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Let’s be real. His expense reports are widely known to be like this.

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cure of ra

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From a state hearing in Texas

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fights I would pay to see: sigmund “everyone is attracted to someone” freud vs John “sexual desire is evil and cereal can and will fix it” Kellogg

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This screenshot from a gardening Facebook group has been on my phone for several years and I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to delete it. Apparently it comes from a British gardening book from the 80s. I know we all joke that the English are afraid of flavor, but I assure you, you are not prepared for this.

GARLIC

Until quite recently, scientists smiled at all the wonderful medicinal powers claimed for garlic, but recent research has shown that there is some truth in a few of the old wives' tales. Garlic, of course, has an important role in Continental but not in British cookery — it really isn't worth growing unless you are a fan.

Any well-drained spot will do. Buy a head of garlic from the greengrocer or supermarket and split it up into individual cloves. Plant them 2 in. deep and 6 in. apart in March. Apart from watering in dry weather there is nothing else to do until the foliage turns yellow in July or August. Lift the bulbs and allow to dry under cover, then store in a cool, frost-free place.

If you are a beginner with garlic, you must use it very sparingly or you will be put off for ever. Rub a wooden salad bowl with a clove before adding the ingredients. Rub the skin of poultry before roasting and then you can try dropping a whole unskinned clove into a casserole or stew, removing it before serving. If by then you have lost a little of your garlic fear, you can try using crushed (not chopped) garlic in meat etc. as the Continentals do.

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No wait, random worldbuilding idea:

A people who have an age-old tradition, that when warriors left home to go to war, their family that remains home prepare funeral goods for them while they wait, sewing them the clothes and preparing the tools and all that they will be buried with - to emotionally prepare them to the hard possibility that the one who left will not return home alive. If the warrior returns, their burial goods are all burned in a bonfire that is lit for the celebration of their return.

And to this modern day, mothers of the culture will tell their children "fine, but let me take your measures for burial clothes before you go" as a way of telling them that something they're about to do is lethally stupid. Sharing stories about just how dramatic their mothers are, someone tells their group of friends that his mother once actually took out a measuring tape to start taking his measures when he said he's leaving home for a work trip.

And another one goes "pfft, yeah. This one time I went to a rock concert and came back home to mom sitting on her sewing machine, fucking making me a funeral coat."

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my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba

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Nice people make the best Nazis. Be mean, be tough, have a fascist tooth/skull collection.

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star wars should start adding real songs into their projects but in the way the sims did it where they would rerecord popular songs in simlish. you play another instalment of star wars jedi and when cal kestis walks into a bar you can hear hit britney spears song baby one more time on the radio. except its sung in twi'leki

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unrestrained summer fun

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One of the most important things I have learned today..

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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Oh also, for a sillier thought:

Seeing Krennic and his dramatic behavior alongside fellow Empire officers has convinced me he is a former theatre kid prove me wrong

I stayed up late to finish Andor and I’m going to need a while to recover. Wow. Just wow. I am in awe. Although my online Star Wars fan persona is very much all Jedi all the time, Rogue One has been my favorite Star Wars movie since I saw it on premiere day, and Andor may have just surpassed it.

I am shocked that Disney let them get away with the story they told, but I am so glad they did. Diego Luna is one of the best things to happen to this franchise. Set aside Star Wars, set aside fandom, this is the sort of story we need to tell; about power, and resistance, and the human entropy that builds and breaks empires.

I have so many thoughts about the narrative itself and all the character details, but taking a birds-eye view I’m just so happy this show exists. It’s got a sticky sort of poignancy that’s going to be rattling around in my brain for a long time.

No real spoilers, but if you want zero thoughts at all, scroll on.

The three specific thoughts I’ll end with:

1. I GASPED out loud at Dedra’s final appearance

2. The ending scene??????? WHAT (what was that thing Filoni said that one time… “people do that sometimes”…)

3. Kleya may be one of my favorite characters introduced by this series, I loved her from season 1 and this season made me adore her.

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ANDOR

Season 2 posters

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