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This is the way.
Orc. Disney adult. Julie's minion. Princex in disguise. He/him
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This is the way.
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Pretty!
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I don't think I've actually read this story since like 8th grade, but I remember it in razor sharpness. Clearly a core memory.
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I think she looks lovely :)
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Then it made perfect sense.
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Shared an office for several years with a very intelligent, talented woman who'd emigrated from Serbia. Every now and then she'd say something that caused a record scratch in my brain, and I've have to picture what she'd said would look like written down, and then pronounce it in English in my head.
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Every time I see one of those ads, I pour one out for Mr. Whipple
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Crush 204
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Cool never closes
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This is why I'm doing my best to push back against my bosses pushing me to go with AI. Yes, it can replicate what other motherfuckers have done. Like the moon seen from earth. But you pay me to go where no motherfucker has gone before.
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Not a scientist, just a lowly mechanical engineer with a mere MS degree, but Imma flockin'.
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Ann Wilson singing "Stairway to Heaven" as Robert Plant holds back tears while Yo Yo Ma, Jack Black, Bonnie Raitt and Michelle Obama all go "HOLY FUCK YEAH!!!" is as good as it gets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxO...
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My gods man, put him on a tall structure, then, for all that is holy.
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The Very Hungry Talented Cosplayer
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That's a good stretch.
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Loki, Pug of Mischief, says he’s down cannot bring the ball back to me if the grass is wet. Little shit.
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Having gone to a school where, when one of the opposing players was injured and someone yelled "I hope he's fucking dead!" and we all cheered, I feel I shouldn't point fingers. Even if the injured dude was from USC.
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In my world, we spell yum "s-t-a-r-b-u-s-t j-e-l-l-y-b-e-a-n-s" ymmv
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As a heat transfer engineer who grew up in south Texas, yeah, you're fuhgged.
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This is really good, I love it.
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We talked about global warming in my undergraduate heat transfer class back in the 1980s. It was unequivocal, this is going to happen, we just don't yet know when, it needs to be stopped. And the world, especially the US, ain't done shit.
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I've said this before, but it still stands. When you're selfies pop up in my feed, it makes me happy. And that is a damn cool shirt.
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Yup. Because I am an old fuck, I can remember going through this in less than 3 years with those assholes Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.
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As an American, that sounds like a cigarette. But I'm guessing it isn't. Either way, rock on.
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100%.
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Good thing is, in this situation, I'm in a position to make sure the dog never feels unloved. So I think he'll be fine. But I'm really upset with the human.
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Weekend at Sam Altman's
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Plus, this way I get to wear a tiara when no one is looking.
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:(
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Yup. It really is. I'm so much happier seeing myself as a "princex in disguise" (a term I stole from @annleckie.com 's books) than as a cis man because, well, goddam.
Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! (@zanwrites.bsky.social) reposted
I love this book for itself, but I also think it’s a great read for any writers world-building (especially with fictional species). Riley does such a wonderful job of narratively illustrating the interconnection between the almost fantastical animals and environments of eons past #BookSky #WriteSky
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Could not agree more. Riley is a wonderful writer.
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Totally. It only happens when I move to a new state and I'm terrified by the process of finding a new doctor. Once I suck it up and pick a doc and get things refilled, I'm on the ball.
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You should see what my blood pressure does when I go off my meds
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I totally get your dumb joke <3
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You do what you gotta do.
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"I know this other human won't leave you hanging, so off you go" is shitty. You are a shitty human being. If you do something like that, nothing will change my mind.
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I'm really upset to be making this post, but I gotta. When you take a dog to be your pet, then you are making a lifetime commitment to them. Sometimes reality goes real, and then you do what you have to. But to simply say "This other dog is younger and cuter, so they're my dog now."
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*throws Lucky Charms marshmallows at your upturned, baby bird-like mouth*
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I hope he enjoys it!
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Will happily donate some of my hair's built in curliness.
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Facts.
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Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in September.
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Nailed it.
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Even his voice wants to strangle him.
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My sister and I are continuing our Friday night watching of “Only Murders in the Building”. Therefore, our texts continue to make us sound like a pair of serial killers
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Hell to the yeah
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Lori (@loribedell.bsky.social) reposted
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
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My mom's birthday is Sept 19, which is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. That would be a cool day to see Mara Lago get looted and burned by seafaring scallywags.
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100% agreement.
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I'd argue 1000% is low, given that there is zero honor in being an ICE agent. But "NaN" doesn't mean anything to most people.
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After she got her DNP, I started calling my wife "Dr Baby"
Martha Wells (@marthawells.com) reposted
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
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Cool. I was lucky to see Fantasia in the theater when they re-released in '77. The dinosaur sequence made a big impression on young me. And the Firebird Suite is really awesome.
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*quietly chooses not to suggest my brilliant strategy of tying helium balloons to the weights in order to lift more of them*
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My all-time favorite comic was early Excalibur, which was about a five-person polycule (and their girlfriend) who hung out in a lighthouse. And occasionally punched Nazis.
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Wish the marketing people who are responsible for finding me work were.
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I mean, I still think this is funny because it's true:
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Maybe you’ve got vampires?
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Wicked cool. Carcharodontosaurus has always been my favorite name for a dinosaur.
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Whaa!
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I like to pull out this pic of my wife’s bones when I’m in the mood to hear people go “Whaaa!”
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53 centimeters, or two inches plus a hair.
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My dog gets a premium brand recommended by the vet specifically formulated for his breed. It's got some chicken and fish oils, but mostly it's rice, corn, oats and wheat. Because dogs are omnivores, not carnivores.
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Your boss knows where her towel is.
MurderBotBot (@murderbotbot.bsky.social) reposted
The Preservation Alliance has a weird thing about food and medical care and other things humans need to survive being free and available anywhere.
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I had a lot of fun reading it.
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Gambit Wolverine Rogue Nightcrawler Jubilee
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3 Today, tomorrow, forever.
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Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
William Shakespeare (@shakespeare.lol) reposted
Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
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Goddam yeah that was scary.
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I suspect that now though, 35 years later, it's just blended into basic "American". Like a stew left on the stovetop too long.
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When I was in college, a linguistics professor tried to figure out what part of the country I was from based on accent / figures of speech, and his conclusion was "Da fuq?" My migrant childhood cocktail of Texas / New England / California / Midwest / Appalachia was a little too much.
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The trailer for Jaws.
MurderBotBot (@murderbotbot.bsky.social) reposted
I needed help, I didn’t want anyone to touch me. These were two mutually exclusive states.
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And that is how it's done! done! done!
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Just pre-ordered the fuck outta "Platform Decay", the next book in the MurderBot Diaries by @marthawells.com
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I find it easier to add 29 to my kid's age than to remember my own age.
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For comparison, Disney requires you to keep up with a 16-minute mile for their fairly casual half-marathon (13.1 mile) and full marathon (26.2 mile) races. If you can't do that, they throw your ass on the bus of shame and drive you to the finish line.
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I enjoyed reading it :)
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I can remember telling people they couldn't smoke in my first apartment because "I was allergic" (which was socially acceptable) and not because "I think it's vile and gross and I don't want you to" (which was considered rude).
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Wicked cool.
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You have excellent taste.
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*fistbump*
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My wife topped off the coolant in her car last month and I was so proud of her.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
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