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my sister's baby shower has a "suggestion box"

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A fun fact about the Ace Attorney series is that across the games you interrogate three professional assassins and three circus clowns.

None of the assassins are convicted of murder as a result of this, but two of the clowns are.

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The most powerful magic of all

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one of my trans friends added me to a discord channel called "egg group chat" and I was starting to get very introspective before I realised they're organising a group buy of eggs from a local farm

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He is both an amazing and a horrible parent.

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funniest thing about time-flight is that they've now spent the entire season trying to get to Heathrow airport, and then the very moment they decide to give up and go somewhere else... they land at the Heathrow airport.

second funniest thing is The Doctor's reaction to this happening

[Image Description: Screencap from Time-Flight episode 1, when they are inside the TARDIS. The scanner shows an aerial view of the Heathrow airport, which Tegan is running towards. The Doctor is facing away from the scanner and has a shocked expression on his face, complete with wide eyes and an open mouth. End Image Description.]

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hold on something just happened

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this feels like a bit. i know it’s not but this is so absurd that it feels like it’s right out of arrested development

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Finally found a bit of time to play some Deltarune. But I've not played it in years and don't remember much, so I guess im starting from Chapter 1 again. Gonna be ages before I get to the new stuff

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The child stared distantly at the landscape for a while and then said, “I’ve got new socks.”

YES?

“You can look, if you like.” A grubby foot was extended for inspection.

WELL, WELL. FANCY THAT. NEW SOCKS.

“My mum knitted them out of sheep.”

MY WORD.

- Reaper Man, Sir Terry Pratchett

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I think it indicates a very specific sort of chauvinism to engage in open acts of aggression against another nation and immediately follow that with "We got what we wanted and now there can be peace". You'd need to think that your country is so mighty that your victim wouldn't even think of going to war with it, that they'd accept any peace offer no matter how disadvantageous or humiliating. The idea that you can de-escalate a situation through limited violence only makes sense if you think that you're capable of a lot worse and that the target both knows and fears this.

Either that or one thinks of their initial violence as clearly justified, and so makes an offer of de-escalation less because it's likely to be accepted and more so one can take the moral high ground when their victim rightfully retaliates. Either way, the fact Trump and his clique saw it as a good idea to directly attack Iran then immediately announce they wanted peace indicates a pretty distorted view of the US Empire's current degree of material and moral superiority in global geopolitics. It's the sort of action one takes when they are or want to assert themselves as undisputed hegemon; it's a bad idea to act like that when ones hegemony can be successfully disputed. I wonder how much longer until the USA's political leadership collectively realises that they're no longer living in the end of history

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Didn't an MI6 agent die of this?

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i love how garnet and pearl are just continuing to use the name of their infamous guerilla military organization while their current jobs are fighting lv4 rpg monsters and giving each other basket weaving seminars. and steven has no context for this and just thinks of "The Crystal Gems" as basically the name for his mom's side of the family. so he walks up to lapis and says "you should hang out with me and my treehouse friends, the Viet Cong!"

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So a few months ago I asked this girl out. She said she couldn't because she was bisexual and I of course said that this doesn't matter to me. Then she clarified that she means that she is attracted to girls only from July to December and if I wanted to we could meet up in July. I thought she was messing with me but she did call me two weeks ago and we have been dating ever since. And I checked her social media and yeah she only dates girls for half an year. I am baffled. Have you heard of this?

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It really is 2003 again Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

Like, all Republicans did was replace Iraq and gay people with Iran and trans people.

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Hey, @flagellant, I think I need that rundown on the difference between blasphemy, sacrilege, and heresy again.