Asha Marie L-B
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Asha Marie L-B
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PhD student in Sociology. Public History too. Southerner in the Midwest. On & off hobby jogger. Very serious, all of the time.
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But the idea that you, as an individual, can solve the world’s problems is bullshit. You do not need to solve the world’s problems.

You just need to see a problem that you can solve and try to solve it, and then that’s one less problem.

If lots of us do that, it’s a lot less problems.
January 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Delivering some apple cider scones to some neighbors because we live in a goddam neighborhood, part of a society, and that’s how you do it, despite all the everything that’s bad out there right now.
January 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Will that be uncomfortable? Maybe. Will there be consequences? Almost certainly. But there are consequences, too, to doing things you know to be wrong, to allowing wrong to be done without speaking up. If you let your principles corrode, it decays you from the inside.
January 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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At a certain point each of us is going to have to decide when to stop complying. When to say no, that's too far, my morals won't let me do that. When to say: I refuse to simply follow orders.
January 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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lol blaming and shaming, shaming and blaming.

I think we're past all of that now. Things are sufficiently bad enough to put that aside and say okay how do we counteract a plan they've already laid out ahead of time.
January 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I am officially past the doom and gloom stage.

If you don't got solutions, move on by. If you don't got organizations people can volunteer, support, and fund, move on by. If you don't got opportunities to counteract this insanity locally, stateside, and even nationally, MOVE. ON. BY.
January 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, and said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”
January 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I really needed this poem today and maybe you do too? "Good Bones," by the wonderful Maggie Smith. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
January 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM