Fermi’s Paradox ✊🏾🪬

“It is important to bear in mind, or to recover the notion, that we are responsible for our government and the government is responsible to us.” —James Baldwin

Ya'll ever notice the reason is never that shit cost too much and people are losing jobs every day now?

Nobody talks about the stage of grief where you can't even talk about it to anyone anymore because everyone expects you to be getting over it but it still runs through your mind everyday.

@popup_tddy more so actually, I think alcohol is far too widely accepted and causes significantly more harm

Do you think cannabis should be just as socially acceptable as a beer or glass of wine?

@omgsidewalks most of the music I listen to our non-native languages

Do you listen to songs in languages other than your native tongue ??

@Toribabieegirl no

Do you delete pictures and memories of people you don’t speak to no more? Be sincere

racism. growing up in southern appalachia, i was raised around curmudgeonly cantankerous whites that got frothy-mouthed at the thought of nonwhite people having anything ever. they’d rather everyone suffer— including themselves! — if it means Black people also suffer.

@kumxem i’m doing it for zero dollars rn

If someone paid you $300,000 to not have a single drop of alcohol for a year, would you do it?

Seth Rogen: "As a Jewish person I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life. They never tell you there were people there. They make it seem like it was just sitting there empty like oh the door's open! I would never live in Israel. It doesn't make any sense to me"

i hope the trees know i notice them

@omgsidewalks yes, i have always been able to

Can people “smell rain” before it actually starts raining?? My grandma would say “I smell rain coming”

the jacarandas are so beautiful, i feel like im still in portugal

We don’t need more jobs to end poverty, we need a redistribution of wealth.

@nickimoraa all the time

Honest question: who here dines alone at restaurants sometimes? Raise your hand. I could use the reassurance that this is more normal than one weird bartender reaction made it feel. 🙋‍♀️

Ngl my whole life has been a lesson of independence and detachment and yet im the most loving and emotional person i know

@agNavya yes easily

Is it humanly possible to read 200 pages in a single day?

In China, a women's gym membership is 37 days, not 30. And it's all because during their periods, women often miss one week of workouts.

"Why did they portray anti-vaxxers and freebirthers so badly on The Pitt?" BECAUSE NOT VACCINATING OR NOT GETTING PRENATAL CARE IS BAD AND AND THEY DON'T NEED MORE CODDLING.

Ngl i feel like twitter is for people who text instead of call and that’s why it feels so nice here.

The actual translation is far more poetic. “From here the first letter of literacy was launched towards every corner of Earth.”

@weltszzn i used to love this, i haven’t done it in ages

staying on call with someone while you both do your own thing is very comforting.