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Double child prodigy whose spy work was so secretive his cover story was that he was working in the nuclear program and quit music to teach undergraduate math classes on the strength of a bachelor's degree from Harvard and refused interviews for the last 20 years of his life including when he without explanation put all of his music in the public domain is such a delightful mid-century American character. Plus he invented the Jello shot. They just don't make them like that anymore. They probably can't.

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hanif abdurraqib on “why his poems be like that”

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T being so far back in the alphabet always fucks me up it's such an integral part of most of the sentences that we use nowadays. But I do get that it's paired up with R&S two other truly Workhorse letters but they're behind shit like Q in my opinion Q needs to be way further back and if we could bring R,S&T to the front. I'm not saying take them up on the ABC slot but surely they deserve to be in the same place as G and H. thank you

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like we really hate to hear this - but power is in every human relationship. unless you are the exact same as your partner in age, class, race, ethnicity, religion, language, nationality, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, salary, education, etc, you have to negotiate the problems material power differentials pose to love, to treating others well. the response to this seems to have been to make certain points of difference - like age - load-bearing, in a way that erases others - class would be my example: far bigger a power disparity than, say, a ten year gap in age between adults is class and inheritable wealth, but you almost never see that acknowledged in the same way. and even if you were at parity in all those areas (gay twincest sweep??) there is still the emotional power that someone’s love and desire for you gives you over them. you can’t get rid of it. you cannot find the perfect relationship where it doesn’t exist by steadily winnowing down your “ethical” options via widening designations of “problematic relationships.” you have to confront the power you have over other people and think how you will wield it most lightly. sorry!

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the natural human lifespan is actually less than 2 days, but many have taken to artificially extending their lives via substances such as food/water

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fmk the acts of fucking marrying and killing?

kill marriage fuck killing marry fucking

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Also lmao FUCK Ryan died this week too I hate may

Evan told me he was dying of cancer on my birthday and I found out he died on my half birthday, which is very him and correct I don’t get to grow older and not take him with me you know

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Evan told me he was dying of cancer on my birthday and I found out he died on my half birthday, which is very him and correct I don’t get to grow older and not take him with me you know

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“The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”

—C.S. Lewis, “On Living in an Atomic Age,” 1948

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NEVER LET YOURSELF BE STOPPED BY WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE IF YOU STARTED EARLIER!!!!! THE ONLY TIME WE HAVE IS NOW

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Hamlet as a D&D paladin.

Keep reading

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Amazing pottery skills

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"Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. ...Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. ...For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity."

G.K. Chesterton

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Franz Kafka, 1912