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Laurel

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Anti-authoritarian atheist lefty. Translator. She/her, cis/het, English/Spanish


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Maga delenda est

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Is that the 3rd man?

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1500 words to go on an academic translation, a full tank of gas, I'm drunk and wearing sunglasses

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Thank you, evolution, for hands

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I think you got your Koontz and your Koch mixed up If you know what I mean

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Corn starch based powder paint which washes off in rain

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Didn't someone discover empathy thanks to hallucinogens a while back? Like, someone gave him shrooms and he suddenly realised other people were real and had feelings?

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No, it's always been round

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Romancing the stone, replace Kathleen Turner

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Thoroughly

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Maybe they can take the opportunity to serve Jordan's subpoena

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I like Jeff, he is our lefty id

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Today’s the day Trump became precedent.

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Oh I see, as you said "1900s" I thought you meant the early 20th century, but halfway through typing out all the alt text I began to think it was a typo

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There's evidence for earlier fried fish street food, cf the Oxford Companion to Food

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I always heard fish and chips came from Spanish Jews fleeing the Reconquista. Certainly the best chippy in my part of London, when I lived there, was Jewish run (the Nautilus on Fortune Green Road) and used matzo meal in the batter

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Amazing photo Why on earth would Julio Iglesias want a bucket of KFC when he had a freshly made tortilla de patata

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Hmm sounds like a personal issue. what did you do to the moon?

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We tend to think standard camera lenses are the same as the naked eye, but in fact they're slightly wide-angle, so things look further away. A longer lens (or a moderate zoom in) is more realistic, insofar as the moon should look more like what we see irl (not an expert)

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