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the human hand is a wonderfully versatile tool for trying to carry one thing too many and dropping everything all over the fucking floor

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kendall ross

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biting my mama

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My ethics professor once told our class that society justifies hating fat people by saying they overburden the healthcare system but no one uses that excuse to hate high level athletes who also disproportionately use the healthcare system

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I wouldn't say I'm a lapsed cultist. I still accept the basic worldview--I believe that Cthulhu lies in R'lyeh in a deathlike sleep, I believe his Star-spawn shall one day cleanse the earth and usher in an age of shouting and killing and reveling in joy, yada yada--but I'm not, y'know, religious about it. Cthulhu has lied sleeping for, like, countless aeons, he's probably not waking up in my lifetime. I doubt giving up my Friday nights to chant "Cthulhu fhtagn" with a bunch of naked old guys in a basement is gonna wake him up any faster. I mean, if I ever have kids, I'll probably start going again, but that's more about teaching good morals.

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when my shelter cat passes by me, he pauses for a second, and looks up. He is waiting for me to lean down, and touch my hand against his side, so that when he keeps walking, my hand skims across his fur. he doesn't really need attention. he has his own thoughts and plans. but after more than a year of living in our home, he has come to expect a moment of kindness whenever he crosses my path. if I don't do it, he will follow me. "where is your hand?" he asks, with his plaintive and impatient eyes. I give it to him. he bumps against it like a balloon before wandering away. this is a poem to me

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by Laerte Coutinho

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reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

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okay so i finished checking if we were friends in every universe and, uh, it turns out we're only friends in 6 of them. but look, i need you to understand these universes vary like crazy, okay? like 6 is actually insanely high, like way higher than most. and one of those is the universe where i accidentally killed the actor who played Dipsy from Teletubbies when i was 7 and my life went completely differently as a result. and we still ended up friends! also you were a girl in that universe for some reason. what? oh, uh, yeah, you were cute as hell. like really cute. did you just fucking giggle

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another funny thing about trade during the Edo period outside of Nagasaki is that in addition to the Matsumae clan in modern southern Hokkaido being permitted to trade with Ainu the other ‘gates’ to Japan were the Satsuma clan being permitted to trade with the Ryukyus which the Satsuma had conquered and made vassals and the island of Tsushima being permitted to trade with Korea. The establishment of the Tsushima-Korea trade happened in the early Edo period and after an initial exchange of envoys and Japanese envoys reassuring the Joseon that the Tokugawa were different from the Toyotomi who had invaded Korea and were responsible for overthrowing them and the Korean king was like “Ok, but we’ll still need an apology for all that shit if you want trade to happen”. Ieyasu Tokugawa was fine with Tsushima trading with Korea but the lord who ruled Tsushima knew that there would be no way Ieyasu would send something as humbling as an apology to a foreign ruler especially if he felt his hands were clean of the whole Korean invasion. So what the happened is the lord of Tsushima forged an apology letter from Ieyasu including faking his seal and sent it to the Joseon court. The Joseon court found it acceptable and sent a letter addressed to Ieyasu saying trade will be permitted to resume. Because the Joseon letter was based on the assumption that Ieyasu apologized and also because the style of it clearly looked like it was in response to a letter Ieyasu never actually sent the lord of Tsushima put away the real letter and forged yet another letter this time an edited version of the letter from the Joseon removing any mention of an apology and making it sound like it was part of a brand new correspondence rather than a response to an earlier letter. The Tokugawa fell for this ruse as well and Tsushima was able to engage in trade with Korea after the ruling courts were tricked into thinking they had come to a mutual agreement because the lord of Tsushima had essentially been faking the back and forth exchange with forged letters

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Pipe sprung a leak in the bathroom the other day and the cat came and bothered me about it and I can't stop thinking about it. She doesn't know what a towel or a mop is but she knew there was an unauthorised fucking Wet and she trusted my ability to rectify the situation

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I don't like it when you post body horror

my blog is called lustcannibalism by the way

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i'm not going to lie. i would do this all the time

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me: *trying to take my socks off but they keep getting stuck on my heel* oh fuck. goddamnit.

the extractor fan in a bathroom in Norway that has an intrinsic link to my spirit: *momentarily whirs louder*

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getting fired from my position as the emperor’s food tester because I keep taking too large of bites

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learning about plants in ur area is wild. like you also learn about the histories of the plants. Like oh! Thats garlic mustard! That was brought over from europe as a crop! it smells just like garlic and you can cook with it!  And thats yarrow!  Its been used for tons of stuff and pollinators love it! Oh hey! Thats hemlock! They killed Socrates with that! 

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one must imagine sisyphus livin la vida loca