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Straight up my hours for July suck ass because summer is the slowest time of the year at my current job. I was laid off a month ago and am continuing to job search. In the meantime, I have multiple appointments this month + a lot of transportation fees. I believe I’ll need about $600 to make it through the month.
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I’m such a fake goth but black lipstick is hot
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This is an astonishingly good song, and there’s a case to be made that it’s what got 21 Savage arrested by ICE. The audio for this song came out on Youtube on 20 December 2018. On 29 January 2019, he performed it on Jimmy Fallon with an additional third verse of his that isn’t present on the original version (this verse is included in the new music video above). This verse ended with the lyrics:
Lights was off, the gas was off, so we had to boil up the water
Went through some things, but I couldn’t imagine my kids stuck at the border
Flint still need water, n[—-]s was innocent, couldn’t get lawyers
Six days later, ICE arrested 21 Savage because he was brought over to the US from the UK as an adolescent and has since been living here on an overstayed visa. The agency seemed particularly vindictive when discussing the arrest, with an ICE spokesperson telling CNN that “His whole persona is false,” an oddly personal dig for an ostensibly neutral law enforcement agency. Bizarrely, ICE has since denied ever giving them that statement.
21′s legal team’s statement noted that ICE is refusing to release him on bond even though they have the authority to, they “routinely [grant] bond to individuals in [his] circumstances,” and he poses no flight risk. It also notes:
There continues to be no legal reason to detain Mr. Abraham-Joseph [21′s real name] for a civil law violation that occurred when he was a minor, especially when people in his exact situation are routinely released by ICE. Many have speculated as to possible ulterior motives for his arrest and detention, including that he released music five days prior to his arrest by ICE, which included new lyrics condemning the behavior of immigration officials for their detention of children at the border. We are unaware of why ICE apparently targeted Mr. Abraham-Joseph, but we will do everything possible to legally seek his release and pursue his available relief in immigration court.
It’s easily plausible that ICE knew 21 was here on an overstayed visa ever since he applied for a U visa in 2017 and simply decided his case was low-priority enough that it wasn’t worth pursuing, but then decided to act on it when he criticized US immigration policy in front of a national audience. Alternatively, they may have begun investigating him after the line. Either way, 21 Savage is arguably a political prisoner.
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December 15 2018 - Cops in Paris are shown specifically targeting peaceful citizens filming riot police. I know this footage looks almost comically dystopian but it is real. [video]
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clipping.’s “Splendor & Misery” is an afrofuturist album about a slave revolt on a space ship, where one slave takes control of the ship. On “Interlude 02 (Numbers),” a voice reads out a series of letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet, part of which is: DLQFEIQIFUWRWCOXEIU. In a separate song on the album, “Air ‘Em Out,” he has a one-off line where he says “The keyword is Kemmer, that’s what your ass need.”
Directly, Kemmer is a term from Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novel “The Left Hand of Darkness”: the fictional race of Gethens only have sexual anatomy once a month during the period of Kemmer. So the joke on the surface is that he’s telling you that you need Kemmer- to grow some balls. But there’s a second meaning. It turns out that “DLQFEIQIFUWRWCOXEIU” is a Vigenère cipher, and using “Kemmer” as the keyword to decipher it gives you “TheTargetIsAmyClark.” Amy Clark Barber was a slave who ran away to Ohio by steamboat in the 1832 and spent five years with her husband freeing other slaves by wagon.
In an interview, Daveed Diggs, the group’s rapper, mentioned the use of code in slave spirituals:
So much about coded slave spirituals were about leaving behind where they’re at. They’re actually coded messages about how to get north, but the philosophy behind them was about transcending place. They were about home actually being in the unknown. A lot of this stuff for me is tied to the idea that things are remembered generationally in the body. So we have these spirituals and work and story songs appear as interludes to indicate that.
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Hey all, ive been super inactive here and probably wont get more active, but I am starting to use twitter more! So recommend good twitter accounts and follow me on there if u want! I’m Physics_Gay @NOT_VERIF1ED
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Dust
Dust rises, moonlight falls.
The old church stood stark against the dark desert sky, the vast horizon seeming to fold into a singularity at the tip of the steeple. Running into the west wall was a powerline that came from infinity, lighting a small, naked bulb. A lone figure approached. He stopped long enough for the dust at his feet to settle, looking pensively at the clouds that were equal parts water and dry earth. Dust hung in the air, like willows over water or canyon walls over travelers. Dust hung everywhere in the moonlight. He took an empty bottle from his pocket and a cloud of vague grey dancing free of the coat. He brought the bottle to his lips and took a long, parched drink, inhaling the hot, sandy air inside. Then he spat into it, the moonlight dancing off the saliva for a moment. He trudged forward, the wind howling out of canyons to the north carrying the rustle of vulture’s feathers and their sharp calls. The door slammed shut. Only the rope tied to the rusted, sandy bell creaked. Despite the broken windows, no wind dared dance through the rafters, and no rats scampered behind the musty baseboards. Even the dust, king of this land, would not come near the altar, and hurried back towards the door as his feet raised the thin layer on the back pews. Only the moon touched on the yellowed linen and tarnished silver cross.
He took off his hat and coat, leaving them at the edge of the ring of dust, then hesitated. He gazed out the west window, towards where the sun had set an hour ago, and where the last town sat choking in its own dust. For a moment, he missed the people there; the families in the late summer sun, and the shopkeeper who sold the town boys licorice. A piece of a broken mirror glinted white, and a drop of red blood fell from the hand he had cut with it, his own body breaking him from the memory. Those memories belonged in the bottle anyways- memories and partial souls always went together.
