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I say I live in the United States and people get shocked.
I say I live in Texas and people get double shocked.
I swear Texans would be so proud of how famous their state is😭😭😭😭
#i live in texas#moved there from massachusetts#was shocked to find out that people flex here all the time that they were their own country for five seconds#like mf??? you were a failing state and you would've died without the usa#but whatever floats your boat honey
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This is just a map of New England (minus Connecticut the fake New England state)
#text post#new england#source: boston 25 news website: believe it or not massachusetts is not the most irish state new study finds#18.9% of mass residents have irish ancestry#really this is not surprising at all. massachusetts is the most population-dense state by far with the most immigrants#and new hampshire? ask anyone where their family lived before they came to new hampshire. it was massachusetts#new hampshire is full of ethnically irish and italian and polish catholics whose families have been here long enough#to assimilate and move to the suburbs and become xenophobic and anti-immigrant.#literally bothers me so much when ppl named molly o'flannigan and patrick sullivan talk shit about dorchester lawrence etc#and other immigrant-dense areas in new england. i'm like baby your grandparents lived there#well or at least that's my experience#new england still does have a shocking amount of wasps whose families have been here since the fuckin mayflower#i dont have a direct link to that in my own family but it's very strange how that is taught to new england children as like#'our' heritage in schools. plymouth plantation and the puritans and all that. you're weirdly made to identify w it#and like as time goes on#just factually that only represents the population of ppl who live and are raised here less and less.#not to mention it does nothing to address DIVERSITY in the area. but i suppose there's like a local mythos#we have to teach a story to children and it has to be a 'we' story and that story has to be pilgrims#bc the story has to start at colonization and not expand after that. thats too complex. happy thanksgiving?#new england white people have a habit of thinking theyre irish catholic anglo-protestant settlers and they built this country#they dont parse out their own identity at all and they certainly don't want to have to consider other ppl's.#wow i didnt mean this to turn into a culture-critical rant im sure most of my followers arent even from here so idk what this means 2 u guy#happy saint patrick's day!
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With the understanding that all tumblr people are Insane to various degrees, a short and incomplete list of my beloved mutuals of long-standing, who I have followed Through the Wars and would in fact offer my shield and sword for, include the following (in alphabetical order):
@into-the-weeds
@raisel-the-riveter
@regala-electra
@scienceandhandcuffs
@stayoutofitnick
@symbolicscreaming
@vmohlere
#one of these people is my sister#one of these people is Not My Sister and there was a complicated series of messages necessary to confirm that#one of these people is the first person I ever spoke to (with a very brave little compliment!) on move-in day my freshman year of college#one of these people I met on my first day of orientation at the job that brought me to Massachusetts almost 15 years ago#one of these people embodies the mythical 'fic writer you admire who secretly admires YOU' meet-cute trope#one of these people is from Glee fandom (we were all Glee blogs once)#one or more of these people fit more than one of the above categories#ask game#answered asks
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so we all know that the Saw series (allegedly) takes place in New Jersey, but what I wanna know is... did they ever go to the jersey shore?
#imagining hoffman in his 20s with frosted tips et all#amanda with those dumb braids that were super popular in the 90s#john on the beach putting the guidos in saw traps in his mind#the only 'main cast' member i think Didnt grow up in jersey is Adam - he moved from some smaller town to 'make it big' in the big city#except he didnt have enough money to move to nyc so instead he moves to jersey#i hc that saw takes place in/around Newark (bc I Say So)#and i can just imagine a 19yr old adam moving there thinking its gonna be so cool but then he gets there and its just fucking jersey lol#maybe lawrence as well- he Screams east-coast-wasp so i think his family is probably from like upstate ny or maine#No Actually - lawrence is from massachusetts - thats why his accent is so Like That#anyway#saw posting
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If I had a nickel for every time I learned one of the popular ghost fic writers I follow are also from new england I'd have two nickels....which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
I know there's at least four of us, but that is a funny coincidence!
To be fair, I moved away from the area 15 years ago (not by choice), but the speech patterns and general sense of malaise definitely stuck around!
If anyone would like to know this feeling, I recommend listening to Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan. It's wicked accurate.
#miasma says#im from Massachusetts originally#miss it every day#but i cant afford to move back so#away i stay
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#just found out our absolute favorite coffeeshop in cambridge massachusetts is closing#and almost every other such place we frequented in our many years there is now also gone#(many due to covid but many not)#and while my sisters are still both living in the area so we're back with some frequency#the specific harvard square area that was home for so long is now not at all a focal point#and while i absolutely and deeply miss a lot about those years of our lives#i am today struck with that realization about never being able to go home again#and it's sad and weird and visceral yet superficial?#anyway a consistently excellent egg sandwich on sourdough probably shouldn't be able to inspire this level of feeling years later#but (1) they were really good sandwiches and (2) it's obviously about more than the sandwiches#like just a time in life and a place where it happened#and there was already so much never-going-back even before bébé and even before covid really#friends moving away or out to the suburbs and day to day life shifting and whatever else#but man#the years start coming and they dont stop coming#this is about darwin's ltd. if you're familiar with the neighborhood#but it's also about how time flies and is weird#we're going back for middle sister's baby shower next month so i guess we'll get our final breakfast sandwiches then#but not from the mt. auburn location where i have probably spent the equivalent of weeks of my life at least#is this the real life?
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????? theyre just like me fr
#ok for the record i never smoked the ground blunt. i ended up throwing it out when i moved out this summer. but. still#it was probably stale as hell anyway i found it in november. doesnt bud go stale#idk i dont have enough friends to smoke bud. i have a pen i got from my friend who lives like three hours away#(which is WHY i picked the ground blunt up!!!!! alas.)#post tag#but seriously i have never heard of ground weed being a thing. boston massachusetts i love you so much.
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So apparently tomorrow is the ten year anniversary of me moving to Massachusetts
Which means ten years ago this week is when I (secretly) read all of homestuck
Wild to think of all that’s happened in the last ten years
#I know this timeline because I read homestuck at the tail end of my summer study abroad#and my family moved while I was in Germany#so I left from California and returned to Massachusetts
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What do you think Dane’s favorite food is ?
he gives me Mexican food vibes but I dont think he has had good mexican food in his life
#answered#the-ghostmonument#hes from Massachusetts so whatever passes for mexican food up there and then he moves to england so 😔 thats even more bleak
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In 2022, Massachusetts residents voted in favor of a Fair Tax ballot measure to extra-super-duper-tax those earning more than one million dollars a year and to spend the revenue from that on education and transportation initiatives.
Naturally, there were the naysayers. Those who warned that all of the state’s rich people would move away to their very own Galt’s Gulch or whatever, if they were forced to pay a four percent tax on anything they make over a million dollars. The implication there, of course, is that raising this tax would, ironically, lead to the state collecting less revenue overall.
That didn’t happen! In fact, the state has already raised $1.8 billion in revenue so far for this fiscal year — which is $800 million more than they expected, and they still have a few months to go. The vast majority of the surplus will go to a fund that legislators can use for one-time investments in various projects.
The revenue has already been invested in universal school lunches, in more scholarships to public colleges, in improvements to the MBTA, and to repair roads and bridges. These are all things that will improve the quality of life for everyone, including the “ultra-rich” who happen to live there. The fact is, it’s just nice to live in a society that is more civil, that takes care of its people and its children and that fixes things when they are broken.
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Elizabeth Warren, Pramila Jayapal, and others have introduced bills in the House and Senate for a nationwide millionaire’s tax of two percent — two cents on the dollar for all wealth exceeding $50 million and six percent on all wealth over a billion dollars. This would bring in an estimated $3.75 trillion over 10 years, which we could use to improve the lives of all US citizens. We could have so many nice things!
It’s time to stop living in fear of what millionaires and billionaires — who have made their fortunes off of roads we’ve paid for and employees we’ve paid to educate — will do or where they will move if forced to pay their fair share. That’s no way to live. If they have some place better to go that won’t force them to contribute to improving their community? Let them. Other people will come along and be more than happy to pick up where they left off. But more than likely, they won’t do jack shit because they’re rich, and if they wanted to live someplace else, they’d be there by now.
#us politics#us taxes#wealth disparity#tax the rich#Massachusetts#public services#economic justice is social justice#Wonkette#Robyn Pennacchia
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they just don't disassemble castles and rebuild them in different countries like they used to 😔
#idk how often that really happened but there's one in massachsetts and i think thats really cool#and every time i see a hideous mcmansion somewhere im like you could have rescued and restored a crumbling palace smh 🙄#definition of more money thn taste#give your millions to ME you're spending it WRONG#anyway my country doesn't have any castles unless millionaires do this and thats not something they do anymore#and im not driving to massachusetts#im sure there's other examples but that's the closest#also on a more practical scale rich people in my area could rescue the abandoned mansions from detroit and move them across the country#its not even That far away#and many of them are castle esque and beautiful#fortunately i dont see mcmansions in my town but when i visit nearby scenic areas i often see ugly new mansions being built#lots of the old ones are super cute and well taken care of tho#anyway i dont hate modern architecture or anything its just rich people's houses tend to be very ugly idk#i do love the local historic architecture where i live it is just lacking in castles#despite having castle in the name of a town nearby where i grew up 🤨#also when a rich person tears down an adorable little cottage to build the biggest ugliest generic mcmansion they can fit on the lot 🔪
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I just saw perhaps the coolest art installation I have ever heard of.
This is a perfectly normal pin. On the head of it are 2.417 quintillion angels, give or take a few billion.
Joe Davis and Sarah Khan, the artist behind Baitul Ma’mur, (House of Angels) encoded the Arabic phrase “Subhan Allah” onto synthesized DNA, and then used that DNA to coat the head of a pin. According to some traditions, any time Subhan Allah is said or written, it creates an angel. With DNA being as dense an information storage medium as it is, this single pin has more created angels on it than have ever been born from human throats across all of human history.
