#Folk

Some of my teenage years were fairly shit.My dad was ill for all of them and died during them. I had a crap home environment then moved into a shoddy
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Read this! Exclamation marks make messages seem more friendly! Use lots of them! Also, emojis! When women write at work, they often use more exclamation marks and snuggly writing! Is
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My college roommate/BFF just told me she decided to home school her kids (ages 7 & 5) b/c school starts on 8/6 but her idiotic district in Germantown, TN STILL
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Years ago when my wife and I we were planning to buy our home, my dad stunned me with how quickly he could compute loan payments in his head. I
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young women are told everyday to keep weapons such as mace or even a small pocket knife to defend themselves but when #MakhiaBryant actually had one to avoid being beaten
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*dons a respirator, hard-hat & asbestos gloves again*.here's why i'm *really* tired of seeing "magic immune escape variants" as justification for, well, anything, *even if that intervention/plan is reasonable*: it'
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It’s easy for cis folk to call out J.K. Rowling’s transphobia + not acknowledge their own. How do you make trans folks lives less violent outside of that? How do
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I want to say this as gently and carefully and lovingly as possible:People want to love NYC. We do. Y'all are strong and brave and you're doing some of the
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PERSEPHONE: I'm back, Mom.DEMETER: Your mail's on the counter. How's Mopey McGee?PERSEPHONE: Do we have to do this now?DEMETER: Finish his novel yet?PERSEPHONE: Mom.DEMETER: "The Sorrow & The More Sorrow"
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My apartment is in an ever gentrified part of East Ldn, today on my run I'm shook by the no. of white & middle-class ppl out & about sun-bathing/ just
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One of the emerging wee clichés on here that's really starting to fuck me off is people responding "hur dur do you realise it *rains* in Glasgow!? " whenever anything
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Trigger Warning!! Black men actually do share their experiences of sexual violence, we have simply been conditioned to view them only as perpetrators of violence, not victims. What will it
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THINGS 2 SAY INSTEAD OF "guys" WHICH NEWS FLASH - is NOT gender neutral. "Hey guys!" "Hey everybody!""Do you guys get that?" "Does everybody get that?""What do you
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I’m at a university that missed the threshold for the #UCUstrike on pensions, pay, precarity and inequality, which starts today. So I started a list of other ways to extend
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Thanksgiving with black families: a Kamala Harris gif thread How your grandma feels seeing everyone showing up #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies That one cousin who didn’t bring or buy a single dish walking
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This exchange is FASCINATING. People value how desirability capital is distributed because it IS powerful. Nobody distributes it thoughtlessly.People also allocate desirability intentionally in public because people knowing what you
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