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“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”

— Everyone Into The Grinder

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obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

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Do you know what it means to be loved by death? 🩸

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Happy Pride!

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i honestly cant believe the normal amount of wanting to be another gender is zero. like arent you sick of yours yet lol

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Please reblog. Tell me about your teeth

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The accent work alone!!!! This man!!!

Jacob Anderson honestly showed up to set every day like “I’m gonna get that fucking Emmy” and he’s right to do so.

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Jacob Anderson honestly showed up to set every day like “I’m gonna get that fucking Emmy” and he’s right to do so.

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Why is it every time Louis and Armand hold hands on screen it’s giving “couple photos on insta with a caption about how marriage is so hard, just the hardest thing, but it’s worth all the struggle”

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I just want to play The Sims but I must engage with capitalism. a curse

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My tumblr is old enough to have a tumblr.

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May the 4th be with you ⭐️

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Op I have great news

You know that scene from every cop/detective show where the investigator grills either the suspect or an informant at a seedy underground poker ring? I want that scene but they're just playing D&D. Exact tenor of a scene from a hard-boiled detective story but the investigator is interrogating someone whose character is trying to seduce a hot elf princess

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Victory of Eagles ch. 1: "lol what, is temeraire going to unionize the dragons" - me

Victory of Eagles ch. 4:

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me watching Dev Patel use his teeth to drive a knife into a man's throat in Monkey Man

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Using this post to spread the gospel of the hair dryer trick which I had never heard of before this year! Basically you take your hair dryer, set it to hot, and blast hot air at the sticker for long enough to warm up the adhesive. I tried this with a used book haul I got back in January and it removed every sticker except the super hardcore clear ones libraries use to laminate their spine and barcode stickers, without any residue. If it doesn't pop right off after giving it like 30 seconds of heat, concentrate the air at one corner and then peel the sticker back slowly while aiming the dryer right at the underside of the sticker. (Yes, this sucks if you have super sensitive baby fingers like me, but those clean books are so so worth it.)

Tryna cleanly peel off the price sticker from your new book