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happy ed balls day to edward iv of england

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Why do you need your earbuds to have a wire so badly?

I am assuming this is about a post I reblogged like six months ago when I went off on forced technological enshitification and the slow erosion of consumer options. But sure, I'll bite.

Why do I "need" my earbuds to have a wire? I dunno, Anon, maybe I:

Don't want to have to worry about recharging my earbuds.

Don't want my earbuds to be even easier to lose.

Don't want my earbuds to need separate accessories that are as easy to lose as the earbuds.

Prefer to have bluetooth turned off on my devices for security and safety reasons.

Like being able to seamlessly plug my earbuds into my computer, my MP3 player, or any other device with a headphone jack.

Don't want to spend 50 dollars on decent wireless earbuds when I can do all the above things with a pair of solid earbuds that cost me like $12 during the Obama administration.

Don't care about what kinds of headphones or earbuds people wear but don't like what it says about our society when other people apparently care what kind of earbuds I'm wearing so much they have send an Anonymous ask to interrogate me about it.

And I guess, more abstractly, because fuck Apple. That's why.

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ah yes, the three great rulers of sixteenth century europe. henry viii. charles v. and bignose

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did Jesus pay for our sins with cash or credit

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you can easily confuse people by anglicising/otherwise changing the version of a historical figure weirdly. jane of arc

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met a mean bird today. what a bustard

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you jack off all trades?

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they should let you end academic papers on "idk if this makes sense at all lol"

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Mike: How about a museu--

Alison: Too easy, try again.

alison and mike get on very well because they're great at communicating and they genuinely like each other and the only major difference between them is that most of mike's ideas are stupid whereas most of alison's are illegal

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alison and mike get on very well because they're great at communicating and they genuinely like each other and the only major difference between them is that most of mike's ideas are stupid whereas most of alison's are illegal

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reading translations of greek/latin texts (think homer or plato) from different eras and comparing them is always fascinating. you can spot a nineteenth-century translation from a mile away

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odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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My favorite part of fiddler on the roof was when he said "it's fiddlin' time" and fiddled all over those guys

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The doctor, standing there, with a face of pure jealousy and discust, as he watched Rose pet a fucking cat. Will NEVER not be funny to me.

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hired a galapagos finch at my burger joint and after 2 generations it evolved to take peoples orders

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[ID: a picture of a road with a human-sized penis-shaped hole in it. above is the caption, "tripped and fell today, but I'm okay." /end ID]

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my teacher keeps shortening transubstantiation to tsub and i can't