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Golf is a lot of things. Boring, a waste of water resources, an absolute bullshit privatization of land, but also it's just the least sexy sport on earth. No blood or sweat involved or grime. Just one bitch standing in the dumbest way possible to swing a stick. Absolute loser behavior.

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On July 2, 1863, Colonel Joshua Chamberlain lead his men of the 20th Maine on a bayonet charge down the slopes of little round top, during the battle of Gettysburg. He would later be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions that day.

This clip, from the movie Gettysburg, depicts the epic moment in history. It's one of the best, if not the best scene in the movie.

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LMFAO

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How to Steal a Million is free on youtube right now.

Silly heist movie/rom com with all the 60s Givenchy looks you can imagine. Audrey Hepburn is the daughter of a famous art collecting family.... only actually the family are forgers and due to her father's bad choices, they need to try to steal their art back before it gets examined.

Peter O'Toole is there as a thief who is charmed into helping by her adorableness but also by his own ego.

Good for your silly heist movie needs but also for your otp gets trapped in a small closet together needs.

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Some of Parker Posey's outfits in Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 1995), Part I

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one extremely underrated media literacy/reading comprehension exercise is simply "try to look for clues about what emotion the writer of this piece was feeling about its contents when they wrote it."

I'll give you an example - let me write a headline for the same interview story in three different ways:

"child psychologist allison jenkins says respecting preferred pronouns 'crucial' to alleviating dysphoria for transgender youth"

"trans ally claims there could be 'drastic repercussions' for using the wrong pronouns for your child"

"radical transgender activist slams traditional parenting and gender roles, demanding respect"

what differences do you see between the above sentences?

did you notice that, even though the second example is less aggressive in tone than the third, neither of them mention the interviewee's name or credentials?

how about the way the main topic shifts from a medical professional's concerns about the treatment of trans minors and young adults to supposedly challenging traditional parenting styles in the second version, and outright attacking it in the third? did you spot how the headline progressively went from stating information to addressing the reader?

did you catch how the third version muddies the water when it comes to allison jenkins's personal gender identity, implying that there's no meaningful difference between a pro-trans activist and an actual transgender person?

if you were a trans person, would you feel as safe and comfortable discussing your identity with the writer of the second headline as the writer of the first?

my point here is that there's really no such thing as true objectivity when it comes to writing of any kind, including journalism. your feelings about a particular issue will inevitably bleed through and color your writing. your choice of words says a LOT about how you think and feel, which issues you feel are legitimate and which ones you resent having to even talk about, so on and so forth. it's important to be able to read between the lines, especially in this age of rage-inducing clickbait.

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I watched Jaws for the first time last night and this was all I could think of the whole time

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Chekhov was a liberal arts major???

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writing historical fiction is like: yes i can write a beautiful scene with longing glances but FIRST i must know how people brushed their teeth in 1814

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cure of ra

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The Golden Girls – 7.14: Old Boyfriends

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(image from LillianDCA on Bluesky)

"If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate & the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you." --Lindsay Graham

"Ted Cruz is the single biggest liar I have ever dealt with in my life. He'll lie about anything. For lying, he's the best I've ever seen." --Donald Trump

"I worked with Ted Cruz. There was a common expression about him. 'Why do people take such an instant dislike of Ted Cruz?' The answer is it saves time." --Matthew Dowd

"I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz." --Al Franken

"I just don't like the guy." --George W. Bush

"I don't know how he's going to deal with congress. Nobody likes him." --Bob Dole of Ted Cruz

"Lucifer in the flesh. I have Democrat friends & Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life." --John Boehner on Ted Cruz

"I hate Ted Cruz. I think I'll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination." --Peter King

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Almost forgot! It's time for a Stefon pimping post for the new thing!

The new thing is a little different (for me). M/m/f with some gender stuff because I wanted to do something fun and light that would also make a Christofascist cry. (Or furiously masturbate and hate themselves idk and idc.)

That said, here we go.

This story has EVERYTHING

shit-talking medieval and early enlightenment (the timeline is fuzzy) Church hypocrisy and greed

magic

a birth control discussion!

sluts!

flat chests getting a shout out

the horniest little angel

a character who is not a literal dragon but he might as well be

off-page gangbang(s)

status change and a glow up

butter!

Centerpiece, out July 25th!

The accused… well… the actual thief known as Agreeable needs to hide after his friends caused a bit of a ruckus in the market. Which is why he’s in disguise in a stolen dress when he slips into a room at the inn that should have been empty, but instead holds a wealthy merchant named Holburn—the strangest man Agreeable has ever met. Agreeable, a farmer-turned-thief through circumstance, mocked and scorned throughout the region for his tendency to be too friendly and “agreeable” with anyone who asks, has no idea what to make of the man. Holburn is complicated as only the rich can be, and full of notions about how Agreeable should be treated better by both the law and everyone else. He’s stranger still for choosing to help an accused thief stay hidden. He’s attractive—even someone less agreeable than Agreeable would say so—and compelling enough that, in only a few hours, he has Agreeable wishing for another life. A life where he might be known by his real name, and have a job that brings respect, and where he might also share the bed of his remarkable protector. But Holburn has secrets, not the least of which is a wife who might be as strange and wonderful as he is, and lives in a world that is far beyond Agreeable’s reach. Agreeable is a failed farmer, a useless thief, and a slut somewhat confused about his gender now that he has the dress on and finds he likes being called a good girl. A few hours with Holburn are all he can ever have. Holburn seems to believe otherwise. m/m/f

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Someone just said to me that it's not a concentration camp in Florida because "conservatives don't build concentration camps."

I normally don't like to use the phrase "drank the Kool aid" because a) a lot of the people at Jonestown were forced at gunpoint to drink the poison and b) it wasn't actually Kool aid.

But someone has definitely been guzzling whatever artificially flavored and colored drink Fox "News" and Truth Social have been making.

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i don’t support the elf king’s social policies i just think he’ll be good for the economy