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when I was apartment hunting right after leaving home, the first thing I checked was water pressure and temperature, even before closet/storage space.

i was born with arthritis. Priorities.

ok I’m officially obsessed with the home improvement subreddit

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BABYLON 5

2x01 - Points of Departure

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So, thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation will be receiving electricity for the first time — ever.

Also, water treatment devices are being developed to help the tribe access clean running water. After decades without.

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I Have Found A Solution!

So, obviously classic wizard robes aren’t wheelchair friendly. (Alright, admittedly this isn’t common knowledge and also this definitely isn’t a problem for most but listen, this is a problem for me and I’m pleased to present a solution for it nonetheless.)

The issue is in the sleeves and the length of the robes. The traditional trumpet style allows them to get snagged, dirty, and caught in the wheels.

This is distinctly not an issue with other mobility aids such as canes and crutches, these wizards are fine to carry on with their trumpet sleeves simply rolled up if needed.

Now, one solution might simply to shorten the sleeves and hem to be out of the way, but that looks rather silly so I won’t do that. Instead I propose the more elegant design of a hanging sleeve to maintain that flowy magical feel while allowing for better range of motion.

Honestly I just love the look of hanging sleeves in general and think more people should appreciate them, wheelchair user or not.

In conclusion…

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such a huge relief that hillary’s so ahead in the polls and trump has such a small chance of winning, right? WRONG. DO NOT GET APATHETIC OR COMFORTABLE. DO NOT DECIDE YOU DON’T NEED TO VOTE BECAUSE YOU’RE SURE HILLARY WILL WIN. the only way trump can win now is if so many people expected to vote for hillary don’t show up to the polls. because you BETTER believe ALL of his supporters will be at the polls.

brexit passed in the UK because young people grew apathetic because they were sure it wasn’t going to pass. and it did, because old racists and xenophobes showed up in DROVES to vote.

tl;dr: VOTE, PEOPLE. VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. IT MIGHT.

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heres a midi of hips dont lie with a banjo as the vocals

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OKAY series of polls about sock preferences because i'm a curious autistic fuck:

(if you don't wear socks don't answer any of the other questions)

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how about "is it fun"

aka "what makes you a fan of this"

Too many fandom debates now revolve solely around "is it canon" and leave behind the far more important question, "is it terrible"

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look the damn word means "goat song" and classics scholars have been coming up with headcanons to explain why for centuries but no one really knows and i for one find that an aggravating etymology deserving of every single mispelling

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

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You know what? Fuck it.

The amount of notes that this post gets by the end of April is the amount of words I'll write for one of my books.

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 I was showing some fragmentary fossil shells in Texas rocks I'd brought back to the kids next door, but I confused the four-year-old with my attempt to explain changing sea levels and shorelines until he remembered a video he'd seen of storm surge.

He declared, "Sometimes the water opens doors and gets into people's houses, and if you go there maybe you'll find shells. Gifts!"

I grinned across at his mom, who said drily, "Although maybe not for the people who live there."

But he was bursting with new possibilities. "And maybe even rocks!"

"Presents?" I suggested.

"Presents from the sea," he agreed. "Inside all the houses."

Kids are great.

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@thebibliosphere I had to repost this for both of us because OOF

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@thebibliosphere I had to repost this for both of us because OOF