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if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen

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I am deeply enjoying the facial expressions on both woman and bird in this marginal drawing.

(Cambridge UL MS Add. 4085)

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help he's sucking up the columbo characters on my dash

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this is what severance is about

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I love Pacific Rim because they really said "you can defeat giant monsters with the power of queerplatonic relationships and unspeakable mecha violence".

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I don't know what tenth circle of hell my YouTube algorithm fell into, but I really wish it would stop showing me videos of 5 a.m. morning writing routines.

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Honestly thought I'd never hear the word "usborne" again. My mom used to live and breathe that company, and while I certainly don't regret a fair chunk, I do find it amusing as I look back now. I legitimately thought it had fallen off faster than Juice+.

In reference to a post where i mention my kid has the usborne “see inside germs” book.

So if people don’t know, usborne is a weird publishing company that has done indispensable books for British children for generations; they’re in every library, school and nursery, and have shelves devoted to them in every bookstore. They are how many people learned to read, and are the originators of many hyper focuses. They’re famed for doing educational lift the flap books for all ages, like “see inside your body”, as well as as the ubiquitous touch-and-feel series, “that’s not my….” In which a mouse comments improbably on various creatures not being their creature. “That’s not my dragon,” the mouse says, inviting you to stroke a dragon with a patch of fur on it, “its tummy is too soft. That’s not my dragon,” on the next page, where the dragon’s ears are lined with textured paper, “its ears are too bumpy.” This seems like such an inefficient way to find one’s missing dragon, a fact that simmers underneath you through endless repetition. Why does the mouse own so many things (pirates, ducks, polar bears) and why is it interrogating other people’s pirates etc by feeling their legs.

At any rate, turn a parents’ house upside down and these books fall out.

Which is why it’s completely hilarious that they are also an MLM.

Well. Kind of. In the old school sense. It’s less about signing up a pyramid scheme and more about getting a random citizen to buy a crate of perfectly popular books and try to sell them on from their home. It’s very traditional for Mums On Maternity Leave to do this. Pre-social media and online ordering, they’d hook up other mums at toddler group. Today, they post awkwardly on social media. The idea is that buying from another parent is cheaper than the bookstore, and they get to keep the markup. They get intense about things, and I believe they attend conferences. Nobody makes a huge amount of money and it’s unclear how undercutting local bookstores is helpful; it’s also basically the same RRP as Amazon I think.

And the books are perfectly respectable and sell perfectly well in bookstores.

So. Like. This marketing scheme is completely weird. Why?? Why does it still exist? People buy the books normally! You don’t need to promote them aggressively! You don’t need elaborate independent local middlemen schemes! You can just buy them! I have never understood this. I just file it under one of those weird mat leave hustles.

But don’t worry OP. They’re still going. They’ll never stop. The thing is that your mom got bored and online sales probably ate whatever residual profit margins were left and it’s probably very liberating for everyone to grow out of the “that’s not my cow” stage, but Usborne books are going strong.

#wild #i loved the usborne guide to books #we had so many of them i was so lucky

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old people TV shows are so dear to me

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i wanted to dieeee

#my wife looks like kd lang and doesnt have a tik tok you wish you were me

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daddy's got to be honest kitten. i don't think we're finding the northwest passage

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A small victory to celebrate for today

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a stud in black leather on a black motorcycle just revved their engine at me and thank god I tore my demonic uterus out ages ago because I think that would have finally knocked me up

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WA Labor has announced it'll abolish the Gender Reassignment Board!!! This could be a massive benefit to trans people across the state as WA's gender recognition laws are the worst in the country - and that board where you need to prove you're trans is a major and pointless hurdle.

This is a shift from their previous lack of commitment, saying it was a post 2025 election issue. But thanks to everyone who contacted MPs, put pressure, and made a noise about this it seems like Labor has realised it'll lose support by the LGBTQIA+ community if it doesn't take action it's been promoting to do for 7+ years.

So good work everyone!

The thing is: WA Labor also announced back in 2022 they'd ban conversion therapy by the end of 2023 but then simply didn't. Don't be fooled: this is an announcement of INTENTION. No moves to abolish the board have been introduced YET.

This also means that people are still going to be subject to abusive conversion practices and protections for intersex people remain non-existent.

So! Don't stop contacting members of WA Parliament and the Premier and support campaigns like Rainbow Futures WA (who have a great email template) and call for more comprehensive reform - like stopping religious schools from being able to discriminate against gay staff and students!

Keep it up!

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Yeah, I was admitted to hospital for severe ongoing neurological issues. They found nothing but low vitamin d. (It's supposed to be over 50. I had 7. Seven whole vitamin D's) perhaps this is the cure for all my ails and I can stop getting lumbar punctures and contrast MRIs and just be fine! That's such low vitamin d!

Just take a normal pill, pay for it yourself we won't even prescribe it. See you next time you're hospitalised for the ongoing severe neurological issues (2 ish years) oh look you've got a whole 23 vitamin D's now that's nearly halfway to the minimum. And everything is worse. Why are you sad about that. We can't find anything wrong with you. Have you tried taking vitamin d.

My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

#vitamin d supplementation is fucking pointless #you take all the supplements for years and your numbers barely go up and if anything you feel worse #now im deficient in folate too and all that does is make me miserable as fuck when i take it #b12 deficiency is the only exception that stuff is magic and cures so much neuropathy as long as you mainline it IM constantly #but theres a limit #it does not for example help with the severe ongoing neurological issues