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One last thing. Charlotte Brontƫ actually hated Jane Austen because Austen was a popular writer who had absolutely ROASTED the Brontƫ sisters' novels in Northanger Abbey a full 45+ years before they were even written, and Charlotte was a just a bitchy mean girl who couldn't take critique.*
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Good night, good people. And Steve.
I have been trying to cram all necessary info into no more than one or two texts when I have to relay information to friends, so they don't get slammed with notification bells, and let me tell you, it is MURDER. There is always something my fingers did not get down before I hit send.
And my brain is faster than my fingers, so I hit send before my fingers catch up.
This is exacerbated by working in Hollywood.
I am very careful. Yes/no questions are a trap.
Like, I've tried to form the sentences first, but unless it's something that can be expressed really simply, in 1-2 sentences, all I start with is a vague idea of how to relay the concept or answer in a way the other person will get. And few things are a straight yes/no, because conditions MATTER.
I sort it out as I'm speaking. My brain absolutely cannot do it the other way around.
Hereās what iāve known all my life, but only recently grasped in connection to neurodivergence: Some people need to think in order to know what they want to say Some people need to speak in order to know what they think Neither is wrong. They are both equally valid decision-making processes.
Not every fucking thought or concept can be expressed/explained in 280 characters. Ffs.
I donāt love the ādonāt write essays in other peopleās repliesā discourse Yes, neurotypicals, we hear you. Would you please hear us when we say this is often just a neurodivergent thing? We do it because weāre trying SO hard not to be misunderstood We accommodate you all the time. Give us a break?
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Here in Texas, where most people view their dogs as disposable anyway, it's all the same fuckwitted assholes that won't get the Covid vaccine who are militant fucking dicks about not vaccinating their dogs either. Of all the reasons I lividly hate Texas, the way Texans treat their dogs/pets is #1.
If you listen closely you can probably hear me screaming. A couple of years ago I reported a ārescueā to AC for discouraging vaccinations and using home remedies and shit and AC was on their side, thought it was fine to tell people not to vaccinate dogs and put colloidal silver in their eyes.
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
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Fencing or rock climbing
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
You can read the 1st chapter here. Which will give you a bit more of an idea (but not a complete one) of the identity of this mysterious figure lurking in Joe McLaren's brilliant cover art: the-villager.ghost.io/the-reason-y... And another shorter extract here: the-villager.ghost.io/granny-kettl...
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I donāt like this feelingā¦
@sidneymorss.bsky.social and Ben Brainard: youtube.com/shorts/Dikon...
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@cybergabi.bsky.social thank you!!! I was so envious of those shades! ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Yes a Qx or Q+.
Sorry, i guess the user's name is Flopop now, not Florinth, which is in their Twitter url.
Yes. A twitter stan named Florinth created it, and he or a flunky reposted it to his Truth Social account August 30, at 6pm. I have been to his Truth Social account to verify that his account did, in fact, repost it. You can also view the post on the Trump's Truth website.
That man was a doer. I'm really sad that I never heard of him until now.
Fred Hampton on the importance of revolutionary education
I love posts like this that make me go digging. TIL about Fred Hampton. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ha...
Hank's public response to his son's suffering was "these things happen." There's so much crap that Hank Ketcham did that Behind The Bastards did a two part deep dive that's longer than they spent on some nazis. But suffice to say, bro sucks.
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And yes, the stats are horrific. I kinda felt that part is beyond obvious, and I don't have the faintest fucking clue what I could possibly add of any value whatsoever to that discussion.
(The implication being that Black women are not valuable members of society.)
It's so good! The whole cast is great, but Uzo Aduba is absolutely perfection.
The stat is also terrible. Forgive me for not being correctly offended in a world so fucking full of unbelievably shitty stats that I landed on the part I could deal with. I'm so glad I have people to dictate my reactions while I struggle to get through every unbelievably shitty day of this regime.
Also, ColorPix
Bookmarking this entire thread. ā¤ļøš
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
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A Colossal Cave System lurking beneath Australiaās Desert "Known as the largest arid limestone karst region on Earth, the Nullarbor contains caves that reach for kilometres beneath the desert..."
I'm glad you can look at it more positively than i am able.
I don't know what they posted, but damn, sir, your burn game is strong. š
Is the dog taking a break?
The more documentaries I watch on Everest, the more I am convinced I would not like anyone who has made climbing Everest their goal.
I agree.
Yikes, that is absolutely HORRENDOUS writing. WTF. Imagine having your existence/experience described in a major publication as being a bird kept in a cage so that the humans ā namely men ā don't die.
I Will In My Life Blackbird Here Comes the Sun Here, There and Everywhere Let It Be Penny Lane Good Night
I do it every single day unless I'm sick. We also drive through the park almost every weekday on the way home from the office. She's my dog.
from the essay: The Cajun Navy has always served as a beautiful example for me of active hope. No one went there knowing for sure that they could save people, some must have worried about the reported chaos, but they went.
From the man himself, what the deletion of @joho.bsky.socialās channel at the hands of YouTube via Vinay Prasad means. sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadl...
Yep, been playing at the national golf club in DC, about 30 minutes from the WH...and Walter Reed?
Evil is as evil does.
What @stuartpstevens.bsky.social says here:
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Brilliant
Like, I do not care that Pol Pot didn't get enough love as a child, or whatever. At some point, "hurt people hurt people" becomes an excuse. We are responsible for our actions, and inflicting harm on someone else because it makes you feel better is a conscious fucking CHOICE.
I think too many people when confronted with objective evil find it too emotionally difficult to acknowledge and so dismiss it as a misunderstanding or mental illness when it really is just a villain standing in front of you taking delight in villainous, fiendish things like cruelty & brutality.
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Yep.
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
No sense wasting time on people with whom you share no consensus reality.
I think of all the actors I have ever met, he is by far the nicest.
Also, yes, I forgot to say her dad also found out his birthday was not his birthday, and he was younger than he thought he was, because his grandparents had also made up his date of birth to hide that he was their daughter's baby from out of wedlock, and his sister was his mother.
Dude just doesn't want to admit he made an incorrect statement. I blocked him because he keeps responding "Yes, that is a real roadblock for some ppl, but it's super easy to just do the thing I just admitted they can't do," and I do not have tolerance for that kind of privileged, denialist bullshit.
I used to work in the WB animation building, and he was outside the door looking over his lines one day when I was going in or out. He asked me a question, and we ended up talking for ten to fifteen minutes. Really just a great, genuine guy, very warm. You'd love him.
He was in his late 40's the first time he was able to finally obtain and view a copy of his birth certificate. He would never have been able to obtain a Real ID. I don't know how he got a driver's license. I assume by using his military ID. And then never letting it lapse.
You also need to know who your parents were and where you were born. My bff's dad thought he knew that information. Then his "father" died, and he found out the people he thought were his parents were actually his grandparents, and he was born in a different state.
I especially love the part where you have to show your ID to recover the documents you need to get an ID. But you know: SO EASY. š¤¦āāļø
Dude, you are just willfully refusing to acknowledge reality at this point. A PERSON CANNOT OBTAIN RECORDS THAT DO NOT EXIST. It is okay to admit you did not have this information or never thought of it before, and that you are incorrect in your privileged assumptions.
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We can talk about the covid vaccine on the front page of sunday paper, meaning they know Covid is still an issue but won't acknowledge how bad it is.
So do you?
The "you" is in quote marks for a reason.
Just added this to the Spotify playlist. youtu.be/GlMAN5IKtUM?...
That also. Thank you, Gabrielle.
and the same for when he returned to the WH. But the one from yesterday also notes that he walked from the golf course to the tennis courts at 1:50. Like they really want us to know he was playing golf.
I can't find a single news article where the picture used is from yesterday. They're all from previous golf outings. I don't believe he played yesterday. I also think it's kind of odd that as far back as I looked in the rolls, all his previous outings just said when he left and when he got there,
*prove one name or the other
and no namechange form to go with any of it. It's proving to be a real bitch to get a Real ID. I don't have enough forms of ID with the same name on them to prove over name or the other. So don't tell me it's easy. It's easy for SOME people, NOT ALL PEOPLE.
I'm dealing with issues right now because I need a Real ID, but I changed my name when I got married, and I wasn't required to fill out a namechange to do it. So now I have a current driver's license in my married name, a SS card in my married name, but a birth cert bearing my maiden name,
It is a privilege brought about by circumstance of birth that allows a person to assume everyone has what s/he has.
You need your birth records to get either a driver's license or ID. If you are a married woman, you need your marriage documents. Some people need name change documents. You might need a social security number. Not everyone has one of those, either.
Some places are STILL woefully behind in computerizing records. That takes time, money, and manpower, and for a lot of counties in this country, is not a priority.
Not everyone's records were computerized, especially in rural areas or poorer jurisdictions. Courthouses flood and burn, and if your records were on paper and had not yet been computerized when that happened, tough luck. The internet was we now know it did not exist until the late 90s/early 2000s.
No, they cannot, actually. Especially older people, impoverished people, people who were born in rural areas, people who were born at home (especially in total areas or before probably 1980), and people of color. Not everyone was born in a city hospital that kept & filed records for them.
Not everyone has the documentation needed to get a driver's license or state ID, either.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
I think a lot of people say "capitalism" when what they actually mean is materialism. And I hate to break it to them, but materialism is a problem everywhere, because by and large, human nature is to get as much as possible with as little effort as possible.
āManifestation isnāt realā well itās worked pretty well for the right wing. Theyāve created an entire alternate reality for themselves and our reality has bent to their will because of it. Thereās something to be learned from that
It's not my video.
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary
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Some flowers and stuff.
