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it isn't fair that snakes are so cute. they're so fucking cute. ggrra

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had an autism moment at the computer part store today

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don’t!!! fake!!!! your!!!! interests!!!! to!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

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the martian novel believes so strongly in hope that i never once considered that mark wouldn’t be rescued. from day 1 page 1 it was a given and i don't know why. i can't put my finger on it. i don't think it can entirely be chalked up to the humorous tone of the book bc there are tragicomedies out there that silly their way into an inevitably doomed ending. i think there's something about the book itself existing that presupposes mark's survival. even if the blurb on the back of the book is like 'will he survive?' that's not what the book is about. it's about how he'll survive. because even when he doesn't think he'll last or earth's rescue attempts blow up, we the readers just know he's going to make it. i think somehow the presupposed outcome is in the nature of a problem-solving book. i don't know how to explain this but i think andy weir's dedication to scientific accuracy is what promises mark's survival. unrealistic hope built on technical realism. you can tell he wrote the book from a framework of 'mark is going to survive. how do i realistically get him there' instead of 'would a person feasibly be able to survive on mars'. if it were less believable it would be less hopeful. can anybody hear me

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This cat is broken what the fuck

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2026 booktok discourse: sad books are a cognitohazard (they make you sad)

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Post of the year.

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JOEL MILLER + heartbreaking moments + bonus

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ads targeted to women: omg you are thirtyyyy. kill yourself

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mutuals, out of curiosity what season were you born in and what's your favorite season?

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– What are you thinking about?

PEDRO PASCAL as HARRY MATERIALISTS (2025) dir. Celine Song

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Candle Salad from 1959

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Maybe it's because I've followed the vaccines-cause-autism crowd for over a decade and a half now and so RFK Jr. and his insanity are not new to me, but as much as I think it's good to point out the horrible effects of what he's doing to our health infrastructure, I really don't think that he's doing this because he wants to do a eugenics and intentionally cull people from the population or whatever Bluesky doomers are saying. I think that is giving him way too much credit. He is that stupid, and his worm-brain has been so cooked on anti-vaccine conspiracies for so long, that he genuinely believes he's doing the right thing here. That's part of what makes him so incredibly dangerous: He's a true believer. He genuinely thinks he's helping by destroying our ability to fight infectious disease, among other things. And somehow even seeing dozens of Samoan children die as a direct result of his anti-vaccine advocacy didn't dissuade him in his crank crusade.

I think there's a sort of comfort in dooming for some people, and specifically in seeing everything you disagree with as coming from those people being fundamentally evil and cruel. And certainly, the Trump administration gives us plenty of examples of things where that is the case, where "the cruelty is the point" is fully accurate: everything about its immigration policies and enforcement, the crusade against diversity in every form, threatening universities and media companies that criticize Trump, the transphobia, the defunding of USAID and public broadcasting and national parks.

But I also think it's important to note that sometimes people support blatantly destructive, cruel policies because they are really really really really really really really fucking dumb.

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That was Dale Gribble