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Every time I give in to despair I read a Pratchett book. Well, when one is available near me.

Because those books are full of anger at the world and the state it's in. Real, actual, barely-concealed beneath clever puns anger. It's a rage, not the pretty "i'm mad" calligraphied in the page in white ink. It's something like "I'm angry and you should be, too" scribbled in red ink over the pages.

But these books are so kind. So hopeful. And it's not mindless kindness, either. It's not "I'm kind until it's not easy or convenient to be anymore". It's actual kindness from people who are angry but turn that into fierce, deliberate, stubborn kindness. And of course you can despair but you can also turn it into anger and then the kind of fierce kindness that you can change the world with.

These books were so important for me growing up, still are. I literally wouldn't be the same person without them. And I reread Night Watch today, as one does, and the terrible fairness of Sam Vimes struck me. The world is a terrible, unfair place, he said, and I'm not participating in that. I'm not adding misery to it. I'm gonna be fair and I'm gonna be good if it kills me. (the same goes, of course, with Granny. It's about choosing to be good. It's about being good if it kills you. It's about desperately hoping and never letting go)

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably-Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled Egg. And by gods if we aren't going to fight to get it.

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there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh

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Eileen was a hottie. I have very un-plutonic lesbian feelings for her

no piece of supernatural commentary will ever be as impactful as ‘what happened to all the pussy on supernatural’

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This was after he clarified if i meant actual dinosaurs, not things people think are dinosaurs and do fictional hybrids from Jurrasic World count.

Can't believe we're still waiting for a diagnosis.

If I ask you what your favourite dinosaur is and you say

Nothing: I think your boring

Trex, triceratops, velociraptor, stegosaurus: I think your Allistic

If you say anything else congratulations your autistic

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Kid said megalosaurus.

If I ask you what your favourite dinosaur is and you say

Nothing: I think your boring

Trex, triceratops, velociraptor, stegosaurus: I think your Allistic

If you say anything else congratulations your autistic

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can all fiction forever please stop pretending like glasses take away from someone's attractiveness level. it's just false

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OLD WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE NAKED

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wisdom from my wise friend

me: my life is too good right now. My career's lots of fun, I'm maybe starting a new romance with my Crush. It's all too good, I'm anxious. I feel like any minute Al Pacino from Devil's Advocate is going to appear in a puff of smoke and say I'm allowed to keep this stuff but first I have to fuck my sister and create the Antichrist or something

my wisest friend: yeah we have scarcity mindset. We think affection and success is going to be withdrawn any second because we've been burned so many times before.

me: by childhood trauma?

wise friend: huh? oh yeah a bit, but also we live in Britain.

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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Tumblr: We'll flag everyone as nsfw

Also Tumblr: Have six trillion AI porn ads

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25 years ago an unknown Chinese protester stood in front of a tank in defiance of the government. No one knows the identity of the man but he was given the nick name “Tank Man”. This is one of the most iconic photographs of the century.

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Sunday garden update

Planted out 10 of the cucumbers (20 to go)

Got the cucamelons out

Tumbling Tom tomatoes are in the hanging baskets with marigolds and basil.

Toamatoes from the seed swap are in bigger pots and outside

Red and Paprika peppers have been planted out

Mange Tout is starting to flower

Purple sprouting broccoli is planted on

The radishes bolted, will try again

Spring onions are sprouting

Flower bed is going nuts

The lavender is blooming and the bees love it

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Finding a colorblind friendly redesign of the rainbow flag has me happy to see a pride flag for once

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crafting a plane launcher with chopsticks by 小小折纸手工

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Gotta admit, any one of these would work on me.

Love me some burritos.

Source: could be worse comics