"Can you tell me where to find hope?"
The witch thought. "Find? Why would you... Right. If you need to find hope, you will find it in other people."
"It's that so strange? To want to find hope?"
"No. No, it's not. But the people you find hope in? They make it. Hope is made."
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🛒INFLATION. LA GUERRE AUX PAUVRES 🛒
L'inflation va dépasser les 6% en un an selon l'insee. Libération montre que c'est surtout sur les produits alimentaires "premiers prix" que l'augmentation est la plus forte. 44% d'augmentation pour les pattes les moins chères, 32% pour les céréales. Et qui achètent ces produits premiers prix ? Les plus pauvres !
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#OtD 15 May 1831 a London jury found the killing of a police officer in the new force "justifiable homicide", despite the coroner locking them in to get them to change their mind. The officer and 2 others had been stabbed after attacking a workers' demo https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/today-in-london-legal-history-a-jury-finds-the-killing-of-a-copper-to-be-justifiable-homicide-1833/
@georgienonfa auguri di qua ché di là son bloccato 😂
@IL_DIGA sto preparando un risotto asparagi e salsiccia da paura 😂
#OtD 14 May 2021, dock workers of the @usbsindacato@twitter.com in Livorno, Italy, refused to load weapons and explosives destined for Israel during a wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza.
L'Italia è un paese talmente fascista che i neofascisti organizzano indisturbati cortei a favore delle molestie sessuali, chiamando "moleste" le molestate.
Thread: #OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
@IL_DIGA mi serve una consulenza sugli spaghetti con le vongole 😁
Early on in the conversation the witch said
"Your existence does not require anyone's approval."
What followed was as heartrending as she knew it would be, with more unanswerable why's than she liked, but in the end her guest said:
"My existence needs no justification."
"True."
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