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Henry Ford should have kept that assembly line shit to himself

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the demon i am on a first date with: i should apologize ahead of time. see my horns are so huge and majestic that i cannot put a shirt on. i am cursed to never have a shirt on so you can always see my (large) torso. i understand that might be rude me: dang. i am sorry for your situation. we will just have to try make the best of it

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i need a coffee table book of every image ive ever reblogged

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monogamous people who get defensive or outright combative when polyamory is brought up could probably stand to be told that they could actually change their perspectives somewhat if they put in actual effort. i do not have any more patience for people who are too comfortable in the thought that the ideas they've been fed about exclusivity and commitment all their life are somehow uniquely theirs, nor do i have patience for the handful of trite remarks they make about polyamory in attempts to feel clever about taking one of the most lukewarm stances in existence on something

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seven how many cats do you have

2 but i live with 3!! :-)

i’ve had amon since they were a kitten, my mom found them under a porch lol

esther is our cow kitty and we got her from the shelter a year and some change ago!!

puppie is my best friend’s kitty! she’s huge compared to esther and amon hehe

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i’m making moves in silence

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Skeletor has forever destroyed our ability to come up with voices for skeleton characters.

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why do you need to smoke weed before we take the ring to mordor is there something wrong with you

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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.

But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.

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did you date in high school?

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a wizard turns John into a wooden bowl

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local woman who claimed she will "cross that bridge when she comes to it" arrives at said bridge

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björk photographed by ken sharp (1995)

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

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