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“Award,” Ray Durem (black poet, activist, and member of the Communist Party), in Dudley Randall’s “The Black Poets”
A Gold Watch to the FBI Man who has followed me for 25 years.
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#true on all counts#i mean technically i 'relaxed' when i was under sedation#but#like#i don't really feel like that counts
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Asking because I overheard a physical therapist say that she uses this question to see if she wants a second date with a guy, and if he says more than like 4 eggs at once it's a red flag.
#i think i could do three hard-boiled eggs#if i were really hungry and not in a rush#anything more feels like tempting the wrath of the gods
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do you think they ever put Augustine in drag
i don't think they put him in drag tbh i think he did it himself. like pre-res i think a— maybe had some of what he called latent homosexuality but scoffed at the idea of ever doing drag and then like half a myriad post-res when everyone was likely getting a bit freaky with it he unintentionally reinvented the concept of a drag queen and developed a little persona & then for like seven decades in a row john would have him dress up as augusta cuntsway & sing happy birthday mr president like that scene in breaking bad. then he stopped doing it for the next few centuries after john got too touchy one time and it got weird. and like i think maybe 600ish years pre gtn he and mercy definitely fucked while he was in drag to spice things up, and she was KIND Of INTO IT but he was still feeling a bit awkward about it & so they did it once and never brought it up again. now see the vital part of this is that i absolutely think he had to have used the clothes of the departed lyctors & cavaliers for this, because they're all ostensibly still in their wardrobes as per what we see in htn with ianthe and harrow's rooms, which to me means that at some point i think augustine-as-augusta-cuntsway ABSOLUTELY wore cristabel's clothes. you know what i mean?
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Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.
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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"
"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.
"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.
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Why does like every language do things with their R sounds that nobody else understands
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@lingerie_addict has a really cool thread on ancient fashion over on twitter.
Those source links are here
cambridge.org
Youtube
ucl.ac.uk
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so I have a really unusual first name /last name combo and I don't think anyone else has it, so I'm curious what it's like for other people
Please reblog to reach more people!
PSA: do NOT share your full legal name on this post, please stay safe
#absolutely not#there are 5 people in the WORLD with my last name as far as i know#and they're all related to me
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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot
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Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....
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Kathleen Stenning “Travel Underground” (1925)
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Congratulations to Brooke from Let's Not Date for winning Father's Day.
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People are trying to bring back 1880s-era anti-ASL sentiment. Worst timeline.
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I've been on tumblr too long.
... Freudian interpretation dictates the monstrous represents a repressed wish of a sexual nature. The author accepts that this interpretation has the possibility to explain some of the monsters in horror, but that this notion would be extremely difficult with other monsters. For example, Carroll claims that it would be hard to theorize how “Godzilla’s death-dealing halitosis could gratify a sexual wish” (Carroll, 1990, p. 171).
....I know multiple people who could theorize an answer to this question, and most of them are mutuals with @were--ralph.
(source, for the morbidly curious; cw: Freudian analysis)
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