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I've always wondered, but not cared enough about sports to ask, but why do we call American football "football"? Why did we name it that? The ball's not a foot long, and you mostly carry it with your hands. Also, we call it soccer because we can't call it football, but where'd that name come from?

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CREEPY REDNECK DINOSAUR MANSION 3 IS A GAME THAT EXISTS YOU CAN WISHLIST IT YOU CAN PLAY IT IN STEAM NEXT FEST IT'S A SURVIVAL HORROR-THEMED MATCH-3 METROIDVANIA AND THERE IS NO CREEPY REDNECK DINOSAUR MANSION 2 store.steampowered.com/app/2116510/...

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Put these dates in your calendar.

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man, the rotation hasn't even happened yet and I can't wait for the next rotation. zerg dk is so unfun to fight, even if you have the perfect cards to deal with them. At least we won't have to deal with the second most unfun (non-druid) deck to fight anymore (Brann is so cool and not toxic at all).

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The most toxic thing you can do in Hearthstone is thank your opponent after they say hello. It makes no sense AND it feels smug. Like you KNOW you're going to win despite running the most basic bitch prebuilt deck you found online that's super predictable and counterable.

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REMINDER TO NOT TALK ABOUT BEING AT PROTESTS ONLINE. You do not need to "prove" you were there, it puts you and others in danger. Only tell people in person when you go for safety.

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Big protest coming to Stonewall National Monument in just an hour or two. If you are in the area, get down there, be active, show your disapproval of the removal of transgender people from all online websites for the Stonewall National Monument page!

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

it's amazing how fucked up the secondhand video game market is. Like, imagine trying to sell a bad 20 year old game for $300 USD that no one's ever heard of because it's an old game. Dude, I'm not spending $15 on old games.

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HELP - dashare.zone ADMIN

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Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

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This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

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Of course, never do this. Explicitly avoid doing this, using this very diagram.

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another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

This is the organization that has been sending in lists of anti-genocide protesting students and faculty for deportation.

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People of BlueSky, I’m doing an 18 hour livestream on the 22nd to raise money for The Trevor Project! There will be fun donation incentives (raffles, etc) before and during the stream. You can donate here: give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/652...

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reminder that palm oil is a super renewable resource, but the people who farm it opted into destroying the homes of orangutans to do it, being the sole reason that the Sumatran orangutan is endangered. Also, complete irreversible rainforest destruction on an extreme scale.

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Hey, big question. How did this happen? How'd we manage to fuck up so fucking bad that two people have been able to tear apart this country and over 70 years of work in under two months? How'd we get to the point where actual nazis managed to become two of the strongest people in the world?

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Straight fire here from Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Democratic Party. "If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?” (thx @guyoron.net)

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Did you know that the dodo bird went extinct as recently as the 17th century? Surprisingly, humans didn't hunt them to extinction, even though they were a good source of food. They apparently tasted bad. Instead our cats we introduced got to them and the rats got to their eggs.

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Remember how it used to be that you couldn't trade the Pokemon cofagrigus without giving it a nickname for the longest time? I just remembered another goofy censorship error(?) from another series of games.

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My mom's great, whenever she sees an animal, be it a cool bug or a bird or whatever, if she can get a decent picture of it, she'll send it to me asking what it is, knowing that she could very easily do the work if I taught her how.

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it's crazy how much stuff I know about, about things I don't care too much about. Like, I don't read comic books, but I spent like, six hours reading the DC fandom wiki page on DCeased. Although, the events of DCeased and the black lanterns kinda meld together in my brain.

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Ever think about how insane 90's advertisements were? How awful they were? How you couldn't tell what was going on 90% of the time? How SEGA thought it was a good idea to insult their potential audiences? My least favorite time for commercials.

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it sure is cool looking up botw music when I haven't finished totk yet. I've already found two spoilers (apparently botw music=totk boss music)

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I've been on a risk of rain kick the past couple of days. God these games are good. (these aren't new to me or anything, I just really like these games)

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I can't stop thinking about youtu.be/Z1dxxRPP8Gc?...

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Not a big fan of valentine's day myself, (never having been in a relationship + not being a romantic person will do this to you) but the milcery are cool I guess. Thanks pokemon for reigniting my desire of getting every variety of alcremie possible for my living dex.

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Remember to stay safe out there folks.

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If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

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