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Watterson pulled no punches

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Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

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The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

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The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, July 9, 1924

#lmfao my friend lives there

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love when emails start off with “DO NOT REPLY”. like oh yeah way ahead of you brother

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A reproduction of Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” in Syria by Tammam Azzam

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happy birthday Gerard Way. King of England die today, m’lady?

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my dad is observing a strange phenomenon among his younger soccer players. he keeps mentioning the cleveland guardians, and they keep correcting him back to “indians.” they are like 10-11 years old.

my dad showed them the score on his phone and was like “see it says guardians” and they were like skeptical!

(he said he wanted to say “my people did not come from India!” but didn’t wanna deal with their parents. so he just keeps gently correcting them back)

wtf is up with their parents, man?

#i just thought this was interesting #as an indigenous person it also really sucks to see young children still being taight stereotypes and shit #like… come on #do better parents #linguistics

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it was my birthday recently (not saying the real date), and a great gift would even be just a reblog of this. thanks, guys!

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not people thinking they can escape heartache. avoiding it at all cost is itself a form of it

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reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

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Happy 96th, Tom Lehrer!

happy birthday funny music man…

#and happy bday to me as well #tom lehrer

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I was trying to figure out why Tom Lehrer’s music gives me such strong Hawkeyes vibes and then I learned that while drafted into the army, the naval base he was on didn’t allow alcohol so he invented the Jell-O shot, which is the most Hawkeye coded thing I could ever think of

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I cannot overstate how much I love Tom Lehrer's story. It sounds so fake but is entirely real.

He's a goddamn genius- he started studying mathematics at Harvard when he was 15 and graduated magna cum laude. He worked at Los Alamos for a few years before being drafted and working for the NSA, where he claims to have invented jello shots to get around alcohol bans.

He then went back to Harvard for a couple years before starting to teach political science at MIT.

Through all of that, he was writing and performing both some of the funniest shit you'll ever hear (Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Masochism Tango) and absolutely scathing political satire (Who's Next, Wernher von Braun, Send the Marines). Until the mid/late 60s counterculture gained momentum. He didn't like their aesthetic, so he stopped making music.

Shortly after, he moved to California and started teaching math and musical theater history at UC Santa Cruz for the next 30 years.

I don't know if non-Californians understand just how goddamn funny that is. It's where stoners and math (and now computer science) kids who couldn't get into Berkeley go. Leaving Harvard/MIT for UCSC is peak academic phoning it in. And by all accounts he had a blast.

Plus the whole putting all of his music in the public domain thing. That fucked.

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For legal reasons, pretend this is not a confession. [x]

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Via @danacea at Bluesky.

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Schrodinger‘s homosexual