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artist/maker/problem solver and finder of secret spaces.
gender is a prison and I chewed through the bars.
#lowell ma
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world of warcraft blind guild invite.
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that is a lot of boys. kind of too many to get to kissing without a system and some sort of process refinement and vetting/oversight and that seems like that takes some of the fun out of it.
(i corrected “a lot of the fun” to “some” because some people do literally fuck with spreadsheets.)
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madonna singing sondheim is a fireball movie pitch.
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POP TART OH MY GOD
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It was a nice and unexpected heart-to-heart over something trivial, but also important.
We said good night etc. I hope he spent the rest of the night thinking about lamplight.
I love my neighborhood and neighbors so much.
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(Also, aluminum is typically spun, not cast. You can at minimum feel the difference under your nails but the shape really gives them away.)
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He guessed the poles dated from the 80s; I agreed, and talked about the aluminumification of our infrastructure that started in the late 90s/early aughts and how this post by the feel seemed to be cast iron. Got to rap it and hear the sound.
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We talked about the age of the posts, and the kinds of bulbs - he guessed halogen - and I mentioned how there were a few globes in the parking lot with original bulbs and how strikingly different the light was.
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having gone down this hyperfixation hole already: the thicker and heavier the watch case, the more I feel it, especially when walking or moving - I can detect the momentum shift and imparted lag. The hamilton is light and thin enough to not have this problem.
Also it comes in blue.
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the difference between these two watches is the Hamilton is not an automatic so it's like half the thickness and weighs less.
Whether that's worth the money or not is up to you - don't buy watches new imo - but there are tangible differences other than aesthetics.
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300+ people in my estimation when I left a half hour ago; more people were coming on my way out.
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I brought the wrong lens for this it turns out. Did my best.
#lowell
#massachusetts
#protest
#fuckice
#nokings
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He's going to watch it on fox news later and that'll be his memory of it going forward.
Also, dc streets are rated for 40 tons. the tanks weigh 70. He's literally crushing the city.
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They will never be satisfied. It will never end. There will always be someone nearby not living The Right Way. The hate will eat and eat and eat.
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I frame it as this free-floating community anxiety from a perceived loss of control that has been crunched down into bigotry and rage by time and Systems of Power. Energy needs to go somewhere, so it gets blasted at whatever "evidence" is in range - brown kids or Pride or homeless people. Anything.
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people are complaining about the potential damage to their trucks these children could do in disgust.
I, with my foot level life, already see cars as weapons/power projections but people are increasingly mask off about it; the pleasant fiction is wearing off and they're just tanks now.
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*video of 10 brown teens on bikes at lazy biking speeds crossing a river bridge with plenty of space in front and behind; one wheelies briefly into the outbound traffic and a driver, barely inching forward anyway, taps their brakes.
"WON'T SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS LAWLESS BEHAVIOR!?!?!"
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Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
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Either there is significant missing context or your headline editor is NUTS.
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150k for marketing is LESS that previous years.
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A million dollars where?
The article does not contain numbers that add up to a million dollars, it looks like 40k for Promote Lowell, 150k for general marketing, plus some money for lowell pd / Guilfoil to spit out copaganda / PR.
It links to a FOUR HUNDRED MB PDF as evidence with no context.
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i always figured if i needed to make easy money i’d sell feet pics but apparently all it took was calling a fascist a bitch…
and i think that’s beautiful