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I was recently in one of Chicago's more historic neighborhoods and I happened to notice that one of the museum-homes had paving brick outside with the word "Purington" on it, so I gave it a search in an idle moment and found the strange and compelling world of brick fandom. Technically most of the sites are people who salvage and resell historic brick and paving stone, but there's a certain whiff of hyperfixation within this particular commercial niche.

Imagine paying for ninety acres of land with bricks. Imagine accepting ninety acres of land's worth of bricks. I mean it makes sense in the era, why bother with cash when bricks will do, but like. Damn.

Also:

There's something insanely compelling about the idea of rocking up to a freight car to start unloading bricks for the day and they're still faintly warm. I'm not sure if it's compelling like fresh warm bread or compelling like some kind of weird eldritch horror.

(Both quotes from historicalbricks.com)

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"no added msg" to be honest it could use some msg

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jurassic park but it's tiny elephants and nothing goes wrong 🥺

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brian eno on the windows 95 startup chime

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My favorite relationship dynamic in fiction is a worshipper and their God. Not a literal God, but their God. The only thing in the whole world that matters to them. I will live for you, I would die for you, I would kill for you. My only moral compass is You. You can do no wrong in my eyes and I will never stray from your side. I was born to meet you and to love you. You are the only being I pray to. Your life isn’t just my passion, it’s my religion. You don’t think you’re anything special but you don’t see what I see. You don’t see that you’re the only person who’s ever made me feel this way. You don’t understand how beautiful you are to me and I will devote my entire life to making you understand and accept it.

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i have something to say 

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for a minute i definitely forgot that kanye west had changed his name to ye and was wondering why this accusatory headline was written in shakespearean language

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The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you

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Comparing dinosaurs to a Boeing 737-900. Via BBC News

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I don't get why people start defending someone's parents that they've never met, like they'd know these strangers better than this person who has known them literally their whole life. Like if someone calmly remarks that they won't bother to try do something with their family because their dad would just respond in this very specific offbeat way that no sane, sensible, mentally stable adult would ever do, what makes people go "surely you're just pulling that out of your ass. no sane, sesible, mentally stable adult would ever respond like that, how shitty of you to just assume the worst from the get-go for no reason", instead of going "oh huh ok, so your dad is fucked in the head, noted."

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romance story you think is going to be a slow burn except character A suggests fake dating For Reasons and character B immediately responds, delighted, "holy shit you're in love with me" and then the actual relationship plot is A desperately trying to deny this because they have not been allowed their requisite several months to ease into the idea romance is on the cards here for real while B is like. yes i know you have issues, you're very repressed, im tragically into this, but sweetheart. darling. we could be kissing right now.

A keeps trying to bolt from the mortifying ordeal of being known and B keeps yelling no take backsies

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bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

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Behold, shawl!

It's not blocked, probably won't be until this spring, but it's done! Yay!

Now I need to resist the urge to knit one in autumn colors. And by resist I mean wait until later to buy more yarn and beads because I have other projects to finish first.

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i think about this tweet often. i feel such kinship with this