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To: professor@schoolname.edu Subject: CLASS3290 Question

are you mad at me

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the cool thing about having friends is you can just write them a letter. and the thing about letters is you might feel like you have to craft a whole heartfelt thing and get intimidated by it, but actually it doesnt even have to say much of anything. you can just write "hello sweaty." because the thing about friends is theyll receive your letter & be like "yippeeeee a letter." & it will make you feel elderly in a cool way

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i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing

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in many cases, you can go to museum and see art there ☝️ often it feels good to do this

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girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

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Everyone at the park is homosexual and/or transgender...yuuuuuup even the dogs

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hard cider was invented when someone decided to make beer that tastes good instead of bad

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Would you rather have a Phineas and Ferb summer or a Gravity Falls summer?

would you rather have endless fun forever or have satan attack you every day

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we need to be doing everything in our power to acquire and consume tiramisu

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Reasons why computer problems seem to mysteriously vanish as soon as a technician shows up:

You were spacing out and skipping a step somewhere without realising it, and you can’t reproduce it when you try to demonstrate it because now you’re paying attention to what you’re doing

It’s an intermittent electrical connection fault that’s being aggravated by movement/vibrations in your desk; you need to check your cables

The act of explaining the problem to someone caused you to figure out what you were doing wrong

The real cause of the problem was somewhere upstream of your terminal device – for example, at the network service provider – and it got fixed at the source while you were waiting

Your computer is in a location with poor airflow and is overheating; waiting for the technician to arrive gave it a chance to cool off

Despite all appearances to the contrary, modern computers actually have very good fault recovery, and most minor problems will sort themselves out on their own if you give it a minute

Magic

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huge shout out to this little kid for writing my favorite poem

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they got trans bitches on here named shit like Die

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I plan on watching a movie at some point in the future

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I am a friend to all cats. Yes even the mean ones. They have their reasons.

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they should let you put footnotes on your blocklist so you remember what the final straw was

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cell phone doesn't like water because it is a combination of the other three elements. it is a rock (earth) that we fill with lightning (fire) that can control radio waves (air). if it contained water too, it would be too perfect; it would be like a god. to prevent this, the universe kills the would be uniter-of-the-elements. it's basic science.

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress