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had a beautiful and perfect evening with a big group of beloved friends at the best place in the world (a baseball stadium). they kept buying me hot dogs and now my tummy hurts

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im trying to watch this guy analyzing Nightreign relics and keep getting distracted because he has his parakeet on his shoulder in the webcam and it's the same color as his greenscreen

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Something wonderful about my relationship with my wife @cannilyuncanny is that we both have a deep love of cooking. I'm someone who likes to "measure with my heart" rather than follow recipes, so I do a lot of improvised cooking. My wife is very precise and likes to measure and follow recipes, so she is the one who does the baking.

She has learned to make foccacia, pita, and no-knead bread. A couple of years ago she received a sourdough started from a friend and made potato kulchas with it. One thing that she loves about this is that humans have been bread-making for over 30,000 years, and so making bread connects her to her ancestors and to people all over the world.

People in Gaza are being denied access to these simple, fundamental ingredients to make bread, to nourish their bodies and spirits, and it breaks our hearts. The Israeli government, with the support of the United States, blocks vital food aid from reaching the Gaza Strip. This has led to extreme price inflation for the little food that remains in the markets. The only alternative to paying these elevated food prices is to go to Israeli-US controlled food sites that function to draw in large numbers of starving people past Israeli snipers where they can be massacred. Hundreds of people have been killed this way.

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Preface, Tragedy: A Curious Art Form by Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons

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well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

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missing my cat o clock

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House of Mystery #28 (1954)

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schiaparelli, astrology collection, 1938

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I think the thing that makes the triplets so awful (affectionate) is that they’re just so successful. Pre-Strahd they were so powerful and had such broken items that they would just chain lightning and smite their way through every interaction with no consequences because bafflingly, Jens and Onyx’s charisma is so fucking high. Even within Strahd, everyone in this fucking town is too miserable to stand up to their nonsense and Jens rolled a nat 20 on the most batshit insane eulogy for a man he’d never met in order to advertise his Spudfuckers (vegan potato based fuddruckers). They are never faced with consequences for their actions and even when they are they do not register them as consequences

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i love olethra if only for the fact that she is trying so hard to be an adventurer but immidietely goes from confidence to um. this:

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"i'm grappled. I'm exactly where i want to be."

yeah you would say that wouldn't you Maxwell...

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Maxwell Gotch !

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Look, I don’t want to be as obsessed with Maxwell Gotch as I am, but like what do you mean that the only kernel of pure joy in his heart is from all the way back in his childhood, being lifted in the air by his grandfather who told him to stay on the ground but always kept their eyes skyward, and otherwise his mind could so easily become a machine, only thinking about a step-by-step checklist of rote realistic goals, but it still is enough for the seed of adventure within him to persevere…. AND then he punched a dinosaur to death??

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yeah this is about what i was expecting. gonna replay chapters 1 and 2 before jumping into the new stuff

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it came to me in a vision