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I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT

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"It is worth trying to dissect how certain root causes and social dynamics lead some groups of people to become radicalised" and "We are not obligated to centre or coddle the feelings of extremists" are two statements that can and should co-exist, actually.

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- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

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I'm just curious. I feel fortunate to live somewhere that a lot of kids trick or treat (I gave out 2 big bowls worth of candy tonight!). But most people I know can't actually hand out candy for one of the above reasons.

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it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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County roads

Full of holes

On the route

I need to go

Road construction

Lane obstruction

Let me go

County roads

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“Ḷ̷̨̢̯̬̥̣̼̹͖̹̏̐̌̆͑͗͋̾̄̓͘ͅa̴̘͂͗̔̐̊m̸̛̱̪͈͈̰͔̩̬̟̺̟͐̈́̄́̈́͌̎́̕p̷̢̳̫̞͖̤̖̬̲͙͌͂̍͆̐̋̒̓͋͝”

Day 24 - Goth Moth

Cometh the hour, cometh the moth.

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asking people to be mindful of others when sharing a communal space (especially one you cannot just up and leave from) is not selfish or misanthropic. come on now

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Bro radfems are so funny what even is this lol

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being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

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They're in love your honor

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I can think of a really easy solution to this problem.

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newbie asked if we're supposed to look out for 'red flags' in interlibrary loan requests in reference to a request a patron had made for a book about cannibalism. she was looking expectantly at me like she was expecting me to be equally aghast at this........girl why would you work at a library if you want to play book police

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there are two competing sects on this website - one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "neurodivergent" and one that uses the word "spicy" to mean "sexual content." i do not like either of them

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