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Feel free to use this whenever someone tries to start an argument with you but they're clearly uneducated on the subject

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high quality noise collection

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"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

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The T&C on the coupon are wild. I'll defo use some of them in a dystopian project at some point.

A whole cook book of fish stick recipes? How do I ever choose what to make?

Reader's Digest - April 1972

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Honestly, this induces mild rage in me. Both the reply and the supposed article. It's called the Royal Game of Ur, named after an ancient cemetery where, in fact, this specific board was found. We know the rules, several variants actually as it has been and still is a popular game, worldwide.

This particular board is literally the first image for the Wikipedia article for the game.

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Another one of those designs I'd love to live in... in theory. In practice, I would either go mad with the amount of window washing (especially in a deep, living, natural forest) OR filled with rage for the cleaning bills OR regret the lack of privacy (if it's not in a deep, living, natural forest).

Pretty for pictures tho

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Thank u Yam, its how I do my thing 💕

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Twitter has been posting exclusively from the trenches of Europa today

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I can't decide which one was the most... and this isn't even close to being a comprehensive list, just the ones available on giphy when searching for the word clown. XD

Reblog if you just haven’t been the same since you saw that clown

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Not relevant to the conversation...

But it's clean fucking slate.

I don't know why it made me angry as it did, but it did.

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I've not slept 17 hours. I see a cosmic scale entity turning on the big light. I will draw it when I'm less dead tired.

M42, Orion

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I remember in school my mates and I, somehow independently, landed on the idea of moving our mobile phone clocks (this, mind you, is the time of nokia 3210 and its contemporaries) forward so we can safely snooze (brand new feature in the world at that point). By mid year, we were between 35 and 40 minutes ahead, still fully zombie mode and late to school. XD

I still think about it sometimes, this particular day, prompted by a youtube short.

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I don't really video on tumblr, especially wirh audio, but cat purrs always get a pass. 😀

kitty car 🐱

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I don't get poetry almost at all, but for some reason Rober Frost has a few very simple (I.e. not allegory heavy) poems I love.

The one line I do remember and it's kind of a mantra is

"The woods are lonely, dark and deep

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep"

I do agree with the language anglicised thing on a visceral level, too. My mum recently told me poles use the word "funeralne," which is a polonisation of funeral when talking about it. And I'm just baffled because Polish is a gorgeous language, and, like, we already have words for the subject?! But, hey, who am I to judge, I literally only speak Polish with my mother anyway so...

I don't recite poetry like ever, save for habitually quoting a line from Aleksis Kivi's The Song of the Squirrel, which I personally accidentally shortened for brevity by misremembering it. The poem itself is from Kivi's book, The Seven Brothers, where one of the brothers starts singing when they are on their way to school, being forced to learn how to read because We Live In A Society. It's about a squirrel sleeping in its nest. The original lines I misremembered go

Sinnepä ei Hallin hammas Eikä metsämiehen ansa Ehtineet milloinkaan

Up there no tooth of hound Nor a huntsman's trap Could ever reach

Which I misremembered as "sinne ennä ei hallin hammas, eikä metsämiehen ansa", which in meaning is roughly the same. Out of reach of teeth and traps. I don't mean to be pretentious but the language is withering from anglisms so it's a nice to have a more natural and native way to say "safe from emails".

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I hate the sound of babies crying, but I can't hate a baby. They've been here for like five minutes and approach this situation with an unhesitant attitude of "my needs are unmet and I am going to make it everybody's problem", and I respect that.

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God I love this place, can't wait till I reach "disturbed JK Rowling" levels myself

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.