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Good Bones

by Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

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2023

BREAK FREE ON A SATURDAY MORNING

PUT THE PEDAL TO THE FLOOR

HEAD NORTH ON MILLS AVENUE

LISTEN TO THE ENGINE ROAR

YOUR BROKEN HOUSE IS BEHIND YOU AND GOOD THINGS ARE AHEAD

A GIRL NAMED CATHY WILL WANT A LITTLE OF YOUR TIME

LISTEN TO THE ENGINE WINE

PLAY VIDEO GAMES IN A DRUNKEN HAZE

HURT YOUR KNUCKLES PUNCHING THE MACHINES

TASTE SCOTCH RICH ON YOUR TONGUE

HANG OUT WITH CATHY, TAKE SWIGS FROM A BOTTLE ALL BITTER AND CLEAN

LOCK EYES

HOLD HANDS

DRIVE HOME IN THE CALIFORNIA DUSK

FEEL THE ALCOHOL INSIDE OF YOU HUM

PICTURE THE LOOK ON YOUR STEPFATHER'S FACE

READY FOR THE BAD THINGS TO COME

DOWNSHIFT AS YOU PULL INTO THE DRIVEWAY

IMAGINE THE SCENE

THERE WILL BE FEASTING AND DANCING IN JERUSALEM

YOU WILL MAKE IT THROUGH THIS YEAR IF IT KILLS YOU

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ytp sentence

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“sharing is not simply about morality, but also about pleasure. Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds. There is a certain communism of the senses at the root of most things we consider fun.”

— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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YOU hates terfs

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[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:

My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.

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this is so cool

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[agovernmentman]

Flag of the Talking Heads (Based on the album Speaking in Tongues)

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Home…..is where I want to be

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do you mean to tell me that Benry became a tumblr sexyman while I was away

i feel like a trait of “tumblr sexyman” that’s getting lost as of late is. the incomprehensibility of it all. i will see characters who are just like, conventionally attractive anime men be referred to as sexymen and its like. no. no. like its not just “any dude some tumblr people lose their shit for”, a fundamental part of the experience of like, learning about tumblr sexyman is that your initial reaction to learning a character is a sexyman is to go “how the fuck could ANYONE ever find this sexy”. a shortstack funny comedy skeleton. a character from a dr seuss book whose only viewable limbs are their arms. the incredibly low poly model of a half life 1 security guard. your first reaction upon learning what the sexyman is should be confusion and bafflement. it’s core to the whole concept.

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KILL DIE THE VIOLENCE GUY

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my 200 wagon will not fucking run no matter what I do

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The Common Grackle- a master of magnetoreception! 🐦🧲🗺️

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It Begins

And the ultimate bloging begins

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Kimchi day (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt9jjQwAmww/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vbmqxki5v8r7

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Some new succulent pals for the new office (at Sherbrooke, Edmonton) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtuKgQXAcdG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ku7d9mvl094j

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I pulled out my heretofore unused black paper roll for this photo https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCcniDgWtG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=65znkwg1ti7

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I built me some speakers from scratch and they sound real good, not that you can tell from my phone mic (at Sherbrooke, Edmonton) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs_83HigUFI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pptqr5cv1i16