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I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

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if you're wondering why THIS tiktok ban bill made it through the senate unlike last time...

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cuddling doesn't have to be romantic

cuddling can be platonic.

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

cuddle your friends

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I think about this poem everyday

#well! off to hang myself

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made by mochimonki on tiktok but i can’t stop thinking about it

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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

#cam

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R.F. Kuang - Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence / Hozier - “Butchered Tongue” on Unreal Unearth / John Ciardi - translator’s note in his translation of Dante’s Inferno / Hozier, September 16 2023, explaining the meaning of “uiscefhuaraithe” in the lyrics of “To Someone from a Warm Climate” on Unreal Unearth / R.F. Kuang - Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence

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interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

#me

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when the essay prompt lets me get a little autistic with it

#never getting over the essay i wrote in ap lang called Colossus: a Mythographical Approach to America

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This was the funniest hour of my life

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Another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

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Poll for non-linguists

#polls #linguistics #academia #tumblr polls #random polls

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Public speaking is actually really easy if you don't respect a single soul in that room. I've had an incredibly easy time delivering speeches when I hated everybody I saw and they all thought I did amazing because my disdain was read as confidence. I don't have any tips for you I'm just telling you a fact

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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

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he's licking my face