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This little girl waved at me from a school bus and bc I’m not an asshole I waved back and smiled. then she and her friends burst out laughing and I realized she had a trump hat on. Y’all are raising your kids to be vile racist terrorists from birth that’s crazy
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Y’all do realize Michael Oher thought he was the Tuohy’s legal son for TWO DECADES??? he just found out this year that it was a conservatorship and not an adoption. I hope they go to the deepest parts of hell
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There’s something very bleak about talking about grocery inflation making cooking at home less and less economical and people rolling their eyes and going “well if you just ate canned beans and rice you wouldn’t have that issue”
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A 90 year old man was cooking bacon with lard and dipping his toast in the lard and the comments are full of people warning him that he better eat healthy or he’ll face health problems in the future… again as I said he is 90 years old
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I hate to appear to defend America but this is not a normal thing to be prepared for. How and why exactly would any government be prepared to find a tiny tube on the bottom of the ocean
The race to find the Titanic sub reveals how ill-equipped the US Coast Guard is in dealing with deep-sea disasters, expert says
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A Zionist professor at UChicago spit on me today at the Gaza solidarity encampment. His name is Jerry Cohen. I’ll be circling back to that
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Heartbreaking doesn’t describe what I’m feeling. Shame on this evil country for what it has done to Hawai’i and Kānaka Maoli. Shame on everyone who has turned a blind eye because their vacation was worth more than sovereignty and the lives of Indigenous people.
Wildfire has engulfed businesses on Front Street in downtown Lahaina in West Maui, home to 12,000 people.
The Coast Guard is responding to people who were forced to go into the ocean due to the flames.
Video credit to Alan Dickar, a local resident of Lahaina.
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I emailed a woman, was like “hey I want to do a profile on you, can we do a zoom interview?” she was like “how about a call first?” Call went great, we talked for hours and afterward she was like “yeah I didn’t want to be stuck on zoom with you if you turned out to be weird”
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This is actually a really sad story. Idk why it’s so normalized for mothers to drive wedges between their daughters and their fathers. Competing with your daughter like this and the mind game of the cereal… this story was kinda heartbreaking ngl
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Homeless people don’t owe you civility or politeness or order. They give us these things often, most of the time actually. But they do not owe it to us. They have the right to scream, cry, beg… everything. They have been abandoned by society and have to watch as…
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The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and…
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Imagine a man named Michael not just coming after you for being a scab, but reaching back into your bloodline, all the way to the reign of King George V, to prove your ancestors were also scabs. I’d cry, y’all wouldn’t see me again
"It was a pretty poor thing for Miss Barrymore to do." Here's a story I learned while researching "Oscar Wars" about how Drew Barrymore's great aunt, Ethel Barrymore, was pivotal in blocking a Hollywood labor action exactly 94 years ago, and the HUGE consequences it had. Ready?
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Seems like God is mad at LA, idk maybe y’all should pay the writers
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The sex scene discourse is actually genuinely concerning to me… y’all sound like Republicans fr
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I’m not usually a “be the bigger person” type of individual but I truly don’t regret waving to her bc I don’t actually want my brain to be rotted to the point where I assume every white 9 year old child I see with a red hat is a KKK dues paying member. I will go crazy
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My Uber driver is this older white man and he’s taking me to the train station, started talking about an article he read by “a gal who only takes the train” and we slowly realized that I was indeed the gal who wrote the article lol
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I see a lot of people worrying about their families “back home” in Israel but I know for a fact your parents were born and raised in Connecticut so let’s discuss how Israel became “back home” and we’ll start an actual conversation about why this is happening. 🙃
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Like are people not allowed to say they don’t want to eat the same meal every night? Or that they want organic produce? Or that they prefer mostly seafood and good quality meat? Is that like an insane thing to want????
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I respect her so much tbh LMFAO. She was like “yeah it’s easier to hang up if it’s a call bc I can just pretend that someone’s calling me from the next room, I hate doing zooms with weird people” QUEEN
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David Choe’s rape confession is shocking to me. Like the culture we live in is horrific but to think you can just graphically detail how you raped someone and still wind up on starring in this TV show??? Jail for everyone involved
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This is going to sound bad but that’s why I don’t really recommend this book for people who kind of don’t know how to take what’s useful to them and leave the rest bc this book can be harmful if you feel you have to agree with all of it
this book will have you questioning if anyone’s actually loved you before 😭
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Do y’all even know how many Palestinians died today? Or do you think only Israelis can die or feel pain? Y’all condemn all violence against civilians but how many Palestinians have died today? Do you know? Have you been watching with horror at that?
