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"Listen," one guard said, "I know we have only just met-"

"No," the other guard said, "we've worked together for years!"

"-but you can trust me when I say-"

"I can't, you have the curse that's opposite from mine!"

"I don't care for you at all."

"Well, I… oh… I love you too."

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Glass eels

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I try to answer other people’s call lights if I’m not busy, because if my work is done and I’ve helped out with other people’s work, I can fully commit to slacking off guilt free. And usually what people want is bathroom, snacks, and/or pain meds, all of which are pretty easy to address and if there’s anything too complicated, I can always call the nurse. Anyway, I go answer this call light, and it’s for a patient I don’t know and have never spoken to before. I pop in like “hi can I help you?” as I feel so quietly smug about how Helpful I am being, and the patient goes, “do you know if I’m dying tonight? If I am, I should call my family.”

To be so clear. I was expecting like. a request for a ginger ale. I was not prepared emotionally for a very sick stranger grappling with the angst of potentially imminent death. So I go, “UMMM. I DON’T KNOW. LEMME CHECK WITH YOUR NURSE AND SEE IF SHE KNOWS.” This seemed heinously inadequate in the face of their obvious despair, so I added, “probably not in the next ten minutes if you’re able to sit up and ask, but I can’t make any promises.”

Don’t think that was the ideal follow up sentence. But it didn’t seem to make the patient any sadder than they already were. I used to really live in fear of being the nurse in someone’s anecdote about a wildly inappropriate thing said to them by their nurse. It’s not so much as I’ve gotten over that fear as I’ve accepted that my job thrusts me into a lot of situations where I have to talk about extremely intense topics to the people most intimately affected by those topics, often with no time, no prep, and no information. At this point, I just try my best to ground my inarticulate fumblings in as much genuine care as I can express, and thank God I don’t fuck up worse and more often.

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#not how i would have translated it but man that fucks hard #poetry

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early valentines comic-

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Joe Biden’s public live burial of a dog at that campaign rally was actually a deeply spiritual act, sensitive to the Ancient North Eurasian motif of the dog as keeper of the underworld, intermediary between life and death, and scapegoated absorber of sin and sickness. Parallel expressions of this impulse include the ancient Slavic dog-burials associated with the Iron Age Wielbark Culture and also found at various sites in Pomerania, the live mass-burial of dogs as sacrifices in Shang Dynasty tombs, and (of course) the myth of Cerberus. Don’t disrespect what you don’t understand.

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all these retro style games that are like "NO tutorials NO handholding" apparently forgot about the little books that used to come with your game that detailed all the mechanics, controls, special moves, lore, maps, collectables, means of unlocking additional content, character bios, etc

#i remember when computer games came in these BIG boxes!

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not to be a chauvinist but why are we spending all this time and money curing cancer and shit for mice. like i love mice but maybe those researchers could try to cure human diseases instead

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Sandy cheeks was an insane character

#speech act

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I always loved her transgender swag

#speech act #truth!

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george washington was the first king, and his rule lasted from the year 0 to 1776. he clipped his toenails in the west and the rocky mountains piled up. bored one night, he ejaculated in the headwaters of the mississippi and by the time his sperm reached the delta, they had matured to adult men: the first Americans. during his reign great infrastructure projects were undertaken; he personally oversaw the construction of the brooklyn bridge and the chicago bean. he was succeeded upon his death by little gay bitch thomas jefferson

#truth!

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He was trying to make sure you could be horny on main and still get paid. The hero we needed not the hero we deserved.

#🫡

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my most crank opinion is that microplastics literally do not matter as a health concern bc by definition they're inert. they're an ecological concern, yeah. i helped my mom with a little lit review and the general vibe is like, well they could theoretically be a vector by which dangerous things like pathogens or heavy metals or chemical compounds could come in your body but they're just hanging out there. and given that heavy metals are still being found in all kinds of food everywhere in the world, public health has to chase that.

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Congratulations to Marcille DungeonMeshi for achieving Pathetic Little Man status on tumblr, a hard glass ceiling for many female characters to break. I look forward to calling you my sopping wet beast and poor little meow meow for fandom days to come. Keep trucking babygirl, you'll bag Falin one day