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“Surrender Donald” – Gay activists rally outside Trump Tower in New York, protesting the city’s tax breaks for luxury real estate developers while thousands of people with AIDS sleep in the streets. Oct. 31, 1989

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I would like to share the story of a very understandable but unfortunate mistake i made at work recently

So I'm weeding our ancient and terrible collection of children's books for the first time in possibly ever, and I'm making a decision about a book about migrant workers by Sandra Weiner, called Small Hands, Big Hands. And I'm not 100% sure and I go to just see if there's anything out there about this book's being notable in any way so I do an open web search for

"small hands big hands weiner"

And then I look at my results for a moment

and then at last I somberly add to the end of my search, "BOOK"

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They have no natural predators. They ARE the natural predators. 🗡️🐇

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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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so when i was little, my dad would put on records any time we had to deep-clean the house. it's how i was introduced to the song roxanne.

i was like, maybe 5. "why is she putting on a red light?" i thought perhaps it was about the game "red light green light", which i enjoyed quite a bit because i was quick and small, and also i was prone to violence. maybe sting and the police wanted to run very fast and roxanne kept calling "red light" like the one kid in my kindergarten class who played the game wrong.

this is not what the song is about. add to this a fact that will become a problem later in my life (lesbian, nonbinary, etc) - my family is deeply catholic. my father (deacon, conservative, staring at a 5 year old) i guess sort of panicked because he said: "you know bug lights? and how they're blue?"

i was aware of this. some lights kill bugs but all lights were married to bugs, in my estimation of things. some marriages just end in killing, which i had learned from sneakily watching murder, she wrote.

he tried to explain that the red light is a bug-light, but just a different type. as an adult, i think he was mostly joking.

as a child, i immediately accepted this. this explained the pain in the man's voice. critically, reader, the understanding i had? they had written a song about roxanne, who is a bug. i would sing along and feel great empathy for this terribly suicidal roxanne bug, RIP.

anyway the answer to your question (how long) is: like a lot longer than you'd think. i watched moulin rougue for the first time and thought to myself: now hang on a second.

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we love to say "as one does" after describing a behavior of ours that no one else on earth also does frequently. as one does

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Fear me

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the fat of the land voted “funniest album art” 24th year in a row

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In the D&D campaign I'm running with my wife's siblings, one of them learned about how trolls regenerate within minutes of any damage not caused by fire or acid, and then asked why people don't just like. Cage them and eat them, forever. Why there aren't troll meat dungeons in the king's castle as a safeguard against sieges or famines.

And you know, I thought it was a fair question, so I said that if you eat enough troll meat, you start getting troll-y. And then I went further and just treated it like troll flesh is a general contaminant - if you eat enough troll, you'll turn into a troll, but if you bury enough dead troll flesh in a forest, the trees will start growing in strange ways, and will scream and heal and bleed when you hit them with axes.

I liked this idea. So as we played further, I just played around with the idea of Troll Origins, and I came up with something sort of like the Odyssey, but instead stealing Helios's cattle, it was Hathor's, and the horrible, awful, unending immortality was her curse of the army that pillaged her lands. A god of healing does not condemn you to die, she condemns you to live.

And then I got this fun idea for maybe the king that led the army is still kind of alive in the troll taint. Like a sort of literal fisher king. The kingdom is sick because he is, literally, the kingdom. The trees that bleed, bleed his blood and their screams are his screams. He is both the faintly green bear running down the mountain and the faintly green deer and there is no way past this without suffering. He is the entire ecosystem, and he eats nothing but himself and he dreams nothing but death and yet still, on and on and on and on, he lives.

Anyway they're traveling next session so I'm throwing this shit at them. I already have some gross ideas for like. Describing everything like it's a body (flowers red as blood, white as bone, pink as meat, grass fine as hair) then finally throwing horrible living things at them. Trees that grow eyeballs that turn and stare at them, or flowers with teeth instead of petals and trolls that speak in long dead tongues about how they wish they'd never tried to rob a god.

Anyway I'm passing this on because this is my new troll lore and I want it to become canonized in the way that all D&D lore becomes canonized: By having eople read it and go "oh, neat" then start doing that too.

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The UK really lucked out that His and Her start with the same letter, so their boats can stay HMS no matter if they have a king or queen.

But they'll be screwed if they get a enby monarch. Their Majesty's Ship? TMS? That's a whole navy that'd be wrong and in need of changing.

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blorr’boQ from my Klingon operas

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this probably happened on their second day there or something

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This has done more positive impact for the autistic community than any autism organization has.

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looking for happiness at the bottom of the ocean

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Anyone else fuck with individual songs? Who is the artist? I dunno. What album is it from? Shut up. What year was it released? *tim allen grunt* What's the title of the track? Fuck you. But it goes like this: *poorly memorized chorus*

I love that song. Do not ask me anything about it.

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i want to make posts about transmisogyny less because for some reason it usually gets me called slurs by dipshits trying to act overly familiar.