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this nonchalant attitude people have adopted is tired. it is ok to be earnest and vulnerable and want something really badly!

the year is 2025. trying hard is cool again. irony detachment crumbling. pragmatic ambition is respected and a small golden age peeks around the corner.

I am once again advocating that Houston adopt a Shade Ordinance.

Even after the dark thumb of fate pushes one’s face into the ground and says “you are the nothingest nothing and not even the cool abyss”, one must crawl towards the pen and take notes in the dirt. That is how writing works.

Natasha Rao • In my next life let me be a tomato

memory loved the youth. it was cruel to what could age.

The first guy that ever wanted to take a picture before cameras were invented 😭

It’s not that we aren’t scared. It’s that the work before us remains the same as it has for generations- get free, keep one another safe. Governments come and go, oppression fluctuates from overt to covert and back. The work remains.

These vids of DJs playing YT to mp3 songs made shitter thru Stems compression with reactions of the modern BIPOC Yuppie audience are a COINTELPRO from record labels to dilute dance music and re-popularize older songs to the profit of private equity groups that bought the songs.

The amount of money flowing into unverified western fundraisers could save lives on the ground. We urge everyone to stop and think about why western fundraisers get so much traction while Gazans are forced beg for any support. We could all do with a bit more shame.

UCLA doctoral student AJ Addae turned her passion for inclusive beauty into action—launching a lab dedicated to helping skincare companies develop solutions for darker skin tones. SULA LABS INC. #WomensHistoryMonth newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/aj-add…

Love this poem by Ha Jin:

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A singular man is removing decades of progress spanned across many mayors

If you like this show, read this book pt. III 🧵

The entire premise here is that we should all be able to traverse the public commons safely. The Mayor doesn’t have the right to say that certain roads or areas of town aren’t for [insert demographic group here]. The public must be safe for *everyone*

Severance is filmed with insane levels of care and intelligence - it’s so refreshing

I know it may seem like nothing comes as a result of mass demonstrations and it’s a waste of time, but that’s what they want you to think. In 2003 the result of the anti war demonstrations was the Patriot Act and invasive af TSA, Islamaphobia in the media, extreme Nationalism

poems, even.