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op turned off reblogs but i wanted this on my blog so i screenshotted it

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Love watching movies with people who are autistic about different things than I am. Last week a friend and I were watching Twisters, and he said, those are going to turn out to be good guys. And I said, how do you know? And he said, because their truck brands are owned by the same equity company as the main character's.

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You fucking wish the author was dead. The author is on twitter

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the dumbest person alive has come to warn you that fruit has sugar in it

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textile border, russia c. 1800-25.

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"you wouldn't download a-" as a baby i drank pirated milk from the bottle

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i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.

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why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

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Did you know Venice was built on a lagoon—right on top of thousands of oak and fir logs? This unique engineering method has kept the city standing for centuries!

Since 421 AD, the city of Venice has stood on a foundation of millions of wooden tree trunks driven deep into the clay bed of its lagoon. Rather than using steel or concrete, the city was built primarily on alder wood, with some oak piles for extra support.

Over time, these wooden pillars, submerged in saltwater, have petrified, hardening to a stone-like consistency. This ancient engineering marvel has supported Venice for 1,500 years.

St. Mark’s Campanile alone rests on 100,000 wooden piles.

The grand Basilica della Salute required over one million tree trunks.

The piles, spaced just half a meter apart, extend three meters into the seabed.

Read more here...

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Henriette Ronner-Knip (Dutch, 1821 - 1909): Sleepy kittens (1894) (via Bonhams)

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nasty faggotses........

WHYY IS HOMOPHOBIC SMEAGOL IN MY INBOX

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pseudointersectional misogyny, or that thing where you discuss gender relations exclusively in the framework of multiply marginalized men vs. The Most Privileged Woman Alive

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the woman who holds the moon

prints available here. my cover for this month's issue of baffling magazine.