The lightbulb buzzed. He stepped out, his heart matching the echo of his boots on the boards. He set the bottle down on the uneven embroidery with his bleeding hand, then set the mirror shard down beside it. A rivulet of blood trickled down the brown glass, spread into the linen, and then faded. The rope creaked. A second drop fell, into the bottle this time, mixing with the silvery spit in the bottom. The light buzzed. A third drop fell, landing on the base of a candlestick, where it flowed into the tarnish pattern. The lightbulb buzzed, throwing huge shadows on the doors. The rope creaked. The bulb burst and the shadows rushed forward. The bell rang, and the candle clattered to the floor.
The room shook in the silence of the aftermath. She came in from the door, dust rolling away from her feet, pews creaking as they stretched away. Everything ran from her presence. Each step brought her closer, but she seemed further and further away. Space oozed as time ran in circles. Her ragged dress traced black lines on the floor, filling the air with a clean smoke and the scent of very dry wood burning. Suddenly, she was in front of him, floating past and lifting the filthy bottle, upending it and letting its contents drip agonizingly slowly into her mouth. She turned towards him then, her sallow face framing her eye sockets, long since pecked clean by crows, where the moonlight burned cold and clean from immeasurably deep blackness. She raised a skeletal hand, clutching a pearl handled hunting knife. Space hung folded over it, like an old dress on the balcony. In its polished blade, his reflection was her face. She plunged the knife into his chest.
I stood up and pulled the knife from my chest. On the altar lay a bowl of water. I stood over it, gazing at my own sallow face and yellow, moonlit eyes. The reflection hovered somewhere in between the surface of the water and the air above it, where ripples couldn’t disturb it. I took a drink and stepped back out the way she had come in.
The night breeze blew cool around me, the clouds blown to the side to allow crisp starlight through. No dust moved beneath my feet.
#Hey all this is my first attempt at a short story#any feedback is helpful! This is just a draft#my writing
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This is a big, giant list of Youtube tutorials that will teach you all the basic life skills you need to know in order to be a functional adult. There are a lot of important skills that aren’t included in this list, but this should be enough of a basic guide to get you started and prevent you from making a total mess of yourself. Happy adulting!
Household Skills:
How to unclog a toilet without a plunger
How to fix a blown fuse
How to fix a leaky faucet
How to clean soap scum from your tub and shower
How to escape from a house fire
How to make a budget and stick to it
How to sharpen a knife
How to clean a self-cleaning oven
How to clean red wine stains from carpet
How to clean blood stains from fabric
How to clean grease stains from fabric
How to do a load of laundry
How to iron your clothes
How to test your smoke detectors
Cooking Skills:
How to tell if produce is ripe
How to know if food is expired
How to properly sanitize a kitchen
How to cook an egg
How to make rice
How to make pasta
How to put out a kitchen grease fire safely
How to use a gas stove
How to use a convection oven
How to cook meat safely
How to use a stand mixer
How to use kitchen knives properly
How to make mashed potatoes
How to make grilled cheese sandwiches
Health Skills:
How to stop bleeding
How to treat a burn
How to do CPR (on an adult)
How to do CPR (on a child)
How to do CPR (on a baby)
How to help someone who is choking
How to save yourself if you are choking alone
How to read a nutrition label
How to treat frostbite
How to recognize when someone is having a stroke
How to maintain a healthy sleep schedule
Mental Health Skills:
How to calm down during a panic attack
How to help someone who is suicidal
How to meditate
How to stop self-harming
How to recognize problem drinking
How to choose a therapist
How to deal with disappointment
How to cope with grief
How to raise your self-esteem
Relationship and Social Skills:
How to apologize
How to cope with a breakup
How to accept criticism
How to deal with bullying
How to argue in a healthy way
How to ask someone out
How to break up with someone
How to recognize an abusive relationship
How to rekindle a damaged friendship
How to speak in public
Job Hunting Skills:
How to tie a tie
How to write a resume
How to write a cover letter
How to dress for a job interview (for women/femmes)
How to dress for a job interview (for men/masculines)
How to properly shake hands
How to nail a job interview
Other Skills:
How to sew on a button
How to hammer a nail
How to change your oil
How to put gas in your car
How to jump-start a car
How to pick a good password
How to back up your files
How to write a cheque
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Some reflections on yesterday’s events in Portland, the continued rise of Civic Nationalism in the United States, and the need for leftist organizing to be necessarily anti-american.
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Song of the day: Immaterial by SOPHIE
Basically it bops babes idk what else to say
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@bilingual lesbians!!!
lesbian is such a beautiful word!!! rb this and put in the tags how you say lesbian in ur native language!!! (lesbian in hindi is samlaingik!)
#french is i guess a semi native language#lesbian is boring its just lesbienne#but dyke is gouine#or#goudou tho thats less used
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28 July: Due to ongoing issues with my mental health, including a suicide attempt and subsequent hospitalisation, I have not been able to work enough hours to pay my rent this month. I’ve tried everything I can but I just don’t be able to scrape up the money. I have no family to help me because I was kicked out of home for being gay. Any financial help would be greatly appteciated. I am $387 short. http://paypal.me/emilygwen
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tag yourself 2000s kids PBS classics edition
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