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I made a mistake on Bluesky and now my notifications won’t stop but hey i’ll post it here too!

Anti-Prime sale on bookshop.org until the 11th

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THE OLD GUARD 2 (2025) dir. Victoria Mahoney

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TASKMASTER EPISODE TITLES — Series 19

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Are you gonna do what you do best and fight by my side? No. You will fight by my side.

THE OLD GUARD 2

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"What's gonna happen when we graduate?"

The cast of series 19 of Taskmaster

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“How did you spend your Fourth of July?”

Mourning the final episode of JV Martzoukas

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It recently came up in conversation with my toddler that some birds can talk, and this has caused her great concern.

See, we were talking about how movies are pretend and how in real life, animals don’t talk. I mentioned that there are some birds who talk a little bit, but not like the animals in movies, and she just looked at me like “???”

So I informed her that some kinds of parrots can copy sounds that people make, and can learn how to say words. I thought this would give her a giggle, as fun new facts often do, but she was just deeply perplexed and a little worried about this.

“Birds can talk?” “Do they ask questions?” “What do they say?” Why do they talk?” “Do chickens talk?” “What about Blue Jays?” “Why do some birds talk?” “How do they talk?” “Birds TALK???”

We showed her a video of a parrot doing the “Hello, pretty bird, give a kiss” thing, and she was dead silent the whole time, hugging her comfort pillow with her knees to her chest. We asked if she wanted us to turn it off, and she shook her head. But we also asked if she wanted to see another one, and she shook her head even harder.

I don’t know why it has distressed her so greatly to learn that some birds can mimic human speech; but then again, I don’t know why it doesn’t distress the rest of us more to know that some birds can mimic human speech.

I keep thinking about that post that’s like “The first person to hear a parrot talk was probably Not Okay.” Because that’s exactly what happened. She had never been introduced to the concept, and her entire worldview got SHOOK.

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Jason chose violence for the 12th time in the series so far.

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🚨TONIGHT!

🤠A new episode of Game Changer launches on Dropout at 7pm ET / 4pm PT!

Starring host Sam Reich and contestants:

Oscar Montoya

Anna Garcia

Jeremy Culhane

Catch up with Game Changer season 7 on Dropout

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happy "closer to 2050 than 2000" day everyone

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TASKMASTER S19E09 "Getaway Sticks"

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kelly clarkson covering t.a.t.u. in 2025 you love to see it

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why is everyone so mean. how aren’t you tired

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It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!