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The three kinds of bird species name

1. God’s Specialist Little Boy

2. Hot Breasted Milf

3. Grey Bird With Brown Head

4. Walter’s Fingernail

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Yoooooooo

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year are spent on the public broadcasting budget. NPR and PBS offer beong able to make small monthly donations, some being 7$ per month or lower if you want.

If you want to donate 1.60$ per month to your local station, you can multiply how much funding they get from you by 12. If you do their monthly donation of $7 per month, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on public broadcasting per year.

If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically:

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saw some ppl complaining that MCR's current tour is "cringe" bc they're "old" and other ppl fighting for their fucking lives to defend MCR and it's like don't waste ur energy. people making fun of MCR again is like nature healing. if you're a young MCR fan this is your chance to live the authentic experience from 2008

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chosen one not as in the one the prophecy foretold but as in lamb to the slaughter. as in the only person both brave and foolish enough to do it. chosen one as in sculpted, molded to be the perfect sacrifice to something expertly, divinely crafted to annihilate you wholly and surely. chosen one as in taken away. chosen one as in death sentence. chosen one as in goodbye

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I think they'll be fine saying that.

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Murderbot + Onion Headlines [4/?]

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mental illness makes me seem like such a deeply unserious person. no sorry i can’t do things or cope with stuff or get over it or move forward or self regulate. yes i’m a grown woman

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the finches nesting in the monastery have evolved tonsures

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just finished watching act 1 of Next to Normal on PBS website and its wildly good in a "brought me to tears with the first song and reverberates with the anguish in my soul" kinda way.

but also it finally gives me the context that i have desperately needed in order to describe something else. bc if you take Next to Normal (at least the portion i have seen so far) and combine it with Galavant, you get Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

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have you ever cried over a celebrity's death?

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One of the richest motifs in The Locked Tomb is relationships with uncomfortable overlaps.

Of course, in-universe, we've got all the weirdness about cavaliers and their necros: they shouldn't be married (but sometimes they are), they shouldn't be siblings (but sometimes they are). Cav/necro love is a different kind of love, and familial, romantic, or sexual love should be no part of it.

As readers who don't know any necros or cavs in real life, it's very easy to say: well, fuck that. Do what you want.

But the narrative doesn't stop at the necro/cav relationship. It says, okay, now here are all these Lyctors calling each other sister and brother on their way to sexy parties. Here is Nona with frank romantic interest in her parental figures (and roleplaying a very sensual embrace with Cam). Here is John simultaneously trying to be everyone's dad and teacher and commander and lover. Here is Aiglamene trying to filter parenting Gideon through the act of giving her military training. Here is Crux trying to be a loving father to the tiny dictator he serves. Here is Gideon saying she wants to marry a sword that has her mom in it.

And sometimes it's harmless, and sometimes it's harmful. And the narrative asks: what then? What if the beauty doesn't reduce the horror, and the horror doesn't reduce the beauty? How fucked up does a love have to be before you won't root for it anymore?

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hell is full. heaven is full. god created a new holding space for souls called hurgle and the only thibg to do here is this infinitely expading jigsaw puzzle of a finely detailed pigeon. we are just slowwwwwly creating little tufts of feathers for eternity . yesterday , greg found a corner piece

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I made some weird little watercolor and gouache paintings for a sci-fi-themed exhibition. I was miles out of my comfort zone and some of my paintings were Quite Bad but I had fun

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I fucking love repetitive lines that change meaning over a piece of writing yes slay

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The family Channichthyidae are more commonly known as icefish, and they are the only known vertebrates that lack hemoglobin in their blood as adults. As a result their blood is white and their skin appears translucent.

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the werewolf essay I'm on now points out that trial transcripts from witch hunts aren't really a good reflection of the popular culture's concept of witches and werewolves, because the confessions tend to be led by what the judges etc. want to hear (especially in cases where confessions are extracted under torture) & what the judges want to hear is based on theological and scholarly discussion, not popular folklore. Which makes sense! But what cracks me up is that the author then points out that a better source of popular culture is in records of slander cases. Which also makes sense! because these are allegations made by everyday people against everyday people, across a pretty broad cross-section of society. so I guess if you really want to know about what people believed you need to read about the kinds of insults and slanging matches they had, and I think that's perfectly delightful