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Chris Somerville

@chrisomerville.bsky.social

writer, teacher, working on our communication goals

created June 22, 2023

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I’m not exactly sure that this is true

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31/8/2025, 4:23:04 AM | 46 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

29/8/2025, 6:00:21 AM | 4265 918 | View on Bluesky | view

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good example of a headline that gets worse as it goes on

variety headline: Bryan Singer Is Back With Secret Film Starring Jon Voight About Israeli Occupation of Lebanon (EXCLUSIVE)
28/8/2025, 9:24:43 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think if in trainspotting every time Ewan McGregor’s character Chef Casper said ‘I’m cooking up’ and then made a cubano sandwich, to the enjoyment of everyone, instead of just taking heroin it would have been a very different movie

28/8/2025, 9:13:41 AM | 127 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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no idea what this means but I trust you

27/8/2025, 2:57:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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lowered our son’s graphic settings so he could run around the house smoother and now kids at school are teasing over his low poly count

26/8/2025, 9:13:35 AM | 137 27 | View on Bluesky | view

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most of our problems stem from being unable to sit alone in a room without also going on the computer

23/8/2025, 9:53:59 PM | 239 16 | View on Bluesky | view

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my dead wife better be in this stupid fog-shrouded town

22/8/2025, 7:25:01 AM | 2647 709 | View on Bluesky | view

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They should have a section at the bookstore for books they think are bad

19/8/2025, 8:01:01 AM | 123 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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the novelisation of the Bluey movie is just under 350 pages and has a long section about how the expansion of Brisbane's public transport for the 2032 olympics will raise the crime rate and sink the Heeler’s property value

17/8/2025, 8:19:36 PM | 95 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did you know they're real?
10/8/2025, 9:23:27 PM | 17 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates

15/8/2025, 9:22:27 PM | 7130 1236 | View on Bluesky | view

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The old world is dying, and the new world is so fucking stupid dude

11/8/2025, 9:48:20 AM | 3303 912 | View on Bluesky | view

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and driving, it can be about two things

11/8/2025, 12:24:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you’re right, I forgot it’s about a guy who’s sick of walking

9/8/2025, 11:37:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Cars had a massive hit with Drive because it was the first time they sang about what a car could do, the machine they were named after

9/8/2025, 11:04:43 PM | 33 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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4am sharp getting on the loom to weave my prophecies before any of the other monks have wakened

6/8/2025, 9:02:21 PM | 43 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve been getting a lot of these ads on instagram

C3PO kneeling for Jesus
6/8/2025, 7:11:38 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty cool that the camera in your car that beeps when something passes too close in front of you is writing screenplays now

6/8/2025, 5:17:14 AM | 25 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pork & Beans actually a stern warning

4/8/2025, 7:11:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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albanese is the principal skinner of australia

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4/8/2025, 4:21:47 AM | 39 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Foreword: *crying* I know you haven’t read the book yet but please listen to me Afterword: you’re very smart for finishing the book and here’s why I support you

3/8/2025, 4:52:58 AM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The virgin Foreword vs the chad Afterword

3/8/2025, 4:50:51 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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these are the books I read growing up that helped make me really annoying

3/8/2025, 3:52:27 AM | 23 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Would be pretty cool to be a teacher in queensland next week when we strike on wednesday

2/8/2025, 7:59:15 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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getting a lot of americans replying to this, which is something I did not consider

27/7/2025, 10:01:26 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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we’re living in pretty unprecedented times but luckily in Australia we have some of the worst journalists in the world to help navigate us through the waters

27/7/2025, 6:43:47 AM | 358 38 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think a lot about Steve Irwin stumbling into his own personal Greek myth

When Steve Irwin came to the rescue, he was in a troop carrier with a camera crew and a flurry of people. He had been called from nearby Australia Zoo to help a sick green sea turtle that had been found floating in the Pumicestone Passage in south-east Queensland. He charged into the water boots and all. There he would encounter another rare natural phenomenon. Two identical women, speaking in unison, comforting the turtle.
21/7/2025, 9:33:07 AM | 601 49 | View on Bluesky | view

