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tbh I do still think of California as a sort of otherworld. I know everybody shits on it, there's fire and traffic and "S*licon V*lley" and so on.

But a part of me will always see a Mediterranean neverland tiled for thousands of miles in every direction with modernist university buildings full of late-20th-century academics working on very exciting stuff. They all look somewhat like Jacob Bronowski.

In the uttermost West, beneath the film grain, the sun sets on the golden gates of a Pacific world, on science fiction writers and beautiful, racially diverse neo-hippies driving down the beach. They talk of quantum shamans and vibrations and it's all nonthreatening, all a bit Douglas Adams, not at all serious, and maybe...

In California, I dream, there are young and old women who believe in dolphins. I used to believe in dolphins.

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The edibility onion

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You think baseball is played by two teams of 26 players, with nine on the field at a time, over 3 hours.

I think it's a game played by 30 people over 6 months.

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Sackbutts

"No, those are an auditory unit of annoyance"

"An assload is way smaller than a buttload. A buttload is half a ton, an assload is just 125 pounds"

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No no, you misunderstood. They were going to watch Midnight Cowboy

i know it's been said before but americans really WILL be like "i'm going to watch a whore movie". like lads what did you do with that second syllable. where did she go.

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nearly all libraries have a ghost, but medical libraries frequently have a ghost and a skeleton

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Wait, 1000 inches? As in a kiloinch? What sort of perversion is this? It's not even a whole number of yards!

A section of NCSX, a fusion reactor so ambitious and advanced for its day that it was cancelled while half-built, in 2008. Each of those massive squiggly copper magnets — of which there were many — had to be held to sub-millimeter precision through many thermal cycles in liquid nitrogen. The vessel is solid inconel. What a beast!

Somebody remind me to write up a more thorough post about the history of stellarators at some point.

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Mormons put the garden of Eden in Missouri. I wonder if religion has put it in the clearly correct location, California.

Also Mormonism is secretly Ullr worship. Just look where they put the temple!

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The White Tree of Gondor is FINALLY DONE!!!! WAHOOOOO!!!!!! Ty to my papa for making this custom wood frame <3

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I'm addicted to a 'single-player tabletop role playing game': it's called Mathematics

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No one ever says schools need to protect kids from learning about cunnilingus when reading Hamlet

seeing tolerant adult midliners on the subject of children reading inappropriate, intense, etc. books and their insistence on little qualifiers like "of course they should be able to read these books - in a save environment an adult has provided for them!" or "of course they can access these books - under the supervision of a trusted grown up so they can bring them their questions when they get confused!" why are these people so fucking stupid. you will never see an angrier, sadder, more hysterical grown-up than the grown-up whose carefully cobbled safe-space has been rejected by the child - for no reason (they say). Even in great circumstances, in the healthiest of parent/child relationships, these people cannot conceive of a reality that the kid might, over safety, recognition, and answers, choose to sit with fear and uncertainty and confusion. they will choose to keep a secret! they will not want to ask you a question! they will prefer to keep it to themselves! they don't want your little cushion on the floor or your accepting presence over their shoulder - they want to be sly! they want to sneak! let em!

lots of people accurately snipe the idea that kids can quickly pick up on insincerity and condescension but they can't wrap their heads around the fact that a gluts of sincerity present the exact same way.

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The person I reblogged this from deserves happiness and love

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as an autistic jew, passover is objectively the best holiday because it’s a dinner party with a script that everyone has to follow

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So I was making applesauce for desert for a seder in college, and flavored it to taste with cinnamon when hot. Unfortunately I forgot cinnamon tastes stronger when cold and develops flavor over time. By the time it was taken out it was inedible.

actual important life lesson. when you're having people over / want to impress with your cooking, do not, do NOT cook a new recipe. make something you have made before and know is good. this is the biggest secret to becoming known as a "good cook"

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By a very cute criminal

A crime was committed

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It is working much better for you than it has for me

So I decided to give grindr a real try and it's... actually really nice? I tried it in the past when I wasn't looking for hookups and. obviously the gay hookup app was not great for that. but now i am Just Horny and it's quite pleasant.

like yes, there are a ton of dick pics in my inbox. but. i am here to hookup. what their dick looks like is relevant information! thank you for being forthright! plus a lot of them are nice dicks and come attached to hot people and even if I'm not going to fuck them it's nice to Gaze.