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Reading a short short story I wrote 22 years ago and saying actually? this is pretty ok. huh.

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also not to put him up on here too much but
www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

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the cool thing about reading this is i have heard very little about most of the people in there the past few years. less ann coulter in the scroll is Good.

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welll i also don't know much about this but it does seem like a big wasteful shitshow! i guess you can clean up in this life if you have no shame.

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oh, i'm sorry.

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late to this but it's very good
and also bad
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/m...

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thanks. teleportation needed, ugh.

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thank.

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hell no
www.nytimes.com/card/2024/07...

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people who have taken long flights with babies- is it better to have fewer connecting flights or less time in ground transit did you get the baby their own seat and what kind of carseat situation did you use to buckle them in inquiring minds etc.

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a friend's husband was killed at the age of 35 by a driver trying to outrun the police.

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neph is ON HIS WAY

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required
youtu.be/-fiqjn_1jak?...

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my mom, a liberal democrat, said welp i took down my flag it's not going back up american democracy is dead so there you have it folks my mom is fighting with america and america is going to lose, just so we are clear about how this works.

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i really need to read a children's book illustrated with figures like this

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“People don’t understand money or success,” Fat Mike said. “Success is happiness. And if you’re happy, you know what there isn’t? More happiness.” not sure if i've ever listened to a nofx song but i'm gonna have to now i suppose.

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In which I get to try! Was I given that, were any of us given that, so that interest rates and credit scores and insurance deductibles might exist, so that we might erect vast edifices of arcane bullshit for the sake of taking from each other?

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Look at the world! We are surrounded and suffused at all times, animated by, a generosity infinitely beyond comprehension; life itself, the spark of it, my literal heartbeat, is that mystery right where I can place my hand on my own chest and feel it giving me each next moment.

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who is this person? why are they writing to me? what does this even mean? why i am being stroked like this, i am clearly a loser, why does he want to talk to me? i don't understand. still aspiring to do something so cool i can launch my linkedin profile into the sea.

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When I was an undergrad I took a few engineering classes and was thoroughly immiserated and yet now when i help engineers write proposals i am like your job it is so cool and interesting? the gap between what the education is like and what you actually do-is it really that wide? whew.

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whoa ah finland again doing the most to make their unbearable climate totally bearable

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(smacks the table) PUT IT ON BAND CAMP BAND CAMP BAND CAMP (i mean, if you want)

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tag urself i can only aspire to be penised lesbians

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from the dust we came and to dust we shall return and in the mientras tanto we are dust

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oh wait here we go opening up more taaaabs aaaaaargh

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Do yourself a solid and work through some of those taaabs baybies

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my mom used to do canning when i was a kid annnd the blood sweat and tears of it is definitely true i will stick to fridge pickles as soon as my cucumbers bear fruit

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i did a little data analytics certificate not long ago thinking to make myself more compelling to environmental employers like, all the job postings are in finance. like? i don't think it's inherently bad but when it eats everything and everyone, it's not great.

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ARE YOU GOING TO TURN OFF MY CATS? sincerely not clear about whether or how to respond but I think non response may be best here.

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I have made a small monthly donation to Local Cat Org for several years as a personal choice I had a lot going on last month and forgot and now their treasurer is WhatsApping me telling me I forgot my 'monthly membership fee' I paid July's and she says I still owe? Babe are you the electric company?

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Cat found a mouse at 430 a.m. while I was nursing the baby Mouse escaped, ran behind the (tankweight, anchored, horrid) line of bookshelves in the living room Now I have time to work while the baby is asleep ahahaha

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when you sell a few old pairs of pants on vinted

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no but just maintaining is fine with me at this stage in life tbh

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wonder boys is still my fave but yeah kavalier and clay is pretty special.

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