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And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins

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there's this word in Serbian 'vukojebina' which literally means 'the place where wolves go to fuck' but they use it to mean 'in the middle of nowhere'. it sure does the job well, but the visual stayed with me longer than I would have liked it to.

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The mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell is a fact which is often discussed on the internet. The Golgi apparatus, however, being the post office of the cell, has not gotten nearly as much recognition. This is in line with the years-long underfunding of the postal service, which provides a deeply important service to society yet does not get the recognition it deserves. In this essay I will

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a day used to be 24hrs and cost $5 but nowadays a day only lasts 5hrs and they charge ya $20 just to live it. and you have to pay with an app

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i’m crying this might be father mulcahy’s gayest look

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This society teaches from small children that boys and girls are foreign creatures from each other, and then we wonder why misogynists don't see women as people with all the same emotions and thoughts as they have.

They are told that girls are inscrutable aliens, and then we wonder why toxic pick up artists who treat women like video games to win are so successful.

We set them up for expectations that their wife is someone to be used for sex but at best never understood and at worst someone to resent for the rest of their lives, and we wonder why heterosexual relationships are so toxic.

Little boys are told to look up to male superheroes, but that admiring a female superhero makes them a f*ggot. They're told to see themselves in boys in stories, but never in the girls.

We're all fucking people, we have more in common than not, but that's not what we teach children. And we wonder why these problems persist.

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it is november, and yesterday it felt like it was supposed to be snowing. in boston, november used a winter month, not a fall month. it is supposed to be chilly; rarely capping over 45F. it is a sweater-and-jacket month. it is a "maybe a scarf too" month. in my childhood, november meant blizzards and sleet.

it did not snow. tomorrow the weather predicts a high of 76.

i have spent so many years of my life studying the longterm possibilities of climate change - the culmination of capitalism wreaking havoc on the bodies of people, animals, plants - but every so often i am still shocked by something small and personal.

in a hundred years, when someone goes outside in boston - will they know the feeling of "snow in the air"?

i know it's a learned feeling, a sensation that maybe only longterm experience can teach. a few years ago, i was walking with my friend who had just moved up from the south. i said it smells like snow and she gave me this look like - what the fuck. i said it feels like snow too, which didn't help. she looked up to the bright blue sky and then back at me and then back at the sky. 12 hours later, we had 3 inches. you can just tell if it's going to snow.

except i can't tell, anymore. i stand outside in a tee shirt and watch my dog dance around a lake. we're in a drought and the skin of the water has peeled back twenty meters. the lake is tamed, quiet, puddlelike and sour. my pokemon go app warns there's a weather condition in my area.

my dog gets too hot from running and sits in the water and i want to laugh about his long frame and how awkwardly he sits - and i can't. some simian part of my brain is scratching the walls. it was supposed to snow. it was supposed to snow, but now it's warm instead.

during the last full solar eclipse, the dogs and the birds and the crickets went crazy under utter darkness. we laughed at them then, promising it will all be okay in a moment. but some part of me is still locked in that long night: some animal sensation.

something is wrong, my body says. i can't afford eggs or rent. i go outside to watch a sunset and listen to birdsong. i don't bring a jacket. allergies are killing me this season, allergies i didn't have as a kid. everyone comments that halloween has started to feel strange, offkilter. that it's hard having "holiday cheer." my body thinks it's april, and then it thinks we're in september, and then june.

something is terribly wrong, she whispers. go outside. it is supposed to be snowing.

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Today I learned that skyscrapers often have a Tuned Mass dampener in their heart that keeps them from wobbling so much in strong winds or earthquakes that the people inside feel it. Basically a pendulum that swings counter to the outside force to stabilize things.

And sometimes they look like this:

And I don't know why I've never seen a fight scene on one of them. Look at that scifi-ass thing.

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I don't know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won't break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you're really worried ok?

Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don't like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.

Even if you already know. Even if you're comfortable with how you use it now. You don't just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it's good for you to at least know what's available to you.

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“true love” this, “endgame” that. what about “compelling dynamic that’s fun to explore”

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"Oh, Father."

Deluge || Episode Twenty-Three || Season Four

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We respect all types of work boots in this house. Like to charge, reblog to cast

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I think about this blooper a lot… being able to tell exactly when Mike realizes he doesn’t know his line, Alan’s immediate “you fuck!” (there’s other bloopers where he’s cursing in Italian and those are also chef’s kiss), Bill’s very Mulcahy-esque reaction to hearing a swear… what’s not to love

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"It was just a joke!"

Sure. It also wasn't very funny and it bombed. And now you have to deal with that.