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hey my name is Eli and i cry over robots constantly (30) (she/her) \\ art blog is @elidrawsthings
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no but driving actually rots your brain because the sheer immense rage that car drivers react with when you suggest making streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians is just straight up childish.

Like, nothing says "I am a healthy, well-adjusted individual" like frothing at the mouth when the city makes it harder for you turn cyclists into paste

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iberiancadre

I'm sorry to the like half of this site's political userbase but sooner rather than later you're going to have to step away from tv shows, fanfics, fiction and flawed instinct as sources for a theoretical basis. You can't properly talk about, say, the Cuban revolution without first understanding the ideological and practical context that informed the decisions of the communist party of Cuba (that means reading Marx, Lenin, a communist work on colonialism such as Eduardo Galeno's Open Veins, historiography and statistics on the events preceding and succeeding the revolution that isn't written with ink and paper paid for by the CIA). The Hunger Games, Les Mis and Hamilton aren't substitutes because 1: they aren't real and anything can happen in fiction 2: they haven't influenced any real life revolutionary movements and 3: they are literary works made for enjoyment, not a political analysis.

I know the "kindness is revolutionary" pseudopunk eat the rich one big union type of person thinks pure political theory is elitist and/or boring because why engage with the source material yourself when Abigail Thorn, Jacob Geller and Vaush are right there to tell you what they thought of the source material (which is still political theory in most cases, unless it isn't, but how would you be able to tell?) so you can absorb it like a baby bird unable to chew their own food. Nobody who has both read the theory and applied it irl is ever going to take you seriously if all you can do is regurgitate what your vaguely progressive history or social studies high school teacher told you about decolonization.

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fairuzfan

Paypal is no longer available for donations. Please use GoFundMe to donate to HelpGazaChildren!

We’re sorry for the inconvenience but there is still an option for GoFundMe!! Please continue to support this grassroots movement!!

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the-eyespy

🇵🇸 Children in northern Gaza spend the first days of Eid in destroyed homes, making their own happiness amidst the ruins.

🇵🇸 أطفال شمال غزة يقضون أول أيام العيد في بيوت مدمرة، يصنعون سعادتهم وسط الأنقاض.

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hey good news

there's a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for "guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger's house"

Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures They're cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet. They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.

They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don't grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.

Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.

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bogleech

I was just grocery shopping and for a while I was in line behind the peak possible combination of parent and child, here is my 1 minute recreation from memory

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omnybus

Y'know, this reminds me of a similar dad-and-daughter pair I also saw as I was leaving the grocery store, though this was years ago. This is my best quick redraw from memory (I'm not good at drawing motorcycles without references):

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