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sometimes men are obsessed with other men not because theyre secretly gay but because theyre so misogynistic that they literally dont view women as people worthy of any degree of attention or value
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When you walk by a smoker, like on the street, do you hold your breath?
Usually yes, I smoke
Usually no, I smoke
Usually yes, I don't smoke
Usually no, I don't smoke
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#i try not to be obvious about it but yeah#i really truly hate the smell of cigarette smoke#i try to be polite about it but it's something i absolutely can't stand#really glad that australia has pretty strict laws about smoking in public
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Just to clarify this since you're the second person to say it: this was a flippant comment about how Maomao tends to distance herself not just from other women, but from people in general. She has a tendency to lie *to herself* by denying her feelings and desires. She's excluding herself from the category of "woman" in the excerpt above, while she is in the middle of admiring Jinshi, with the paper-thin excuse that her interest is actually medicinal.
I understand how my comment could be misinterpreted, but I actually do like this about Maomao. I find it very relatable. Often when I try to express feelings of alienation similar to Maomao's, I get accused of being #notlikeothergirls, so my assumption was that people usually mean it in a playful manner and not as an insult.
If that was not the case, then apparently some of the people around me are meaner than I had assumed.
Actually incredible how much Maomao won't shut up in her internal monologue about how pretty Jinshi is, for someone who claims to be #notlikeothergirls and totally unaffected by his looks

Like girl if you're not attracted to him then why do you keep describing him like he's your Tumblr blorbo. It's been four paragraphs
#editing the original post anyway before this spirals#like yeah i probably shouldn't have expected people to Just Know what i meant by that#that's on me
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Actually incredible how much Maomao won't shut up in her internal monologue about how pretty Jinshi is, for someone who claims to be totally unaffected by his looks

Like girl if you're not attracted to him then why do you keep describing him like he's your Tumblr blorbo. It's been four paragraphs
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love when im playing Ace Attorney and i have no idea wtf going on and Phoenix pulls out some “actually 😏 i have the evidence here 📄 to prove you commit the crime ☝️” and im like fuck we do?
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it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
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"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child.
I have spent many hours with those cats, and still I am amazed at how perfectly they reject everything it means to be in prison. They are playful and unselfconscious, curious and silly, soft and cuddly.
Sometimes it is even more interesting to watch my fellow prisoners interact with our cats. All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees, and when they make toys to entice the cats to play with them.
I don’t think about the past when a cat hops in my lap. I don’t think of what I should or could have done. I don’t think about courts or life sentences or parole boards. What comes to mind is peace, and a sense that everything is going to be OK. What’s in the past needs to stay there if I want to have a future, if I want to be grateful for today and for the fact that I am no longer the person I once was.
The cats, of course, already know this. They are gracious enough to spend their time with us so that we might learn, and so that we can enjoy a few quiet moments of warmth, softness, non judgment, and freedom."
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TIL yhat by moving the muscles on uour face you can indicate to people that you are feeling various different emotions
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Did you know that hogs enter a state called "soil hibernation" during the hottest summer months? When temperatures exceed 95°F for more than a week, wild hogs will dig shallow depressions in moist soil and enter a semi-dormant state where their heart rate drops by 70% and they can survive without food for up to 18 days. This adaptation evolved in their Mediterranean ancestors as a way to conserve water during drought conditions.
Scientists have observed that during this soil hibernation, hogs experience unusual rapid eye movement (REM) sleep patterns. Their brain activity suggests they're having complex dreams, primarily focused on rooting behaviors. Researchers at the University of Barcelona's Wildlife Research Center have recorded electrical patterns suggesting that hibernating hogs mentally "practice" foraging techniques during these dreams, which may explain why hogs appear to have improved truffle-finding abilities immediately after emerging from their summer torpor. Some rural communities in southern Spain even time their truffle hunting seasons to coincide with the end of the local hog population's soil hibernation period.

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