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One for sorrow Two for joy Three for a girl Four for a boy Five for silver Six for gold Seven for a secret never to be told

Eight for a wish Nine for a kiss Ten for a chance you must not miss Eleven for a wasp Twelve for a bee Thirteen for a coffee Fourteen for tea

Fifteen for a pencil Sixteen for a pen Seventeen to hear these options once again

Eighteen for pepper Nineteen for salt Twenty for an accident in which you were not at fault

Twenty one for Jerry Twenty two for Tom Twenty three - where are all these magpies coming from?

Twenty five no seriously Thirty this is weird Forty eight from where have all these magpies suddenly appeared?

Sixty two stop counting Seventy just run Ninety nine the revolution of the magpies has begun

Two hundred no more sorrow Five hundred no more fears One thousand for how long the empire of the magpies will last in years

(John Finnemore)

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Ah, shit. I have no idea what I'm supposed to be catching here!

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I made these for a LOTR shitposting group on Farcebork. But i figured Tumblr might also appreciate them.

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Me and my mutuals rebloging the same post

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I actually bothered to look at the email Tumblr sent me today suggesting five new blogs to follow but it just reads like an average Tumblr thread.

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I have thoughts about the whole feminist anti-interrupting thing. Like I agree, men do talk over people and it is disrespectful, but I also think there are cultures, specifically Jews, where talking over each other is actually a sign of being engaged in the conversation. It’s something I really struggle with in the south, because up in New York, even non-Jews participated in this cooperative conversation style, but down here, whenever I do it by accident, the whole convo stops and it gets called out and it’s a whole thing. Idk idk I feel like there’s different types of interruptive like there’s constructive interrupting where you add on to whatever is being said - helpful interrupting, and then there’s like interrupting where you just start saying something unrelated because you were done listening. I have ADHD so I’ve def done the latter too by accident, but I’m talking about being more accepting of the former.

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one of the best academic paper titles

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An unjustified or manufactured sense of exclusion or lost opportunity:

Fauxmo

Being edged out of an event or social engagement by someone with whom you have a measure of enmity:

Foemo

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If "frenemies" is a bit lukewarm, but you don't want to go full "enemies to lovers" just yet, we could try "friends with nemesits"?

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Reinventing 'reader'.

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Yes. Obviously yes.

Every single time yes.

Hey guys, I found this weird geometric object floating in space. Should I touch it?

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It's that time again. Seems to come around quicker every year.

Oh, hey. Apologies if you're a conventionally attractive woman who has a good photograph of yourself as your profile pic and a random string of nonsense as your description, and you were genuinely interested in the bilge I pump out here, I just assumed you were one of the fifteen pornbotblogs a day that follow me instead of any new real people, and reported you as spam.

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Why do right-wingers crackpots believe the most boring conspiracy theories?

Oh they’re putting things in the water/food/vaccines? Elites are sexual predators? How unimaginative.

How about something more creative like the government feeding radioactive isotopes to the mentally disabled?

Or giving black men fake syphilis treatments to study the disease?

Or kidnapping people and subjecting them to LSD and sensual depravation to try and develop mind control?

Or secretly hiring Nazi scientists to work in NASA?

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Shan't.

“Won’t” is the boldest fucking contraction like it really Did That. Just went for it, no shame.

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I haven't seen it get mentioned on Tumblr yet but Samsung has just gotten caught in a hilarious scam: they apparently advertised how their latest phones can take great picture of the moon, compared to other phones!

But it turns out they aren't using machine-learning to clear up blurry pictures, they're using machine-learning to detect when you're taking a picture of the moon, and then they swap in a saved PNG file of the moon.

A reddit user figured this out by taking a photo of the moon from Wikipedia, blurring it in photoshop, then trying to photograph it from across the room with all the lights turned out.

Their Samsung phone somehow managed to "clear up" the blurriness and recover details that weren't there in the first place. Because it's just cheating.