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Just saw a praying mantis in the parking lot!!!! I've never seen one in the wild before

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Tonight I told someone that, when I was 16, I memorized the entire lay of earendil from tolkien and recited it at school. She said "I believe that about you" which is probably a fine comment that means nothing about how I come off to other people.

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Blessing your timeline

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Road , Sun, rain - Alice Brasser , 2025.

Dutch , b. 1965 - Oil on canvas , 55 x 45 cm.

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tried to block the baddest bitch of them all but all it said was "edit profile"

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"The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom."

-Socrates on writing, and what y'all sound like when you talk about AI ruining people's brains

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"Eat, sleep and crap

For to prey on your needs

Down a dark street

In backwater Leeds

I seen yer comin'

Come in, lads!

You seen this ad?

Too bad, bad, bad

What you get

Is what you see

It's a trickle down theory

And it's coming to me

Life's a whip-round

And I've got the whip

It's a sinking ship

Drip, drip, drip

Drip, drip, drip goes the water

Take me in

Throw me out

Put me up

Let me down

Dark, satanic

Run-of-the-mill

Sing us a song

And I'll send you the bill

My nicotine grip

My smokin' gun

It's how I get my fun

Better run, run, run

Your olfactory nerves

All up the spout

You can't smell a rat

When your nose is out

Rent-to-kill

By any other name

Kiss an old flame

Shame, shame, shame

Drip, drip, drip goes the water

Take me in

Throw me out

Put me up

Let me down..."

- Drip drip drip, Chumbawumba, 1997

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〔nomination〕

〔for the purpses of keeping it simple, "reuniclus" encompasses all evolutions of the pokémon. thus, if one member of an evolutionary line is determined to be cats, then they are all cats.〕

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In my dream it was a suburban neighborhood, not a war torn wasteland, but the ground did shake and make noise to indicate bombing far off. I was in the rear garden of a nice little house. I saw a baby skunk. Then I met the family living there and they spoke of their sufferings.

Last night I dreamt about Palestine. Going to be thinking about that for awhile.

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Last night I dreamt about Palestine. Going to be thinking about that for awhile.

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Thinking about writing a spec fic novel in a universe the same as ours EXCEPT everyone gets the ability to kill one person in their lifetime in a way that is magical, instantaneous, and untraceable yet distinctive (it's clear when someone is a victim of this type of murder but it's impossible to prove who did it)

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Book club was good but next month is Babel by R.F. Kuang and I am Not Ready

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*bites you* *bites you* *smashes your spigot permanently open*

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The actual five love languages are praise kink, bites you, cash money, complaining, and laughing at someone's jokes

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I have no evidence that people would reject the sacred gift of me biting them gently

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Thinking if I publish a book of poetry in 2026 I want this to be the cover image.

Book Cover, 2025