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Prairie Rose Clayton

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Eu sou uma mulher baixa [she/ela/ella/elle/lei/彼女/هي/היא/她/она/&c.]


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yesterday at the beach a bunch of kids ran around with highway flares

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sorry about the pockets

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The reason "football" in the US came to refer to the modified rugby version of the game, not the association rules, is because back when the two codes were imported over here, they were college sports. Harvard, king shit of college sports at the time, went with the gridiron one + everyone followed

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Wait until you learn there are regional differences

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Prairie Rose Clayton's avatar Prairie Rose Clayton @hooverdam.bsky.social
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In the "fail to hit with a projectile" sense

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"I dunno, I guess y'all didn't sit through "Eyes On The Prize" every February in Social Studies for every year of middle school?" that's about as reliable a WHO HERE WAS BORN IN THE 70s test as yelling MARK MCGWIRE ROOKIE CARD and seeing who turns around to yell I HAD THAT in a crowd

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je-zus (YuruCamp is popular enough it has branded camping goods tie-ins)

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There's an entire anime series--Yuru Camp/Laid-Back Camp--that's more or less this, it's just high school girls going around Japan to set up tents and make cup ramen in portable fire pits

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Monroe. Hey, I didn't say he'd be a winner

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No, I mean in reference to presidential history, because, uh, current guy's not the first by a long shot

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...how far back we talking exactly?

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"IF THIS CHECK BOUNCES, KEEP TRYING, YOU MIGHT GET LUCKY"

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Might've been some similar shitbox rally but the point was the same, trans lady was wicked apprehensive but ended up having a grand time proudly driving a stupid vehicle among others who enjoy driving stupid vehicles

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Wanna say a few years back I read a piece by a trans lady who Found Her Folks by doing one of these in a Smart Car

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They can also perfectly mimic the distressed cry of a wild Ethel Merman.

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Chemtrails/contrails: people who think water vapor from planes is THEM

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This is another example of My Job in Action: When grading Robot Reading Tests, I figure out what word or phrase--yes, hapax legomena--the robot decided to match to a certain tag

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I volunteered with some teens who'd been assigned AiA in school. "I almost feel sorry for this guy." "You do not, EVER, feel sorry for Roy Cohn," I said.

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They're finding out RIGHT THIS MINUTE because turns out Justin Timberlake popped for Truvada, among other, more ~entertaining~, items after getting a DUI

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20 years ago Hep C was you either had a liver transplant or you had it for life It is now curable (it was also only really discovered via HIV's appearance) This is fucking MIND BLOWING

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Besides, y'know, being 47 and so I watched the whole collapse of the Eastern Bloc in real time, I had a Chinese history prof in college who'd been Sent Down, that was a LESSON

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Bullshit all you want about Napoleon or William the Conqueror but you're about thirty seconds of searching from speaking to someone who drove a Trabant

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What always gets me on that is, like Maoists, this is still a "y'know we can just call up people who lived there, right? Primary sources are right here still with us, regular-ass people for whom this wasn't abstract?" issue

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I am a full-time unpaid caregiver now because of the August 2021 heat dome. I can vouch for this entire thread, up and down. Heat will *fuck you up.* Don’t take it lightly, don’t treat this like a fun outdoor holiday, and don’t just tough it out. Start your a/c and stock up your cold stuff NOW.

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you need to change the caption; it still says SAINT PATRICK

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious's avatar Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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how about if I ask you for cosmic brownies, zebra cakes, and fudge rounds

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Article could have ended at the words "Live Nation"

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You could've stopped the article when you got to "Live Nation"

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Bob is appropriately pulling a train

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Elizabeth 🌘's avatar Elizabeth 🌘 @rrriotsugar.bsky.social
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DID YOU KNOW? The webcomic meme that will never die is also a blood-sucking vampire? Lossferatu

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I got some good ones about trying to explain my name and the concept of maple syrup in Brazil

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That was my thought when I first moved to a heavily (Portugal/Azorean) neighborhood. Few years later I was in line at the hardware store and I heard the old guys talking and I thought "wait they're talking about World Cup qualifiers, how do I know this?"

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"I can read all this but you people sound like Russians with head injuries"

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(Eu falo portunhol, es chisme)

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Also it's up there with Spanish/Portuguese and Dutch/Afrikaans for Buy One Language, Get One Mostly Free

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Montani Semper Facepalm

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I found it, friends. The worst band ever, made up of dudes who were kicked out of other bands for not getting vaccinated.

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Charles Louis Richter's avatar Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social
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everyone is the world is playing CYBERSTRUCK, the fun new mandatory game in which you are eliminated when you see your first cybertruck in the wild rules are similar to whamageddon, but with no end date: • the cybertruck must be real, in the wild • as soon as you notice the cybertruck, you are out

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seeing a cybertruck in the wild is fun bc only 3000 have been sold so its like oh wow theres our towns Biggest Dipshit. look at him go!

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This was my job in 2006

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(also goddamned EVERYONE, though not me, had Batman shirts in 1989, it was the hottest thing in the world)

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Betta fish also will track laser pointers, for those into aquaria

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