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#WorldOkapiDay :

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Engelbert Schoner (Germany, 1906-1977)

Okapis, 1961

colour woodcut, 64 x 47 cm

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Okapis/AADC3C37ECA720A5A521DBAB78C69087

Centre For Useless Splendour

Place: the Centre for Useless Splendour

ya gotta stop caring what people think and start being extremely weird. but never cruel. i think that might save you

nothing will ever top the ending of the rnm pilot. as jesse manes voiceover is saying how evil aliens are and how they are a threat to humanity, michael and alex are clinging to each other so full of love and longing and liz and max are looking at each other full of love connected by the handprint…

You don't have to like weed but I find people who are vehemently anti-weed but claim to be left leaning infuriating. If you go into a rage because you smelled someone smoking pot, how the fuck do you expect to form community with people addicted to meth? It's easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users in leftist spaces because one makes you sound a bit like a square while the other is the writing on the wall. You aren't anti-weed, you're anti-drug user and anyone who uses substances is not safe around you.

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I know dozens of people who use meth, coke, and fentanyl. While heroin is harder to get I do know some folks who use it when they can. Some of these drug users are my neighbors, some are my clients, and some are my friends & family. One does not cease to be human just because they use a substance you find scary.

Community doesn't mean you need to invite them to your home and look away if they smoke there. It means you don't call your property manager because you suspect your neighbor uses. It means you don't require drug tests for homeless shelters and housing services. It means the very idea of someone who smokes meth in your community doesn't make you go, "what the hell."

Genuinely kind of a wild thing to see in the replies as someone who has been professionally practicing harm reduction for years.

Considering recent events over here in the States, this seemed like a good time to bring this back. Over the next four years, expect an increase in discourse around "undesirables." This will include but not be limited to drug addicts.

Also, from someone who works at a smoke/head shop: WAY MORE PEOPLE ARE DRUG USERS THAN YOU THINK. Way more people are addicted to opiates, meth, whippets, cocaine, you name it, than you have been lead to believe, and on top of that, they are often the "normal" or "functional" people you see every day, not just the person tweaking out at the gas stations. Judges, bank tellers, grandmas, teachers, the nice lady who runs your bakery— all of them. You are ALREADY IN COMMUNITY WITH THESE PEOPLE. Start fucking acting like it.

I'm gonna keep repeating this: 'community' is not a fucking friend group.

It's not a clique. It's not you and the people YOU think are cool and funny.

Drug users are your neighbors whether you're too much of an obnoxious self-righteous asshat to be aware of that or not. You don't *get* to say drug users don't deserve to be meaningfully connected to and included in the populations they call home (which is what community actually means, btw) and the mere assertion that you can is a big part of why ppl seek connection in drugs in the first place.

It doesn't matter if ppl use or not but tbh if we really wanted to cut down on addiction all we'd need to do is have fewer stuck up motherfuckers who look down on 'undesirables' in the first place.

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my favorite types of Eliot grifts in Leverage are:

1. glasses

2. the weirdest fucking guy you can imagine

iii) activity he has literally never done before but is fantastic at immediately with no practice

especially if you can score on defense

i was going through bookmark tags on my fics and came across one which very lovingly called one of my fics a slow burn threeway romance, and I was stoked, I really was, but this fic was all of 27k, so my idea of it was that it's a fastracked romance which is practically a quickie, lol

but just as a general question, do people really consider something under 30k to be slow burn? I'm going to be obnoxious and make a poll about it, because why not?

@thelaithlyworm s tags are poety

Extremely correct, was about to type it out but then laith had put it So Perfect 😁

Slow burn is a Vibe