And then in a fucking genius move, the art installation takes the form of a functional vending machine, loaded with an impossibly large quantity of angels. For $25, which goes right to the artists, you can buy a pin. I’m thinking about taking mine out of the test tube sometime and encasing it in resin to turn it into the highest % angel by volume earring ever worn, but that’s a project for the future.
There isn’t much else I can say that isn’t said by the documentation accompanying the exhibit. The photos aren’t the BEST quality but they should hopefully be mostly legible.
As of right now this installation is located at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and if you’re ever in the area you should totally check it out
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believe it or not but people who live in suburban ohio will make fun of people who live in rural indiana for being hillbillies. like uhhh do you not think that people from major cities think the same about you?
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I know my reasoning for thinking my grandfather was autistic are flimsy, but in my defense I just don't think a nonautistic person would move to an island nation just because they were cold 🤷♀️
#ignore me#personal#my grandfather moved from Massachusetts to Hawaii after wwii because he was too cold#and thats why i think me and my cousins all got his autism
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hello. you left a neon pink post-it with pgs 194-359 due 9/12 in the book, by the way. it is now May 23rd and the library's printer is running out of ink. it jammed and tore my passport application. one of the librarians dutifully blacked out all my information (front and back!) before proceeding to use every unmarred inch as scrap paper.
i think maybe our (plural, inclusive) lives are connected. all of them. i have been thinking a lot about borrowing. about how people move through the world in waves, filling in the same spaces. i have probably stood on the same subway platform as you. we held the same book. all of us stand in the same line at the grocery, at the gas station. how many feet have stood washing dishes in my kitchen?
i hope you are doing well. the pen you used was a nice red, maybe a glitter pen? you have loopy, curling handwriting. i sometimes wonder if it is true that you can tell a personality by the shape of our letters. i'm borrowing my brother's car. he's got scrangly engineer handwriting (you know the one). it's a yellow-orange ford mustang boss. when i got out of the building, some kids were posing with it for a selfie. i felt a little bird grow in me and had to pause and pretend to be busy with my phone to give them more time for their laughing.
i have a habit of asking people what's the last good book you read? the librarian's handwriting on the back of my smeared-and-chewed passport application says the glass house in small undercase. i usually go for fantasy/sci fi, but she was glowing when she suggested it. i found your post-it on page 26, so i really hope you didn't have to read up to 359 in that particular book. i hope you're like me and just have a weird "random piece of trash" "bookmark" that somehow makes it through like, 58 books.
i wish the concept of soul mates was bigger. i wish it was about how my soul and your soul are reading the same work. how i actually put down that book at the same time you did - page 26 was like, all exposition. i wish we were soul mates with every person on the same train. how magical to exist and borrow the same space together. i like the idea that somewhere, someone is using the shirts i donated. i like the idea that every time i see a nice view and say oh gosh look at the view, you (plural, inclusive) said that too.
the kids hollered when i beeped the car. oh dude you set off the alarm, oh shit is she - dude that's her car!! one was extremely polite. "i like your car, Miss. i'm sorry we touched it." i said i wasn't busy, finish up the pictures. i folded your post-it into a paper crane while i waited. i thought about how my brother's a kind person but his handwriting looks angry. i thought about how for an entire year i drove someone to work every day - and i didn't even think to ask for gas money. my handwriting is straight capital letters.
i thought about how i can make a paper crane because i was taught by someone who was taught by someone else.
the kids asked me to rev the engine and you know i did. the way they reacted? you would have thought i brought the sun from the sky and poured it into a waterglass. i went home smiling about it. i later gave your post it-turned-bird to a tiny child on the bus. she put it in her mouth immediately.
how easy, standing in your shadow, casting my own. how our hands pass over each other in the same minor folds. i wonder how many of the same books you and i have read. i wonder how many people have the same favorite six songs or have been in the same restaurant or have attended the same movie premier. the other day i mentioned the Book Mill from a small town in western massachusetts - a lot of people knew of it. i wonder if i've ever passed you - and didn't even notice it.
i hope whatever i leave behind makes you happy. i hope my hands only leave gentle prints. i hope you and i get the same feeling when the sun comes out. soulmates across all of it.
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i liked a tarot video earlier tonight on tiktok though. i'm losing.
#because its from this guy who i always like like hes so sweet i like his readings#also i definitely could apply what he was saying to one of my bitchy coworkers lol#not a love reading thank u god amen i've moved beyond the need for a man at this time#ive come to accept that until i move out of massachusetts im never gonna find someone i feel compatible with#i cant even make friends here not to be insane#if u dont live here u dont get it but like these people are so MUNDANE#genuinely i mean it when i say i dont feel entirely like these people are real people like do you know what i mean#like u say something silly as a joke and to a normal person its like oh hehe were being goofy#and they take it deadpan and are like ummmmm what. that wasnt in the script. freak#and i know its not me like idk what it is i feel like im living in an episode of hannah montana or something#u know that disney channel dialogue delivery YOU KNOW#my everyday life....#does anyone read my tags when i do this? i understand if nobody does lol#i had 4 shots of espresso an hour ago this is whats happening now
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