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you know this fucking tune

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Gulmp.

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"Smoke of air

And fire of Earth

Bless and cleanse

This home and hearth

Drive away all harm and fear

Only good may enter here."

When I saw this I had to buy it, because it is a rejection of all the metal plaques I've seen, because most of them had Bible verses on them.

#Wiccan #Pagan #Paganism #Atheist pagan

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Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.

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Eclipse of the Sun in Venice in July 8, 1842 by Ippolito Caffi.

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“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver

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Buddha of Bamiyan in Afghanistan before its destruction in 1992, Photo by Steve Mc Curry

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The Patriarchs: The Origin of Inequality by Angela Saini. I have loved reading this so much.

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The Cold War was still in the adults' minds, so "communist" was a go-to insult.

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For those who have overactive guilt complexes like me…

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tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

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Etymology of what England called it’s neighbors