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people love to find progressive ways to say we should all be arranged into separate groups and try our hardest to not relate to one another

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs

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chronic pain simulator

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really thought you all needed to see this bunny shape chart i found on an official rabbit breed website

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I know this is the Anti Small Talk Website but small talk is one of the most effective social glues out there for getting to know people and forming friendships with them.

When I was just starting out at a job right after college I had a coworker who I thought was the nicest person alive and after a few weeks I realized this was just because she consistently asked other people things like, "How ya doing? Whatcha having for lunch? Got any weekend plans? Seen any good movies lately?" instead of politely ignoring everyone around her.

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me after sitting in the sun for ten minutes: love is real

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most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.

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concept: i stay snuggled in bed all morning and don’t feel guilty about it. it’s raining. everyone is safe. 

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A couple new Richard Siken poems came out today & an interview!

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jenny holzer

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thanks to the hard work of the volunteer transcribers, we've finished transcribing 6,000 (!) blinkies archived from old geocities websites!

we've used the transcripts to build Geoblinkies, a blinkie search engine that searches the full text & image descriptions of all 6,000 blinkies!! you can also visit the Geocities page that each blinkie was found on, and explore the old web from there :D

thank you so much to the transcribers and to GifCities & the Internet Archive (the source of all of these blinkies) for making projects like this possible!!!

Transcribers:

max | maple | soleil | bunny | teeth | cactyys | anakin | awnowimsad | robin | starrs | amy | lexi ~ astrogirl | dante | iris | stede | ravioli | p | hermon | peril | lyra | rubycubix-alt | cyrus | murr | jordy | fish | zeph

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sorry I can't respond to your text bc I need to die a thousand deaths for some reason

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If you smoke, don't leave your butts on the ground. Dispose of them properly. The same applies if you use nicotine pouches, don't spit them out on the ground and leave them there, dispose of them properly.

While littering in general is usually a bad idea because the littered trash can be hazardous to wildlife or even people (and let's face it, just makes a place look uglier) littering nicotine products is especially harmful to wildlife and humans alike. In urban areas tap water often has nicotine in it due to all the littered nicotine products such as cigarette butts and nictotine pouches, due to rain runoff carrying nicotine into water sources used by both humans and wildlife. You're free to take up whatever habits you like so long as they do not infringe on others, but littering your nicotine products taints water supplies which unfairly forces nicotine on others who don't get a say in the matter.

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It seems that your cheap phones are not a god given right but actually a luxury sustained by imperialist inequality after all. Mirá vos.

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one of the more bleak things to acknowledge is that if you pirate literally all of your music and then set aside a spotify subscription's worth of money each month to spend on a single pay-what-you-want album, it would almost immediately amount to you supporting those musicians more than streaming does