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HOW IS IT STILL SO BRIGHT

like the sky isn't fully dark, i can see yellow in the west

IT'S 1:20 WHAT IS THIS

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i have nothing in common with people whose favorite color is purple

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love looking at ancient mediterranean vasework because they really would put anything on a piece of pottery. like this jug has another jug on it. ahead of its time tbh

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NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

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anyway, jos teillä KOSKAAN on kesällä asiaa varsinais-suomeen, KÄYKÄÄ MAARIAN KIRKOSSA. se on meemi koska se on "ruma" ja siellä on seinällä iso piru ja mitä vielä, mut se on suomen paras paikka oikeesti nähdä ihan tavallisten työmiesten piirroksia jostain 1420-luvulta.

siellä on rakennusmies pipo päässä vilkuttamassa laastilastan kanssa teille seinältä kuudensadan vuoden takaa. siellä on munkki pienen kirkkonsa edessä sanomassa hei. siellä on pieni ukkeli mato-ongella laivan perätuhdolla. siellä on tikkuritarit tikkuhevosilla tikkuturnajaisissa. menkää sinne ja kattokaa, kun ihmiset on jättäny meille itsestään ja arjestaan ihan tavallisia sulosia piirroksia pitäjän merkittävimmän rakennusprojektin viimeistelyä tehdessään.

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My office divvies up part of our caseload alphabetically, and one of our secretaries just sent me a new file that's not in my part of the alphabet. Because I'm so very helpful I responded:

Moments later, the printer in my office fired up and spit out this piece of paper:

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The thing they don't tell you about getting really into one specific historical period is that very quickly every conversation turns into an attempt to avoid sounding like the "horribly wet in wexford today but not as bad as in the 690s" tweet

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i love stock photos so much

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today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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henry blake talking to klinger

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americans say the word ethnic in a way that makes it really obvious they'd rather use the word exotic soo bad but know that it would sound racist. "ethnic appearance" "ethnic nose" "ethnic cuisine" WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!! WHAT ETHNICITY!!!!

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I’m not sure exactly how to articulate it but—there is this bizarre base assumption i see from people discoursing about children’s media, and that’s the assumption that children are somehow unfamiliar with negative emotions. Like, maybe you’ve managed to completely forget your entire life before you turned eighteen, but kids spend a lot of time being hurt, and scared, and angry. A lot of people had terrible fucking childhoods, and a lot of kids are having terrible fucking childhoods right now. When i was a child, and i read books where bad things happened to kids, that was in no way shocking to me, i already knew bad things happened to children. It made me feel more connected to those stories, not less, and it made it more impactful when those child characters overcame it all in the end. That’s important for children. A lot of them are in desperate need of a little hope, and they aren’t going to get it from nothing stories with no conflict. They put conflict in children’s media for a reason

Also i see some of you handwringing over child protagonists going through, like, the most basic hero’s journey. Please, for the love of god, realize that you as an adult are going to understand children’s media differently than the actual kids it’s intended for. Because you’re all grown up now, you aren’t going to be able to relate to a child protagonist. You’re going to see a child in danger. The children the story is meant for are going to see a kid like them who is able to face hardship and triumph

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i get catcalled while out with friends at 1am and i say "excuse me, i actually identify as a transgender man and i would like to utilize my male privilege to avoid this interaction," and he says "oh i'm so sorry sir, i did not mean to invalidate your gender identity, do you know of any women i could harass instead? sorry again for the trouble"

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EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

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idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+