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If you have an old cat that's having trouble keeping themselves clean(or my lazy bastard son(affectionate)), get a cloth or paper towel, get it slightly damp with warm water, and pet them with it. They love it cause it feels like you're grooming them, and it also gets them clean.

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Instant Happiness Spell

Turn your favorite song as loud as it goes, dance like nobody's watching, and sing loudly and badly.

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Also each time I go from one area to another the black screen gets a few seconds longer. So now whenever I go through a door I have to wait for 4 minutes and the game is effectively unplayable.

Finally, a piece of Fallout media in a whole decade where I can enjoy all the good stuff about modern Fallout, (the aesthetic and historical references, the apocalyptic landscapes, charming and moving characters) without all the bad stuff about modern Fallout (actually playing the game)

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Terfs are fucking wild cause when I was a kid I always played on co-ed teams and when I started playing on gendered teams I was so confused. I played on the boys teams all the time if our practices were right after one another or if they needed an extra player. But when we, the girls teams, needed extra players the couches never even considered grabbing one of the guys and 12yo me was so confused.

Me: "Why can't one of the boys play on our team?"

Adult: "Cause they're bigger and stronger and better and it wouldn't be fair. You being on their team is a handicap. Plus they might hurt you."

Me, who is heavier than most of the boys and keeps sending people to the nurse on accident: ??????

I think at one point I tried to compromise by saying something like, "Why don't we borrow [name], he's really bad so it would be fine."

The adults did not like that.

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Sometimes you just shake youtube a little and hope a four hour long video essay falls out

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Darn, you don't have enough space for Alpacas. I wonder how much space Angora rabbits need?

First you start knitting, then you try crochet (or the other way around) because that cool project requires it, then you see all that marvelous embroidery and you think why not? At a certain point you wonder, is it so hard to sew clothes? Maybe you could try, and you start thinking about that old sewing machine in the attics. Then you see a video of someone spinning wool and you feel your hands itching, but wool is so expensive, how much does keeping alpacas costs, then

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I have the misfortune of being related to some of his hardcore supporters and like, they are going to try and open concentration camps. I have heard it stated in pretty plain language that they want to throw a lot of people in actual real hard-labor-until-you-die camps.

I'd rather prefer they didn't get the opportunity to try that, thank you very much.

anyway. i think most people left of mainstream US liberal are uh. insufficiently scared of Trump. this has become a cringe take over the years but i think electing him again has a really terrifying set of tail outcomes that are unlikely but possible

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Honestly it was even before the Nazis. I don't think I can overstate just how antisemitic Europe was for the last two thousand years.

For every claim about Pagan survivals in European / North American folk traditions and holidays, it's important to remember that there are at least three layers of cruft on top:

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestants trying to discredit Catholicism by claiming that it was secretly Pagan

Nineteenth-century Romanticists and Nationalists trying to construct an "authentic" volkisch identity by connecting everything to a remote pre-Christian (pre-Jewish) antiquity, and

Contemporary Neopagans and New Agers who want to maintain these traditions.

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🎉A P R I L F O O L S🎉

It's Loki

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Another fucked up layer to this is that catholicism preaches preserving life above all else. It doesn't matter the quality of life, you must extend it as long as possible. To think of taking a life is a mortal sin. This extends to zygotes, fetus's, and the already dead but still on life support. My grandfather was a vegetable for weeks after a massive stroke, and my mom has never forgiven her siblings for pulling the plug. For ending his suffering, she condemns them for killing someone who had already been dead for weeks.

There is a single exception to this rule.

You are allowed, no, Encouraged, to murder and die for God.

If someone tells you to deny God, you are expected and supposed to become a martyr. If God was threatened, you were expected to kill for him.

Now, in my cozy White American Church, this was all spineless bluster. A bunch of parents who had lived blessed lives telling their children to kill themselves for a God they had sold them to.

So when the words “Let me die than ever sin again” fell from my childhood lips, I didn't question it. My life was God's, to use and throw away as he saw fit. I was to live by his whim and his alone.

I went to do the stations of the cross with my family this past weekend for good friday/easter not because i’m religious but because they are and i enjoy latently existing in religious spaces. However this time around I realized something that I think really got to the heart of why I stopped wanting to follow Catholicism.

During the stations there was this repeated phrase (I dont think this is universal but it might be) that says “Let me die than ever sin again” and I got to thinking about that and.

In its kindest, most gentle interpretation, sin is simply an action that brings us away from god. It’s the root of suffering because we aren’t one with god. The implications here are that sin makes god sad because he wants to be close to us absolutely and that for us to stop sinning makes us one with him, stops our suffering, and allows us to live as our most true, authentic selves. There’s a lot to unpack with that as it pertains to free will but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today.

