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beyond-tend · 4 hours

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#plantbased #pop art #gemini #weiss schnee #femaleidolsedit #mellisa clarke #blog #belle #dancing #witchblr #gilmore girls #terrible puns #long reads #Chicago PD

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nothing-near-ground · 2 days

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#pastel aesthetic #ian x mickey #gilmore girls #freddie highmore #terrible puns #world history #nathan sykes #halle berry #long reads #dustin mcneer

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talk-air-official-owner · 3 days

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https://kristine-651.ludgu.top/h/7BfuYmI

#terrible puns #nathan sykes #long reads #dustin mcneer #Chicago PD #classroom #marines #artfight #robotics #ritual #megumi fushiguro #special collections

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sstargrllll · 1 day

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Oh how I wish love didn’t exist.

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queen-of-sand-castles · 21 hours

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"Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know."

- Catherine Fisher

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greatmotivation · 17 hours

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With each step backward, failure whispers its familiar tune, a haunting melody that echoes through doubt-ridden minds. Dreams become distant, buried under the weight of self-doubt, as the relentless march of negativity stifles every flicker of hope.

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iamanother · 2 days

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reasons.

I want you to know the reasons why I left, but I am too scared of how you will judge me based on my past. I fear that you might turn out to be like those people around me who, despite my hopes, never trusted me. They saw me as the same person from my past, even though I have changed and learned from my mistakes.

I long to see your face every morning when I wake up—the laughter that feels like music to my ears and the lips I want to cherish every day. Unfortunately, I am too weak to confront my fears. The thoughts in my head still haunt me. Instead of choosing you, I chose to run away—not because I don’t want you in my life, but because I want to protect you from myself. I feel like a monster, an outcast in society, forever branded by my past. I strive to transform into a sheep, hiding from my own cage. My life is as exhausting as you might imagine, and I shield you from the truth because I fear witnessing your own fear once you learn the reasons I keep buried in the past.

You deserve someone who can love you more, someone who chooses you and never leaves you behind. In my eyes, you are an angel, while I am merely a devil yearning to become your lover.

written by: iamanother.

Photo by: Noah Silliman

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betterbooktitles · 3 days

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My great grandfather “Bud” Wilbur gave his son Jack an Erector Set one Christmas then took it back the same day. The Erector Set was a children’s toy made of metal pieces that allowed kids to build various model structures like bridges and poorly made bridges. Before video games, children had very few choices for entertainment: marbles, Erector Sets, or becoming a Peeping Tom. Those were the choices. My grandpa Jack was going to be an engineer like his father, and to seal his fate, great grandpa Bud bought him the tools to try his hand at building. Bud, seeing the pieces scattered on the floor must have thought “pearls before swine” while having his eureka moment. Using the toy he had bought his son, he built a model of what he called The Simultaneous Calculator, what the American papers in 1937 called “Robot-Einstein,” and what the Japanese dubbed “The Wilbur Machine.”

He didn’t build the first calculator. I believe that honor technically belongs to the Mesopotamians who made the first abacus. Nor did the calculator conceptually resemble the digital computing systems we have now that employ ones and zeros and a lot of electricity. The Wilbur Machine was an analog computing system with pulleys and brass bars that solved 9 equations simultaneously (or 9x9 systems according to an MIT grad’s thesis that I can only comprehend up to page 4). Math equations that once took a full day to solve now took roughly 1-3 hours. It sped up the production of large structures, power grids, and for one country it seems, planes. It was a big advancement in 1936-37, an advancement that was eclipsed by better smaller machines soon after. In the United States, that is. In Japan, a 3x3 system Wilbur Machine was replicated in the late 30s and a fully functioning 9x9 calculator was completed in 1944 at the Tokyo Imperial University’s Aviation Laboratory.

You read that correctly. My great-grandfather Bud Wilbur built a machine that was stolen by an Axis power right before World War II. Japan continued to use the machine until the war’s end. So, uh…sorry about that? It wasn’t Bud’s intention.

Read the rest of the essay here.

