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i know people consider the information contained in visual images frivolous, but i'm serious when i say a progressive candidate using bright orange and bright blue instead of a subdued red, white, and blue is a good thing to see. it looks young, dynamic, and different from the other candidates. it's a good choice to suit an image of him as someone representing opposition to the crusty ass candidates already dead behind the desk who filled the ballot

can we talk about zohran's typography real quick

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can we talk about zohran's typography real quick

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youve heard of 'california sober'.. get ready for 'portland monogamous'

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making heavy use of a technique i like to call "bothering my cat" which consists largely of bothering my cat

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getting desensitized to contortion and hair hanging, which i used to find gross and freaky, is really funny though. everyone i know who doesn't do circus finds those acts kind of hard to watch, and i'm thinking "that's their job, whatever" about someone sitting on their own head

the things circus artists will casually go "i haven't done this in a while, i forgot how hard it is" about blow my mind. just saw a dude say this about rolling a frying pan into a taco shape with his bare hands. like yeah man the rest of us could have told you how hard that is actually.

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the things circus artists will casually go "i haven't done this in a while, i forgot how hard it is" about blow my mind. just saw a dude say this about rolling a frying pan into a taco shape with his bare hands. like yeah man the rest of us could have told you how hard that is actually.

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reaching the age where i can pretty reliably identify discourse posts made by people in their mid-teens who do not have enough life experience to opine is such a relief

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wearing a mask kind of sucks and i do it anyway. i get treated noticeably worse in many customer service interactions if i have the mask on—i get worse deals at thrift stores where you can barter, people don't make small talk, etc—and i do not like that. i like people and want them to treat me with at least the same performance of warmth they give other people whose faces they can see. however, when i look up stuff about the treatments for long covid that are still miserably trying to be developed, when i think about potentially immigrating to another country in the future and how many countries make health a requirement to do that, when i think about the very physical art form (circus) i enjoy doing and how the sort of disability long covid causes would prevent me from staying active enough to make me not feel like i was losing my absolute marbles, i do think it's still worth it. it makes me sad that masking is not often seen as a part of good leftist praxis anymore (especially in the northeast, i've noticed californians are still slightly more on board with me) and i don't feel much solidarity with other people when i make this decision, but i have to remember that the discomfort of people's reactions to me having my face obscured is really not the end of the world even if it is uncomfortable and awkward in the moment

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i don't end up doing way too much stuff because i'm a people pleaser who can't say no to other people. i end up doing too much because i'm full of enthusiasm for everything, i have the strong belief that if i put my mind to it and consistently commit effort to learning i can do basically whatever i want, and i have a very poor grasp on my own limits. saying no to other people is easy. how do i say no to my own whimsical nature

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.

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we can't even get a basic "all men structurally benefit from a misogynist society" to pass on this website without a bunch of queer men shooting themselves into a panic cause they get too uncomfortable about the idea of being culpable to self reflect. "feminist" website

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people really need to separate safety and comfort. just because i don’t like you and you know that doesn’t mean i am going to do anything to hurt you

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"biketard" is a completely innocent portmanteau of "bike shorts" and "leotard" but it really does sound like something right wingers would call people who like cycling and transit-oriented development

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I (a baptised catholic) lost my virginity to a satanist the night before Pope Francis died. I fear this may be my fault.

noooooo that's so funny! It was definitely you

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the problem with doing lyra and wanting to get into hula hooping is that my instagram saved folder is just sorted into "hoop tricks to learn" "hoop tricks (other type of hoop) to learn" and now someone wants me to help them work on a MINI LYRA which means "hoop tricks (secret third kind) for [friend]" is born

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awesome my sister brought home covid from college