What struck me today was how this must sound from god’s perspective. Or at least, from the perspective of a god who is truly omnipotent and unconditionally loving.

Now, I’m no theologian and I am just one guy but if I was a god, or ANYONE with any relationship with another human being, I don’t think that is… something I would want said about me? We are encouraged to view the relationship with god as a parent-child, close friend, and even in some CERTAIN, SPECIFIC, VERY TENUOUS contexts even as romantic. (Beware the blapshemy on that last one lest you be burned at the stake). I wouldn’t want someone I loved thinking that every time they fucked up they should just die. That’s horrible. I’d want them to get help for that. Even if they were trying, or even not trying, or not trying very hard, I wouldnt want them to feel like their closeness to me was contingent on them never screwing up ever. To the point where they’d rather die than mess up again. I’d look at them and say ‘girl get help.’

It also doesn’t sound like true love to me. It doesn’t sound like the words of someone who is trying their best but knows they are fallible and will be loved no matter what. It just sounds like self flagellation for the sake of self flagellation which I guess if you’re into that, cool.

That’s just me though. Maybe i’m a kinder god than most.

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@staff the boop needs to stay

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We don't use limericks enough as chants.

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The snail is the only truly disgusting thing here. Those motherfuckers can kill people.

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Read the article and never step foot on a plane again

the satellite view of the Moses Lake Municipal Airport in an arid stretch of Washington east of Seattle, or the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, where hundreds of Boeing 737 MAXes sit in abandoned parking lots waiting for someone to fix them so they can finally be delivered.

lol

lmao, even

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I'm sorry but this man made the single greatest clock ever and people are bitching? The original looks like something you could pick up at an estate sale for 50 bucks, the new one looks like a custom worth a grand or two.

the current thing trad losers are losing their minds over is one singular dude on reddit that refurbished and hand painted a grandfather clock and they keep saying the guy “ruined its value” or “threw thousands out the window by vandalizing a precious heirloom” and let me just say as someone densely familiar with the world of antiques, there’s a 99% chance that this clock was a mass produced reproduction and there’s a 100% chance that clock is not as valuable as ppl think it is. when people hear the word ‘grandfather clock’ they’re always gonna assume you’re talking about something that was handmade in a woodshop by a jolly old man when rlly repros take up a waaay bigger slice of the market far more than any handcrafted items. and besides people will repaint or redecorate these ‘oh so sacred handcrafted items’ every day there’s a huge market for them. it’s the same reason why people like long furbies or dolls that have been customized to have like gore mouths or something. this is literally like watching a bunch of pretentious farts make a mountain out of a molehill. also the clock is kinda cool if I’m being honest

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Rereading the Havamal, and...y'all, it's literally just Odin telling his villain origin story:

"I once got drunk and it made me look stupid. I once spoke in haste and it made me look stupid. I once trusted a deceptive woman and it made me look stupid. So in order to never look stupid again, I became a powerful wizard.

Unfortunately, knowing the minds of men better than they do is a terribly lonely existence, so take my advice and avoid doing literally everything I did and you'll be content in life.

(Did get some fucking awesome magic powers out of the whole ordeal though)."

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If you ever get to the point where you can tally which stories fall into which categories please share. This is an incredibly interesting observation

The more I examine the Norse Myths, the clearer it becomes which tales likely don't actually reflect the worldviews of the Norse people.

Like...there are a few tells. The first and most obvious is the fact a few stories were added/changed in order to make it seem like they are proto-versions of the stories found in Christian mythology (Ragnarok being analogous to Armageddon, Loki being portrayed as the Norse devil, etc).

But there are subtler things as well.

I'm beginning to notice there's a difference between the way stories present information. The function of some stories is to describe how something happened, whereas the function of others is describe what something is.

For example, it is said that Thor throwing down his hammer mjolnir on the heads of giants is what created the mountains and the valleys.

This is an example of a story that describes how something happened.

This stands in comparison to the story of Loki being bound beneath the earth. It's said earthquakes happen is because Loki is writhing from getting snake venom in his eyes.

This is an example of a story that describes what something is (in this case, what an earthquake is).

Now, it's really easy to think of these two stories as being identical, but the "tell" is that first story actually describes an event that can be witnessed: You can watch storms pass through the mountains and strike them with lightning. You cannot, however, see Loki punching and kicking beneath the ground.

Between the two belief systems, Christianity is the one that focuses heavily on describing worldly phenomenon through abstract concepts. We don't actually see this in most of the Norse stories, which are either for entertainment, or are an allegory for a felt experience.

I don't know, I'm just going to keep chipping away at this and see if it gets me anywhere, but I'm fascinated by this perspective so far.