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not to let England off the hook but this is clearly the mind of an american

19/7/2025, 8:42:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They had a lost decade of coke

19/7/2025, 8:41:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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dead wrong, try and start drinking water so your liver doesn’t collapse

19/7/2025, 8:40:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me bringing Ahab out of his quarters at 4am to look at a black clump of seaweed

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Snapple facts under the cap, nutrition facts along the side…… this bottle is teaching me a lot about this crazy world of ours

19/7/2025, 6:39:25 AM | 56 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/7/2025, 4:28:39 AM | 40 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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then Sunk Loto appeared and nothing was the same

19/7/2025, 1:51:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the first time James Bond walked onto screen and fired at the camera at the start of the movie audiences panicked and started blindly shooting back

17/7/2025, 9:23:31 AM | 83 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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mums love to become politically awakened by a twenty minute discussion from guy at the markets who runs a honeycomb stall

17/7/2025, 8:49:40 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought it might be

17/7/2025, 7:00:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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VIN DIESEL WITH HAIR IS THE CRAZIEST THING YOU'LL EVER SEE Vin Diesel with hair
17/7/2025, 12:41:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it’s so cool how almost everything is a scam and is simulatenously killing us

15/7/2025, 7:35:31 PM | 11587 1683 | View on Bluesky | view

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Australian publishing is in celebration mode as Anh Do secures a 50 book deal about the mushroom trial

11/7/2025, 8:19:42 AM | 45 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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broke: a voice to parliament for indigenous Australians. woke: a voice to parliament for Benjamin Netanyahu.

10/7/2025, 3:22:11 AM | 358 94 | View on Bluesky | view

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for me this is the correct take

10/7/2025, 1:29:12 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes this is the concept of the book

10/7/2025, 12:44:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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to my child just to clarify

9/7/2025, 10:14:36 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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reading this all-timer for bedtime

paperback copy of Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
9/7/2025, 9:18:50 AM | 186 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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narrative maxxing by reading a novel and simultaneously listening to the audiobook while my wife scrolls a big pdf on the tv in time with me

8/7/2025, 9:05:51 PM | 19 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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You know libraries hate to see my oral tradition ass coming

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The reading crisis is worrying because if people stop reading Henry James's late novels they will completely lose the capacity for moral decision making

8/7/2025, 8:46:25 AM | 61 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/7/2025, 7:11:16 AM | 5 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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The journalist just adding ‘my wife left me’ into a headline about the mushroom poisoner has broken my brain

8/7/2025, 7:01:37 AM | 53 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m real

7/7/2025, 5:01:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I really messed up becoming a teacher at the same time I had a child entering school-age. Look at what I gave up.

7/7/2025, 2:27:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/7/2025, 1:05:29 AM | 64 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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when I read someone’s juvenilia I get sick in the tummy

6/7/2025, 11:00:39 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When you gotta kill the Alien from Alien (1979)

Susan Kare lounging iconic shot
4/7/2025, 12:01:33 AM | 91 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve never been to Ashgrove my pick would probably be Lutwyche

3/7/2025, 6:47:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have visited the 20 minutes from the CBD by bus shopping mall only in my dreams

3/7/2025, 5:55:59 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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this is a modern australian novel

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3/7/2025, 4:48:36 AM | 32 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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this was my grandmother’s name and she was always talking about how the name fell off

3/7/2025, 3:00:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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enjoying this ten year old’s drawing from the Erin Patterson trial

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3/7/2025, 12:05:27 AM | 26 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Frame #59750 from S06 -E04 - Broccoli-629288
2/7/2025, 8:30:16 PM | 588 187 | View on Bluesky | view

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you wouldn’t be using capital letters in the title of your poetry collection would you mate?

