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This isn’t what I usually write about, but I think it’s important.

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i haven’t seen paranorman since it first came out and i remember very little about it as a film, but i DO remember how groundbreaking it was to have like. an explicitly and openly gay character in a children’s film. yes it wasn’t revealed until the end and was in the context of a joke but the joke wasn’t making fun of gay people!! and it was in a massively popular kids’ movie!! and it was a character we were meant to like!!

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Fidencio Fifield-Perez (Mexican, d.o.b. unknown) - The Garden (2023)

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*goes to egg your house but I find out you're vegan so I ¼ cup of unsweetened applesauce your house instead*

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are you frequently overstimulated?

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i do desperately need everyone on this website especially people who arent american but want to rag on america to familiarize themselves with the basic romanized spelling conventions of native american languages because every day i come on here and i see people making fun of massachusetts or connecticut or mississippi or passamaquoddy or mashpee or nipissing and its like PLEASE. PLEASE THEY ARENT ENGLISH WORDS. PLEAAAAASEEEEEUUUHHH. USE YOUR MINDS TO IDENTIFY WHEN A WORD LOOKS LIKE IT MAY NOT BE ENGLISH. I DONT CARE IF YOU MAKE FUN OF AMERICA JUST PLEASE STOP BEING RACIST WHILE YOU DO IT

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I have a curious question for anyone that works with sign language.

Some of my clients use a sign language (Auslan) interpreter when they bring their pets into the clinic, usually on a video call, but sometimes in person. So we then have this three way conversation where they sign, the interpreter translates verbally for me, I talk, and the translator signs back to the client.

But we are actually having a four way conversation because I am also talking to the pet.

I will be telling the cat that it’s time to come out of the box, that he’s the bravest most handsome little man. I will thank him for letting me touch his very private tummy and tell him he’s a pretty little gentleman.

Does… does the Auslan translator tell the pet owner what I am saying? Do they use a different facial expression to convey that I am baby taking their pet? Or do they just say ‘the vet is cooing over your cat’?

I will write something nice in the history anyway, but does the client get to know that their cat was a sweet little baby?

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Hope for the democratic party?

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new facebook rules are looking GOOD fellas!

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watching gen z and millennials make fun of gen alpha has been torturous. "But they're actually stupid" 1. theyre middle schoolers 2. isn't that what older gens said about us? don't you remember being 11?

it truly is just "impulse reaction to cringe <- has not yet unlearned shame"

the cycle continues let me out of here

guys. guys I think we should kill cringe culture

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In Cambridge we have this square that's a web of intersections and there are 2 weird bike lights that don't make sense that everyone ignores - (and would require slamming on the brakes if you didn't realize they had stashed one there. One is only visible in the winter when the tree loses all its leaves)

And someone stopped at one of them. And I braked in time, and then they started moving but didn't actually go? And I actually bumped into them (I apologized and said I thought they had started moving again but I know it's not an excuse) and then went around them bc lol.

And then some ppl standing on the sidewalk by a crosswalk (making no attempts to cross) shouted LOOK at me and I genuinely started crying. Like a few sobs while actively scootering on the road to work

Doesn't help that it's 22°F out and my face hurts.

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i was going to do a rant about this before seeing this tweet but imma just leave this here

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grocery bags: a hard-hitting investigative report

Every week I come home from grocery shopping and say two things to my wife:

"L and I were super normal and appropriate at the grocery store this week! Everybody noticed and commented on how normal and appropriate we were!" AND

"If I live one hundred thousand years, I will never understand the mind of a supermarket bagger."

The first one is self-explanatory; the second is because the baggers at our grocery store invariably pack our bags in ways that defy all logic.

...my logic, at least. But life is a rich tapestry! Maybe I'm an outlier in my preferences! Thus: a poll.

CAVEATS:

You are buying enough groceries that they won't all fit in a single bag; you must use multiple bags.

You have enough bags of the type you prefer (paper, plastic, reusable), so 'not having enough bags' is not a concern.

Bags will be packed with reasonable consideration for keeping everything functional (e.g. nobody is packing a bag of chips at the bottom of a bag of canned goods.)