melissa-snyder.bsky.social
I'm just somebody I used to know; a shadow of my former self with a talent to amuse. I've worn many hats along the way, and some of them even fit.
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Heck, it wasn't that many generations ago that you'd see it in English, too.
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The majority of those who voted. It's an important distinction.
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I can't get over how the news media keeps describing it as "tense." It wasn't tense. It was sickening, Shocking. Certainly triggering, to anybody who's a survivor of domestic abuse.
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Everything tastes better when it's on fire.
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The kicker? She wanted to name me Joan. JOAN! Who the heck is Joan? Not me, baby! As soon as you're Joan you're Joanie, and then you might as well go jump in the lake. You have an ounce of baby fat and the schoolyard bullies make sure you're Joanie Beefaroni until graduation. And the wire hangers!
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(Maybe it helped that there were three sets of identical twins at our high school, which in retrospect seems kind of strange for a school with <1,000 kids K-12 under one roof in the middle of a literal cornfield.)
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A few days ago she casually mentioned that DAD chose my name, that she had grown up HATING having a twin name, and she had always worried that we'd resent it. As soon as I picked my jaw up off the floor I reassured her that we had both liked it and it had made us feel special rather than weird.
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After all, she dressed us alike, gave us the same haircuts, threw us a joint party in between our real birthdays, the whole nine yards. Whenever she said we were more like twins than she and her sister were, I assumed she thought it was a good thing.
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HEY SKULLTITS!
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I've always felt he was a real kindred spirit.
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Bastard.
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It's nice to know when we've had a positive effect on someone.
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It really is a bizarre social bugaboo. I'm actually an inch taller than my "official" height on every government ID because I never stood up straight to be measured as a teenager because I didn't want to seem unfeminine. It's so stupid.
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Jeff Clark would be one of those miserable bastards who would just glare at you if you wished him a good morning.
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Why is ANYONE near a beach trapeze? Why is beach trapeze?
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I want to be the Phantom of the BBC Hat Warehouse
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I LOVED House of Usher, and I've been reading Poe since primary school. I thought it really captured the spirit.
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That's the thing that really keeps me up at night: the fact that this whole situation was so easily avoidable in the first place.
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What are you spending it on?
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This is just a kitten.
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And the kicker is, you KNOW they will make exceptions for forcing nonconsensual procedures on intersex kids.
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From lying about the no $.
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Oh, I HATE that.
I sneezed in bed the other night, and all four of my limbs flew up in the air like some old geezer in a 1930s cartoon.
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That joke is an Old One.
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Some kind of tabby-lature?
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Santa?
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Grim, grinning ghoul comes out to tell some lies.
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At least all my prescriptions are filled.
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HONK HONK
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I would have sinned incessantly, could I have been one.
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Saw someone in a youtube comment say, "Why do you Democrats have to make everything so political?" Like, OK, where do think he was, a quilting bee?
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That's Odie-ous.