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we were discussing a point of factual disagreement over lunch and my sister said "it's entirely possible [steve] is mistaken" and the baby said between bites of rice "it's also entirely possible that steve-- that daddy is NOT mistaken"

four going on forty

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My "100% Australian wool" is "made in China". They shipped this stuff halfway around the world, spun it, dyed it, then shipped it back. Every time I see shit like this I'm reminded of how absurd it is that worldwide wage inequality makes this the most cost effective solution.

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Happy Moon Landing Eve! Remember to leave out milk and cookies for Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and don’t let Michael Collins convince you to prank NASA!

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had a full fledged sobbing meltdown just now about how horrible everything is all the time and then remembered I forgot to take my meds when I got up. everybody take your meds* if you haven't already

*and/or b vitamin supplements, a good healthy breakfast with a protein, etc. whatever you know helps but might have forgotten

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The humans using sex terms to get SecUnit to stop eavesdropping (based on this by @murderbotched )

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one of my friends just got a mug that connects to the internet and let's you upload pixel art and text to it remotely. he gave all of us access and

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my sister was telling the baby she'd gotten him some building/engineering toys on buynothing from a company called "kiwicrate" and he said immediately "I don't want those toys. I don't like Kiwi Crate"

and she was like "you don't even know what it is!" and he got this really distressed look on his face and said in a scared half whisper "what if it is just a box full of hard rocks. that look like kiwis 😟'

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shoutout to everyone dealing with. thhe fucking difficulty

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benjamin sisko, single dad who works two jobs (jesus and mall manager) loves his kid and never stops

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sorry for the random question but what's your opinion on transmasc people?

They should install Firefox with UBlock Origin and start using a password manager (I recommend bitwarden)

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Don’t call me on the phone cause I will throw up

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I think I have mentioned before that the baby addresses me as "auntie mac" but when he's speaking of me to others he just calls me "mac." I find that so interesting. my mom has a similar thing with my dad where when she's talking to other people about him she uses the nickname most people call him (like if his legal name was robert, she refers to him as 'rob') but when she addresses him directly she calls him a different nickname ('bob' or sometimes 'bobby') that she never uses to refer to him or quote him. like I guess in japanese these would all be suffixes or differentiated pronouns but in english if we want to indicate who we're talking to/about and the nature of our relationship to them we just have to make up whole different names for people

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why r u using the word corn instead of porn on tumblr.com i just saw full dick n balls 2 posts up ur good

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the baby's parents are working on his please and thank yous so when he said "hey auntie mac I need some water" his dad was like "can you ask that in a nicer way?" and he said "no because look she is already doing it" (which I was. I didn't mean to undermine the lesson but water is very important)

so his mom said "you know, asking nicely is a good way to let people know you appreciate them!" and he said long-sufferingly "but mac already KNOWS that!"

and his dad said "don't you like when people say 'please' when they ask you for something?" and he said immediately "no I DON'T like that. because that means they want me to do something I don't WANT to do."

can't argue with that ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

(I am pitching it to him as "good practice, for when you are talking to people who DON'T already know you appreciate them." he has the autistic impatience with pointless rules imposed by others but also the autistic enthusiasm for rules and systems he has decided to adopt and master for himself. we'll make it work)

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i hate when i, a completely healthy person (very chronically ill), get sick (flare up) for no reason at all (i exerted myself way past my limit just cuz i didn’t wanna be “annoying”)

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it really was tough growing up with a mom who didn't ever grow up herself. I frankly think she is jealous of the baby because she used to be the one in the family who could always get her way just by throwing a fit and making everyone else's life miserable until they caved, and now she has competition. in a four year old child.

like... she managed to turn both her daughters into compulsive fawners constantly trying to figure out what could possibly appease her* but unfortunately she shot herself in the foot by incessantly whining for grandchildren, because when the baby came along we both switched to conscientiously trying to meet HIS emotional needs (because he is a baby. not a grown ass lady) and now she's like why are you girls being like this. why are you not immediately doing whatever I say. I will throw a tantrum. and we're like mmmhmm. we are sort of busy. hey weren't you supposed to raise us or something

*Nothing.