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yayyy girls i love you girls. thank you girls

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The Assassin's Teapot

The assassin’s teapot is a cleverly designed container that can pour from different reservoirs depending on how it’s held. Steve Mould digs into the physics in this video, and he builds a transparent cutaway version of the pot to show exactly how it works.  (Video and image credit: S. Mould) Read the full article

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the first law of tragedies: the end is already written and inevitable. the second law of tragedies: your actions are all your own and you can choose to get off this ride whenever you want. the third law of tragedies: we both know that you are never going to do that.

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just because elphaba is gay doesn't mean she's a friend of dorothy. in fact,

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the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

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resolutions for 2025

believe and accept this simple truth: you are easy to love.

give abundantly and expect abundance in return. walk away from those that drain you.

be open be open be open.

discover yourself over and over, as many times as you need to. greet yourself each time like an old friend.

the connection to your body is holy. listen closely. find every path to ground.

love your people as best you can.

boundaries are blessings. thank others for their yes's and their no's.

embrace the both/and, the everything/but, the multitudes.

honor, trust, embody, and show up for your authentic self. authenticity is courage, authenticity is truth.

plant the seeds of community and tend to them as they grow.

move towards joy. choosing happiness for yourself is never wrong.

don't fight upstream; let the river carry you. release what you cannot control.

(see 2024's resolutions here)

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never inviting the origami guy to the smoke sesh again. he folded up the last of our flower into a beautiful dove that flew away on the wind, inspiring a melancholic but still uplifting reverence in all of us

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we should start giving testosterone to ants

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there is a judge in Seattle who does the weekly name change hearings, and who says it's her favorite part of the week. she says she doesn't read out previous names, or ask about the reasons why people want to change them. she says it's a beautiful moment, and a celebration; a claiming of a new identity, or a reclamation of an old identity. she encourages the room to clap for folks. then she welcomes everyone up, one by one, by last name and with warmth; she shows them the court order where nobody else can see, asks them to double check the spelling, and then they're done! do they want a picture? do they want their friends and loved ones who came with them to be in it too? do they want the court order in the photo? she helps everyone pose, shakes hands and stands with them for as long as they need to take it, recruits the clerk for help taking photos of the folks who came alone. then she tells them where to go next, congratulates them, and claps along with the rest of the room.

probably three quarters of the people there were trans, and she centered their experience quietly, with love and joy.

I think I'll be thinking about her a lot this January, and for a long time after. it's good to know she's there.

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Faux Pas: French for "fox pass", this is when a behavior or comment that is otherwise considered socially unacceptable is allowed because a fox did it and foxes cannot be held responsible for their actions. It is spelled wrong because the French like to feel special.

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creating a perfect little clone of my consciousness to live in the computer so I can live forever after I die, which is not a complicated ethical or existential quandary to me

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mwaaaah ! In these trying times.

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Just a dandy boy 🌻

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bored of puppyboys and catboys. lets consider the humble fishboy, who you can stick hooks in and also gut with a knife. and he loves it

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and i find it kind of runny. i find it kind of bad. <-mad world if it was about someone making their first fried egg

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arcane is problematic because it normalizes league of legends

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i just hope dykes like me. thats what its all about really