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Unfortunately you will talk like a tumblr user for your entire life. Sorry.

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thank you pokemon very awesome

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I had THE most impeccable dream last night.

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eating michigan shaped sour candy rn. i'm being informed they're called michigummies

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worlds loudest HELL YEAH BROTHER heard projecting from the back of this costco

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The FBI: what’s up with this Erdös guy, there is no way anyone could be that into math

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Top: in a 1995 developer interview for Yoshi's Island, Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that during development, Baby Mario would transform into a full-grown Mario when collecting the Super Star. In the finished version, he transforms into "Powerful Mario", a form of Baby Mario with a cape, instead.

Bottom: internal files which surfaced in 2020 revealed the actual unused graphics of the full-grown Mario form that Miyamoto was talking about in the interview.

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WASHINGTON — Congress is supposed to have the power to control government spending as laid out by the framers of the U.S. Constitution. Lately, though, congressional Republicans are more than happy to sit back and hand over the reins to President Donald Trump.

Trump has benefited from an unprecedented expansion of executive power in recent months. With the blessing of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the president has moved to unilaterally freeze spending, shutter government agencies, and levy massive tariffs — all authorities that are technically under the purview of the legislative branch.

The lack of courage to stand up to Trump — even on something fundamental like the power of the purse — has left senior lawmakers of both parties deeply frustrated.

“At what point are my Republican colleagues going to stand up for this branch of government? Why would you run for office?” fumed Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) in a Wednesday speech on the Senate floor, objecting to the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) without congressional approval.

“We are lawmakers. We should be legislating,” added Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). “What we’re getting now is a direction from the White House and being told this is the priority… I don’t accept that.”

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okay but the American education system literally didn't tell us how to defend against horse archers

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ewww

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One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

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*Dead media (assassinated)

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From capitalstitchco on Threads