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Getting into a car accident is just like the Wizard of Oz. You’re suddenly thrown into a wild situation with potential casualties and you have to go talk to one of the most powerful people in all the land (insurance guy) to get your stuff back. Usually you’re joined by someone without a brain (a cop), someone without a heart (a cop), and someone without courage (a cop)

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Modern adaptation where the narrator is on a Megabus and just crushing a bag of Takis, wiping the dust on his Pepe shirt

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We are living in 2025 in the age of Big AI the fuck do you mean nobody has made an open source voice changer that doesn't suck yet. We put a man on the fucking man.

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look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

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"Tumblr is my bedroom" this "tumblr is a pinboard" that

Tumblr is an apartment complex with thin walls and every so often you just have to listen to your neighbors say the most deranged shit imaginable

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Today's Seal Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast

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Ashore and fish are different creatures and walking fish are certainly a thing only in fairy tales and art.

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helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

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It all fell apart when they stopped running the midnight trains. Can't get any singers to complete the atmosphere anymore

sickening realisation that vaccines are just a plot by big pharma to keep more of their paying customers alive.

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Somewhere along the line "atheism does not make you immune from being obnoxious or insensitive to people with different beliefs" turned into "atheists are actually worse and pushier than religious people" and boy oh boy is that just not true.

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Shathann is a good mother in that she knows she doesn't have the right skills but tries anyway. She's not fully successful, but she's making the effort the best she can.

It would be different if she was just going on raising a kid the way she taught students without recognizing the problem with that approach, but it's made explicit that she knows she should be doing things differently, struggling with her culture and the life she was raised to lead to try to help her child.

Shokra toh ebra.

I kinda find the insistence that Veilguard portrayed Shathann as a bad mother a bit weird, because my final conclusion after finishing Taash’s entire quest was actually the opposite. Like, yeah, she wasn’t equipped to be a traditional, nurturing mom or anything, and she clearly made mistakes—but the narrative seemed way more focused on showing how deeply she cared. She literally left the Qun to protect Taash, even if she didn’t fully understand how to support them at times. And by the end, she died trying to protect them again.

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Being really into Frankenstein while at the same time being Chinese is so funny because every time Lord Byron gets brought up, the way his name is pronounced always makes me think of the word 白人 (bái rén), which translates into “white guy”. Lord White Guy.

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Do you ever start bullshitting a paper, and then look over it halfway through and think, ’…Wait a minute, I could be onto something here.’

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couldnt resist drawing a short haired Karlach too