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Bet the Arm

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"When you don't know your arse from your elbow, bet the arm." - Frank McCourt, "Teacher Man"

I feel like people are missing the Very Important reference picture and that’s just criminal. Clearly if you look at the dog that inspired the piece, you would understand the inherent validity of the voters’ choice.

Thank you for that addition but I assure you we all already understood the the validity of the voters choice

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chai tea (tea tea)

naan bread (bread bread)

sharia law (law law)

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sahara desert (desert desert)

lake tahoe (lake lake)

el camino way (the way way)

pendle hill (hill hill hill)

soviet union (union union)

mississippi river (big river river)

the los angeles angels (the the angels angels)

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hula dance (dance dance) dc comics (detective comics comics)

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shakira (shakira)

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wake me up (wake me up inside)

Great River Ouse (Big river river)

“Beware of Artists” - Actual poster issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare.

(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

Are you guys ok you’re all reblogging this post a lot

having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps

by which i mean, like, here's how my brain parses the steps in making coffee

good day:

  1. make coffee

regular day:

  1. put water in coffee maker
  2. put coffee in coffee maker
  3. turn on coffee maker

bad day:

  1. take pot from coffee maker
  2. turn on sink
  3. fill up coffee pot
  4. turn off sink
  5. pour water into coffee maker
  6. put coffee pot in coffee maker
  7. open cupboard
  8. get coffee filter from cupboard
  9. get coffee beans from cupboard
  10. put filter in coffee pot
  11. measure coffee
  12. pour coffee into filter
  13. close coffee maker
  14. turn coffee maker on

anyway this is a "14 steps to make coffee" kind of day

This is actually a really good way of explaining this

There WAS a sit-in in a different bathroom in the Capitol on the literal same day, two of them happening simultaneously actually, one of men (mostly trans men) outside the women's bathroom and one of trans women inside the bathroom.

We can do multiple things, y'know? One of which isn't trying to "shoot up" one of the most secure places on the planet. Also you're hiding shit in the tags, you're significantly more of a coward than any of the people in this video.

How is this protest any less valid than an "actual" sit-in? Because there is joy? Because there is dancing? Because the oppressed are expressing anything but dour resignation?

Invention of a Feminist Sound Bite

by Alix Kates Shulman

December 24, 2001

“IF I CAN’T DANCE I DON’T want to be in your revolution,” said Emma Goldman.

Or did she? Perhaps she said, “If 1 can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution,” as my purple T-shirt claims under a picture of Emma looking demure in a widebrimmed hat. Or was it rather, “If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution,” as the quote appears in a 1983 Passover Haggadah?

In fact, though the sentiment is indeed Emma Goldman’s, she wrote none of the above, notwithstanding that each of these versions and more have been attributed to her on buttons, posters, banners, T-shirts, bumper stickers, and in books and articles, for nearly twenty years. Here, rather, is what she did say, in her 1931 autobiography Living My Life:

To quote Emma Goldman in her 1931 autobiography:

"At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance… My frivolity would only hurl the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, .should demand the denial of life and joy. . . If it meant that, I did not want it."

The amount of people nowadays that scoff at EVERYTHING. “Don’t vote for that candidate they’re not perfect!” “Don’t protest like that!” Like. At this point I’m positive y’all don’t even want change y’all just wanna be angry at someone and feel morally superior. Cause protesting? And voting? Those are our first two options. Also considering how people reacted during the riots that happened during the 2020 BLM protests I think y’all would see even THAT and go “No you’re doing violence wrong” y’all are just anti progress and it’s time to sit with yourselves and realize that at this point. I bet if y’all existed during Stonewall you would be like “They threw the bricks wrong”

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