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you ever see a famous 20-something woman and think that she’s very pretty but also you know in your heart she has the potential to age into the most etherial gilf known to lesbianism. but you also know that because of her social standing and the current cultural landscape she’s going to get loads of plastic surgery and botox and you will be robbed of ever getting to witness her maximum divine gilfyness potential. it’s just so sad. why must I be doomed to watch these women poorly taxidermy their youth

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Went to the bog yesterday to visit the Pitcher Plants in bloom and the Round-leaved Sundew, and also saw two kinds of wild orchid (I believe the one on the bottom left is Rose Pogonia, and the right is Tuberous Grasspink). Damselflies and other insects were loving the heat, and the Song Sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds singing and flying above definitely didn't mind the bug buffet. Such a cool place!!

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jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

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for people who haven't been exposed to trader joes lentils for my wife guy, you're welcome

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A big mental shift we need to make in society is to stop thinking of police as peacekeepers, protectors, and problem-solvers, and start thinking of them as guns. They are the guns of the government.

Can there be valid reasons to pull a gun on someone? Yes. I wish we lived in a world that was so safe that no one ever needed guns again, but we don't.

But when we look at the things we task police to do, we need to stop and ask ourselves: Is this really the right time to be pulling out a gun? Is this a situation where I would be comfortable if this person died?

Should we have traffic regulations? Speeding laws? Yes. Absolutely. Cars are extremely deadly machines and should be heavily regulated.

If someone is going 10 MPH over the speed limit, should we pull a gun on them? Does that seem like an appropriate reaction?

If a teenager is knocking on doors looking for help because they're lost, should we pull a gun on them?

If a person is doing narcotics in their home, should we pull a gun on them?

If a mentally ill person is having a breakdown in public, should we pull a gun on them?

Regardless of whether the cop's gun is in his holster or not, the presence of a cop is always a gun pointed at another human being. They know and we know that they can kill without consequence, and so their very presence is an implied threat of lethal force.

The second rule of gun safety is to never point the muzzle at anything you do not wish to destroy. Don't point it at an object you wouldn't be comfortable seeing destroyed. Don't point it at a person you wouldn't be comfortable killing. Always treat the direction the gun is pointing as a threat of violence against that person or thing.

We need to start thinking of cops the same way. Never point a cop at anything you do not wish to destroy. If you would not be comfortable ending a life in this circumstance, don't bring a cop into it.

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game reviewers are weird

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my love for you is like the moon; it controls the tides somehow through a mechanism i don’t entirely understand

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ahh yes. My favourite character.

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was thinking about bear/bare

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My problem with heterosexual romance novels (which I am reading under duress due to my coworker book club but find somewhat entertaining cuz they're not something I normally wld read) is that whenever the love interest is an asshole the author also makes him all dommy dom. when what I really want is for him to be thoroughly put in his place. All of these shithead Christian grey knockoff guys in these books would be excellent brat material but nobody cares what I want. Nobody cares what I want

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checking in to let everyone know I had a dream last night that I was in a new movie with the muppets and tim curry. he was a charming black widower trying to marry miss piggy for her money and celebrity status, and she was a beloved hollywood icon. kermit was her broke high school sweetheart whose best friend (fozzy) got him a job on set after he was kicked out of his apartment for being late on rent. I played piggy's best friend who was always getting into get rich quick schemes, who tim curry's character mistook for a fellow scammer after I naively got all of the muppets into a predatory mlm and nearly derailed the movie because they were all doing milo minderbinder schemes on set trying to sell each other their assorted warehouse trash. kermit was the only one immune to the hype because he had no money.

it culminated in tim curry calling off the wedding and fleeing with everyone's mlm investments, because he knew kermit and fozzy and me had rumbled his larger scheme, and the three of us racing to catch up to him before miss piggy did because the truth would devastate her. naturally she arrived just in time to hear his nefarious monologue about how he never respected her and despite all the wealth and fame she was just 'some common pig'. and naturally she tore off her earrings and beat the shit out of him. and then naturally she finally saw kermit had been right in front of her all along, and he told her he didn't care if she had money or fame because even back in school he always liked that common pig. basically I got a look into a parallel universe and it was great.

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it's lazy in a different way but sometimes you aren't killing off that character's parents for an easy tragic backstory. sometimes you kill off the parents just so you don't have to write more characters.

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next dynamic were sexualizing is that of a bull and a toreador

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Today I was trying to chat up this girl standing with her friend at a lesbian bar and said “oh are you two together?” meaning were you friends before being next to each other at this bar and one turns to the other and goes with all the venom of a black mamba snake “I don’t know Cara, are we?” and I was like you know what? not my table