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you ever get surprised by your own recurring issues. like come on man. I thought we were past this.

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My whole ass friend group

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Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

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Hi @buggachat i saw @im-on-fire-today ‘s post and i wanted to make it long time, but i did it ! It is from air-dry clay and it was hard to do this art because the clay was drying fast…

PS: I know it’s not the same, and i know that it don’t has ears, FOR ME IS PERFECT! And this is my best work i ever made!

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Passover seder at UC Berkeley’s Gaza solidarity encampment (via twitter)

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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

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What makes Lelouch’s character so intriguing and so distinct from other genius protags is how he compartmentalizes his facades so perfectly that it has become his fatal flaw, and how it ends up driving the story.

Lelouch is a prince, a big brother, an ordinary student, Zero - he lives different lives that are equally important to him. And in his mind, he separates them so well he foolishly thought they could never overlap.

So when Shirley’s father died because of Zero, Lelouch was just in shock. He struggled to reconcile the two worlds in him. He never imagined it.

And he continued to not learn from it. Suzaku was unique in that he knows all of Lelouch’s facades sans Zero. Suzaku belonged in a unique position in Lelouch’s mind that someone as smart as him didn’t figure out Suzaku was at least related to the Lancelot. This is telling because even Suzaku have always had an inkling Lelouch was Zero. Lelouch didn’t ignore the signs; he was simply so blind to it because of how he divided his facades are.

And this part of Lelouch wasn’t something he chose to be. He didn’t wake up one day deciding to cut up himself in separate identities because it suited him. It was the consequence of his trauma being rejected brutally by a parental figure. This was his shield from a world full of discrimination and violence. Lelouch feared being rejected again, which is why he was always at peace around Suzaku, who knew him as a whole person, yet chooses to protect him. Suzaku rejecting Lelouch at the end of season 1 brought out wild anger and hurt and vulnerability; Suzaku, who was supposed to be the one person who would always be his ally and never hurt him - because both of them have shared their pains and joys honestly when they were children.

Genius protags aren’t supposed to be like robots. They are as human as anyone else.

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"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived.

My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed.

I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.

There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century.

I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity.

You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

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Free Palestine protesters shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and 880 freeway in Oakland. This is huge🫡

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I thought it was the most hilarious thing that Adrienette's dynamic was

Adrien (platonic) loves touching Marinette and being in her personal space

While Marinette (romantic) can't handle touching Adrien on her own and can't help but recoil from him (tho ofc not all the time)

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

Edit: Now that we're talking about it, look. There is all the countries ratification dates, along with considerations for their laws.

And you can check the convention here.

Edit 2: For those in the US who want to check their state's laws compliance to the convention, there is this site.

Edit 3: The map source btw. Its from wikipedia.

Thank you people in the notes for the info and image desc.

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