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'There had not been time to discover, till now, the sensation of coming home again, which is one of the more stable by-products of physical love. One can see sometimes in a crowded railway carriage at night two lovers, lethargic, travel-grimed and bored, weary beyond the dimmest stirrings of desire, but by instinct comfortably adapting their bodies to cushion and support each other, making a little refuge from the crush while the strangers or even friends around them rub elbows and knees, stiff with apologetic constraint and inward resentment.'

The Charioteer, Mary Renault

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If anime openings have taught me anything, it’s that running toward the horizon with a determined face solves everything.

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Got a rare dopamine boost scrolling bluesky and seeing:

1) US politicians in deep red districts being confronted by their increasingly angry constituents.

2) Seeing the size and number of protests happening at tesla dealerships (scroll TeslaTakedown or check out Alex Winter’s feed)

3) Vermont showing up to scream at vance and ruin his ski holiday

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hey. hey, you. person feeling overwhelmed by The Fucking Everything Right Now: go check your library's events page. go sign up for a craft/class/bookclub. go do it. go find something positive to put on your calendar to look forward to as a touchstone of good in the immediate future.

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obsessed with stories where you can never go home

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so what if im beloved

belovedn’t me at once

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The creators of the Pitt were like what if we create a show about the extreme hardships of being a healthcare worker particularly in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic but underneath that it’s an exploration of human nature and the ways we all crack under pressure and underneath that it’s about unresolved trauma and how it ripples out and affects everyone around us and underneath that it’s about milfs. And God bless them for it 🫡

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WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN HOBBY LOBBY

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THE PITT 1.09 • 3:00 P.M.

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Discoveries my nerd friends have found out about the DEI reporting site is that you need a valid zip code but everything else can be nonsense, including just copy pasting “who was phone” style internet memes - and more importantly, that the coding on the site is SO bad that you can easily use Inspect Element to change both the character limit and file upload size limit to your heart’s content. So it is very possible for someone to upload something that is like 75 TB and brick their whole database.

Thank you for your service, friends. The scariest woman I know, who also holds my job in her hand, was talking about that website with genuine fear this morning because she had just hosted a DEI focused speaker at our conference and I thought to myself, “tumblr can take care of this,” which is rarely true, but these are unprecedented times.

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Honestly when JD Vance's mom sold him for like some fentanyl or whatever she got a great deal out of that. That's a real bargain because he is definitely not worth that.

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president zelensky is a stronger man than me because if two ignorant and deluded men like trump and vance started demanding i say please and thank you and calling me disrespectful like im a naughty child instead of a very traumatised and frustrated man trying to save his country from putin id have put them both in the ground with a single fucking punch

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THE PITT 1.09 • 3:00 P.M.

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can’t believe how lucky i am to have the world’s cutest kitty 🥰