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United Nations
- Engage - how to deal with hate speech
One way to tackle hate speech is to spread your own counter-speech to make sure hate is not the dominant narrative. You can undermine hateful content with positive messages that spread tolerance, equality and truth in defense of those being targeted by hate.
Apostle Paul
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do have have love, I gain nothing.
Ally Shaw
- Bad finger habit
I am a fast typists for someone who doesn't use all of her fingers to type. I have formed a bad habit that I cannot shake. I wonder if my speed would improve if I learned how to place my fingers in the right spot.
Agatha Christie
- The Man in the Brown Suit
My affairs did not progress very fast. The house and furniture had been sold, and the amount realized had just covered our debts. As yet, I had not been successful in finding a post. Not that I really wanted one! I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants. My theory was about to be proved in practice.
Los Angeles Times
- Frenzied house hunters driven by desperation
People are desperate, local agents said. Their homes are in ashes, and they are looking for stability, somewhere for their family to go that's not a shelter, a friend's house or a hotel room. Some landlords are now sharply raising rent, even beyond what temporary price gouging protections allow. And some would-be renters are offering a year's rent upfront in cash and engaging in bidding wars.
"Nightfall" - Penelope Douglas
- Abuse can feel like love
Abuse can feel like love." I blinked, the voice so close that my ears tingled. Slowly, I raised my eyes to look at the side of Damon Torrance's face, his shirt wrinkled, and his tie draped around his neck. ... Mr. Townsend approached. "Abuse can feel like love..." he repeated. "Why?" Damon remained so still it didn't look like he was breathing. He looked at the teacher, unwavering. "Starving people will eat anything.
anonymous
- Valentine?
If you are thinking of asking someone to be your valentine this year, stop thinking, go do it! Because, I mean what's the worst that can happen? They say no? It doesn't have to be some sort of "proposal," it can just be a simple card, handwritten and full of meaning. Just do it! (to quote Nike, please don't sue me) I believe in you! You got this!
Peermingle
- Books from My Childhood
There was another book that enraged me for a different reason. It was a book called Little Pear and His Friends. It had a plain green cover that gave nothing away. But I was excited by a book about a pear and his friends, who were probably peach and plum. Pear, peach and plum! However, when I got it home I discovered that Little Pear was... A CHINESE BOY! He wasn't a piece of fruit at all! I was so disappointed I refused to read any more!
Peermingle
If you have unused, unopened diabetes supplies, INCLUDING INSULIN, you can LEGALLY give it away to someone who needs it. You can give it to a friend or someone in your community. You can ask your health care provider for further information about how to donate supplies. Alternatively, The American Diabetes Society also recommends sending your unneeded diabetes medication and supplies to Insulin for Life.
M.T. Anderson
- Feed
Thinking of it like this, I started to not want to say anything. I kept thinking of nice things I could say, like, "I'm glad you went out last night, because that's how I met you," or, "And I think you ARE a normal person," but they all seemed just swarm. So we just sat there, together, we didn't say anything. And it wasn't bad. I hoped she could see the smile in the light of my brain.
Disillusioned Mom
- Dear Abby
My youngest son, age 27, has been clean and sober for two years, having survived the horrible addiction of fentanyl. I helped nurse him back to health. It wasn't easy, but he is alive today. However, with this sobriety, a new person is emerging who is critical of and condescending to his siblings and to me. He finds flaws in all of us that "disgust him," and therefore, he has chosen to no longer engage with us.
Mihael Radjail
- Turn anger into sadness
Once you learn the ability to turn anger into sadness and vice versa, then master the timing of when to use it, you'll automatically be one of the most mature people in the world.
anonymous
- something somethign
Be the person you want to be, not the person every other person wants you to be. Life is like a Rollercoaster, first it goes up, and then it goes down again.
Hiking
People should hike more. Seriously. But I don't just mean go out and walk around the park, I mean pick a trail, pack your lunch and spend your Saturday out in nature. There's just something about the way that the sun beats down on you, baking you into a crisp while you sweat your way up some steep incline that's makes everything rewarding. Not to mention the views; all the plants, the animals, even the sky just being there encapsulates you in a world of peace a beauty. So, go! Go hike!
Josh Fruhlinger
- The Comics Curmudgeon
Hey, remember back when Estelle in Mary Worth went on a series of internet dates, each more comically unpleasant than the last? Well, Rex Morgan tried to recapture that magic but instead of Summer's dates being "fun" bad, they were "boring" bad. Classic Rex Morgan!
Kander and Ebb
- Cabaret
I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie with whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea. She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower. As a matter of fact she rented by the hour. The day she died the neighbors came to snicker. "Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor." But when I saw her laid out like a queen she was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen.
Anonymous
- The Void
Beware to gaze long into the void, for the void will gaze back into you. The void will cry out a meow for this void wants food. Feed your void and give it pets.
Fred Brandt
- Fascinating San Francisco
Up the coast some Russians had established a settlement, much to the disquiet of the authorities, who looked upon this as an encroachment of barbarians menacing Spanish power. Rezanov, plenipotentiary of the Czar, was a man of charming personality, however, and was able to lull the suspicions of the indolent Spanish officials and lay his plans for a coup that never took place.
The Animals
- White Houses
White houses in neat little rows contrasting against the sky. Tumbled-down black shacks over the tracks, children so hungry they could cry. The chrome, the steel, the metal dream, leaving the teepee to rot. The escapist young mind, left behind, saving dimes for community pot.
Kander and Ebb
- "Maybe This Time" - Cabaret
Maybe this time I'll be lucky. Maybe this time he'll stay. Maybe this time, for the first time, love won't hurry away. He will hold me fast. I'll be home at last. Not a loser like the last time and the time before. Everybody loves a winner, so nobody loved me. Lady Peaceful, Lady Happy- that's what I long to be. All the odds are in my favor. Something's bound to begin. It's gonna happen, happen sometime. Maybe this time I'll win.
