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“Smart people” who only consume “smart things” are just prisoners of their own self-image. “Intelligence” is less about just what you consume and more about the insights you can extract from whatever you engage with.

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PSA: Writing a book can take a looooong time. If you've been working on your project for a year, two years, five years... you're not doing anything wrong. If you've written three drafts and thrown them all away, if you can only write a hundred words a day, if you put your book down for six months and pick it up again only to be baffled by what you've written... Congratulations. You're not inefficient or slow. You're just a writer. Welcome to the writing life.

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When I saw Behind the Bastards was doing an episode on blood donation/selling, I got all nervous. I remember people saying that you shouldn't donate blood because it gets sold for money. It's incredibly expensive to test, store, transport, and hospitals will charge to use the blood on patients, etc, and lifesaving on top of all that, but who cares when there's a tasty conspiracy theory. (Like not saying the current industry is great by any means, just that people weren't interested in actually criticizing it.) And I didn't think BtB was gonna engage in that, but...

And then the episode is about how in the '70s Arkansas turned their prisons profitable by selling blood from inmates, without doing any testing or barring people with hepatitis and other infections, reusing needles, having untrained inmates do the blood draws, and basically any other cost cutting measure you can imagine.

The present sucks a lot, but the past is worst. It's just...it was so bad in all kinds of secret ways.

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(yes, that @gallusrostromegalus )

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I keep seeing people shaming others for surrendering their older dogs to shelters when they can no longer care for them and I cannot stress enough that that is the best possible situation.

‘A dog is for life. They should have done their research.’ Look. If a dog is 12 years old, I need not remind you that the dog was acquired before five years of a global pandemic and skyrocketing rental prices.

The pandemic has been a mass-disabling event that the owner could not have planned for when they got the dog 7 years prior. If a person cannot take care of themself and the dog, the best possible outcome is surrender.

Where I am, the leading cause of surrender is inability to find a place to live with the dog and it’s gotten so bad there are calls to reduce the number of rentals that ban pets. You cannot stay in a shelter with a dog. You cannot stay in a hotel with a dog. You cannot stay in subsidised housing with a dog. You cannot stay in most rentals with a dog. And no one can afford to purchase a home here. Surrendering a dog is much better than neither of them having a place to live.

And finally, shaming people for surrendering safely is how dogs get abandoned.

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"This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here."

GNU Terry Pratchett

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"do you want women competing against trans athletes" yes? I also want women competing against male athletes. and competing alongside them. because segregating sports by gender is extremely shitty actually?

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A quite insightful quote from Stormy Daniels.

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If you’re having writers block…READ!!!! CONSUME MEDIA

I feel like I don’t hear that given enough as advice for writers block..just read? Watch tv? Movies? Find inspiration in media.

Writers block is a lack of inspiration, so go collect more.

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The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

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a collection of my favorite tweets regarding the Ever Given in the Suez Canal

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Friendly reminder that the reason you feel so much better is because of your meds, don’t stop taking them unless you talk to your doctor first, you really do need them, I promise. 

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alt right movements in america have found such success bc of they r unified in their hatred. they got that brand loyalty level dedication to being evil. ppl on the left will spend five minutes giving a dissertation if u make the mistake of calling them a democrat

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the suffering never ends

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its all 'be gay do crime' until a black person starts making allusions to drugs or sex or god forbid VIOLENCE and then it turns out nobody can handle anything more hardcore than downloading illegal torrents of hamilton

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reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead