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#JeffBezos girlfriend is profiled in #People magazine talking about her commitment to the environment. Irony much, People? Do you really believe massive quantities of boxes, packing materials, and trucks to send and return merchandise is good for the environment? Do you ever think about the millions of Amazon customers who routinely buy multiple sizes of clothing to try on and return? #GetReal #EarthNeedsSeriousAllies
#ClimateCrisis

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Ste Cook

Watching the 1998 film #GetReal. I saw this when it first came out (not long after I had), and think I may have blotted out the ending because compared to #BeautifulThing it’s a downer.

So, anyway, if you’d like to see the Ben Hope subplot from #Heartstopper stretched out over 110 minutes, do I have a treat for you!

It’s a great film, intensely realistic, and the protagonist is called some variation of Steven, so you know it’s gonna be good 😬

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MountainWitch ⛤:flag_bisexual:

This kind of thing drives me nuts. That guy in the picture is a farmer. The apple tree behind him takes planting, watering, pruning, harvesting, preserving year after year. He had to prepare and bake that pie he's eating. The garden takes cultivating, buying seeds, planting, weeding, watering, harvesting, preserving. Then the chickens need a chicken house built, summer and winter they need fencing, protection, water, food, and managing. If any of this all gets sold, the farmer has to either go to a market or build a market stall, pick in early mornings, wash, display, sell, manage the money and accounting.

All of that is just from this little silly painting. Everyone has to "grind". It's just different depending on how you choose to live your life. Memes like this contribute to the problem of younger people heading to the country to "live freely" and get so bogged down by the amount of work it takes that they fail then write massive amounts of blogs about how homesteading is "not sustainable" and no one can do it. Anyone can do it. You just have to be prepared to work your ass off.

A meme of a cartoonish colour drawing showing an old farmer type hippie sitting on a bench in his garden with a cat, chickens, and old victrola eating pie surrounding by a lush garden and orchard. The title on the meme is "stop glamorizing "the grind" and start glamorizing whatever this is
#Homesteading#CountryLife#TheGrind
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@blogdiva @TruthSandwich

You seem confused.

"Somethingsomething vote capital-'D' Dem" 🥱

How about we pursue liberty instead? I'd rather be free than put any energy into an election that is "carrying the fucking water of the fascist billionaires" that you seem to be against, and yet.......... work for? Volunteer for?

Don't waste your life away pointlessly.
#getreal

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.

Don't vote, organize!

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Richard 🏳️‍🌈

More serious talk:

This is especially important for people living in states with a Republican majority.

In 2022, the leading cause of death among children was gun violence.

There were no deaths involving a child reading a book.

There were no deaths because a child went to a drag show. (The greatest risk there is a Christian showing up with a gun.)

Take a look at your children and ask if sacrificing their lives is really worth it, just to own the libs.

If your elected leaders are more concerned with limiting what your child can read or drag queens, then they are about your children reaching adulthood, you elected a very bad person.

Dark earth tones with the caption: Gun violence is the leading cause of death among children. Zero deaths have been caused by reading books. Zero deaths have been caused by drag shows. Ask your if your elected politicians really care about children.
#books#lgbtq#GetReal
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Rob / OGTrekker

Dave #Chapelle continues to prove he is out of touch with reality. Chappelle invited #Musk onstage in front of 18,000 attendees who came to hear the comedian on Sunday night. They sounded less than enthused to hear from the Silicon Valley billionaire, though, and video of #MuskratLove and Chappelle’s awkward attempts to salvage the show circulated online despite phones and recordings being banned at Chappelle’s events. #Boo #Reality #GetReal

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

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