1/7/2025, 9:05:15 AM | 29 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Send in the clowns"? The clowns are not sitting around at our beck and call. They have lives

29/6/2025, 10:27:57 PM | 1001 172 | View on Bluesky | view

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bro are you okay you seem like you’ve been containing multitudes recently

29/6/2025, 6:59:20 AM | 51 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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an update on potato

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29/6/2025, 6:02:14 AM | 71 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a pretty strict schedule for posting on here but we’ll see

28/6/2025, 6:49:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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dead wrong mate

28/6/2025, 6:47:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the best thing about teaching at a public school is I have two weeks off right now to sit at home and make my opinions worse

28/6/2025, 7:48:04 AM | 94 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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me in 2008: hope I get to Video Ezy before all the good new releases are gone me in 2025: hope I’m not signed up to streaming service that directly funds the IDF

28/6/2025, 6:07:59 AM | 179 19 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the last day of term and I’m going to drive my car around on the oval while the students throw old tomatoes and cabbages at me

26/6/2025, 9:30:39 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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last night I went to an advanced screening of M3gan 2.0. After the movie, M3gan herself came out as a surprise, but most of the audience booed her.

26/6/2025, 9:07:34 PM | 14 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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no I don’t think so

22/6/2025, 8:21:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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me whenever I post

Simpsons screenshot of Krusty explaining where the Falkland Islands are after they were invaded
22/6/2025, 8:06:41 AM | 88 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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family group chat going off right now over whether or not it was ethical for my uncle to show up at the lunch my aunt was hosting without also telling her he was bringing along 6 frozen pizzas

22/6/2025, 5:11:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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checking out the shadows on the cave wall is enough for me, whatever happens to be casting them is simply none of my business

15/6/2025, 5:10:38 AM | 37 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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my uncle has made us all sick with his foraged lasagne

15/6/2025, 4:47:23 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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like many in the generations before me, I am going to go drink beer at a primary school

14/6/2025, 5:28:14 AM | 95 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Curly's Grandson visits Curly and Shemp Howard's graves - THREE STOOGES
14/6/2025, 12:32:22 AM | 635 64 | View on Bluesky | view

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pretty bad imo

14/6/2025, 1:35:33 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m thinking of buying Swordfish on VHS

VHS of Swordfish for three dollars
14/6/2025, 12:35:46 AM | 138 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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surely what’s good for a common goose isn’t also good for me, a successful and popular gander

12/6/2025, 11:16:42 PM | 154 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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the tertiary sector should band together to buy me a house

12/6/2025, 6:42:28 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Very cool my former employers are in the news

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12/6/2025, 6:07:02 AM | 28 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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When you get up to the story the collection’s named after

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they’re making it the law that the pasta packet has to have the little picture of a pot on it with the cooking time stamped on it

7/6/2025, 6:51:43 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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wait until she jumps on Catholicism after like a single encounter

7/6/2025, 6:44:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Incredibly powerful email forward from my mother in law

email that begins: ‘Fwd: Important Recall Notice - Crocs LED Jibbitz Charms Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message:’
6/6/2025, 2:47:14 AM | 46 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No uni near me brother, what’s your point

5/6/2025, 7:03:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love to be a teacher at a public school in a metro area and slowly get priced out of rentals in a metro area.

5/6/2025, 6:23:40 AM | 77 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ali Smith tapping on the computer like she’s in the Matrix while increasing the font size of her 25,000 word novel

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When I find myself in times of trouble, Beatles Chord Guy comes to me Top 5 Paul McCartney Songs in C

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twice now I’ve heard that zoomers are reading a novel and listening to the audiobook as they read to really ‘lock in’ to the book

2/6/2025, 9:16:42 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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The last time someone said ‘as soon as I saw this, I thought of you’ before giving me a gift was last year and it was a tie-in Volleyball from the 2000 movie Cast Away

2/6/2025, 8:36:16 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your cats or dogs should be able to hit fav on your posts

2/6/2025, 8:27:54 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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nothing is more artistically valuable to my six year old than a post it note that she’s made a hole in the middle of with a 2B pencil

1/6/2025, 2:27:25 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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every time I’m forced into accepting a schema change I get sick in the tummy

30/5/2025, 7:34:49 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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it’s getting a bit colder finally, we’re all hoping it sticks

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That one friend whose magnetic field is polar opposite to yours and if they try to enter your kitchen with you in it you get thrown against the fridge

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