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realized while emptying the dishwasher that Yoda is precisely wrong. not malevolently so. but there is no do and there is no do not. there is only try. this is clear to a man in his mid-fifties and so should be clear to a 900-year-old Jedi knight

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they were whimpering and then screaming while thrashing around in bed, and when i asked them what they were dreaming, i was prepared to hear some intense trauma shit or whatever

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

I'm on penicillin for a sinus infection and having some unbelievably wacky dreams/nightmares (not a listed side effect but one anecdotally reported, and they're so different to my ordinary dreams that I'm fairly certain of the causality) and let me tell you having Mould Dreams is an alarming thought

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hard to believe that our public institutions are suddenly behaving in a manner that many many people have been warning is the logical endpoint of a capitalist government for a hundred years

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apparently these guys are 'an invasive species' and 'eating Florida’s native plants and destabilizing seawalls' but here's my hot take: they're so beautiful they should be allowed to do whatever they like. the mangione principle if you will.

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I bet the next pope will be an Opus DEI hire.

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

an update to a classic

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Really wish supposed leftists would stop referencing Idiocracy, an uncomplicatedly eugenicist film. I understand the urge - when I saw it decades ago I laughed a lot, it's a funny film. That really doesn't change the fact that its politics are beyond dogshit and people need to leave it behind.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

FACT CHECK: Walton is actually a real name, not a typo! Sorry for fucking up the joke because I assumed that his name was actually Walter.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"Please, Mrs Goggins is my mother. Call me Walter."

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Market tip: sales of this condiment are skyrocketing in the US right now.

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I do not need more seasons of love on the spectrum. I need an all-autistic season of the traitors. I want to see what would happen when everyone is doing inappropriate affect at each other while also being very invested in the concept of justice.

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I don't like being the guy who ruins everyone's fun over this, but Wilkie Collins had excruciating chronic pain and relied on laudanum to function. He hated his dependence on it but had no other options, although his condition would now be considered treatable. He wasn't having fun getting fucked up

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our cats are tolerating being closer to one another at a rate of approximately one inch per month

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A project I flaked out of about 15 years ago that I still think about now was writing an essay about the relevance of BDSM concepts around power exchange to anarchist politics. TBH I think I flaked bc I was woefully underqualified to be articulate on the topic BUT I think we need this analysis.

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Happy Valentines Day, love bugs! If you're looking for a little romance, why not join us for this double date as Chris, Anna, Briar, and Flann talk about the most repugnant romantic comedy of the century, Shallow Hal?

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

submitted 18 days ago • 537 comments

I'm back at it again (editing my husband's manuscripts to remove the carriage returns at the end of every single line) and thinking about the fact that I know with absolute certainty that Louis de Pointe du Lac's word documents are all formatted in the same way

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One weird trick to make it so that listening to your voice recorded is no longer excruciating! (testosterone)

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

One of the things I never get over is how the absence of free healthcare in the US anchors all healthcare prices upward, so even though things like eye tests and dental work often aren't covered by the NHS here in the UK they're still a lot cheaper regardless.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

YOU KNOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

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I feel like the fact that I'm still on American time almost two weeks after leaving the US following an incredibly brief trip is sort of symbolic of the amount of my headspace American politics is currently occupying.

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Insomnia last night was so bad that I downloaded and tried to listen to various 'Gentle Stories To Get You To Sleep' podcasts but I kept worrying about the working conditions and colonial dynamics involved w/ people guiding you around beautiful natural cave systems and so I stayed awake.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

ever since I learned that the London borough where I live has some of the most long-lived people in the UK I've been waiting for someone to come up with the 'Tower Hamlets Diet' that involves eating a balanced plate of jellied eels, beigels and gulab jamun.

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