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BLM curious & curiouser. my words r free. he/they my tweets:

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ramblin’, ramblin’, rose-tide scuttle around the outside of a tree’s leafy hair a green caress, eat insects you are softness on mosaic velvets sky blue, like water? satin? molten glass singing to us that it is dark matter, it won’t interact we insist: SHOW ME THE MOON and the
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@simonstalenhag predicted the @Facebook metaverse From
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@eraserheadroom @KHandozo debate a fascist, you let them in to the social contract. you give their very platform, their destruction of my humanity a legitimacy it absolutely must never be given.
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in today’s world money is power. so, the most immediate empowering of everyone is for them to get a #BasicIncome imagine a world freed from desperation, from constant hunger, from feeling unsafe, from abusive relationships, both personal and at work. @AndrewYang @scottsantens
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@MeggiePalmer @UnhingedBlah @MichaelHendron @Forbes @cindygallop article lede should have been: by applying standard metrics, study confirms that corporates are choking on their own hiring biases, blocking women from decision-making positions. their failure to recognse their hiring blindness is a becoming THE hindrance to innovation.
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the bourne reality.
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CIA for years dropped anti-communist agents into Eastern Europe where they were immediately captured and killed. The alcoholic CIA official responsible for giving the coordinates away was promoted to head of counter-intelligence.
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@DaddyFiles @Pork_Chop_Hair for sam: my nail polish i wore to work
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@bornmiserable @Home_Halfway “i’m gonna need a bigger lightsabre”
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I contact.
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this wonderful @KelliAgodon poem, stripping away so much for us
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@LifeboatHQ
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The Vertical Farm: The term “vertical farming” has not been around long. It refers to a method of growing crops,
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@BerlantBro @Incindery1 the bonk heard around the world.
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@blkpaws Here is the poem in Afrikaans
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so, people, behave as if you have it and stay the fuck at home.
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Despite being less infectious than symptomatic/identified cases, undocumented cases contribute more to overall transmission than symptomatic cases due to their hidden nature.
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want a defining statement about the horror ofclimate change? “nowhere is safe”. think that an air conditioner will protect you from the heat when the power is down or you have to evacuate? everyone fleeing climate disasters is just another being trying to survive.
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@BethanyJarmul dylan thomas’ works!
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i wonder when we’ll pre-emptively prosecute self-identified fascists for attempted murder
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When we say these people are fascists please note that they agree with us.
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@cmclymer this is my existence, stated so clearly i weep. your clarity 💜💜💜💜 you’re wonderful. you deserve to be seen and honoured. 💜
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a workscape for @simonstalenhag
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even having a mother didn’t make a voice for my smaller skeleton. the grass would be soft for me but it didn’t hear what the windows let fly through them clear as silence. the taste of the apricots i could pluck right outside remained thick with spring but didn’t hold my hand.
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by ⁦ @susanlleary ⁩ .what a poem this is. As heavy as having a body. magnificent.
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@authorKQ i’d teach it as: each student would end up with an anthology they curated. it would be on living poets, on themes and lenses they chose. it would contain poems from classmates they received for submission into their anthologies. i would love love love to read each of them.
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@acutebitten @sineadactually the suicide rate in our group is estimated to be above 30%. how many of the folks facing impossible transitioning obstacles are lost to us there and don’t even make it into the detransitioning stats? heartbreaking. enraging.
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@BathysphereHat numpty then there’s scottish twitter which makes me laugh and is glorious.
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if more protour cyclists go ketogenic and start dominating the grand tours and the brutal one-day classics, what will that do for the sugar-fuelled sports nutrition industry? for ‘healthy’ nutrition? @ProfTimNoakes
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noise-cancelling headphones in, no music, just silence. it’s a revelation. it feels like each cell in my body has just exhaled in relief. my whole chest has just relaxed. i might listen to music in this mode at some point, but now, this perfect soft silence is just heavenly.
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if you think the visible looting is scary, you should see the invisible looting.
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@warmyellowlight
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some days I'm all [sound of a fluffy cloud violently smashing into a mountain] other days I'm [sound of crocodiles gently eating a mitten]
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@xkcdtitletext @xkcd what are those? maximum protection earplugs. why? you’re just going to the restroom.
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@girlziplocked ursula k leguin
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@itsjillgardner @MavenOfMayhem they’re certainly not coming out to you. perhaps take a break from being accusatory and disagreeable and ask yourself why you’re not perceived as safe enough to come out to?
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@scottsantens i’ll never understand the “but 1% of people will use basic income for drugs so deny it to the 99%” folks
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@AliceAvizandum one of my favourites is this one. "sure my rotors won't hit one another!" "what's that? a large forehead?' a kaman k-max.
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getting into the first poem of @dlseuss ‘s four legged girl and i am paused for it. beautiful, beautiful. words arrayed like music. i must listen again.
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@MikeStuchbery_ @guardian 💜💜💜😂😂😂 i’m descended from a Bengali woman stolen from her home by dutch east india co slavers. i present as ‘white’. i have sufficient brain power to revel in everyone’s deliciously diverse dna and laugh at the poor nazis who cry at this. wonderful with my morning coffee!
