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bewires · 1 year ago

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the disconnect between the way people who work on and with AI talk about it and the reporting/social media discourse on it makes it incredibly hard to have a meaningful conversation about it

#ai #idk programmers WANT ai to be able to do human jobs #that's the point #to make our lives easier #from a programmer's perspective getting ai to take a human's job is a sign of progress #and a sign that maybe we don't need that job anymore #and tbh I am hard pressed to argue with that #because programmers are not policy makers #and they're not in it to endanger anyone's livelihood #they're trying to make people's lives better and easier #and they're actually succeeding at that and it's exciting #this is not an oppenheimer situation #chat gpt has not become death #the ai issue is a lot more complex and involves a lot of institutions programmers have nothing at all to do with #in fact I would bet a lot of programmers would be pro people getting basic income and not needing to work #if their jobs become obsolete #they just can't make that decision #much like they can't write copywrite law #or govern how people on the internet use stuff #and I am kinda lowkey growing to hate media takes about how the evil ai is going to kill us all #that's only if people choose to use it like that #we need to regulate people's use of the technology #not research

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mishy-mashy · 4 months ago

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Toga: Someone who wanted to be happy

Uraraka: Someone who wanted to make others happy

And also,

Toga: Someone who wanted the world to be easier to live in

Uraraka: Someone who wanted to make the world easier to live in for others

#went back to their fight for 2 chapters and thought of this #toga wants to be able to smile and love as she does #toga wants a world thats easy to live in #uraraka wants to make the world easier to live in for others (her parents)#(and others [ex. midoriya ua speech; random fallen woman in moddle school; tsuyu when first moving to the dorms; etc]#spoilers #bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #toga himiko #ochaco uraraka #tgck #himiko toga #URARAKA CALLS HER HIMIKO (HER FIRST NAME)#even though theyre enemies they were on a first-name basis in their last fight #uraraka wanted to let others live easy lives since she was children #she saw how tired her parents were. toga was tired too. but she hid it since it wasnt just physical fatigue #i feel like theyre just forcing deku ochaco ship down our throats #just the occasional random reminder [I love Deku] [We don't want to expose that secret] in the middle of these two girls fighting #like- dont forget about midoriya! hes the REAL one here!#come on. whyyy #*since she was a child (i said it wrong earlier)

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tetzoro · 2 months ago

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the day the earth stood still is the day i felt your presence leave it, and then every day after that.

#tw grief #sigh sigh sigh.#apologies in advance as this is not the happiest yap ! i would just like to write out some of my feelings on this day #the heaviest heart weighs under an insurmountable amount of grief — the ghost of love #days like today are a twisted reminder that has every emotion flooding through your soul #longing . guilt . anger . an indescribable melancholy that could only be consoled through the sands of time #a year ago i lost my best guy friend and it’s never really gotten easier . but ive heard it never does #all i can do is bundle up the love i have for him and search for him in the clouds that take up the sky #the circumstances around his passing will never not haunt me and rather than go into it all i’d like to say is this #if you have a loved one or a relationship or a friendship you cherish .. then never ever stop fighting for it - for them.#as time never really seems to be on our side #each day i’ll live as he intended . to greet the world with kindness and a smile and passion for positivity #in his wisest words (or rather after every phone call we’d have hehe) i’ll try my best to stay awesome & encourage you all to do so as well #if you’ve read this then i’m taking your hand and thanking you #it didn’t feel right not acknowledging him at all on this blog . he’s the one that introduced me to anime + more importantly : one piece #i wish i could talk to him about it all so he could see how far down this rabbit hole i fell just as he had done #will be spending the day enjoying his favorite episodes and being gentle with the world that surrounds us #this is not like my usual yaps & i feel vulnerable posting it but i wanted to carve out a space for him on this blog #forever missing the connie to my sasha . maybe in another universe we’ll get it right #have a wonderful sunday my sweet friendz and if you can — hug your loved ones & blow a kiss up to the sky 🤍💫#thank you for being here & helping me make this a safe place .#₊˚⊹ ᰔ xoxo aims

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wlw-webcomic-bracket · 11 days ago

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In my professional life offline, I work with community development programs funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). One of the most important of these programs is the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, or “HOME” (not an acronym for some reason). In the last couple years, my office has contributed HOME funding to construction of around 400 new apartment units reserved for low-income families, plus conversion of a former hotel to single-resident occupancy units for people exiting homelessness and security deposit assistance for renters moving into market-rate units. I have a secondary role in the HOME program (most of my work is on a different grant, although I’ve contributed to the environmental reviews for all of our current round of projects), but I am immensely proud of what our team has done with a limited resource in a horrifically expensive housing market.