#essays #essay #writing #reading #personal essay #Japan #interesting #travel #science #math #MIT #Wilbur machine #dan wilbur #long reads #movies #family

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berniesrevolution · 1 year

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You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!

A history of company towns

by Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore

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#politics #the left #the nib #comic #webcomic #labor #Labor Unions #organized labor #history #capitalism #economic inequality #oppression #poverty #working class #long post #long reads

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midsummerkissess · 1 year

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a "look babe, i finished a new book" gf and a "tell me all about it" bf

#dark acadamia quotes #light academia #literature quotes #classic books #book aesthetic #romanticism #classic literature #relatable #dark academia books #books and coffee #booklr #books and literature #books and poetry #poetry #dead poets society #long reads

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longreads · 2 months

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“The most important part of my job is to make the library a safe space. One where kids burst through the door and go running with glee to the children’s area so they can say hello to whoever is at the desk. One where a patron can have a full metal meltdown about the state of the world and still be given resources to find housing, a shower, a meal. One where someone can come in blasted high for years and then return the next day sober and clean, ensconcing themselves in the safety of the books to stay that way.”

Lisa Bubert’s Instagram bio reads "Public librarian who has seen some 💩," and her latest piece makes clear just how much “some” is. When so much of our society has seemingly turned its back on its neediest members, public libraries have never been more important. To read “Safety Net,” head to Longreads.

#longreads #long reads #public libraries #books and libraries #essays

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alexandrializa · 3 months

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stuhde · 1 year

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i had shared what is happening in sudan on a long facebook post last night, but it virtually received almost little to no engagement or shares from the nearly 600 “friends” i have on the site.

this morning, my great-aunt was shot by the soldiers fighting for power, and God forbid, i lose more of my family members before eid this friday.

please read below to understand what is happening and how you can help my country. i hope the tumblr community can show more kindness than the lack of support and advocacy i’ve seen elsewhere.

يا رب اجعل هذا البلد آمناً 🇸🇩

the lack of awareness and advocacy from the African, Arab, and Muslim diaspora and the human rights community has been painful.

while Western media has done little to no coverage of the ongoing conflict in the capital city of my motherland, Sudan, it appears that the rest of the world also partakes in normalizing crimes and violence against SWANA people.

violence and war hurting the SWANA region are NOT ordinary occurrences — no one, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, religion, and gender, should experience the unprecedented amount of violence that harms my two living grandmothers, aunts and uncles, and baby cousins who live in Khartoum.

your decision to ignore reading or educating and discussing with others about what is likely to be a civil war is complicity in viewing SWANA people as individuals who regularly experience conflict and are undeserving of help.

the silence is damaging, and it is up to us as privileged members of the diaspora (or individuals living in the Western world committed to human rights) to support the people of my country and their dream for a stable, democratically elected government.

what is happening in Sudan is a fight that started on April 15 between two competing forces for power — the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — neither groups are representative of the needs of our people. The Sudan Army is loyal to the dictator, Omar Al-Bashir, and the RSF is responsible for the genocide in Darfur.

with both power struggles backed by different Arab and Gulf nations, the two parties have been fighting for power for the last few years. While they worked together to try and end the people’s revolution, they lost. however, they are now in a constant power play of who will get to rule the nation.

this all means that war is NOT a reflection of my country — violence does not represent the SWANA people. Sudan is a nation of beautiful culture, strong women, intellectual and influential Islamic scholars, poets, and youth at the front lines of the revolution. we are a people committed to a region of peace for ourselves and the rest of the Ummah.

my family and the rest of Sudan’s innocent civilians are at the most risk, with many currently without drinking water, food to eat, electricity, and complete blockage to any mosques during the final nights of Ramadan, our holiest month of the year.

i ask that you please keep Sudan and our people in your prayers — donate to the Sudan Red Crescent or a mutual aid GoFund Me, email your representatives if you live in a country that can put pressure on either competing force of power, discuss this with your family and friends, and please do not forget to think about SWANA people — our brothers and sisters in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and many others need our love and support.

الردة_مستحيلة ✊🏾

#KeepEyesOnSudan