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shoutout to whoever left this at my workplace

giggling and kicking my feet idc

im sensing a vib

alright i want a oneness blessing

electric chair for everyone involved so far

there was an unpleasant edge to the attention as well, “an uncomfortable sense of being observed, judged, and if one was not strikingly beautiful, perhaps found wanting,” explained one woman sophomore.

it feels as if the doors of her world have been thrown wide, so many rooms added to a house she thought she knew.

i started out hating and now i’m lowkey obsessed….

what is this main character’s personality

lowkey may finish in one sitting

going through a character driven phase, is that okay with you

“when man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality. you’ll find this same pattern has repeated itself in all the great powers of this world that have entered a so-called civilized age. they worship men whom they believe are gods, not gods themselves.”

ugh i don’t care

already giggling and kicking my feet

a well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. how then can a scholar understand the tao? he is restricted by his own learning.

for millennia, medicine has functioned on the assumption that male bodies can represent humanity as a whole. as a result, we have a huge historical data gap continuing to grow as researchers carry on ignoring the pressing ethical need to include female cells, animals and humans in their research. that this is still going on in the 21st century is a scandal. it should be the subject of newspaper headlines worldwide.

the day was cool and sunny, and as a consequence the park was crowded with people, most on foot but quite a few on horseback, moving slowly through shadow. now and then the air was punctuated by laughter and the barking of dogs and plumed by with the ghosts of cigars fading slowly in the stillness. the two ambassadors walked for an hour.

he added: “with few exceptions, the men who are running this government are of a mentality that you and i cannot understand. some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.”

“did vanderbilt dream a fool’s paradise on those north carolina hills?” the kansas city star asked. “he is dead; the dream is dust and ashes.”

andolini let go of eddie and snap-rolled to the right, barely feeling the edge of rock that tore open his five-hundred-dollar sport jacket. at the same instant the gunslinger drew left-handed, and his draw was as it had always been, sick or well, wide awake or still half-asleep: faster than a streak of blue summer lightning.

you always knew too much about how smart you were, and so you finally fell into the pit of your own pride, just like i always knew you would.

leadership in all sectors is male dominated and the reality is that men do not face this kind of aggression the way women do…. many organizations don’t think to put in procedures to deal adequately with sexual harassment and violence. it’s another example of how much a diversity of experience at the top matters for everyone — and how much it matters if we are serious about closing the data gap.

i need to stop reading more than 2 books at once

this draw was obscured in the almost continual gray membrane of showers. at night, jake would sit fascinated for the few minutes before he fell into sleep, watching the brilliant swordplay of the far-off lightning, white and purple, startling in the clarity of the night air.

above, the stars were unwinking, also constant. suns and worlds by the million. dizzying constellations, cold fire in every primary hue. as he watched, the sky washed from violet to ebony. the fire threw strange shadows as the devil grass burned its slow way down into new patterns — not ideograms but a straightforward crisscross vaguely frightening in its own no-nonsense surety.

with that gandalf went out; and as he did so, there came the note of a clear sweet bell ringing in a tower of the citadel. three strokes it rang, like silver in the air, and ceased: the third hour from the rising of the sun.

but if in silicon valley meritocracy is a religion, its god is a white male harvard dropout. and so are most of his disciples: women make up only a quarter of the tech industry’s employees and 11% of its executives. this is despite women earning more than half of all undergraduate degrees in the us, half of all undergraduate degrees in chemistry, and almost half in math.

the culture of paid work as a whole needs a radical overhaul. it needs to take into account that women are not the unencumbered workers the traditional workplace has been designed to suit, and that men are more likely to fit into this automaton deal… after all, it is simply a fact that none of us, including businesses, could do without the unpaid work carers do. so it is time to stop penalizing them for doing it.

they smoked in silence for a while, and the sun shone on them; slanting into the valley from among the white clouds high in the west. legolas lay still, looking up at the sun and sky with steady eyes, and singing softly to himself. at last he sat up. ‘come now!’ he said. ‘time wears on, and the mists are blowing away, or would if you strange folk did not wrestle yourselves in smoke. what of the tale?’

“do i not say truly, gandalf,” said aragorn at last, “that you could go whithersoever you wished quicker than i? and this i also say: you are our captain and our banner. the dark lord has nine. but we have one, mightier than they: the white rider. he has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. we will go where he leads.”