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Wooper's Big Adventure in Milan

I visited Milan for Pokémon Go City Safari! There were thousands of players, lots of beautiful sights to explore, and perfect weather. My little friend and I had a great time.

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got stuck on the toilet earlier and my inner monologue started coming in cookie monster's voice for some reason

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John Turturro on working with Christopher Walken in Severance.

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“apologist.” “critical.” y’all are doing too much. when my favorite characters do evil reprehensible shit I simply don’t fucking care cause it’s not real

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JOHN TURTURRO as Pino Fragione Do the Right Thing 1989 | dir. Spike Lee

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why does my mother suddenly fail kindergarten whenever she tries to do anything on the computer

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I live near and often walk past an old graveyard with many headstones belonging to families from the 1800s. Most have at least one person who died as a child or young adult listed. Numerous stones have 2, 3, or 4 people in the same family with a tragically young age of death listed.

Most people alive today don't get how beneficial modern medicine is to us because we've never lived in a world without these things.

There was a TikTok post about an advertisement for “blood-making pills for weak women” someone found in a newspaper from the 1890s and everybody seemed to think it was just an example of the weird misogyny of the day and age but no. Anemia was a massive public health concern. It always has been through history but part of the reason we have this idea of old timey women thought history being physical weak, chronically cold and pale and fainting is because they often they were. Anemia was also a massive problem for men in that day but even now it disproportionally affects people who menstruate. So tonics full of stimulants and “healthful vitamins” were marketed at young women in pages upon pages of advertisements in every newspaper. People generally felt like shit all the time back then.

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"Killing Izzy was a horrendous narrative mistake" and "S2 baited Stizzy and Steddyhands so hard to get people to watch because they knew it was shit" and "We weren't mad because Izzy died, we were mad because S2 was objectively shit (even though many of us were thrilled with it until the final episode aired)" and "David Jenkins' holiday special is horrifically ableist" are all things I have read in bsky's OFMD tab today. Is everyone quite well. Do you know you can just... let the show go.

Continuing to be mad about media you hate is just perplexing to me, but I think I'm just built different (worse). I give up on things so fast. I've quit more shows than I've finished. If media pisses me off, I drop it and run. There's so much stuff in the world to love; why would I stick around a fandom that I hate when I could enjoy things instead?

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BRUCE CAMPBELL as Ashley Joanna “Ash” Williams in Army of Darkness (1992)

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Evil Dead 2

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Big year for snakes.

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Shoutout to my favorite behind the scenes pic

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the evil dead is the funniest frenchise ive ever seen. this dude named ashley barely survived the weirdest possessed house ever? send him there again, fuck it. oh he survived again? send his ass to a 13th century legend. oh he survived again? send him to walmart bro i don't know

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spin this wheel of hobbies

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obsessed with the Helena and Irving parallel and what it says about the aspects of our identity we think are fundamental (but aren't)...

Like Outie Irving assumes his Innie is just as radically anti-Lumon as he is. He assumes his hatred of Lumon is something ingrained in his personality! That's why he stays up at night drinking coffee and making paintings, because he hopes that when his innie dreams about the testing floor, he'll say "okay bet" and start exploring. That's what Outie Irving would do, after all. But he miscalculated! His hatred of Lumon isn't inherent--- his desire for meaning and art and spirituality is inherent. That's what his hatred for Lumon is built on. But in a world where there's no meaning outside of Lumon propaganda, of COURSE his innie would become ridiculously devoted to the company.

And Helena!! She is the corporation, that's her whole identity. She presumably assumed that Helly would be just as pro-Lumon as she is. But she miscalculated too! Her devotion to the company isn't inherent, her headstrong and entitled nature is what's inherent! And in a world where she's denied any agency whatsoever, that manifests as rebellion.

It's the same dynamic flipped on its head. They both sent their innies in there with opposite intentions--- one to take down the company, one feed the company's expansion--- only to realize that rebellion and devotion aren't inherent characteristics. Their innies have become the exact opposite of their outie selves, while still being exactly the same!! Because even though your personality is inherent, the values you hold are determined circumstantially. OUGH IT'S SO GOOD.