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At the pirate museum in Nassau :(

“STEDE BONNET

A former army Major, the eccentric Stede Bonnet decided to leave his "nagging" wife and became a pirate despite having little or no maritime skills. He fitted out a sloop (the only pirate who actually purchased his own ship) and put to sea with a crew of 7o men. He plundered several ships then fell in with Blackbeard who took charge of Bonnet's sloop when he realised that Bonnet was no seaman. When Blackbeard retired from piracy, Bonnet resumed command but his attacks on shipping off South Carolina provoked an outcry. He was captured and hanged on the waterfront at Charleston in 1718.”

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You can tell Paul Simon is a serious artist because when he sings the line “lasers in the jungle” there aren’t little “pew pew pew” sound effects

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Kids YouTube has gotten fuckin weird yall

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I’m sympathetic to AI given that much like a large language model I can do a wide variety of simple tasks, perform at a mediocre level, take a great deal of effort to train, make a lot of people very angry for some reason, and so on

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“A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” is technically a turducken

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[me, stumbling naked from my time machine in 1996] gaslight gatekeep girlboss! [seizing passerby by his chambray shirt, increasingly frantic] gaslight gatekeep girlboss!

God bless whatever AI malfunction resulted in this product listing

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Oh my god what is going on

God bless whatever AI malfunction resulted in this product listing

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God bless whatever AI malfunction resulted in this product listing

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Absolutely refusing to refer to water as anything other than “papa’s sky juice”

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@blogwizard

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Reading a book about psychoacoustics and learned that any tube in your body with an external opening is called a MEATUS

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when a human infant is in the womb, moments from being be born, a vague figure of glowing amber light appears before them. in one hand, it holds a small soapstone carving of a coiled eel. in the other hand it holds a mortar and pestle made of polished red quartz. it bids the infant to choose between these two things, but we don't know the significance of this choice, because all babies throughout history with no exception have always picked the soapstone eel. so that's still one of the big mysteries out there.

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Penguin escapes killer whales by jumping onto a boat.

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Mary Pickford is The Poor Little Rich Girl, 1917