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I'm at the pediatrician office watching two 3-year olds attempt to break the language barrier.

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what if clams mooed like cows. the world would probably be a different place

we should make them do it, we have the power! the world will be a different place tomorrow anyways

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the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

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and please remember to stay up late because that’s free time

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There is so much bad shit in the world, and in my sphere of media/censorship studies specifically, and it's so fucking hard to keep up with it all. I have thoughts and opinions and keep wanting to write about shit and give my insights, but I'm just

I'm just so tired

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cats will be like "is anyone gonna gently bite the corner of your phone?" and then not wait for an answer

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it came to me in a vision

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Oh!

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coffee shop by my house hired a new barista who is extraordinarily hot and flirts with me incessantly but she also makes the worst - and i truly mean the worst - coffee i’ve ever paid for. atrociously bad. just another of god’s little jokes

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Nothing that you've grown or foraged yourself can have calories. Calories come from the manufactoring process, somewhere between the farm and the store. If you're eating something growing straight from the dirt, where would it have gotten calories from? The dirt? Ridiculous. Try eating a handful of dirt, see if it has any nutritional value. It doesn't. Calories come from the store, not from the dirt. If you know that no other human being has touched the thing you're about to eat, who would have put the calories there? You? Absurd. Why would you do that to yourself? You wouldn't.

Things you grew and gathered yourself straight off the ground do not, and cannot, have calories. It is simply not possible.

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls

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my youngest friend (he turned 1 a few weeks ago) has discovered the joy of blowing bubbles, or rather of other people blowing bubbles for him, and he has a delightful way of expressing his joy re: the sudden appearance of bubbles for no reason other than his amusement. I'll be blowing bubbles for him with the little plastic wand, and he'll reach out his grabby little hands for some and just twist his head around to watch others float away, and after a few bursts of bubbles he'll get overwhelmed with the sheer joy of existing and seeing beautiful things and he'll reach out as if to take the plastic bottle of bubble liquid from me, so I'll twist the lid back on as tight as I possible can because I know that little dude would chug the whole thing if we let him, and then I'll hand him the sealed container and he'll swing it around with delight a few times before thrusting it back toward me or dropping it straight in my lap, so that I can continue to make more bubbles happen to him. and there's just something really beautiful about this guy who has very few ways of expressing himself or communicating his thoughts finding a way to express that he loves this by taking the source of his joy only so he can hand it back to me over and over, to say this is good. good things happen when you have this. let's please keep doing this.

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Yoooooooo

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year are spent on the public broadcasting budget. NPR and PBS offer beong able to make small monthly donations, some being 7$ per month or lower if you want.

If you want to donate 1.60$ per month to your local station, you can multiply how much funding they get from you by 12. If you do their monthly donation of $7 per month, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on public broadcasting per year.

If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically:

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Curious Tiger Chews on Cardboard Tube in His Outdoor Enclosure