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My 4yo: *points to the label on my tea bag* what does that say?

Me: it says “over 300 years of experience”. It means the people at twinings have been making tea for 300 hundred years.

Her: *dramatic gasp* they haven’t even died?!

Me: *whispering* tea vampires…

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So how is it that second-hand embarrassment is the single most powerful and weakening emotion one can feel from media?

Tragedy? Delicious.

A hard-earned happy ending? Wonderful.

A convoluted narrative? Keeps you glued.

Simple slice of life? It’s entertaining.

Second-hand embarrassment? Hang on, g, I gotta pause this for fifteen minutes, no, I cannot continue watching this right now, I am just not strong enough.

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Fixin the sink with dad

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hello and welcome to my blog where i *gestures vaguely* have no idea what i’m doing.

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There are so many people who are obsessed with their identities and base them on ever-changing desires, feelings, and trends. It is reassuring to know that Jesus has provided those who accept Him a solid, firm foundation for our identity. We don’t need to rely on unstable feelings, or fixating on our gender, or picking out which political party seems morally correct, or letting our disabilities and illnesses define us, or considering our past sins and mistakes as the most important part of ourselves, or anything else to know who we are.

We know we are children of a loving, unchanging God. Our identity is in Him, not the world.

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As an equestrian, I have to point out that the last one is show jumping, not dressage.

I'm bored at work!!! Help me think of more ideas for this forklift safety sign

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I think it’s been said before but I really love how Tolkien does consequences of individual actions in his writing. For example Bilbo vs Gollum in regards to the ring. Gollum starts off his “relationship” to the ring with a murder and can’t let it go it consumes him. While Bilbo starts his with kindness by choosing not kill Gollum using the ring, and because of that he more able to give it up and then this act of kindness leads to middle earth being saved. I just really love how Tolkien continually shows how much individual actions and choices matter through his work. It’s one of the reasons he is one of my favourite authors.

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perplexiglass

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Now you see, I’ve watched enough cartoons to know that this square of the carpet is on a separate animation cell from the background & therefore something funky will happen if I step on it. You won’t catch me making a rookie mistake like that no sir!

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i knew this day would come. i saw it on the calendar

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Every single person who has refused to condemn or stayed silent in the face of the onslaught of rising global antisemitism, your silence is deafening and now we’re at the point of pogroms in European cities.

Never Again is Now.

I stand with the Jewish people in solidarity, today, every day, proudly, unhesitatingly and unapologetically.

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If you have a PhD or an MD you can say shit like “Doctor’s orders” and you sound authoritative and powerful but if you’re a step short of those and you say “Master’s orders” you sound cringe as hell and possibly corrupted by the One Ring, this sucks