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Quill Kips - Earl Grey Tea by Griff

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How to tell if you're in a historical Chinese drama:

(Inspired by this classic!)

Someone offends you unforgivably by calling you by your actual name.

You are preparing for a bloody battle in the rain. Your boots are made of exquisitely embroidered silk duchesse.

Everyone you know is god-tier beautiful. You ignore this.

Significant tea is being poured.

Your soulmate tells you in plain words that they love you. You comically misunderstand what they said, and will keep doing so, because the plot is not over yet.

The only thing more elaborate than the villain's cunning plan is the engineering of your man-bun.

Duels are scored like gymnastics routines. To beat your opponent, try a triple-twisting double tucked salto.

You have been married for thirty years. You have never seen your spouse's wrist.

Sometimes peasants and servants are killed horribly in front of you. It's a normal part of life. The other peasants will presumably take care of the practicalities, such as burial and being upset.

Any injury, including a broken nail, makes you vomit blood.

The year is 400 AD. French tips have been invented.

You're on a moon bridge and you are yearning.

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Alysa Liu performs to Promise at the 2025 US National Championships, placing first in the short program with 76.36 points. This is her first national championships since her retirement from competition in 2022. Liu was a 2-time National Champion in 2019 and 2020.

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Every sinner that dies without repenting is a tragedy, hope this helps

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they need to start making clothes out of material that can clean glasses well again

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Every time someone defends the murder of this healthcare ceo for any reason whatsoever, they lose all of my trust and good opinion. All of it. You can agree with someone's ideology without praising an evil and vile act which has done irreparable damage to multiple lives.

Injustice never creates justice.

Killing never stops killing.

The second you start assigning value to a person's life based on their economic status, potential to spark a revolution, job, political opinions, affiliations, ability or disability, age, gender, race, etc. etc. etc. you are only creating a new villain: yourself.

Once you go down that road of assigning value and saying you have the right to declare who has the right to live and who it's ok to kill to make a point, there is no point where enough is enough, there is no line past that where you magically arrive at a fair and just society. Instead, it will get more and more out of control, more and more nuanced on who can be dehumanized in the name of humanity. It won't just be the 1%ers and CEOs, it will be the manager of the local market who has a comfortable house bc other people don't get comfortable houses so it isn't right for them to have it.

This is literally a line where once you cross it, everything is fair game. Any act of violence against another person can be rationalized and deemed righteous by this way of thinking.

It never ends. At some point you will look at the horror and the blood and the grief that you gave your approval to and realize the person standing next to you could decide you're next, bc you possess something that they want and do not have or think is wrong for you to have, and by the measure you have measured others you will be found lacking.

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you have to admit there are some joys in life that can only be felt due to hardship. a common example is steaming hot showers. it takes a cold day, or a sickness, for someone to experience the joy of a hot shower. you can’t enjoy it in the heat. then there’s the joy of a fulfilling sleep, often achieved through a tiring day. and there’s the joy of a reunion, achieved through separation. and there are many more examples. sometimes difficulty carries a special range of joys and that’s something to be thankful about.

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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If you're avoiding your spiritual life and obligations because you feel empty, step up. Show up. Offer God even your emptiness. He'll fill you.

You might not feel it right away, you might not feel it for a while. That's okay--our religion is not about feelings. As long as we persevere one day at a time with our trust in Him, we will prevail. Amen? Amen.

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'People are panicking about AI tools the same way they did when the calculator was invented, stop worrying' cannot stress enough the calculator did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives, has such a low error rate it's a statistical anomaly when it does happen, isn't built on mass plagiarism, and does not obliterate the fucking environment when you use it. Be so fucking serious right now

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chatgpt is the coward's way out. if you have a paper due in 40 minutes you should be chugging six energy drinks, blasting frantic circus music so loud you shatter an eardrum, and typing the most dogshit essay mankind has ever seen with your own carpel tunnel laden hands

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If anyone remembers the old story about how male prisoners were found to be calmed when their cells were painted pink; (oft cited to prove that the color pink has a calming effect on men) apparently this research was replicated with other paint colors and it was found that any color of paint has the same effect, including painting the walls the same color that they were before. As it turns out, you have to clean in order to paint, and people are happier when their environment has been recently cleaned. The obvious takeway is that correlation does not equal causation, but the even MORE obvious takeaway is the many times proved but seldom acknowledged law that one should never attempt to extrapolate general principles out of studies done in a prison

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On my hands and knees begging adults to allow children to engage in risk play.

And by risk play I don't mean handing them a gun and playing Russian Roulette.

I mean like climbing trees, getting so sick spinning on the swing they throw up, balancing on the curb, sitting in the mud, walking on slippery surfaces, building half ass ramps to ride their bike over, standing on rocks, or anything that involves a smidgen of confidence and out of the box thinking that could result in injury.

Obviously like watch your kids and such, but when we talk about the fun of being an 80s or 90s kid, it's not just talking about CDs and Walkmans or not having iPads. It's about how kids today were robbed of critical learning and experience skills we were allowed to have.

Playgrounds disappearing, helicopter parents, and sue culture really destroyed a child's development in the United States, and I think it's about time we as adults recognize that, because the kids sure have.

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Another one… just endless inspiration It’s so heartbreaking