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Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

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"--fix their hearts or die"

I feel I need to add some context here, as the wording of that phrase I use in the comic has led to some on other platforms thinking this is me saying that we have to fix toxic people.

In the context of the scene I'm talking about, Cole is saying that it is up to toxic people themselves --not us-- to fix their hearts, or die. Whether that last part is meant to be taken literally or metaphorically, I'll leave up to you. Basically, if such people are unwilling to change themselves for the better, then they are --as I say-- lost to us.

Unfortunately, some people are just too far gone, and cannot be fixed.

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Venn diagram of people who like hbo chernobyl and the terror is a circle

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OK, yes, village noticeboard humour, but you guys, there is so much lore under this, you need to appreciate it:

Mark Steel's In Town: Hebden Bridge

In short, Hebden Bridge is a sort of Glastonbury North, the lesbian capital of Britain, nestled in the hills dividing one depressed post-industrial region from another. Kind like if you dropped Berkeley into the Midwest. There's lore.

Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire (England)

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i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

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Yeah, do your thing, potato.

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One of the stranger things about training brand new nurses is explaining how to min max small talk. It feels very weird to coach people on how to chat.

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This is why most of my IRL friends are over 60.

My father always told me: "If you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company. Sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like-minded people will find you themselves." And only recently have I realized that this principle works everywhere.

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a comic about OCD

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if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?

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Look, you can be as misanthropic as you like, but humanity is blessed to include Dr Irving Finkel, and whatever calumnies you call down upon humanity categorically includes him, so, you know, be careful.

The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator’s Corner S9…

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I cannot be the first non-British person to have this idea.

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I hope someone at the British Museum is following the Ea-Nasir tag on Tumblr.

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item: the global population at 2000 BCE has been estimated, with necessarily large (and indeed unquantified) uncertainties, at between 27M and 72M (wikipedia has references)

item: as of 2020 CE, one estimate of the number of tumblr users was ~29M in the US alone (Statista; tumblr does not release its own statistics)

conclusion: it seems entirely plausible, given the migration of Popular Tumblr Posts™ to other social media sites, that more people know about Ea-Nasir today because of tumblr than were alive on the planet during his lifetime

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"Sometimes the layoff is good" is definitely a message more people need to hear. Sometimes you need a kick in the pants to get out of a bad place that you may not realise is bad, and to grow.

The last couple days have been insane but I need to tell this bizarre thing to all of my favorite sickos on this website.

My former employer? The library that laid me off a year ago?

Currently collaborating with our local homophobic chicken chain restaurant that shall remain nameless on a 9/11 themed story time and series of activities for children. That is a real sentence that I just typed, but even worse, it's a real event that's happening.

SOMETIMES THE LAYOFF IS GOOD. SOMETIMES IT GETS YOU AWAY FROM PEOPLE WHO THINK THINGS LIKE THIS ARE GOOD IDEAS.

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oh look it's what computer assisted animation feels like

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This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.