In 2023, House Republicans proposed cutting HUD’s 2024 budget for the HOME program by 67%, from $1.5 billion to $500 million.

Their proposal didn’t make it into the final bill. The President and Senate (under Democratic leadership) proposed HOME budgets of $1.8 billion and $1.5 billion, respectively. The final compromise budget allocated HUD $1.25 billion for the HOME program, a 17% cut which was passed down to every local HOME jurisdiction.

I’m glad the budget cuts weren’t worse. But what this means, in practical terms, is that one out of every six people we could have helped this year gets nothing. One out of every six people who would have received rent assistance is facing eviction. One out of every six people that would have received an affordable unit priced at 30% of their income has to keep giving 50% or more of their paycheck to market-rate landlords. We’re doing what we can with local resources, but there’s only so much you can do at the local level when federal funding goes away.

House Republicans are trying to reduce HOME funding to just $500 million again in 2025. So far, the Senate has rejected this, but barring a miracle upset, Democrats are almost certain to lose control of the Senate after next week’s election. If Republicans keep control of the House, and especially if they keep the House and win the Presidency, there is nothing stopping them from gutting housing programs completely.

I understand why people are frustrated with our choices this election. I am frustrated with our choices this election. But at the end of the day, I have a duty to my community. With Democrats in office, I can keep fulfilling that duty. With Republicans in office, I will lose the best tools I have to make a material difference to the vulnerable people who live around me. The people I serve will lose their housing, or they will lose their best path out of homelessness. There is no way around it.

Please, give me the tools to keep helping. Vote for Democrats up and down ballot, and once we’ve got them in office, thank them for doing what they do well and pressure the hell out of them to do better on the issues where they suck.

Because of gerrymandering (and geographic issues in general), control of the House will probably come down to just a few dozen races. I’m not endorsing any of these candidates on a personal level - some of them are probably good, some of them definitely suck - but they are the only bulwark we have against a party that wants to dismantle everything good about this country and lean into all the most shameful parts of our history. Every election matters, but if you live in one of these House districts, your vote is particularly important:

Alaska: AK-01 Mary Pelolta

Arizona: AZ-01 Amish Shah, AZ-06 Kirsten Engel

California: CA-13 Adam Gray, CA-22 Rudy Salas, CA-27 George Whitesides, CA-41 Will Rollins, CA-45 Derek Tran, CA-47 Dave Min

Colorado: CO-03 Adam Frisch, CO-08 Yadira Caraveo

Connecticut: CT-05 Jahana Hayes

Indiana: IN-01 Frank Mrvan

Iowa: IA-01 Christina Bohannan, IA-03 Lanon Baccam

Maine: ME-02 Jared Golden

Michigan: MI-07 Curtis Hertel Jr., MI-08 Kristen McDonald Rivet, MI-10 Carl Marlinga

Minnesota: MN-02 Angie Craig

Montana: MT-01 Monica Tranel

Nebraska: NE-02 Tony Vargas

New Jersey: NJ-07 Sue Altman

New Mexico: NM-02 Gabe Vasquez

New York: NY-04 Laura Gillen, NY-17 Mondaire Jones, NY-19 Josh Riley, NY-22 John Mannion

North Carolina: NC-01 Don Davis

Ohio: OH-09 Marcy Kaptur, OH-13 Emilia Sykes

Oregon: OR-05 Janelle Bynum

Pennsylvania: PA-07 Susan Wild, PA-08 Matt Cartwright, PA-10 Janelle Stelson

Texas: TX-34 Vicente Gonzalez

Virginia: VA-02 Missy Cotter Smasal, VA-07 Eugene Vindman

Washington: WA-03 Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

Wisconsin: WI-03 Rebecca Cooke

#I’m sorry for the long post especially for my non-US followers #or anyone who can’t vote for any reason #but this is so fucking important #this is one of a million different ways that the government works that are invisible to most people #but life-saving to the people who are impacted #and Republicans want to dismantle all of them #we fight back where we can in whatever ways we can #this election is one of the ways that we fight #and it’s one of the ways that we can make that fight easier for ourselves for the next two years #so please vote. please encourage other like-minded people to vote. please volunteer to help people vote if that’s something you can do #this election is how we live to fight another day #and regardless of how it goes I look forward to fighting alongside you in whatever form our personal contributions may be <3

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adhderall · 2 months ago

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well as you can see besides being ugly as all fuck I'm also extremely bitter so that doesn't help at all in making me appealing. but it also comes with the territory you see, being treated as a hideous freak of nature for your whole life kind of does things to your psyche.

