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This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

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$20 used to mean something

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today someone asked me what my favorite even-toed ungulate is… god, who could decide?

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we did a good job making "even" have 4 letters and "odd" have 3 letters

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moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker "judas" for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in "jeudis," and say quietly to himself "french thursday...?"

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ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

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Their main source of fabric comes from a cotton-like plant. Grown primarily in the global north

outfit the little guy is wearing to harvest the plant by the way. Their shirt and skirt are made of it

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JUST DISCOVERED ASTROBIOLOGY

deep besotted sigh

so, y'know, stupid question, but do you guys ever get, just, so overwhelmed by the vastness and detail and infinite persistence of it all?? i'm talking about science and existence specifically. went to the space museum yesterday; you all have to hear about this. like. there are too many ways to say it, give me a minute.

thirteen-point-eight billion years of pressure and expansion and dust and gas and heat and the creation of particles and atoms and new elements and nebulae and stars and galaxies, one million trillion events aligned perfectly to create a little patch of clover in a little green field that i can look at, with you. we only get a handful of decades, get to be a little blip in the cosmos. i get to be a speck on the face of totality next to you.

the universe is dark and mammoth and cold and silent and logically unknowable, and humans spend their lives creating a telescope that can give them a glimpse into it. when they finally see the truth of it all, they go, "that one. that one looks like our spiders. that one looks like our waters. that one looks like a heart." you are a nebula. you are a galaxy. you are a star. you are light and dust and gravity and nothing and everything. this tiny creature made of your grandmothers' atoms peers up at you from lightyears away and says, "you look like a dog."

i can feel the weight of time making up everything around me. someone built this machine. someone developed this program. someone gave me these words. someone fed them. someone was born. something was born. it's like remembering that breath is a mechanical function, or forgetting how to walk. at any moment every aspect of the world around you can become years and decades, countless faces, atoms colliding. because that's what it is, even if you don't notice. the most distant moons and star clusters exist, even if we never see them, even if we never look. but what do we do, after the looking, after the search? what do i do when i remember how cosmically improbable i am? how do i repay anyone for the clothes on my back or the skin on my bones or the neutrons in my teeth? what am i? what are we? i am a little bit of a star. it is a little bit of a dog. what am i?

y'know?

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YES!

these r some tags from last month i wrote. it's so exciting to see that other aromantics and asexuals feel this way. there is some disconnect because i'm never gonna be anyone's woman, anyone's girl. when people say those words i am in one way not what they are thinking of. but i'm not non-binary, i'm just... less? but i've tried to never interpret being aromantic as lacking something, because it's not. so that doesn't really feel right. i don't know. female* *aromantic. muppet of a girl. it feels inextricable. i feel like i got placebo effect-ed into liking she/her pronouns. i love to extrapolate and blather on tumblr. this is so inconsequential but you're on my blog so who has egg on their face. goodnight

i feel so seen!!

(twitter thread)

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was referring to a book i own and i said “i have it on book”

is it so over for me

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I bet it feels good as fuck to be the guy in a band who says one, two, one two three four

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what was your almost name? mine was sofia

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I bet it feels good as fuuuuck to slightly draw your sword with all the other knights in anger when a treacherous knave shows their face in the court

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so many amazing words in the english language. you have clandestine and precarious and serendipity and iconoclast and then you also have staunch and sludge and slurp and smudge