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“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”

— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (via themedicalstate)

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Spades Slick is great because his entire character operates on a Problem Sleuth level of bullshit rather than standard HS bullshit (in fact, a lot of the Midnight Crew revolves around the fact that they're a pseudo-sequel to PS)

He shows up, makes himself an inconvenience to the Felt, uses time travel to kill off the remaining members (sometimes killing them twice), becomes Karkat's exile for a bit, makes himself an inconvenience to Doc Scratch by setting his house(?) on fire, makes out with Snowman out of spite, then kills Snowman and ends their universe, brings back the Felt so that they can help him, shows up during Collide because he wants to fight Jack English and then dies.

All because Lord English blew up his casino.

Amazing character growth.

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- who the hell orders pizza under the name of ‘torchwood’? - uh, yeah, that would be me. sorry, i’m a twat.

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Help I'm trying to be serious about my grim task to kill Chronos, the Titan of Time, but he's a kintsugi'd gilf cringefail asshole and all this 'my girl' is smashing the wrong buttons and I desperately want to Time to, let's say...

... Take his toll on me....

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You guys don't fuck around, do you?

we never do 🔫

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Enoch Drebber's Machinery Puns: A List

Because I was immediately charmed by them, and want to see how many he actually drops throughout the case. Almost all of his lines have colored text emphasis somewhere (a quirk which I love) but I'm not replicating that here, instead I'm bolding the puns/references.

Sadly, he did this progressively less throughout the case, but there's still a good few!

"You're all gearing up to die with me, then?"

"You've found me, haven't you? No need to screw me down any further."

"What fails to click with me..."

"When I heard whistling from the other room, I knew it was time to bolt."

"Clearly I must have a screw loose, though, as I couldn't remember the combination for the safe."

"Well...I had no intention of being nailed by the police."

"They wield so-called 'special powers' in an attempt to grind down our freedoms."

"I just wasn't expecting uninvited guests to come along and screw up my plans."

"But your seemingly endless discourse in here threw a spanner in the works."

"...hard to pin down, I would say."

"...But that has no bearing on this trial, I assure you. Cleave it from your mind."

"If a hypothesis is sound, it can always be forged into a physical manifestation...with sufficient skill."

"Hard to gauge. But the point is, all I did was construct the machine according to the blueprints I was given."

"But there was one important provision bolted onto that clause."

"I came here to testify about the machine I built, and instead my reputation is defiled."

"Of course. You'd have to have a screw loose if you believed a corpse could come back from the dead."

"Obviously, as time ticked on, I bitterly regretted what I'd done."

"Surely you only need to look at the graveyard scene and my appearance to gauge the answer to that?"

"We students were caught between the hammer and the anvil. We needed funds for research."

"After all...resurrection is impossible, isn't it? You'd have to be unhinged to think otherwise."

"The point is, that night was a pivotal moment in my life."

"The university's reputation was execrably defiled, and I was expelled as a result."

"I can only assume it was an embellishment bolted on later by the reporter."

"Personally, I wasn't one of those geniuses. So it was hardly a wrench."

"Why on earth would you buckle now?"

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oopsie! You got a bit too manic about a creative project too close to bedtime and now your brain is too awake to sleep. One million dead 10 morbillion injured

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Me: wow three nat 1s in a row the odds of that are like one in eight-thousand

My determinist friend: actually the probability of it happening was one-hundred percent because it happened

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Surgically Altered Ceramics by Beccy Ridsdel

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The crypt beneath the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord, Loreta, Prague. > Photos by P. Zuchnický.

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여어- 히싸씨부리 （ ɔ̸ᴉʇɐ͟N͞さんのツイート ）

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právě jsem viděla nějakej jakože deep citát "life is a train, it stops for no one" a říkám si, slyšel ten člověk, co to sdílel, někdy o zastávkách, případně nádražích???

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Mohou mít strojvedoucí kolečko salámu za odměnu?

ale jenom jedno, aby jim nebylo špatně

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Their name is Javert. Do not forget it, folks.