also going into shit in the tags as an extreeeemely jaded individual who's been on every side of the discourse and KNOWS it all VERY PERSONALLY so I know many people will find all sorts of different reasons to hate me (if they want ig) because I'm ~politically homeless~ at this point because I'm sick and tired of everything but whatever

(also fuck I ran out of space in the tags so another post maybe idk. )

#so. i get why people are against children transitioning i really do. and i have my own nuanced complicated feelings about it #but honestly. im beginning to believe id be more well-adjusted by now even if just a bit if i had started larping as male by 15.#would it fix all of my problems? no. but it would make a lot of things in my life much smoother and easier.#but i was sooo deep into raddie/gc shit that i had this fucking. complex about not wanting to troon because its ~cheating~#and 'omg all the butches are leaving!!1 butch flight i cant be one of them!!!1'#'i MUST be a good example for all the young girls!!!1' a weird sort of almost martyr-like complex if you will.#but as i get older im like... honestly man fuuuuccckkkkk this.#barely anybody expects straight or even bi women to abstain from dating men forever For the Good of Womankind #its not seen as Expected but rather Exceptional and Wow Amazing if you do.#and anyone who Expects it is seen as a ~crazy extremist~#meanwhile lesbians and especially HSTS are almost fucking Expected to sacrifice themselves for the ~greater good~#and ngl other lesbiams perpetuate this shit too.#oh you CANT transition even if you feel it'll make your life easier because because because #[arguments that would really only apply to OSA females transitioning]#[strawman] [misinterpreted stats] [unverified reddit posts]#and if all else fails 'think of how the very act of doing so will HURT ALL OF WOMANKIND'#no fucking wonder dysphoric lesbians develop an fucking insane martyr complex and start to treat hrt/transitioning like its fucking crack #'ill give into the temptation if i see a happy trans person ohh nooo so nobody should be allowed to troon'#like thats not fucking normal! you realize thats NOT FUCKING NORMAL right?#youre acting like a deranged christian who is so afraid of sinning by wrongthink #and disclaimer no. i dont inherently hate being female or a lesbian but with the way i am physically and mentally #i would have/have had a Much easier time integrating into society as a ~man~. just because of how i am physically and mentally.#now i wont say internalized homophobia/etc. NEVER has anything to do with transition or etc. but im gonna be real #for HSTS (which are extremely rare in the first place) thats often only a very small part of it at most.#its often more about making our lives easier and integrating better without having to completely remold our entire personalities.#thats the reality.#would we not transition if society have patriarchy/gender roles/sexism? perhaps. i wont deny that possibility.#the fact of the matter is however #that it wont be happening any time soon. so we just want our lives to be easier.#'oh but youre lying to yourself' not necessarily. i dont have a ~gender identity~ and im well aware of myself and my situation.

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guaxinimraccoon · 7 months ago

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so the being from the fairy prophecy is Brad?

I refuse to acknowledge that or say anything about it unless I'm accompanied by my lawyer

#ask #jk just sensitive lore stuff that i havent figured out 100% yet #but for now lets say he's not #that will make our lives easier #lets all pretend that the prophecy is indeed a lie and that bitch was insane

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bloodcoveredgf · 8 months ago

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i love being in love i love being in love specifically with my boyfriend and living with him now... life is so beautiful its all about loving so much and if lucky being so loved in return (TO ME !)

#genuinely life has been crazy and so hard and this move and trying to build a life and figure shit out has been Insane but having him with #me makes it all so worth it and so much easier and so beautiful and just like. its so Good... being with him is so good and im so so lucky #i love him so much hes truly truly my everything and the person i wanna be with for the rest of my life and thats so beautiful and somethin #i didnt know id ever have or could have especially with how much he wants that with me too and is just as in love with me... wah.. im just #happy and proud and excited to have him and to be sharing our lives together and to be able to reach milestones and plan them and plan our #future for real... we are taking so many steps together and i love it even on the hard days i know hes there and we're gonna be okay

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woorenergy · 1 year ago

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fucking stupid ass AI makes me so mad, my brother in law pulled out the "it's great bc i have no artistic talent but still can make my ideas come to life!!!" excuse and i was just silently staring at him like bro. you've known me for years, you know i draw why don't you just commission me for shit?? hell, you're part of my family, i'd be happy drawing for you for free (which i've already done)

commission artists!! learn how to fucking draw, or write, or play an instrument, or whatever the fuck AI cock-suckers pretend to be doing!!! it's not that hard, and i promise you don't need to rely on AI for any of this!!!!

