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Today is Independent Bookstore Day and we just got back from a circuit of 5 of our local places. I know I tell myself this every weekend, but I really need to stop buying new books until I put a dent in my physical TBR pile first.

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It's still April and I'm already seeing flyers for upcoming Pride events and I'm so unready. What am I gonna WEAR?

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Social media is great for my mental health actually. Every day I see dozens of posts that make me think, "wow, my life is so much better than yours."

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doodles

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I hope that whoever wrote/conceived of the opening highway scene with the logging truck of Final Destination 2 knows that they've done irreparable damage to the national psyche.

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I recently learned about this company called Boom Supersonic that's aiming to design a new commercial aircraft that will enter service in 2029. Think of the Concorde, except more modern, running on sustainable jet fuel, and American instead of a joint French-British venture.

I'm cautiously optimistic that there will be some technological breakthrough for commercial flight within my lifetime to cut down on flight durations, but when I talked about this project with my buddy he just deadpanned, "'Boom' is a horrible name for a plane manufacturer." I couldn't really dispute that.

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Wuerhosaurus

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Every morning

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Every morning

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As an outsider, Indian elections always feel like massive, almost geological events. 969 million registered voters in one country?! I can't even wrap my head around the logistics of conducting something like that, but here's a decent primer going over the basics I found interesting.

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ok what’s your florence + the machine song. mine is rabbit heart (raise it up)<3

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Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father April 17 (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. Based on its dimensions compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the Triassic Period creature, which they named Ichthyotitan severnensis, was between 72 and 85 feet (22-26 meters) long. That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would rival some of the largest baleen whales alive today. The blue whale, considered the largest animal ever on the planet, can reach about 100 feet (30 meters) long.

Don't mind me, just thinking about how fossils for marine life are rarer than for land-based life and there could have been all kinds of shit living in there that we haven't even discovered yet.

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it’s been 17 years and this scene still kills me

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I like to consider myself a disciplined person, but I just could not be a cast iron skillet girlie.

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Dani Torrent

Dani Torrent

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I was shopping for a globe yesterday and found a website that is having a sale for Earth Day next week and I found that really amusing and fitting. But the one I like the most is $1,150 so I'm dropping a wishlist so one of you can buy it for me.