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That’s an extreme statement, but yes, unfortunately the people who defend rapists tend to have trouble with boundaries and consent. (Sarcastic tone, true words.)
Liminal She/Her (trans, not up for debate) with a guitar strapped to her shoulders, a kaleidoscopic polymath who runs on cheese, caffeine, and THC. Name a trauma, I’ve survived it. DMs open to non-MAGA.
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That’s an extreme statement, but yes, unfortunately the people who defend rapists tend to have trouble with boundaries and consent. (Sarcastic tone, true words.)
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Why do people think JFK was a good guy? He didn’t deserve to be shot, but he was also a drug addicted religious wacko. Ohhhhh… wait, that IS good representation of this country. Fair enough. Carry on.
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And a home run is… co-authoring a successful novel?
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The small ones are scams too, though.
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“We live in a domicile.” “That’s an extreme statement, but yes, unfortunately there are walls and a roof on all sides of us.” I don’t understand why some people do this.
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“Glory to the man who owns nothing, yet stomps around in a house the size of my apartment complex.” -The Idiot’s prayer.
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My sister and I play the Six Degrees game all the time, and I’m so proud of this one. Ashley Judd to Ashley Olsen: Ashley Judd in Bug with Michael Shannon in Knives Out with Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places with Don Ameche In Cocoon with Steve Gutenberg in It Takes Two with Ashley Olsen.
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That’s why I can’t trust AOC. She benefits just as must as Ted Cruz does.
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For ages, I’ve had this guy’s name shoved in my face. Malcolm this. Gladwell that. He always rubbed me the wrong way. Stop giving a shit about sports.
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I may never know what words she said to make you change your mind, but I can guess she also fell in similarly record time. Proximity prevails, perhaps by persuasion, we each bear a third of the loss, love’s labours win on occasion, and sometimes it’s well worth the cost.
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I STILL do these things. Especially curb walking. Constantly. I can’t help it. My inner child demands the right to walk on curbs and grass.
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My vote (for Harris) was rejected, and they didn’t notify me until it was too late to fix it. That’s probably the fraud everyone’s looking for: applying the same election laws more stringently to one candidate than the other.
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I’m not into cosplay, but ngl that’s pretty hot. Gay men are fun.
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The Idiot is in my top 10.
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My personality is basically “Dr. Femmento.”
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Copyright me, today.
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If I wrote it, would you buy a book called “500 Songs to Save a Life (Including Yours),” a series of short essays on how to get the most out music and recovery, organically and privately? I want to partner with a music therapist to make sure I’m on a consistent path with established healthcare.
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I do love 19th century Russian literature… mainly Dostoyevsky, but also music theory.
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Who says I can’t put three D-Tunas on a Floyd Rose to play in standard and DADGAD? I’m a madwoman with a box of guitar parts.
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Much love, comrade.
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One of my favorite bands, and one of the worst live acts I’ve ever seen. open.spotify.com/track/4pLhVO...
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I’m 35 and my lifetime earnings is less than $75,000. Most people feel sick after hearing that, but it’s doable.
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My union doesn’t even have the right to organize a protest or a strike. Welcome to musicianship, America.
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Politely, I move that we strike your response from the record, because it makes you sound uncharacteristically privileged and haughty. I’ve been in poverty my whole life, and it does suck, but I’m alive. Those people have exactly as much dignity as I do.
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I’m not being facetious when I say this… Watch how the indigenous people in South America and Africa live. It’s not glamorous or flashy, but they’ve survived just as long as we have, without all the creature comforts, industrial damage, and political zeitgeists we’ve been forced to deal with.
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I think you misread my question. I’m not an idiot.
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As a person in trauma recovery, can you name me a mental illness from the DSM, found in humans, that doesn’t also qualify as Zoochosis? I think we’re all living in cages, and that can’t be healthy.
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That’s not true. Disney filmmakers drove land rovers at them to see what they’d do, and the lemmings chose a falling death over being crushed. It’s not funny, and it’s not what lemmings do naturally.
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As a DEI consultant by other titles, I started crying in November, and I haven’t stopped.
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Humans are bioluminescent too, we just don’t have the eyes for it. (Science is the best.!
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WTF?!? I was reading Graham Green’s wiki yesterday and now he’s dead? I have so many articles to read now. RIP Graham.
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We’re not that intimately acquainted. lol. (Yes, I know who Anthony Newley is.)
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Ahh. Oddly enough, I prefer Bowie’s early era. Rubber Band is so corny I have to love it.
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Today I removed all the metal parts, sanded and oiled the wood (argan oil is fuckin’ magical!), leveled and smoothed the frets, and filed down the space above the fretboard so I could lower the locking nut. All that’s left is a final polish/shine-up, half-scalloping frets 17-24, and re-assembling.
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…I don’t get it.
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I’m turning one of those $200 kit guitars into a $2,000 fascist-killing machine (a la Mr. Guthrie, not a veiled threat of violence. Calm your tits, NSA.)
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Toto: “Mothers, tell your daughters to stay away from Rock & Roll.” Tipper Gore: “And I took that personally.” —from a proud daughter of Rock & Roll. open.spotify.com/track/5MFHUd...
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This is how I feel about all political conflicts. “Sit down and talk.” youtu.be/BJP9o4BEziI?...
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One of my favorite terms is “non-overlapping magisteria.” (NOM) For example, I can argue my way out of any political debate and deconstruct any tenet of faith, mainstream or otherwise, and yet I can’t talk my way into a job. That’s NOM.
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World peace seems like such an easy, obvious thing to accomplish. Just like… don’t threaten or kill anyone today and we’re golden. World peace achieved. But NOOO. “War is inevitable” 🙄🙄🙄 Fuckin’ bite me. War is a failure to write the treaty first.