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Remember how y’all bullied me for telling the truth about this man and how his opinion of Black women informed that show? Fuck y’all.
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You don’t have the right to live your life in a fundamentally broken, apocalyptic world and not hear the distress of the people harmed most by it. They don’t owe you silence or comfort. They belong to this world just as much as you do. These public spaces are theirs too.
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Yah so 2000s era eating disorder culture is definitely back, just saw a “midsize” influencer apparently “midsize” is 6-16 and they need affirmations and confidence or something jesus
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I get that if these other foods are way out of your budget that maybe hearing people complain about the cost of organic or the cost of meat can feel weird but let’s remember that first of all no food at the grocery store SHOULD be unaffordable for anyone.
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Taylor Swift being seen as a perpetual youth has next to nothing to do with her not being a mother and has everything to do with whiteness and intentional branding on her part.
Keep thinking of this exchange with
@annkpowers
and how it totally changed the way I’ll look
@taylorswift13
going forward, in a good way
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In case y’all thought I was exaggerating, here’s the clip of Chika saying she would have tried to kill herself if she hadn’t called TI and Tiny grandbaby and daughter bastards and whores on Twitter
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It is not normal or good for it to be more expensive to make fresh, healthy, flavorful meals (without having to eat the same thing for a week) than it is to grab fast food or something out. The response to people complaining about that isn’t to tell them to eat rice
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Shudder to think what you lot would have said during the Haitian revolution
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People go about their privileged lives and treat them like they are ghosts. So what if they’re angry? Why shouldn’t they be? Why shouldn’t they be angry that they can be on the same street as people buying Cartier and LV but they are hungry? Cold? Dehydrated?
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I am definitely sitting next to Tyler the Creator rn and when I asked him if he was Tyler the Creator he definitely looked me dead in the face and lied about being Tyler The Creator and you know what, I respect it
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For
@WomensHealthMag
, I wrote about the Bridgerton universe’s disturbing pattern of subjecting its Black characters to marital rape — and how them blurring the lines between marital rape and “bad sex” perpetuates the problem.
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We need to unpack why we think a child “pitting two parents against each other” is such a horrible and malicious behavior. A toddler isn’t capable of this anyway
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I do think if white people are going to report on Hasan minhaj’s lies they need to also acknowledge the culture that would produce such lies — an industry that is very hard for brown Muslim people to succeed in if they’re not making it about identity and oppression
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Also just… again. The hypocrisy of her being an adult with access to pharmaceuticals and talk therapy and still BARELY able to hold herself together mentally on a flight lashing out at a baby for crying for three minutes on that same flight, without therapy or drugs
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Permanently damaged your relationship with your father over cereal. It’s not normal. My mom did this to me and my father in so many ways that still impact he and even she would not have kept up such specific psychological manipulation for 14 years…
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It is not normal for mothers to be possessive of their husbands and bar their daughters access and love for them. You were a baby. A literal toddler. And she punished you for your entire childhood for wanting sugary cereal. My heart breaks for you.
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This was actually scary to read. That JK Rowling truly believes that trans people are powerful and insidious and influential shows the depths of her hatred. Because it’s demonstrably untrue.
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Is this a safe space? No? Ok I’m gonna say it anyway.
A lot of mothers actually don’t want fathers to take more responsibility in the home/for the kids bc that’s the only place they feel control, and they pride themselves on the gender performance of it all.
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I would like to point out that your father should have protected you. He should have set that damn cereal box on fire and told you that he is a husband AND a father and he’ll be a father for the rest of his life and even after he’s dead and gone, and that you could come to him
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I know you’re not able to see this clearly and that’s how you probably preserve the love. I’m sure there are other great parts of y’all’s relationship you’re scared to lose if you examine this too hard. But I really beg you not to do this stuff to your own children if you have
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Shonda Rhimes listening to all of us get upset about a Black man getting raped in Season 1 and then making us watch a Black woman get raped in almost every single episode, multiple times an episode sometimes, in Queen Charlotte… that is my villain origin story
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Y’all this story is BIG and we should all know about it
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@aarickawash
I think the fact that children (Black girls specifically) are her trigger is also horrifying. Something being a trigger don’t mean we can’t interrogate that
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His name is Jerry COYNE. Again I’m gonna circle back to it this tweets are like little reminders lmfaoo
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7 years ago I was walking on the street and this homeless man went unconscious. A nurse from Howard hospital (two blocks away) was walking with us and started giving him chest compressions. The police came and made her stop even though she pleaded with them. I watched him die.