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i wish you the sky, perfectly snipped from the horizon, the trees, the hand of your beloved silhouetted a still smooth soft blue just yours your own you, blue, blue just there for you to rest your cheek on soothing blue forever.
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fuck the patriarchy ✊🏼
@monaeltahawy
Mona Eltahawy
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In #Poland , women protesting near-total ban on abortion tell priests & the far-right govt to “Get the fuck out.” In the UK, female deputy leader of Labour Party had to apologize after calling a male opposition MP “Scum” My new essay says fuck civility
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gorgeous whheeeeee!
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Lean Into Ambiguity With Ethan Hawke: The subconscious communicates truths better than intellect. Actor Ethan Hawke
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THERE WERE ALWAYS THE FIRST IMPERFECT PANCAKES, THE SACRIFICIAL EXPERIMENTERS, THE FIRST TO TAKE THE WILD ENERGY OF THE PAN AND TAME IT, SO THAT THE PERFECT CAKES MAY FOLLOW. WE REMEMBER THEIR initial forays, to be eaten by the intrepid cakepanner.
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today’s gender is a silent patch of sunlight on a wall.
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@RobynPorteous @les_wright i went to that damned school and i say make it a homeless haven now. the school was a rotten, parriarchal, bullying, homophobic nightmare when i went there and it has decayed even more since. let it be a warning to the other awful toxic masculine schools in SA.
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edna st vincent millay
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@eraserheadroom @KHandozo why do you think we say: punch a nazi? no debate, we go straight to removal. the appropriate response to fascists is immediate deprogramming.
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@TomEatonSA a major step forward in addressing the man problem is to have man-curfew month instead of ‘women’s month’. no men allowed out in public spaces between sunset & sunrise, for one month. instead of women’s day, all men attend mandatory consent workshops every working day.
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@karynmaughan who is the Felicia in the song?
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@casskhaw @KatWithSword it is a glorious collective noun too: ‘an exaltation of larks’
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@scottsantens looks like the robots already took the jobs😳 #BasicIncome time. now. implement #BasicIncome now.
@IainLJBrown
Iain Brown, PhD
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Artificial Intelligence Has Caused A 50% To 70% Decrease In Wages—Creating Income Inequality And Threatening Millions Of Jobs - Forbes Read more here: #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DataScience #100DaysOfCode #Python #MachineLearning #BigData #DeepLearni
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america dumbfounded by empathy, trust, support, care, nurturing. “what are these strange concepts?” asks the quiet, dying person, as they smoulder.
@CNN
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A machine that gives out free rice -- it sounds too good to be true. But these "rice ATMs" have been set up around Vietnam to help those who need it most during the coronavirus pandemic.
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spaces i never touch with mind or my fingers are shouting now: undersurface of bedside table the back of my elbow always in eyeshadow they’re in revolt : the tea party everywhere larger than the table-sized one : an illusion. no one is putting down teacups they’re shattering
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@AstroKatie my entirely great moon framing pic taken entirely by accident while trying to show how much i love trees
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@CaptFacetious @lntheblackout @britneyspears if no military existed, who gets to be violent at scale?
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@JackalDecoy @McKayMSmith @polish_truth wow, McKay. at least bringing these horrific awful humans out of the slime of hate to be evil on here means you’re fighting the good fight. thank you, as always, for your work in remembrance and resistance to this evil, monstrous hate. here’s hoping #NeverAgain .
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50 shades of much more real: magnificent dominatrix makes a rich white guy her sub
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@GlennyRodge
GlennyRodge
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Daddy bear: my porridge is too hot. Mummy bear: my porridge is too cold. Baby bear: aren't we supposed to eat fish?
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little did i know mona lisa overdrive @GreatDismal
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Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
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or, take up the LCHF diet.
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Avoid Diabetes Deadly Effects: Want to live longer? Here’s one way. Summary: One in four Americans with type 2
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@DawnyPrestom @FoxNews @VP yeah. graduation is HUGE and they used it to make a beautiful statement. big big props!
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@MeggiePalmer @UnhingedBlah @MichaelHendron @Forbes @cindygallop thanks! we just deliberately reversed bias to hire 4 blackwomen data science graduates. we asked the interviewees who the best in their class was and hired her too. i think hirring should be by a diverse committee, with appearance, gender, accent obscured. easy to do.
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adulting is having the flashing digits of the incorrect time on the oven illuminating your fumbling realization you bought rubbish bin liners that are too short for your bin as the rubbish collection truck passes before you can get last week’s rubbish bags onto the pavement.
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maybe people will frantically catch up on all @sarahkendzior 's warnings now
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You poor, dumb bastards. You believed Donald Trump when he told you this fairytale.
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dear stephen, i hope it’s full of stars.
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CYBERPUNK 2020
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Tardigrade DNA inserted into human cells gives them X-ray resistance
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@Rainmaker1973c
Rainmaker1973Climate
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A new study identified a critical temperature tipping point beyond which plants' ability to capture and store atmospheric carbon decreases as temperatures continue to rise. According to the study, that tipping point is just 20 years ahead
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i am that terrible lost thing: trying to write a line for a poem, pretending to be a poet who knows and all i know is that time breathes me.