#rant #i'm just so frustrated #ai is supposed to make our lives easier #not steal away something as personal as art #stop feeding them with chaptgpt or whatever the hell it's called #stop giving a platform to ai fanatics #just stop

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spearxwind · 11 months ago

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#question... has anyone of you with neighbors ever had your attention called over making noise bc it happened for me yesterday and i feelbad #it was 100% our fault it was really late and we didnt realize so the neighbors #hit the ceiling hard a few times but theh hit it a lot so they were clearly pretty mad 😥#obviously we're not going to do that again but like. irrationally terrified that they hate me cause i make noise sometimes #its also jarring bc I've always lived alone so I've always been extremely quiet almost like a ghost but its so much easier to make noise #if you're with someone else #god does this make sense?? augh. i just needed to vent a little #this is actually the second time we get a notice like that but over something else and now im worried babey!! what if the neighbourhood #kicks me out or something!! augh (this cant happen i dont think especially not about smth like this but like auuuggghhg panic)#I just dont wanna be a bad neighbour man

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lee-blogs · 2 months ago

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Still packing stuff and now i'm looking for a box for this.

My dad and i made it a few years ago for halloween, probably 2015/16 if i'm remembering right. It's made from a lays can, a wipes container from his work, and paper maché. I don't remember what the wires and front metal bits are from, but the middle actually lights up! It has one of those long battery-powered emergancy lights in it and some colored tissue paper

#lee rambles #I gotta fix the metal bits on the front #they keep coming out of place and drooping down. maybe some hot glue'll work since i don't want to melt the styrofoam under the paper #I went as Chell that year #with a shitty handmade Aperature Science shirt lol #Also as a sidenote since i'm already talking a bunch in the tags #I have no idea if we're actually going to be able to afford to move or not #so we're kinda thinking about staying where we are and seeing how things go over the next few years #i know it's in my dad's will to sell but with how expensive rentals are i doubt we'd be able to afford 2k+ a month on top of our other bills #I just hope my Uncle doesn't give us too much shit about it. We didn't get much from the life insurances he had #definitely not enough to live on for long on its own #but 800 a month for the house is a lot more doable than 2000 #we don't want to end up having to kill ourselves working just to make ends meet. That's probably what would happen if we moved #i dunno #just... thinking a lot about the future. I honestly hope we stay #It'd get rid of a lot of stress if we stayed. We'd still get rid of a bunch of things but... it'd be easier.#We weren't even really allowed to grieve. once the funeral was over we just had to start packing our lives away.#i'm a little bitter about it really. They've gotten to grieve and be away from the situation. We've had to be there the whole time.#We might've all been there the day he passed but they weren't there for his bad days. They weren't there helplessly watching as he slowly #got more and more tired. and sick. and depressed.#I don't know what we're going to do.#I didn't mean for this to turn all venty. sorry about that if you've read this far

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sam-glade · 1 year ago

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Tumblr, meet Maidros. He joined our family today. He's 2 months old and incredibly energetic.

#also loves climbing #so we keep shouting 'Maidros get down from there' across the house #i know it's spelled #Maedhros #but phonetic spelling will make our lives easier #cat #kitten #ginger cat #cute #cats of tumblr #ginger kitten #kitty #maidros the cat

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pardonmydelays · 11 months ago

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taylor swift lyrics that keep u up at night?

*takes a deep breath*

remember looking at this room, we loved it cause of the light now i just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time.

(oversharing in the tags)

#i know it's not the most obvious choice and i think i've never talked about this line before #but i think it will keep me up at night for the rest of my life #so when i heard you're losing me for the first time i was in a very similar situation #most of you don't even know i was engaged and had the most terrible break up this year #it's easier when someone breaks up with you #it's much harder when you have to make that decision #and the hardest when you know you made this decision already but you're not sure if it's actually the time...#and i feel like both taylor and i knew it was the only option but we were never 100% sure if it's time to go #if that makes sense #i did eventually #i still remember moving into our apartment 3+ years ago when we were still happy #and then spending last six months of our relationship alone in this apartment knowing it's going nowhere and i have to leave eventually #and moving out in june to my own small cozy place i live in now #but i never even got closure #so i still didn't fully recover #and it will haunt me forever #trust me this line always makes me cry #ugh #sorry for that #i still miss him sometimes even tho he was a bad person #thanks for the ask tho #i feel like i wanted to say all of that long ago and you just gave me a perfect opportunity to do that #so i'm grateful ❤️#yes i got your letter yes i'm doing better*

