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Listen there is a Line and that line is a guest trying to play 'keep away' to be cute with the keys at check out.

I will simply stand and stare until you feel awkward enough to put them on the desk and walk away. I used to teach kids to ride horses. You cannot outbrat those children (most of whom were lovely and have the excuse of being children)

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Is your phone background from an IP you like? e.g. TV show, movie, book, videogame, comic, manga, anime...

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THE FUCKING ICE REPORT AAAAAAAAAAA

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@messofthejess joining the ranks of the dirty enablers

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people are always slandering historians for saying reasonable things like "some things that seem romantic to us were platonic in the context of the times", when there's so many evil historians you actually have to look out for. number 1 : the closet royalist

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again that rat man thing wheres the fucking post

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living a day as a fat preteen girl would break the spirit of most fully grown men

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Thinking about when I worked at a shitty restaurant + one night it was just me + 3 other women on closing shift, so some guy came in the back and waved a knife around, presumably for money but I’m not actually certain, bc he was met with the bartender holding a much bigger knife, a tiny teenager wielding a cast iron pan, an elderly woman holding up a crockpot of clearly boiling water, and me, turning on the meat slicer with eye contact for maximum effect. He left, but the moral of the story is not girl power or whatever, it’s just. Why the fuck would you threaten a room full of underpaid and sleep-deprived blue-collar workers surrounded by lethal weapons.

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Reached out to a biologist to request some info about an extinct species of freshwater shrimp and the email she sent in response was not only lovely and helpful but also kind of poetry to me? People who study invertebrates are actually the most hopeful and compassionate scientists that we have.

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After being released from 104 days of ICE detention for his pro-Palestine activism, Mahmoud Khalil joins his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, and their newborn son at Newark Liberty Airport this morning (21 June 2025).

photo via NYT

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don't want to get into it on that one post but while it's true that there are a lot of complex reasons behind the way that the Library of Congress classifies information the way it does, it's ALSO true that a lot of information professionals have a lot of respect for/interest in AO3, to the extent that you will almost certainly encounter discussion of it in library school (I did). This is not to throw shade at the LOC OR to say its classifications are perfect (there are a number of movements to update its terminology to address the number of *isms in various subject categories) but to also point out that AO3's approach to metadata is genuinely impressive and effective enough to have the respect of professionals, not just cringe fandom people (I am both)

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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The internet makes the world

So small

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@agardenandlibrary Gondor needs no context

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https://dieworkwear.com/2022/08/26/how-to-develop-good-taste-pt-1/

From the comments "In my experience clothing on anyone looks best when it is done with confidence. We are all different shapes and sizes. I was really struck by your post on dressing well that included John Goodman in a faded t-shirt and jeans. He rocks it!"

Excellent advice, whatever gender or style one is looking for. Thank you

I'm a trans guy and Derek, I can tell you my wardrobe has improved a huge amount simply by reading your threads. The "dress for your body type" stuff never worked well for me; your threads about putting together an intentional look and for getting a good fit - that's 99% of the game.

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History PhD here in disbelief that I just read a tumblr essay arguing that “history buffs and historians are the same thing, actually.” Good luck fighting the good fight. You have my axe.

Good morning! It's wild, isn't it? I suppose that being surrounded by such confident and flimsy arguments is the price we pay for being historians who choose to spend time on Tumblr. Please consider that you have my sword.

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