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Chess Position xkcd.com/3082

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The wizard works on revising his research paper.

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I just got an FM transmitter for my car which predates Bluetooth. I cannot describe to you the joy of listening to my favourite songs while driving

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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YouTube's habit of showing me adverts when I pause a video is *aggressively* annoying.

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Billionare (noun) (disparaging + offensive)

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Nature continues To be beauty incarnate In spite of it all

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due to an increasingly destabilized american economy, one must imagine smaller dragons

submitted 87 days ago • 25 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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Something small I love about being in a foreign country is that I don't understand the adverts

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"I wonder what's happening in all those other timelines?" - Abed Nadir

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chat is this real

submitted 139 days ago • 95 comments

"It was the worst of times. It was the worster of times”

submitted 100 days ago • 16 comments

Take back your attention.

submitted 101 days ago • 421 comments

the thing with feathers perching in MY soul is Velociraptor mongoliensis

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

submitted 101 days ago • 55 comments

What are they even collecting our data for. Are there rare data. Are there data shinies

submitted 101 days ago • 60 comments

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 101 days ago • 531 comments

My favourite Emily Dickinson poem:

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Honestly I'm surprised the US is still one country at this point

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I didn't forsee that running D&D would mess with my On Repeat playlist on Spotify lol One session and apparently one of my favourite songs is "Five Armies" by Kevin MacLeod open.spotify.com/track/4se7ZK...

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Reading Animorphs as a kid, it always annoyed me how indifferent the Andalites were to the war on Earth. How long it took them to arrive, and how while they deliberated and delayed, literal children were facing a never-ending tide of war-induced trauma.

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The urge to start a LotR reread even though I'm midway through so many other books at the moment

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The way we measure digital data storage is too straightforward. They should be spelled Pterabytes just to mess with people

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Out of all the beautiful fantastical things about Stardew Valley, I think the one thing I’d most love to have in real life is the ability to go to bed at 2AM and wake at 6AM with a full energy bar.

submitted 124 days ago • 8 comments

You still have people saying, "I don't see any evidence that Musk is a neo-Nazi." And it's like, I can't know what's in his heart, but he follows them on Twitter, retweets them, promotes their conspiracy theories, parrots their rhetoric, and now recommends their party for Germany. But who knows?

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One of the upsides to having an ecology activist for a mother: I can send her a voicenote of frogs croaking and by that alone she'll be able to tell me what species it is

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doctor: lets test your reflexes me: thats a regular hammer doctor: then i hope theyre good

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Recently picked up the violin after not playing it for a couple of years. I'm incredibly impressed by violinists' ability to contort their left hands like that for hours on end

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Sometimes I worry that the names for things in the novel I'm writing make no sense. And then I remember that indigenous people in the Americas have been historically referred to as Indians despite India residing on a different continent

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