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The jerk store called. They voted 11-3 to unionize! Everyone welcome Jerks Local 217

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"It's the tragedy that was caused in Harlem when George Lucas played Sing Sing Sing through the speakers of his car, which was the longest road-legal vehicle in the United States at the time."

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It’s still Black History Month. Here’s a poem: Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) 1/

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nobody: warmaster horus, circa the 31st millenium:

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watching americans on my timeline react to temperatures of -14 celsius and recalling for no reason that the Americans have never conducted a true cold weather campaign in any foreign war

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me, switching to zero sugar green monster ultra paradise from the tried-and-true rockstar punched fruit punch: this must be what it felt like for eve to eat the apple

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banana republic for which it stands

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this fire has good taste, schoenberg is ass

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Winnipeg budget for a family of 5 on the eve of the General Strike, 1919: Food: $800-841 Rent/Utilities: $544-777 Clothes: $320-400 Discretionary: $96-320 Laundry/Help: $144 Med: $80-185 Edu: $16-112 Transport: $48-152 Dues/Benefits: $48-128 Total: $2,178-$3,139 Average worker income: $1,231.

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it's time to face facts: the palisades fire happened because of wokeness

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rogal dorn at the siege of terra: you know what this reminds me of? jaghatai khan: the part in squid game where they played squid game? rogal dorn: the part in squid--yes, exactly

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why does the cop in squid game look like hikaru

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Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

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North: Flin Flon, Manitoba East: New York City, New York West: Osaka, Japan South: Kingston, Jamaica

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Something about the term "OC" has a really specific set of connotations around what the character's FOR that make it really weird to say something like "JRR Tolkien's OC, Frodo Baggins, who lives at Bag's End"

submitted 70 days ago • 11 comments

GENDER STUDIES LITERACY CHECKPOINT: what is the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" about?

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The problem with meeting voters where they are is that voters have no idea where they are

submitted 74 days ago • 25 comments

honestly if humanity could somehow adopt "size=power" rules like in fromsoft games or warhammer 40k we wouldn't need as many elections

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GERRY ADAMS: the Queen is in our sights, take the shot! IRA SNIPER: I can't, boyo, I'm woke. ME (watching through binoculars): He's woke! He won't do it!

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I think Ding game 11 vs game 12 is a great example of the highly sophisticated concept known as “fuck it, we ball”

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the united healthcare ceo killer played chess under the name sexytwerker69 #chesspunks

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understatement of the century

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"thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk, baby rockin' it" -pulitzer prize winner Kendrick Lamar

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i am running behind the bus on my not-nanowrimo project. 500 words behind, but I'm not too sure how the final two days will pan out due to life obligations, so ideally I'd really like to hammer in 2,500 words a day this week and punch my ticket to 50k by thursday night. we'll see.

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that DS9 is dogshit hampered by bad acting performances and TNG clears it, right?

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

my wife and i have a bit where we joke about a new piece of media beginning with a short trailer from the creators urging the audience to vote/criticizing Donald Trump/doing a land acknowledgement etc. so we understandably cracked up at the beginning of gladiator ii

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Inclusion of this group at #NCTE24 is dangerous for Palestinian presenters and a lot of Black presenters and attendees whose valid criticisms of Israel are labeled hateful. Yikes. Consider researching and signing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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i am currently writing the worst piece of postapocalyptic fiction known to man for #nanowrimo but I'm pretty thrilled that I've been able to drill 30,000 words into it so far.

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somewhere in thunder bay, there is a high school dropout who got B pluses in auto service. the great canadian oil change is his cathedral and he ministers from the servicing pit. every fluid, bolt, and filter has been set by his design as the cars roll through.

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holy fuck I'm salivating for this shit. CLOSE THE SCHOOLS

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happy to be among a standing room only crowd for a fierce & fine group of Winnipeg writers reading in solidarity with No Arms in the Arts.

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trump is a generational posting talent. rubbing RFK's nose in his earlier press about trump's eating habits. but also this is a wild amount of food. large fries, a quarter pounder, and ten nuggets? gluttonous.

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snotty nose rez kids put on the best concert I've been to all year and it wasn't close. energy was insane.

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the libification of bluesky is in full effect. everything everywhere is doomed to get worse all the time

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