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😂😂😂

😭😭😭

the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the New England state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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Not to further derail this already severely derailed trainwreck of a post 😂😅😭😭😭 bc the point of this (only semi-serious map) was just to visually juxtapose the number of subregions per square mile in the upper righthand corner of the US (with some artificial exaggeration with how granular vs general those regions were defined in the NE vs the rest of the country)…

But,

the map isn’t showing those states squarely in those regions. They’re just in the areas where regions meet, shown as blurred gradients rather than solid lines because there is disagreement about what is/isn’t in each region.

Like, yeah, I (the [recovering] east coaster who made this map lol) personally agree that the Dakotas are more West than Midwest, that Maryland is NE-ern not Southern, and Oklahoma is S/SW not MW. But the US Census Bureau puts Maryland in the South, both the Dakotas and most states that border the Great Lakes in the Midwest, and there are Okies who argue Oklahoma is part of the Midwest too.

So there’s some disagreement about where the regions end and begin depending on who you are or the purpose of the division. That’s the problem with the entire exercise of trying to draw precise borders for regions imo; regions are by nature subjective, and often overlapping and/or gradual. Which is why I opted for a gradient rather than distinct borders. 🤷🏻‍♀️

the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the New England state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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DO YOU SEE MY CONUNDRUM

the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the New England state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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all these NE microregions were made up by Big Yank to fuck with me specifically 😭

the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the New England state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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the fact that Maryland is actually like 300 miles & 3 states from New England might sound like a big difference, but when you come from a city that’s 300 miles from its own state capitol and you’d have to drive nearly 1000 miles to get out of your state’s region, all those tiny microregions in the NE corner of the US blend together 😭😭😭

the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the New England state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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Lower Mid-Atlantic!!!

the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the New England state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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localizing Kuromi’s pickled onion dorayaki as Old Bay flavored cookies

the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the New England state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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the name of the idyllic fantasy land that My Melody and Kuromi live in is Mariland, not to be confused with the Northeastern state of Maryland

however, it’s really fucking funny to imagine them as Baltimoreans

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i think eventually we're all just gonna have to come to terms with the fact that it's impossible to tell a story with any degree of subtlety or nuance without risking a portion of the audience taking the "wrong message", and that's ok. art isn't meant to be strictly a teaching tool, and if you're goal is just to convince people or critique an idea, just write an essay or a polemic

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the one single thing i will never forgive the minimalism trend for tho is making the most simple basic designs, which should be infinitely affordable, extremely hard to find for reasonable prices.

it is a wooden rectangle. i do not need to pay $2000 for it.

don’t necessarily care for minimalist interior decoration (it feels lonely & i can just see the echo half the time) but in terms of furniture design yes please just give me sturdy rectangle.

i can respect ppl getting fancy with it but I don’t need or want crown molding on a thing I store my clothes in. just me & my straight lines against the world.

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don’t necessarily care for minimalist interior decoration (it feels lonely & i can just see the echo half the time) but in terms of furniture design yes please just give me sturdy rectangle.

i can respect ppl getting fancy with it but I don’t need or want crown molding on a thing I store my clothes in. just me & my straight lines against the world.

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it simultaneously feels grimy and glittery and scaly and mangy. that is not a food word.

i cannot think of a more unattractive name for a hot dog than a “glizzy”

something about that word just conveys the feeling of the hot dog being dropped on the ground, rolled in sand and lint, and dipped in pink glitter

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i cannot think of a more unattractive name for a hot dog than a “glizzy”

something about that word just conveys the feeling of the hot dog being dropped on the ground, rolled in sand and lint, and dipped in pink glitter

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I don’t regret the loss of Breadtube and Dropout from my youtube recommendations, now I get videos about the history of Japanese typefaces and techniques for better sandwich-making

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the giant revolver is hilarious actually

no one buying that isn’t doing it solely for the bit, g-d bless ‘em

🤏 If you buy one of these you're compensating 😂

REBLOG TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE GUN LOBBY THAT THIS IS NOT OKAY!!!

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they are barring wikipedia. they are barring spotify. they are barring important news - both national news and world news. they are barring mental health forums and LGBTQ related things and so much more. this is not about protecting children, it has never been about protecting children.

the online safety act is an insane privacy breach, and if that does not scare you then you need to think harder about it. it is going to end up in a massive data leak - all the information is getting collected by random third party systems. can we trust them? no. can we even hold them accountable? no. because the government couldn’t even make their own system to do these age checks.

and i hear you - it is important that kids don’t see porn. but even if all this was about protecting kids, it’s sloppy and useless. it’s easy (for now) to get around with a vpn and the only thing the act doing is censoring things that it shouldnt. if the government wanted to protect kids, they would do something concrete about it - they would be putting more funding into education, for example.

of course the policy isnt called “national surveillance”. they’re not going to call it that. everything will be hidden behind things that people want.

so email your MP, and tell other people that this is WAY more than blocking porn from children - this is the first step towards national surveillance.