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cursedthing · 5 months ago

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.the funny thing is that when we record logs since there aren't that many external forces we can bounce off of we just end up making youmjer incredibly tired and a little pathetic. something somethinc it needs enrichment

#.IF HEROBRINE WAS NOT THERE YOUMJER LEGIT WOULD BE WAY QUIETER. WE ARE NOT JOKING #.YES WE ARE PLURAL AND THERES MANY OF US BUT LIKE. WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO WE'RE ALL PILOTING OUR LIFE #.WE NEED UNCERTINTY! IN THE FORM OF OTHER PEOPLE! AND OTHER EVENTS! otherwise the characters that we play just sort of lay down on the floo #.and just stare at the sky #.wich we also do but like ya know #.if there were other people or like things we just KNOW youmjer would be A Lot more lively #.would we still be tired and that seeps into it? yea #.but also we'd be a lot more unhinged as our lovely friends say ^_^#.oh yeah we aren't complaining we're just pointing out the likely difference between youmjer when it's collectively alone and when it's not #.since like when we're alone then we just become quieter since it's easier for us to vibe with one another that way. but in order to vibe #.with other people we gotta be vocal so we're more vocal etc etc #.we're having fun with skyblock! sadly we just keep most of our bullshit to ourselves if there's no one there other than us ^_^#.we should probably make something so that we can talk to during recording #.cuz we can't really talk to 'brine as the vibe we have with him is that we just. Chill in silence. maybe yell at him if he repeatedly fall #.into the void or something #mjers void choir

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whentherewerebicycles · 6 months ago

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I seem to be fine most of the day and then I have a BIG mood dip around 8pm. I think I should just immediately go to bed instead of entertaining any thoughts at all about the future

#I’m finding pumping quite demoralizing #but we did have our first breastfeeding success today so I am hopeful it won’t be forever #I’m also leaning so hard on my mom and it’s made the transition SO much easier to handle #but it’s also making me scared for when she leaves and I have to do everything myself #I already find it quite exhausting to work + do dog care + cook for myself + do all other chores + handle misc life tasks #adding baby care feels like it’s going to be a lot #but I’m trying to remind myself that I have five more weeks to learn the basic skills and build good routines #and then she’ll be back in august for two and a half months so July can be a test run #and then a little more help/support with her being in town but not living with me #anyway what did I say about not thinking about the future after the mood dip starts! get to bed jes #baby tag

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lunarharp · 1 year ago

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lazy scribbling of my baldur's gate 3 characters

#*emerges from 430 HOURS of life-changing playtime blearily like a lost and confused kitten*#i lost my interest in drawing bc everything is too sad & horrible right now. it was a luxury and privilege to lose myself in this instead #what follows will be my personal and trivial emotions about that #i'll do better proper drawings later. for me. they are both so very dear to me... deeply dear...unforgettable journeys of fate #truly have played like one possessed for the past few weeks. you have no idea. what do i do now. what do i do.#their personalities are so vivid to me though they mostly made the same choices. both intersex and they/them - canonically <3 #i missed out on FOUR PARTY MEMBERS in my first playthrough due to not understanding anything whatsoever.#gloaming ended up with wyll and pavane romanced karlach and astarion. and ended up with the one i did NOT plan on. this wasnt the plan #one of the most fulfilling romance paths i've ever..i cant say more..it all got too immersive and now i have to just.. MOVE ON ??????????#live in THIS world where i can't gut imperialism personally and emerge alive from that?#without Long Resting? without my character requesting a kiss from their beloved after a tough day ??#without preparing my little spells? without channelling divinity from my death god to keep us all alive?#without dyeing my man's clothes fancy colours for him? without him Approving whenever i lie and double-cross our enemies #without sharing clothes with my ex? without choosing to eat the heavy food first so that the weight is easier on her Carrying Capacity?#without orchestrating ways for all of my friends to kill the abusers that ruined their lives for a decade or even 200 years?#without experiencing degrading horrors on a daily basis but in a cathartic way where we always make it back to our rooms at the inn #WITHOUT SPEAK WITH ANIMALS???????????#at least there's music. just like with persona 5 that will always be with me. always #like how p5 melodies take me back to those feelings. those rich and personal feelings.... BUT THIS WAS A WAY MORE NUTS EXPERIENCE #i thought i would hate it. i did at times. thought it would desensitise me to various things. it did. but there was so much more..it was...#Well anyway *continues my life* imagine if dnd was real..something to think about

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nando161mando · 5 months ago

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We all have to do something to make our lives a little bit easier.

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