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BORN TO FORGET

WORLD IS A BLUR

I Am Memory Issues Man

410,757,864,530 FORGOTTEN PRECIOUS MEMORIES

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#i love love love onsen i've been many times while in japan <3

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they're building "workforce housing" in my area

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David's dance practice tapes, 1983

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21st century neurodivergent man

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confusing Odysseus and Orpheus is like confusing a liar and a lyre. send post

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Everybody says congratulations when you get a new job, or start a business, or buy a house, or have a baby, or get married, or buy a new car...

I just wanted to take a second out of the day to say congratulations to all of you who made it through a hard week this week.

Congratulations to those who are holding it together for the sake of the people you love.

Congratulations to anyone who thought about taking the easy way out and decided to stick around for a while longer.

Congratulations for showing up. Again.

You deserve all the love too.

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The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

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I heard that the football player Harrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine University went viral because it was wildly sexist and was like arguing women should just be wives and mothers. But as a Jewess BOY DID EVERYONE BURY THE LEDE ABOUT THE ANTISEMITIC DOGWHISTLES HE STARTED OFF WITH.....

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I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10

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Amur tiger brothers Dmitri and Luka at the Oregon Zoo enjoying a nice slab of frozen goat milk together, hopefully they get this in the summer as well.

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george floyd died 4 years ago today, sparking a second wave of the blm movement, and every day it grows more apparent that our fascist governement is working exactly as intended by continuing extrajudicial (and lets be real. judicial too) killings of unarmed black people. meanwhile, nonblacks cant be bothered to read so much as a twitter thread about antiblackness let alone essays or books 😒

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“May I?” “You may.”

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i’m fucking dying. it’s been brought to ben collins (the rad new owner of the onion’s) attention that Google AI summary is using The Onion headlines, resulting in this: