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i want to see what the kids built

God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth to climb trees and play with plastic animals are buying foundation at the drug store

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people have said good things about you behind your back, without your knowledge. people have shared their love for you with others.

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Do an escape room with your mother >:( she is SAD!

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if you can’t talk about sex w/o calling it “seggs” or “spicy time” i thimk maybw you should be quiet & keep it to your self .

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me when i recommend something to someone and they end up not liking it

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Being an adult in this recession and being like wow I am totally "splurging" on 3 new sets of cotton underwear and 3 pairs of socks like whoaaaaa hold your horses duke of the land where's all this money gonna come from

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anyway. onto better things

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I made slightly accurate wolf images based on that one post about loners making quotes with wolves and lions when they're the most famous pack animals ever

Feel free to use, they kinda look crap but it's okay I saw an actual lone wolf quote in COMIC SANS while trying to find pics for this

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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this is my fucking kryptonite.

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i hate when people come at me with "aren't you worried about the sugar?" when i'm eating fruit. like no, i'm not. let me eat my banana! it's the least of my worries.

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I really want to see this happen. There are way too many black trans women murdered.

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i’m so glad my girl is going to be ok 🥺

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shoutout to that underlying sense of unease that’s made a home in my bones

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Platonic Street Rat Street Tours!

Giving tourist directions (because people come up and ask me all the time) and sometimes walking them directly to their location while telling them facts about the town ive lived in a long time

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you ever remember its the middle of august?

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why is the department of CORRECTIONS?!?! calling me?!?!?