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my mum has a very normal office job that includes phone calls with clients. most of them are older and can't write emails.

today, she received a phone call from the son of a client, informing her the woman suddenly died. the son had one last unfinished business: reading my mum the last email she ever wrote but didn't live long enough to send. It was an email thanking my mum.

you see, one day my mum took the time out of her day to teach her how to send emails. she stayed on the line with her, encouraged her, and sent practice messages back and forth. she didn't have to do that. that's not part of her job description. but because of my mum's patience, this 80 year old woman was able to communicate with her wider family and friends, including some living abroad, more frequently.

kindness and patience are never wasted. we all can make a difference in someone's life.

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In New Horizons, the mannequins in the Able Sisters re-use the player model with a few facial features taken off, and being recolored to black. This was likely to make it easier for the developers to interchangeably place clothing on them.

Due to this, they are actually compatible with all of the game's player animations. They're just normally set to only do the mannequin-specific "animations", all of which are just a 1-frame pose. In this gif, I have swapped the poses for the Shrunk Funk Shuffle, demonstrating this quirk.

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"everyone experiences [symptom]" how many times does it have to be explained that it's often about the frequency of the symptom, not the symptom itself

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always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

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The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards. This is a policy choice — and it doesn't have to be this way.

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If you're in LGBT friendly spaces and someone introduces themselves and cautiously says they're fine with any pronouns, it is your duty to notice which pronouns the people around you tend to default to for them and ensure that you refer to them with any and every pronoun under the sun except for that one. You must.

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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me as a writer

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ok ok hear me out...

Starry freckles.

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Look at him just having the funniest of times.

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Congratulations to all AO3 users! Important Milestone reached!

Bookmark database overran!

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fell for the oldest trick in the book

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Hi, I'm new to tumblr! Wanted to make a comic and share it.

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I know they're named after him but for reasons I can't fully articulate it's hilarious that the guy who invented zeppelins was named Ferdinand von Zeppelin

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Lite-Brite, Yoon Hyup (because)