And then I read this, which helped my mood a teensy bit. Especially their third point.

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Sometimes, I think about the pain that people carry, and how it makes some people angry and bitter, and some people guarded and fearful, and some people cold and callous, and some people kind and compassionate. Source

Or all of the above, depending on the day of the week.

Free, compulsory, high-quality education is not a matter of altruism. It’s a matter of survival, because civilisation demands both the freedom to let the village idiot speak, and the universal discernment to know, it is the village idiot speaking.
Source via alphaflyer on Tumblr.

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I’m not in a relationship at this point, so link parking for when I might need it in the future.

Anonymous asked ( Read more... )

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So I saw a meme thing that I really liked over on Facebook. And I shared it on Tumblr.

And it's gotten over 100,000K notes and reposts. Whoa.

Now, up until now, the most notes and reposts that I've ever had for anything on Tubmlr was about a hundred. Like, I have a teeny list of followers, and most of them don't bother to click like or repost ( Read more... )