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@eraserheadroom @KHandozo nope. they won’t ever get a platform from me. debate means they may have airtime to “present” their “reasons” why X group must be murdered? word platforms fascists who have already expressed their intention to commit murder, BY BEING FASCISTS, which, btw, is a felony. no.
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@___SKELETONS___ @AliceAvizandum a big van with a group of 5 people parks near the grave. one smokes a cigar. 2 get in a fistfight, it gets broken up, there is tearful hugging. they peel away in a cloud of tyre smoke just after the casket is lowered.
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the kids are alright!✊🏼🥹💜💜💜
@Victorshi2020
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Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this.
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@AeroDork The accelerations at 90° reentry angles are around 400g so Buzz should be an ooze inside any spacesuit strong enough to maintain its shape during these loadings. (orbital reentry mechanics from NASA which I studied for designing hypersonic glide vehicles)
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@wyvernandstar fill the outer mug with water so that some of the water covers the inner mug. pop it in the freezer. the freezing water will expand and hopefully push the inner mug up without breaking it.
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@matt_ed2465 @CarnivoreIs @fuelled_by_keto @ProfTimNoakes @TheNoakesF i was keto for 4 years before prof noakes recognised the science & then acknowledged it. go read phinney & volek’s work. why r you demonising noakes when all he’s done is acknowledge the science? i then checked ‘real meal revolution ‘ for myself & it checks out. anticarb lol
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@DrPhiltill An obiwan.
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@DavidCornDC @mattgaetz @MichaelCohen212 there’s a silent unspoken favour train leading right up @realDonaldTrump ‘s kissable place, where folks are incentivised to kiss. the toadies are parroting their gang leader.
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I love finding sanctuary in the gorgeous minds of brilliant people as they sparkle, shout and soar in the Twitterverse.
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wish me luck sa peeps! i’m going to confront the fuckers jogging at 5:49am round the burbs of cape town. fuck these people.
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some nra millionaire who sleeps with his m1 gave the malignant shitfunnel a few dollars to do this
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President Trump is trying to reinstate execution by firing squad before he leaves office
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women, parents,staged a die-in. women pushed amsterdam to change.
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Amsterdam used 1970s oil crisis as catalyst for change. It took 40 years of consistent planning to become the cycling city we know today. Learn how to use the current crisis for radical change in our FREE online course. Next cohort starts in 4 days:
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this. a thousand times this.
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It's unacceptable that we *require* jobs in order to "earn a living." Living is a right. For the same reason it's wrong to kill someone, it's also wrong to withhold food we all need to live when there's enough for all. Jobs should be about wages for fun stuff, not survival stuff.
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“teach me a little bit of nothing”
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one of my favorite love poems that i’ve written is reprinted—along with an essay exploring the process/craft/questions that went into the writing of it—in this wonderful new anthology, Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works
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this is everyone’s air, land, water, earth. phosgene is banned in war by the geneva convention. the area is basically a giant carcinogenic open wound.
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Frankly Frank
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This may be one of the largest ecological disasters in US history. There were roughly 100,000 gallons or 1,000,000 pounds of Vinyl Chloride leaked, spilled and burned at #EastPalestine crash. Acid rain and Phosgene will decimate the zones ecology.
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world’s number one polluter gon’ keep on pollutin’.
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The US military is leaking massive amounts of jet fuel into Hawaii's aquifer, poisoning Hawaiian families like mine, and their own US troops. Tap water smelling like gasoline, rashes from bathing in the water, etc..
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@NekoCase @theimmortalgoat pay for a native speaker to engage you in conversation in person, or next best, over skype for an hour a day. put labels for the foreign language names of all your things on all your things. study a poem in that language every day and learn it by heart. recite it.
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good morning, beloveds
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the more i learn about the welsh, the more dylan thomas looks like an inevitability
@iconawrites
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“Spooky season is over,” you say? Let me introduce you to the Mari Lwyd, the Welsh skeleton horse that goes from door to door during the Christmas season having rhyming contests in exchange for food and drink.
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morning, beloveds
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@ClaireMax he was so absolutely terrifying in his movements! he was the total villain. wow, that’s huge.
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i just have to hold it together until i die.
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Ok, so @jpmorgan @GoldmanSachs @Citibank @HSBC you're pouring billions into Amazon crude. You're directly financing ecocide and the climate disaster. Stop. Now.
@WeDontHaveTime
We Don't Have Time
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"We are living in a world on fire. Over the past year, over 1000 major fires have ravaged the Amazon rainforest destroying millions of acres." Is Your Bank Using Your Money to Profit from #Amazon Destruction? Read more in this article from @amazonwatchsve
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@Carlists4Pete @AliceAvizandum bring these back, oh terrifying new Alice: COP .357
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@libbycwatson that table of laughing folk. the toddler running around towing granny. the brooding hot folks intent on their interestingly bestickered computers. the shapes of people. the sounds of living.💜 thank you for firing it up in my head.
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