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Good morning to the one article on honoring parents who hurt you that said “the way to honor abusive parents is by doing what you need to to heal and breaking the cycle of abuse” you are the GOAT

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i love when characters don't get to die

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Some PTerry quotes that feel especially salient at the moment:

"He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?”

“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.

“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do."

- Night Watch

Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls.

- Jingo

It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.

- Snuff

The poor devils. They thought a king would make them free.

- Feet of Clay

Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say “we’re the good guys” and do bad-guy things. Sometimes the watching watchman inside every good copper’s head could use an extra pair of eyes.

- Thud!

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One of my favorite little facts about history is that the Mexican peso was functionally the everyday unit of currency in China in the 19th and early 20th century. Silver was one of the few western commodities that Chinese merchants were willing to trade in at rates that made shipping it to China (an expensive, arduous process) profitable; this trade became so voluminous by the 19th century that large everyday transactions even far away from port cities were conducted in pesos, in large part because Mexico's large domestic silver supply and existing transpacific trade links meant that the currency was stable (a known quantity to merchants in a time and place where relatively pure silver coins were otherwise uncommon) and readily available for use in trade

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corporate job kills the stoneheart

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In contrast, Diluc, Yelan and Rosaria all feel more at home in a spy/espionage film.

Tartaglia is a shounen rival that's stuck in the wrong genre

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Anyone fascinated yet? I think the spell was incorrect.

Said “Fascinate women with palm-size bat”, not “fascinate all people with palm-size bat”.

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this is peak Craigslist

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Austrian flamethrower team on the eastern front

I love this piece, wish i had this much success with other pieces

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warhammer 2k point army but its just Canoptik scarabs, and ONLY canoptik scarabs.

this is not war, this is now a swarm shooter, and by god, i got 10" of movement on each and every bug. you better hit your shots

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helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

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Gap moe✨

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Just had a terrifying cryptid idea

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u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

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i think before you marry someone, you should sit down and go through the AITA subreddit with them and see what their take on those situations is

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Dr Glass: male loneliness epidemic - embarrassing, all the things they think women want are what MEN want. I bet those losers are all going to the GYM. If they actually wanted friendship, or fitness that appeals to girls, they’d be taking riding lessons -

Me: is this about the -

Dr Glass: five. Five women at that barn who would’ve had me! Who almost had me! I was fighting for my life! Women are not secretive, you know! They’re all quite clear about where they go and what they do. They want men who read, and have a bum in jodhpurs. And men - men are all going to the gym! To do WHAT! To lift weights by themselves with other single men with headphones on. What are you learning from them? How to be more single! Meanwhile the women are paying to go to bookshop wine nights and fancy dress balls by THEMSELVES. The men are just doing exactly what they want and pretending it’s for women. RIDE A HORSE



( I guess he just wanted to share that.)

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“Also, for wishes like that, please contact the fairy corps of engineers. They can help with those sort of wishes.”

*points towards a fairy dressed like a British sapper, with a magic railgun that is powered by whimsy further in the back*