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some people escape into fiction to imagine a world where you don't have to pee, some people do the opposite

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they're prepping me for autopsy but i sit up and say "oh no thank you" and walk out of the room

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Liveblogging this autopsy

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Popular culture already collapses basically everything between classical antiquity and Queen Victoria into a generic blob of "basically medieval", and it feels like that span is spreading. I half-expect that within my lifetime I'm going to see media that unironcally lumps large portions of the 1900s into that "basically medieval" blob, and I'm dying to see pop culture's interpretation of a generically medieval 1990s.

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This.

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wikipedia vandalism is actually insane if it happens perfectly. at one point my brother edited a fictionalized version of himself into our town's history, just as a random side character, and then some local historical societies lifted it without citing the source as wikipedia, and then wikipedia cited them, so now it's true

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The Time Before Land. It's like The Land Before Time, but set in the Cambrian.

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ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

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I like my men how I like my laptops, thick and full of holes

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— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

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obviously im of the belief that labelling food abd the ingredients it contains as clearly as possible is really good practice, and i highly approve of it

but the specific sense of comedy thats invoked in you when you look at a dish that is almost entirely a certain ingredient and theres a little sign next to it that reads “THIS ITEM CONTAINS [INGREDIENT]” is something that cannot be ignored

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I don't like that dishwashers and washing machines are separate things. They should build a combo unit that can do either

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Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

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Swimming rabbit

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