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but like. how is your name papaya if you're mentally unaware of papaya

bear with me here. did not get enough sleep last night

without a mirror how does one perceive themselves? eyes were created for viewing everything outside of your own soul.

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I first saw this years ago and thought it was amazing.

Now, I have a cat of my own. Within a few days of having him, he figured out on his own that I cannot hear him.

So now he taps me to get my attention. He's got a whole system.

One tap: I want your attention. (Will follow with other signals)

Two taps: That food you have? I want some.

One long drag: Follow me (non-urgent)

Two long drags: Follow me (urgent)

One short drag: That thing you're doing? Stop it.

Two+ short drags: I need to toilet. (Number increases with urgency)

Stands like a meerkat: Pick me up.

He's great. He reminds me when it's time to feed him, and he always wants me to eat with him. He also wants to go to bed at what he feels is a decent hour.

He has me so well trained.

He also listens to me too! He'll sit, come, jump onto my shoulder, wait to eat, bring me his toy, wear a harness, wear a raincoat, walk on a leash, ride in a carseat, and willingly take a medicine capsule. He knows 'leave it', 'finished', 'climb up', and 'show me'.

He alerts me to sounds, like alarms going off, someone knocking on the door, and sudden unfamiliar noises. One time there was loud thunder, enough my deaf ass could hear it, and he went up to the window and put his paws on it, then looked back at me. I let him know it was safe and he's never reacted to thunder since.

He's nine months old right now, and he's the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Even when he is a little shit and bites me when I trim his nails.

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I hate when I say things like "oh I want an ipod classic but with bluetooth so I can use wireless headphones" and some peanut comes in and replies with "so a smartphone with spotify?" No. I want a 160GB+ rectangular monstrosity where I can download every version of every song I want to it and it does nothing except play music and I don't need a data connection and don't have to pay a subscription to not have ads and don't have popups suggesting terrible AI playlists all over the menus.

Gimme the clicky wheel and song titles like "My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade- Blood (Bonus Track)- secret track- album rip- high quality"

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I think the historical treatment of left handed people is objectively the funniest form of bigotry mankind has ever displayed

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As much as I hate enshittification, I don’t think some people people have thought things through enough to realize that a demand for the same quality furniture at the same price their parents had is a demand for continuing to clear-cut old growth forest indefinitely

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So my sister is on vacation and has sent me a photo of the store she was buying clothes in.

I'm going to lose it.

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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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Word of the Day

Binnenpretje (het)

Translation: the act of laughing in your head, because of something funny you’re thinking of. (Literally little inside fun)

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So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

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wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

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Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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"I asked ChatGPT--"

Yeah well, I asked the wasps nest in my attic. It sang its answer so beautifully to me, but I am so very afraid of it. Perhaps it will soothe my itching soul...

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Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

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