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[ID: Two pictures of a xatu pokemon plush with small cookies that look like natu. The first picture is close up of the plush with a cookie resting against it. In the second picture there are many small green cookies with icing details resting on a cooling tray. The plush is wearing a necklace of colorful plastic beads. End ID]

NATU ARMY GROWS. They're edible now

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monk haircut iono.

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Year of the snake

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happy new year's, trainers! here's a list of our most and least visited bulbapedia articles for those who're interested in seeing :)

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“No that’s an oil tank I’m not interested” 😂

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You can tell a lot about the health of a civilization by their warning signs. Places with a lot of dumb folks will have very broad, very dumb warnings in public. "No feeding the birds." "Stop swimming in this drainage pond." That kind of thing.

Advanced civilizations have very precise signs. They've covered the bases of their regular, run-of-the-mill idiots, and now they're working hard to cover that other end of the bell curve: the talented idiot. When I was in Germany last time, there was a big warning sign that consisted of a 76-letter-long word that means "stop bothering this particular goose, Sven." I don't know who Sven was, but the goose looked pretty calm. It worked.

Now, I have a secret to tell you. You can just make your own signs. There's no law against it, except perhaps "littering," and the municipal sign factory doesn't have very good security. If you show up there past close and put in the door code that you shoulder-surfed off one of the employees returning from lunch a week prior, you have all night to fuck around with their sign-printing machine, making the most official-looking placards you can think of.

Is this wrong? I don't think so. It's a public space, and being able to put up an aluminum sign that says wacky crank shit is your right. For instance, just last week, I banned pickup trucks from parking by the playground. The cops figured out something was going on, because they didn't get any calls for toddlers getting backed over for a couple of days and sent a patrol truck to investigate. Took my sign right down.

What I discovered after that is that nobody keeps records of what signs are supposed to be there. Why would anyone put up a sign for no reason? They cost money, after all. The city is now suing the shit out of that officer for stealing the "no trucks" sign, thanks to an anonymous tipster who called in the theft. Guy wearing a reflective vest came by and put like four more of them up after the lawsuit made the news, just out of spite. I'm not entirely sure if he's actually a city worker; we ran into each other at 3am at the sign factory and just grunted. He was working on some really crazy signs about not feeding a particular swan. Probably German.

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Shout out to Linda. The he/him asexual woman from my psychology quiz from a few years ago

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“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

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the cincinnati zoo is in possession of a wild grinch

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Avatar: The Last Airbender 1.05 | The King of Omashu

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia // Abbott Elementary

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more lasso tool experimenting this time it's the iconic scary dog privileges panel Hooray!

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Love when I get to see updates to old training modules, especially this little nugget of wisdom they added in here:

"Law enforcement can unknowingly (and sometimes knowingly) escalate a crisis situation simply because they are there. For some people, seeing police vehicles or officers creates anxiety. However, it has been researched that when law enforcement partner and collaborate with behavioral health professionals, this reduces unnecessary hospitalization and incarceration." (SAMHSA, 2020)

like...yeah, no shit, guys

The biggest problem is that cops either aren't trained to deescalate these types of situations properly or they just don't care what happens to the other person, for whatever reason - usually because they knowingly hate addicts and disabled people

But I'm the one repeatedly telling other staff here never to let the police into the building unless you want them inside, like in the event of someone causing serious problems and refusing to leave. The police aren't granted permission without your say-so, and that especially goes for goddamn parole officers who seem to think they're entitled to just enter a secured building without authorization even if you've told them multiple times how that is Literally Illegal, so you have to stand your ground with all of them and tell them to fuck off if the circumstances won't allow for them to be let inside. Surely they know just being outside our building is a massive stressor for all of our clients, and yet they think they can just waltz inside

Like, yes, collaboration is necessary but it isn't on the behavioral health workers' side that the problem needs fixed, so what the hell

Also love that they added a "systemic change" section to this training like "hey this is an issue that is so ingrained in everything and we definitely can't just train you to resolve it but hey just be aware of it, okay?" Oh, gee, thanks for the reminder

The state of things, man...

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One time in college I told a guy "I am interested in sex" and he responded by recommending me some books on the sociology of sex

okay that’s funny

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If you make a woman in bulky armor in your video game and then pull an uno reverse and are like “oh she was skinny underneath her armor!” you are a coward and also my enemy