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I don’t think Putin knows about the Pro-Ukraine group near my house every Monday (except Labor Day, suspiciously… I suppose protest is labor), but I get to hear the honking cars all day long while people are still dying. I don’t think protest makes a difference for anyone but the cleanup crews.
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Rudy injured his spine and the nation learned he had one.
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I can’t understand why people who don’t/can’t read get their way over the genius who wrote the book, and the academics who understood it. Democracy is a theme park ride. It’s a fun trip for 250 years but the wrong wheels were greased, now shit’s breaking down and kids are being flung several yards.
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I hadn’t heard that one.
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The Pixar movie?
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It was Riley in Inside Out.
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I didn’t see myself represented in media until I was in my 20s. I lost a lot.
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That is an interesting point.
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WAIT… He’s mad about how the deportations are carried out but he’s pro-deportation? Fuck this country.
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You went in a weird order, but enjoy!
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I’m sorry, but you’re both wayyy off the mark. LOTR is the most Christian allegory besides Narnia, and Tolkien was friends with Lewis. It’s almost hilarious that two of you would argue that. Look at Stephen Colbert. The world’s biggest LOTR fan and a HUGE catholic.
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I bring a real Shakes the Clown vibe to this Pity Party of Puddles.
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The (sic) on “country” is delicious satire.
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I need to find someone who’s willing to let me feed them homemade chicken and waffle pizza, then trade massages. Is that so much to ask?
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I don’t believe it’s possible to use religion for good. It always has an asterisk.
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A bullshit love poem after listening to too much Sting.
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The Amazing Race is still on??
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In the UK, they’re called Morris Dancers.
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“Oh you ain’t getting away without letting me tap that ass… ONE… MORE…TIME.”
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Credit to Christopher Titus, who actually said that when his dad died. Before he added “Poke him.”
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If you’re rich, I hate you. That includes trans women whose whole ass transition took 3 years. It happened cuz you’re rich and/or your parents loved you. No excuses, no exceptions, if you have more than 4 zeroes in your bank after a comma and a single digit, you’re an asshole and I hate you.
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And the well kept hair.
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I just realized I’ve never played Super Smash Brothers.
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Indeed.
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Was the car okay?
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I can do math, I’m just fuckin’ dyslexic.
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Germ Guys™️ Sponsored by PepBoys.
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And polyamory is for people with a scheduling kink. Where’s the beef?
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I can’t promise that’s gonna happen. I’m watching West Side Story right now.
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This motherfucker is 20. He was too young to see R rated movies until 2022-2023. He was 3 when Walk Hard came out. He was 12 when BOWIE DIED. He doesn’t know SHIT about JACK.
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He uploaded his sitcom and all his old specials to YouTube for free. You can skip the series, it didn’t age that well. It’s just a darker Drew Carey Show, but his standup is one of things that has kept me alive. I felt seen. I got to meet him right before Covid, on a test tour.
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I replaced all of my branded skin and hair products with Argan oil, grapeseed oil, raw sugar, charcoal powder, epsom salt, and aloe—bought in bulk. I only treat myself to eyeliner, eyeshadow, and Dolly Parton’s Tennessee Sunset body mist cuz it smells like a field of marshmallows and daisies.
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Fuck. I hate Gavin.
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Chat said: “This post reads like if Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams co-wrote a mindfulness reminder.” And I’ve never been more proud of myself.
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Before you get frustrated with your fellow human beings, remember this… We are all simply chattering, glow-in-the-dark apes, building castles in our minds to keep ourselves occupied between natural disasters. Have a nice day!
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It wasn’t all determination. Mostly poverty, definitely emotional recovery. Christopher Titus jokes that he lost 35 pounds after his divorce “because that’s what a soul weighs.” I think that 190 pounds was what my pain weighed, and I’ve got 53 more traumasquidges to get rid of.
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Vance is the funniest part of this meme.
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Because I used to weigh 390 and I’m still hovering at 250. I’d like to be under 200 by the time I’m 37.
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I consider myself part-hippie but I’ve never really listened to Young or the Dead. I’m on the Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermint, lava lamp, bean bags, mushrooms, and hemp hammock side of things.
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Have you ever seen the rain?
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I took a lark, and it worked for once. I have to renounce one of my qualifications, but I’m getting the tuition back. I’ll be able to live a few more months! Huzzah!
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Something must be seriously wrong with me. I’m considering going to the gym.
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Stop giving Taylor credit for shit she didn’t invent. She’s a fuckin’ culture vulture (the culture just happens to be shallow and materialistic, but she’s a vulture all the same.) Todd Smith and Jasan Stepp did it LONG before she did. #FuckRottenRecords
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George the Sixth?
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I have a theory that the terms “evil eye” and “ring of fire” are both related to pipe smoking, more than anything supernatural or spiritual. Sometimes the sides burn faster than the center, and the burning plant material looks like Sauron. Poetically beautiful, situationally unaware.
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All of my conversations are entertaining. I’m a freak of nature.
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Bukowsk is what C-3PO calls him.
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Oh sure… now they try.
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Also, whenever he does die is the day I starting drinking again. There’s a tiny bottle of champagne in the fridge waiting for that day.
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GODDAMN IT. I wish I were in LA. For once.
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I just assume everything is kayfabe until it’s verified by foreign news outlets.
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Literally the subplot of Matilda.
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Christians are all guilty of what I call “Toxic Forgiveness.” I was a child victim of sexual abuse by both children and adults. I shouldn’t be alive right now, and forgiving my rapists is not what got me here. I know Trump isn’t a Christian but he plays one on TV.