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sometimes you just need to summon this flowchart as an overlay of your vision

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"I wrote a pep talk recently to myself on a bar napkin: no matter which road you take, it will be both glorious and unbearable. Every road is lonely. Every road, holy. The only error is not walking forth.

"Yesterday, a friend in California, when giving me directions, told me I could take the trail toward the tall pines or turn left and find a field of poppies, growing gold and savage at the edge of the valley.

"When I asked which to choose, she simply shrugged and said: either way, it's all heaven."]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

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god, i fucking hate this part. i miss pete & the cats a lot & i'm feeling very estranged & i want to go home but now i'm crying while packing my suitcase because i'm also homesick for pittsburgh. MY pittsburgh. even though i had to take a fucking ativan every single day just to cope with the firehose of cynicism & negativity & hateful opinions that is i guess part of my working-class familial heritage or whatever. mumble grumble holding the paradox MY ASS

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I fucking love seeing people outside wave at the train. What joy!!!!!

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Double child prodigy whose spy work was so secretive his cover story was that he was working in the nuclear program and quit music to teach undergraduate math classes on the strength of a bachelor's degree from Harvard and refused interviews for the last 20 years of his life including when he without explanation put all of his music in the public domain is such a delightful mid-century American character. Plus he invented the Jello shot. They just don't make them like that anymore. They probably can't.

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Someone on Amtrak’s social media team deserves a raise like N O W. 😂

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Pete just walked into the living room with a plate of melted-in-the-microwave cheddar cheese and said to me: it’s not just a meal, it’s a lifestyle.

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i regret to inform y'all that i am watching twin peaks for the very first time & i fell in love with agent cooper almost immediately

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"you don't owe anyone anything" You are a tar pit. Speak for yourself. I personally owe the cafe employees my dishes put away and my friends a listening ear and small scared insects a cup and a gentle trip outside. Hyperindividualism is a rancid infection borne of capitalism and willfully misinterpreted therapyspeak and I will defy it by continuing to be kind regardless of whether or not it benefits me personally

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¡Kike Hernandez le pregunta a Carlos Correa si el usa una copa!

@kikehndez

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"I'm queer. Just bi, though. Which means I'm dating a man... But I dress all fucking stupid."

Julia Desmond, Cracked Comedy Club, June 21, 2025 (YouTube / Instagram)

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every time I mention how many days sober I am I appreciate people congratulating me and telling me to keep up the good work. it is nice. but I also wish that milestones in addiction recovery weren’t still so pinned to length of sobriety/abstinence

yeah yeah I’m 50 days sober who cares. how about the fact that, when I do drink, it tends to be nipped in the bud after two days nowadays instead of weeks or months? how about the fact that drinking has been condensed to a six pack because I’m at the end of my tether, instead of browning out every night? how about my friend who has decided to stop drinking alone, and is actually sticking to that? recovery doesn’t always look like sobriety and I wish it was more normal to talk about that. yknow. when addiction is normal to talk about at all

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I have a theory that one of the primary drivers behind the federal government's drive to sell off millions of acres of our collective national treasures out west is to drill and dig more fossil fuels to power a proliferation of data centers around the country. Doug Burgum, current Secretary of the Interior, is an ex-Microsoft technocrat who no doubt has friends in the IT world counting on his leadership to exploit natural resources on BLM land to fuel expansion of AI and other operations at their data centers. These data centers require enormous amounts of electricity to cool their facilities and have a non-trivial impact on the environment. But in a country now run at the pleasure of billionaire technocrats, such as Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and others, there is no greater need than to serve their own wealth and well-being. The rest of us pay the price, literally, for their self-service. A case in point is an enormous data center proposed within walking distance of two of West Virginia's most popular tourist towns, Thomas and Davis. Ten thousand acres worth of buildings, infrastructure, noise, light pollution and environmental devastation in heart of West Virginia's most beautiful mountain country. The West Virginia DNR is actively helping the data center's owner to hide crucial information about pollutants. This is absolute, fucking madness. But this is the world the billionaire technocrats imagine for themselves, and they're not interested in what the rest of us think or how we are impacted by their decisions. What I can say is, as of today, we all still have a vote and come mid-terms there is an opportunity to course correct, to take the power away from the billionaire technocrats and their supporters in Congress to sell off our public lands (which we collecively own) and plant their data centers without regulation and oversight wherever they please. This is a generational fight and it may be our last chance to assert the authority of the people to save our public lands.

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

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i was trying to find a name credit for the photo (it's a getty image) & i did not find one yet, but i DID find this article from MEL magazine in 2020 about two accounts i can't believe i never knew about, SADLY NOW DEFUNCT PRESUMABLY DUE TO THE ENSHITTIFICATION OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, "Tender Sports Touches" and "Baseball Is Cute." anyway, still a good article:

“In particular, Hannah [founder of Baseball Is Cute] liked that sports often provide ample opportunity for straight dudes to show physical affection for each other — from butt slaps to dick bumps — with no judgment (if anything, it’s encouraged). ‘Sometimes I wonder if that’s something that subconsciously draws men to sports,’ she tells me. ‘[Maybe they want] not like sexual contact, but physical, emotional connections with other men that are discouraged in other contexts.’”

Baseball players Bob Lemon & Gene Bearden post-victory kiss in locker room