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Breaking news: Son Has Choice Words for Woman Who Helped Ruin His Mother’s Life
Prince Harry said ‘nasty things’ about Queen consort Camilla, according to royal biographer.
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Y’all calling the daughters evil and cruel for making a joke out of it without thinking about the fact that it’s very likely the mother body shames them like crazy and was likely doing it at this very dinner 🙃
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This is my first time seeing the video and the fact that y’all thought this was funny let alone “understandable” is extremely disquieting to me. Then again I’m always screaming that we live in a profoundly child-hating society.
Flight attendant: “You’re yelling”
Passenger: “So is the baby!”
Flight attendant: “Well you’re a man”
Passenger: “Did that mf pay extra to yell?”
Lmfaooooo
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Meagan down so bad she might as well be wit the submarine
Marvel star Jonathan Majors arrives in court holding hands with girlfriend Meagan Good. Once inside the courtroom, Good had her arm around Majors and stroked his head.
Majors is facing assault and harassment charges for a case involving an ex-girlfriend.
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A man who “jokingly” says he raped a woman has raped a woman or plans to. A man who “jokingly” says he raped a child has raped a child or plans to. Hope this helps.
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@geniusman16
With some added detail help from the mother who likely retells this story to others a lot also bc she finds it funny
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I think it’s admirable when people know they don’t want kids and stick to that decision through social pressure. However you don’t get to claim a dog is a kid equivalent and demand the same consideration from society. You chose not to have kids. So you don’t have them
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what rumors, she’s literally in hospital with visible lacerations on her neck, what rumors
My thoughts on Jonathan Majors right now:
DV is terrible. Everyone deserves care & to be free from harm. Period.
I’m hoping that this reporting from TMZ is wrong, that the tenderness JM has shown the world is consistent & real. I’m also leaving room for rumors to be true.
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Do y’all actually enjoy living on the bare minimum? Why are you scoffing at ME for saying that people deserve more than tinned fish and chili 6 nights a week? Is that the life you genuinely want and see for yourself?
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I wrote about my experience crossing the Atlantic on a luxury ocean liner — an incredibly racist time I had! — and how I couldn’t escape the ghosts of my ancestors on the journey. This is my most personal travel essay 🤪
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I SAID it. I said the character was written weirdly. That she wasn’t written to make characters empathize with her, that she wasn’t written to be understood, that the overall commentary seemed to be saying Black women were animals.
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Also the vast majority of mentally ill people are nonviolent, and the idea that mental illness and trauma makes people dangerous is a HUGE stigma. So Swarm saying a serial killer is the right way to talk about the lack of access Black women have to mental health care is evil idc
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The fact that you, even in your partial empathy, think it’s more your home than the people who had been their for centuries, is the problem. You see them breaking into your home but they are actually *coming* home.
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It’s funny bc when I praised BEEF’s humane portrayal of a messy female character, I made sure to say I didn’t know if anyone involved was sexist bc in this world it’s almost a certainty. But even my cynical ass didn’t know it was this bad. Holy fucking shit
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Men and eating disorders is rarely discussed and one of the aspects I WOULD PERSONALLY love to chomp into his how they’re empowered by society to use their (unnamed as such) eating disorders as excuses to be emotionally abusive to their women partners
“I always tell people now: My husband had a midlife crisis, found a cult, and left the marriage.”
The cult was CrossFit
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@4M4TH13U
The mother didn’t want the father involved in the household. We have forgotten that many women prefer controlling the household and children bc that’s the only place they can feel power and men let them bc men know they have power in many other ways and places
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How many houseless people do the police and other people in power effectively (or directly) murder every day through negligence and physical violence, simply because their houselessness is automatically seen as a crime, as something that makes them unworthy of life?
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I FEEL LIKE ITS CRAZY THAT MY AUNT WAS BORN IN A SLAVE SHACK IN ALABAMA AND I AM WORKING TODAY BUT A WHITE MAN NAMED CONNOR GOT THE DAY OFF FROM DELOITTE
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On a serious note regarding
#TheLastOfUs
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I really fear that of all the revolutions we need to come, child liberation will be the last — and we may never see it. Because it requires, more than anything else, a level of empathy and accountability that I don’t think adults as a whole are capable of.
