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everyones doing their end of year recaps really early. we still have like five days. heres a preview of mine though: i didnt collect any numbers about myself or my activities and im going to keep that one going. i didn't learn some set of major philosophical or otherwise broad lessons about how you're supposed to behave or do things. next year im going to make crepes #crepes

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all humans descend from an ancient warrior race of 12 foot tall pigmen berserkers which is where the genetic memory required to build pyramids and iphones comes from

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I saw this really interesting (pretty!) looking kitty at a shelter. What is this coloring?

PS, it's a great shelter (I used to volunteer there), I'm sure this cat found a wonderful home

a dilute black (blue) tortoiseshell ! with a random funky bit of cream on the forehead :p

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While taking a nap today I dreamt there was a hazard sign called "never found" which was used to indicate a location where people disappeared never to be seen again

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"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"

Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.

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Hey I’m really sorry if this is weird and you can delete it if it is but I had a dream last night that you were like going through a divorce??? Like in real life??? (Idk if you’re even married in real life???) So all your cat drawings stopped being cute and fun and you started only posting like pics of sad little cats going “NO MORE LOVE!!” and “BROKEN-ASS MARRIAGE!!”

dreams to reality

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can you guys watch my normal dog for a second I have to run to the bathroom

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I think sometimes people think eugenics is bad but its still true, like thinking that if people with certain traits have children it will change society for better or worse based upon what traits are promoted. I think its important to emphasize that eugenics is not only wrong morally it's also fake and stupid bullshit

Like eugenics was supposed to be based on the idea that "If it works with animals to select only the best ones to breed, why wouldn't it work with humans?"

well it doesn't work with animals, that's the thing. applying the eugenics ideas to domestic breeds of animals hasn't made better animals it's just made animals with more extreme expression of certain traits. turns out that when you decide which traits are the "best" and become obsessed with the genetic purity of the animals that have the "best" traits, you might well end up with some sad suffering creature like a Pug, or the Persian cats with the smashed faces that are in constant pain because their teeth and airways and brains are getting crushed by their skulls, or those meat chickens that grow so fast they can hardly even stand up after a few weeks old, or inbred race horses with tiny feet and fragile toothpick legs

like almost all traits are neither "good" or "bad" they're way more complex than that. a long tail or a long snout or a stubborn, independent personality can be good or bad depending on the situation. Who gets to decide what is a "good" trait or a "bad" trait? It's arbitrary and selecting for traits that are "good" in your opinion will often have both "good" and "bad" outcomes because the "good" and "bad" are part of each other and not separate its just part of being alive

Obviously oversimplifying everything but you get it. we did eugenics with dogs and how did that go? not very well

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Oh my god this person found a leopard slug with its eyestalks fused together??? One super long stalk but it still has two eyes on the end. That's the cutest thing in the entire world. And then it had a ton of babies but JUST ONE baby inherited the mutation!!

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screaming THAT'S A SAW FISH every time i look up saw sharks bc the images are all jumbled up together

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What if Pokemon & Animal Crossing had a crossover game? #20 Made in Blender. Merry Toy Day y'all :>

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PRESENTING THE FIRST EVER THE PEOPLE'S THE GAME AWARDS!!!

Live on December 31st at 4pm Pacific!

Did your favorite game get snubbed at the game awards this year? Do you wish you had the power to speak up and change this? Do you wanna see even more bitches talk in a room about video games you didn't play? Well you're in luck! @dorothylarouge and @brucebocchi and I have got a whole awards ceremony lined up for THE PEOPLE'S the game awards! Voted by you--yes, YOU! Tune in for a retrospective on this year's best games, lots of goofy segments in between awards, and a proper send off to 2024!

Vote in the categories RIGHT HERE!!!

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someone paid money for a type of twitter ad that’s usually meant for promoting TV shows and movies and used it to get your account to tweet out the word ‘carp’ and link the wikipedia page for carps when you click the link

so now for the last hour half of the tweets on everyone’s twitter timeline has been just the word ‘carp’

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cred: chris maggio