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A Thorn for Saint Rita (opens the original)
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I have quite the garden, if you can even call it that. Although at least for the purposes of these following thoughts, I am going to indeed call it that, if only because the French word for any type of backyard that isn’t concrete is essentially jardin, regardless of whether its orderly or tamed or landscaped or even containing flowers for that matter. If there’s plants, it’s a jardin. And my jardin definitely has plants. Lots of plants.Some years ago, someone actually did landscape it. I assume
Your AI Posters Are Hurting Your Cause (opens the original)
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In the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking back over and over again about a lesson I learned the hard way when I first started agitating on behalf of the homeless population in Eugene, Oregon. I had lived there for a few years at that point, and those few years of constant observations then collided with the material conditions produced by the financial crisis of 2008, leaving me just horrified by what I was seeing all around me. Not just what the homeless had to endure, but the sea of ignorance
Ramblings from the Dark Furnace Called Home (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking back often to the my first year here in France, more specifically the mental process I went through in my attempts to follow and understand the presidential election cycle in the spring of 2017. As I tend to do with pretty much everything, I immersed myself deeply into it all, doing my best to understand not only the mechanics of how elections work here compared to the United States, but also how the cultural and value-based differences that underwrite political leanings and s
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