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So I was re-watching Hbomb's plagiarism video, and I noticed something really funny.

Allow me to show you.

Lol whoops.

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Sokka made the flamethrower special for this exact purpose

Fire Lord Zuko passing a law that forbids challenging anyone under the age of majority to Agni Kai

Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward

(No one. Literally no one would have thought that, but it’s generally regarded as a very classy move regardless)

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This gif is outrageous

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In #Delos, 2500 years ago, there was a kitchen with 3 burners, oven, grill and baking plate. With an extremely impressive design, made of clay, it served the needs of the household like the electric stove today.

👉🏛 Archaeological Museum of Delos!! #Greece

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Y'all ever get so excited about a scientific paper you're reading that you get chills???

So I thought to myself

Huh, a lot of our invasive species come from China and Japan

And then I thought, huh, I should look up what Kudzu is like in its natural habitat

And I found this article by a team of scientists investigating the history of Kudzu in China

And ohhhhh my goddddd. I'm vibrating with excitement over how cool this is.

The first bombshell that turned my brain inside out:

KUDZU IS NOT WILD. IT IS SEMI-DOMESTICATED.

In China, Kudzu has been a fundamentally important plant for food and textiles throughout history. We have Kudzu cloth that is 6,000 years old!

THIS PLANT CLOTHED AND FED ONE OF THE MOST POPULOUS AND MOST ENDURING HUMAN CULTURES ON EARTH

and in turn

HUMANS SHAPED AND SELECTED FOR ITS TRAITS

*AND*

in its natural range, humans are the main "predator" of kudzu

"Harvest by humans appears to be the major control mechanism in its native areas."

Kudzu is like that because it co-evolved with humans.

WHAT

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Um I just noticed while rewatching my "ugh good omens" fanvid playlist -- Aziraphale's not wearing a bowtie in the "You go too fast for me" scene, in the Bentley in the 60s. He's wearing a looser tie, like maybe an ascot? Still tartan, of course. But it's the only time in the 20th century he deviates from the bowtie.

I've written about the significance of the coat changing in the Blitz scene, and I have to think that this tie is meaningful somehow too. Aziraphale's look changes so subtly, every detail matters.

Maybe the more open collar signifies his deep vulnerability in this scene where he hands the holy water over to Crowley.

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Guys we NEED to talk about how the handwriting on Crowley’s pest control ID is the same as on the opening hours of Aziraphale’s bookshop!

I MEAN compare the A’s, L’s, R’s, W’s, Y’s

We’re looking at either a) Aziraphale being enough of a bastard to help Crowley forge ID’s so he can fuck shit up in his fucking shit up jacket, possibly because Crowley has forged so many ID’s already that authorities have begun recognising his handwriting. b) Crowley being the imaginative one when it comes to fucking shit up, and also the one who leaps to do anything his angel needs, so he came up with Aziraphale’s opening hours and wrote him the sign. and I fucking love both

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Crowley: this is so sad alexa play despacito

Alexa: mama… just killed a man……

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The word for ‘bumblebee’ in European languages.

by Oysteib

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i was so good at this water sort mobile game and i’m stuck on level like 348 and i’m convinced this one is impossible. i was stuck on it for weeks like a year ago and then quit and came back to it recently with a new hunger and vengeance and it’s kicking my ass i swear

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I thought today about a villanelle I had an inspiration there and then I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

It’s hard to keep the poems rigid shell On track inside my mind, so when I thought today about a villanelle

I thought about refrains re-rung like bells And how simple it might be to begin; I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

The line below these two, I brag to tell Is simply coded as =A1 I thought today about a villanelle

And this stanza’s refrain, I needn’t spell It out; it equals A3 and is done! I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

I planned to use this better, really sell The bit; but flew too closely to the sun. I thought today about a villanelle I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

[Description: The above text is pictured in individual cells in column A of an Excel spreadsheet. The sheet’s title in the workbook is “Sheet Two Villanelle” and to prove the truth of how it was constructed, Cell A23 is selected; at the top of the image you can see that it does not actually contain any text, but just the Excel formula “=A1″. This is probably Art, somehow.] 

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From Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

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“We’re Not So Different, You And I” - Part 59

(check out the other parts here)

What do these four have in common?

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moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.

[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]

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Bitches love to be like "science sucks where are the eldritch horrors where is the knowledge thats maddening to know" that's thermodynamics motherfucker. The first two world experts in thermodynamics (Ludwig Boltzmann and Paul Ehrenfest) both killed themselves because they had to do fucking thermodynamics

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Writing 春池嫣韵 (chun1chi2yan1yun4; lit. the beautiful flowers of spring ponds are quite charming), a phrase that has become popular online due to an inscription that was supposedly of that phrase, but instead greatly resembled the phrase 去他媽的 (qu4ta1ma1de5; lit. damn his mother, fig. fuck/damn/to hell with [this]).

The inscription in question: