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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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I’m not saying Bruce should be capable of figuring out Superman’s secret identity right away every time, but Superman managing to turn “Did you eat?” into one syllable should have been a clue.

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i don’t know who needs to hear this but you do not need to wear makeup

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Trump following Kremlin orders to destroy American and increase suffering.

Elon/DOGE, too.

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Speaking as a survivor of child sex abuse: the world would be a lot better if yall spent less time talking about the ways in which pedophiles should be punished and more time supporting survivors and preventing abuse

I get it, punishment can feel cathartic. I’ve certainly spent time imagining all the ways in which my own abuser might be punished. But ultimately, him dying, or being jailed, or publicly shamed, isn’t actually going to help me nor will it stop more kids from getting hurt in the future.

I don’t want more prisoners. I want free therapy with trauma informed counselors. I want better sex education for young children that teaches them about consent and body autonomy. And I want a society in which I can openly discuss my trauma, or at least as openly as yall discuss the evils of pedophiles

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funny how the popular conception of reptiles is that theyre like, slimy and wet. meanwhile they have smooth dry scales, while we mammals are covered in glands that secrete water and oils and other chemicals. where do we sweaty greasy synapsids get off calling lizards slimy

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

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(@allskywalkerswhine here) for disaster lineage, can you imagine a time travel story where its obi wan and DOOKU who go back in time?? obi wans like "ugh gotta deal with this fucker again" while dooku is hellbent on convincing him to drop qui gon and join him bc hes still in the temple and therefore front seat access to his favourite grandson. cue a teenager and a middle aged man duking it out

my only thought is Qui-Gon walking on his teenage padawan and his former master having an argument and needing some time to process it, because: 1. when did these two meet, 2. why does his padawan have his lightsaber drawn and pointing at Dooku while Dooku only rolls his eyes, and 3. he can believe hearing Dooku arguing about ‘the limits of the Order and the ineptitude of the Council’, it’s not the first time his master proclaims such unorthodox views, but hearing his prim and proper and ‘I would die before disrespecting any Jedi Master’ padawan mildly replying “that’s the senility talking, please stay quiet while your slow decline comes to an end”  is a bit more worrying 

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I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

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We live in actual hell

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Do you think Clark Kent had to be formula fed.

And do you think, for a moment, Martha Kent realized she was in over her head.

An alien baby, a canister of formula from the closest shop that she’s not even sure he can eat.

She’s just holding him in front of her with the bottle in one hand and his neck propped up in the other. He’s screaming his head off and she knows he’s hungry but she can’t bring herself to give it to him. She doesn’t know what he is, what will kill him. She may have met this baby maybe a couple hours ago but she’s already decided to protect him with her life.

Jonathan’s out in the shed trying to find any of the old baby clothes and pacifiers they were gifted while they were trying at least half a decade ago; Martha’s pretty sure she threw them all away the second the doctor broke the news.

She realizes that if they do actually do this it’s not going to be easy, and it’s actually going to be quite terrifying. They will always be waiting for that phone call, that knock on the door. From this point forward strangers and outsiders who come sniffin’ for one reason or another will terrify them.

She wonders if they’ll tell him how they actually came to be his parents, or let him live in blissful ignorance.

She counts down to three in her head. And gives him the bottle.

He drinks it happily; perfectly fine.

She can’t remember when she started holding her breath.

A loose curl of his blacker than black hair falls onto his forehead and covers his bluer than blue eyes. She brushes it away and he grabs her fingers with a grip stronger than she thought it’d be. It makes her bark out a laugh.

Something with those pudgy cheeks and that gummy smile can’t be all that terrifying.

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Did you know that hogs enter a state called "soil hibernation" during the hottest summer months? When temperatures exceed 95°F for more than a week, wild hogs will dig shallow depressions in moist soil and enter a semi-dormant state where their heart rate drops by 70% and they can survive without food for up to 18 days. This adaptation evolved in their Mediterranean ancestors as a way to conserve water during drought conditions.

Scientists have observed that during this soil hibernation, hogs experience unusual rapid eye movement (REM) sleep patterns. Their brain activity suggests they're having complex dreams, primarily focused on rooting behaviors. Researchers at the University of Barcelona's Wildlife Research Center have recorded electrical patterns suggesting that hibernating hogs mentally "practice" foraging techniques during these dreams, which may explain why hogs appear to have improved truffle-finding abilities immediately after emerging from their summer torpor. Some rural communities in southern Spain even time their truffle hunting seasons to coincide with the end of the local hog population's soil hibernation period.

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This is really stupid but I’m writing, in iambic pentameter that is styled after Greek epic poems, a short story about a raccoon.

This isn’t a dream of mine by any means but I’ve been trying not to limit my creativity to the ideas I think are ‘worth it’.

I don’t want to become my parents, with a china cabinet full of fancy dishes that we never use because the occasion isn’t important enough to warrant it.

I don’t want to hoard joy for later. It’s a renewable resource. I’m not gonna run out.

because my life might wind up really short, I regularly ask myself, "am I happy with how much I have lived? am I satisfied with the number of experiences I have had in life? if I died right now, would my life have felt complete?"

and the answer is always no. I feel like I have barely done or experienced anything. my life does not feel complete at all.

I regret not doing more when I was able. but I never knew my health would turn into this. so I ask you to learn from my regrets.

are you happy with how much you have lived? are you satisfied with the number of experiences you have had? does your life feel complete, or like it is on the right track to becoming complete?

is there something you have been putting off, that you have been meaning to get around to? reaching out to someone, spending time with a group, going to an event, signing up for a class, learning a new language, trying a new hobby, starting a new skill, visiting that one place, watching/reading/listening to that one thing, going to a doctor about that one issue, looking for new opportunities, signing up to volunteer, trying something again, starting something new?

or do you have a sense of emptiness that might be worth filling with random new experiences, even if passion does not pull you in any particular direction?

could you act on it for me? I know a lot of these things, a lot of you hope you have plenty more time to put off any of this before the opportunity becomes more difficult or disappears. but the reality is, none of us know when doors are going to shut.

a lot of doors in life have slammed shut in my face. it would really bring me a smile if I could be the final kick in the ass for you to get started on that one thing, for you to find more experiences to make your life feel full. whatever that thing is, and whoever you happen to be.

do not wait. life is right now. none of us can see the future.

live your life in a way that will limit your regrets no matter what happens next.

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i downloaded this god damn episode just so everyone could watch this fukkin clip