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my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk

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I love you Lisa Frank, I love you Hello Kitty, I love you bedazzled everything, I love you Barbie, I love you Bratz Dolls, I love you Totally Spies, I love you animal print, I love you My Little Pony, I love you glittery lipgloss, I love you tacky keychains, I love you gel pens, I love you sparkly stickers, I love you temporary tattoos, I love you Polly Pocket, I love you stick-on diamonds and pearls, I love you jibbitz on funky Crocs, I love you bright colours, I love you princess themed events, I love you clip-on earrings, I love you "girly" "kids'" stuff.

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Kedi (2016) dir. Ceyda Torun

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"Quivering" is my least-favourite word in the english language. Nothing and nobody should be quivering. If you're quivering right now, stop that shit immediately. Tremble or shake if you must but the quivering has to stop.

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borrowing the tiger’s power

yuzu katou

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Editors Note: The words above appear in a book called Human Archipelago which includes photos made by Fazal Sheikh accompanied by text provided by Teju Cole. I find them helpful in my active consideration of what my moral responsibilities are and in my commitment to be (or try to be) an agent of hope and healing in our sweet old world. When I say I find them helpful, I speak only for myself and in my personal capacity as a creature citizen. That said, I hope you find them helpful too.

[Thanks always to David Dark]

Human Archipelago--Online Edition

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isn't it so funny there's such a thing as "customer service voice"? Like I have to speak to you like a child or you'll rip my face off like a wild chimp

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Rolf Ohst

Amnesia, 2016

Oil on canvas

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this reddit thread of living your silliest life is so so good

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kate BUSH. not kate SHAVE. something to think about..............

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saw a post abt HBO removing shows that suggests ppl just “burn dvds” but everyone doesnt know how to do that so here is one way to do that

- get blank dvds (Both +R or -R work, I think +R is slightly cheaper, the difference is rewritability), these are not very expensive for the amount you can get in bulk (if you are in the US 100 of them is about 30$ at walmart)

- an external DVD drive that plugs in via usb is also around 20-40$ (it tends to be closer to 20)

- download DVDFlick (free)

- if you don’t already have the mp4/mpeg of whatever media you want to burn, you can download movies/shows off of sites like gomovies.sx and soap2day

gomovies.sx will have a download button that looks like this

below the video you can choose one of these

if you click streamlare for example and then the download button it will take you here where the mp4 is

(if you’re on an iphone/ipad, clicking download will save it to your files app)

- if you cant find the download button on soap2day you can also install a video downloader extension which will find the movie for you

- at this point you can drag and drop it into a google drive or keep it on your computer but if you still want it on dvd ->

- open dvd flick, drag and drop the video

- click “project settings”

- give it whatever title you want, you can change encoder to “normal” (default is below normal if you are doing other things on the computer). you dont need to change target size or thread count (unless you want to)

- insert a blank dvd into your drive, make sure you click “burn project to disc”

- click accept then click “create dvd” next to menu and project settings. it will create a destination folder and this dialogue box will pop up when you click “create” on more dvds, just click “yes” and then “okay” on the box that appears after it

it’ll take a couple hours, once its done take a sharpie & write whats on it and stick it in a case . or dont . im not ur mom

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So many amazing bookshops in Manhattan, but one of my favourites is the worker-owned and radically compassionate Bluestockings Cooperative

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