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free use? *smirks snartly* so naive. you know nothing in this damned society is really free...

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the best part of the nostalgic mcdonald's honey bustard pickled sea fuck meal is that nobody on here seems to know that it was an actual thing in certain locations

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maid you look

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this is what i mean when i say "sniles so sneetly" btw

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It's waaaay past halloween so ig this is just an au art now ://

squash him

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ily, menswear guy

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reasons.

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Obsessed with this year's grand prize winner of the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest

2022 Grand Prize Winner

"I knew she was trouble the second she walked into my 24-hour deli, laundromat, and detective agency, and after dropping a load of unmentionables in one of the heavy-duty machines (a mistake that would soon turn deadly) she turned to me, asking for two things: find her missing husband and make her a salami on rye with spicy mustard, breaking into tears when I told her I couldn't help—I was fresh out of salami."

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if i have one word of, if not comfort, at least fear mitigation, it is that trump didn't win this election because his hate has spread or because he's gained more diehard followers

here's the results from 2020 for the popular vote

and here's this year, 2024

kamala lost because people didn't show up to the polls and vote for her for a wide array of reasons. and yes, it's infuriating and heartbreaking that other people don't see the threat that many of us do.

but apathy or ignorance isn't hate. we can feel angry or disappointed that people didn't show up, but those people also don't believe in donald trump enough to vote for him, and we can work from that. in fact, it appears that at least about 2 million people also changed their minds, at least enough to not turn up at the polls for him again.

no matter what the fuck they wanna say, maga is not growing. they have power in the government now, and it's scary, and we have hard work ahead of us to stop them in whatever ways we can, but i just wanted to take a moment to point out that the country has not gotten more hateful or more supportive of their bigotry, no matter what the fuck they wanna say. there's not more of them. they just feel empowered to get louder.

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shut up

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''what if my writing isn't good eno--'' what if it's a reflection of your soul. what if it has a place in this world. what if you write it anyway

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so ur at the party right and there’s this girl in the corner with another girl on a leash with the puppy ears on standard stuff and u start talking to her and she introduces the girl on the leash and says “this is my little puppy, Emily. say hi Emily” and the leash girl does a little bark at u and u say “oh that’s nice” and ur looking for a way to avoid the awkward silence during a 4 second period that feels like a half hour so u ask “does she know any tricks?” so the girl says “come on girl, show ‘em” and the puppy girl gets up pulls out a skateboard and starts doing the sickest kick flips u ever saw

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If someone reaches for something at the same time as you, offer to let them take it first.

For example, you're in line at a buffet, and someone reaches for the soup ladle to get their helping of soup at the same time as you. Instead of reaching for it even faster like a kindergartner trying to grab a toy before the other kids can, instead offer to let them have the ladle and scoop their soup first.

Or you're at the grocery store and reach for a can of tomatoes at the same time as someone else, instead of trying to grab it faster like a toddler trying to grab a cookie before their sibling can get it, instead offer to let them take the can instead.

If you can, it helps to make a demonstration of it, such as saying "oh no you go first!" or "oh no you can have it!", or even just smiling and/or gesturing at the thing you're both grabbing for to let them know they can have it first. That way, if this is someone being childish and acting like a kindergartner who wants to just grab things first before other people can have it, you are letting them know that you are letting them have it out of good manners, and not because they "won" by grabbing for it faster than you. It might even make them reconsider their childish and selfish behavior if they see someone demonstrating good manners by consciously letting them have it first.

Most of the time small grabby children are going to be relatively close to each other in size and physical strength. But as we get older we have to learn better because in the world at large outside of a preschool classroom there are going to be even more variances in size and physical capabilities. In a world where everyone regardless of age just reaches faster if they see someone reaching for the can or soup ladle at the same time as them, or rushes faster to get to the cash register first if they see someone approaching at the same time as them, ect. is going to be a world where children, the elderly, disabled people, and anyone just smaller in frame/stature is going to be at a disadvantage and always going to be the last to get the can or the last to get to the cash register, ect.

So this is why we behave civilly in public and go "oh no you go first!" when someone reaches for the can or the soup ladle at the same time as us, or approaches the cash register at the same time as us, ect. It's one of the foundational blocks for having a world of cooperation and compassion instead of a world where children, elderly people, disabled people, or anyone at a physical disadvantage always come last.