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I'm writing a quick piece on why Black food is healthy + sustainable, why public perceptions of "soul food" as being unhealthy food obscure our rich food traditions, and why a migrant lens for Black Southern food is needed! If you want to be quoted, let me know!
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Can I please read what Indigenous culture writers have been saying about Black Panther bc I feel insane right now but that movie was offensive to me lol and I can’t find any articles talking about it
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Jerry Coyne SPIT on me yesterday. This man is a professor at
@UChicago
and a biologist and the university has been letting him spit on students and protestors. I just heard reports that someone matching his description was roaming the camp spitting on/near students last night
A Zionist professor at UChicago spit on me today at the Gaza solidarity encampment. His name is Jerry Cohen. I’ll be circling back to that
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I’m sorry I put up with a lot of dumb shit in my life but I will not tolerate a size 8/10 talking about how “inclusive” a brand’s sizing is for them I simply will not entertain it.
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It’s also just insane to include 14-16 in this conversation because that’s actually the size where you start to be unable to shop in all the main stores in the mall. Clothing access-wise, there is no similarity between that and a size 6.
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This isn’t casual. Issa is definitely communicating how serious this behavior was. Her word choice in particular.
Issa Rae casually describing when Tiffany Haddish sexually harassed one of her Insecure guest stars.
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I am VERY interested to see what the cast and creators have to say in response to this, but at the same time I feel like everyone had to know??? They had to
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American dog culture is crazy. This dog escaped daycare and two workers ran after him, then he ran into the street and without hesitation one of the workers ran too, almost killing herself and several other people. There was a minor collision. Everyone is comforting the dog
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The girls on Indian Matchmaking just be like “I want a husband who is nice to me and who won’t make me want to vomit during sex” and sima aunty is like “y’all kids and your FUCKING demands, don’t piss me off!”
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They said they wanted to write a show focusing on Black woken for once and he verbally said he saw the main character as an animal… a DOG at that. And y’all accused me of erasing Black woken for pointing out that his viewpoint was evident in the show
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So I wrote about how the internet is being super racist towards Zanab and writing it made me realize it’s worse than I even thought 🥲
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stop playing I know I’m finna see all y’all here tomorrow and it’s gon be embarrassing like when you run into a friend at the grocery store, chat and say bye, but then see them again by the eggs
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Like what do you get from arguing me down when all I said was “yes, cooking vs eating out is not as much of a money saver as it used to be and in fact sometimes eating out is cheaper if you don’t want repetition and you like to experiment in the kitchen” what do you gain
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All that money should have been given to Michael, put in trust for him or some kind of savings account only for him. First of all it was his story and his trauma that was sold and secondly he started life from significant disadvantage.
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I'm being called a racist because I said it's not good journalism to say a woman can't be Native because she posed for Playboy
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He was alive and she asked the police and the paramedics to take him to the hospital…. Again, we were two blocks away. Instead they forced her to stop giving chest compressions and they fiddled with the machines as the man took his last breath
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clearly y'all have not read what Alice Walker had to say about jews lol
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HI I JUST GOT THE BIGGEST TRAVEL WRITING COMMISSION OF MY WHOLE CAREER, IM FUCKING WHEEZING WHERE IS MY INHALER
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It’s also played off as slightly humorous… even though the character was forced to marry this man as a child and was engaged to him since age 3 and the sexual assault is so distressing to her that’s she HAS to take a scalding bath immediately after each time
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I think it’s interesting how critiques nowadays often paint the audience/consumer as some of kind of aggressive, dominating force whose will is inescapable, rather than a group of people being given intentional messaging and running with what they’re given.
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Really need white people to stop saying “out of pocket” when they mean “out of office.” I need this to happen immediately.
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Many, many female artists do not have children and are not seen as children, either because the world wouldn’t let them or they don’t let the world. It’s fine, but it’s not something that Taylor Swift has ever fought against, she’s embraced it.
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Like what do you gain by saying this stuff to me about how everything is fine actually if you just survive on beans? Bc I’m not doing that. Nothing you say is changing my diet. I’m making salmon and purple potatoes with chive blossoms rn bc you can’t make me change.
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I promise y’all I’m not exaggerating either… I was stunned. Like our first introduction to this character in Queen Charlotte is her getting raped. And then it happens over and over again for 3-4 episodes out of the 6
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Because y’all will never have a billion dollars I don’t think y’all can grasp the level of evil it would take to watch the world literally burn while you have enough money to save it
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So why argue in favor of inflation, basically??? Especially when, according to y’all, it affects you the most!!!
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