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id: a screenshot of a discord conversation, reading: Gengar: Bottle flips you Valentine: Roll for athletics Gengar: 15 Valentine: You flip me successfully! +1 to both our moods. Woah! end id.

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id: a photo of a billboard. there is a decal of a tiger's head in front of a symbol of a road on the left. on the right is text reading: Motorcycle Accident? Aw, that sucks! Do you like the tiger drawing? Call and let us know! 1-800-LAW-TIGERS end id.

This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

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id: a screenshot of a tweet by Wylfċen @\wylfcen. it reads: A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continously—so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks. attached is an image. it reads: -le 1. A frequentative suffix of verbs, indicating repitition or continuousness: crack -> crackle daze -> dazzle draw (“to drag”) -> drawl game -> gamble grope -> grapple hand -> handle nest -> nestle nose -> nuzzle prate (“to talk”) -> prattle scribe (“to write”) -> scribble sniff -> sniffle wrest (“to twist”) -> wrestle end id.

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id: a screenshot of a tweet by max turnbull 🌺 @\beakfriends. it reads “alt” attached is an image of the words “game dev” with brackets labelling the different sections. the first, covering roughly two-thirds of the letter “g”, is captioned “haha whoa this is pretty fun”. the second, stretching from the end of the first bracket to past the end of the phrase and off the side of the image, is captioned with a tweet from ben esposito @\torahhorse reading: nobody told me when you make a video game you have to make the whole thing end id.

friend sent me this and ive been steaming over it all day fr

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image 1 transcript: #i think youd love the poem Kupu rere kē #this post reminded me of that image 2 transcript: Kupu rere kē Posted by Alice Te Punga Somerville My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: Every potential reader is assured that although obviously you're expected to understand the rest of the text, it's fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged - but after a while I could see she had a point: When the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in Aotearoa and which do not.

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

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id: a tweet from New York Post @\nypost reading: Daily showers are purely 'performative' and have no real health benefit, experts insist attached are two stock photos of people showering. end id.