The word 'resilience' makes my skin crawl and I have been seeing it on here over and over again. In search for an antidote, I re-read this excerpt by writer Sara Mourad, written in the aftermath of the Beirut explosion:

'Resilience romanticizes our loss and dispossession. 1/4

People who hate artists like Taylor Swift or Lin-Manuel Miranda are extremely common. What’s less common is somebody who’s able to articulate *why* they don’t like that music in a way that demonstrates that they’ve thought about what they value in art

authoritarianism is peaking which only signals just how afraid and desperate governments are to hold on to what little power they have left to protect their investments

my baby 🩷🥺

this place made me feel worthless

DM milestone!! 11h of D&D in one weekend!! (5h game and 6h game) 🥰✌🏻

iust watched my first pro-wrestling show!!! and!! i had SO MUCH FUN omg holy shit

have half a mind to do my own socials for my grad work simply because i want it to be all done by me lmao i'm mad there is mad ownership issues here but it's just very rare that i make something i'm decently proud of :')

you know you're good when you can even do it with a broken heart

as a swiftie i too am fucking tired of coming on here and seeing inane toxic bullshit being propagated like mosquitoes during breeding season. i will shower in goddamn insect repellant i swear

The eighth love language is being a menace, a nuisance, the most insistent annoyance in someone else’s life, ever present, always poking, prodding, teasing. I’m on you like moss on a rock because I care.

Our field of dreams engulfed in fire
Your arson's match, your somber eyes
And I'll still see it until I die
You're the loss of my life

Damn.

There are fungi at Chernobyl that EAT radiation and nuclear fallout – and that’s only the start of this wild story 🍄☢️

Buckle up for a wild thread about radioactive boars, fungal space suits, radiation-detecting fungi, black frogs and a good dose of hope! 🧵

this video kinda proves a long-running theory I had in my head:

street-skating is GEOGRAPHY IN ACTION.

people view a spot, often sites of decay, and creatively reimagine it for fun, play, art, or skill, in a purpose impossible for authority to control.

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