that’s on the half that’s gone.

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