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Knowledge is empowering

#I've started watching Forrest Valkai on YT #it's fascinating to learn how not simple anything is #like tree may just be a shape that plants can choose #not an actual thing #kind of like fish #it's not a classification so much as a shape option that's optimized for the environment of water #pachyderm isn't even a thing anymore #it's fun to know how little you know #because it makes things exciting and new again

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My coworker Mike just started cracking up. Informed us someone was trying to make a test Outlook group at work and seems to have accidentally made it a real Outlook group.

Everyone added to the group is named Mike.

Creator of the group isn’t online yet but the Mikes are coming online in droves.

#this is literally how Joey found a date for Phoebe in Friends

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"Health is mostly maintenance" is freaking awesome and reminds me of one of my favorite quotes ever: "Repetition is the only form of permanence nature can achieve." -- George Santayana

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#I genuinely don't know which is supposed to be which #they look like clothespins to me

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Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it

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I know these are everywhere but I just have to share some pictures I got of the eclipse because I'm just so proud of my phone camera!!! I bought my current phone (Pixel 8 pro) specifically because it's supposed to be one of the best cell phone cameras on the market and it really earned its keep on Monday.

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cowboys never die. they just ride off into the sunset

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I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”

I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.

It’s not not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.

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My vibe about ships since forever tbh

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I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.

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Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

#Fun story about this scene #so I hadn't seen this movie #and Thuriweaver wanted to show it to me but was worried that it was one of those movies that you had to see as a kid #or it wouldn't be funny #well when this scene happened #I cracked up #and she immediately said “Oh good you WILL like it!” #that was the moment she knew I would vibe with the humor

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some emergency alert operator just gave me a three minute taste of being an indie horror game protagonist jesus fuckin christ

#finally something to be proud of in my state

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Please enjoy this toad that crawled out from under a rock in the path I'm building and glared at me for disturbing him

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 Hey, to you sci-fi/fantasy writers out there (and maybe some others, but this is mainly for things that can’t really be researched irl), if you want to write a character who is a driven, passionate expert on something, don’t write about them rambling indifferently about some boring, mundane part of it. Give them a deep, intense hatred of some oddly specific wow-I-did-not-even-know-that-was-a-thing-and-it-would-have-never-occurred-to-me-that-it’s-a-bad-thing thing they’ll gladly rant about.

 Write a dragon rider who really fucking hates it when a dragon is trained to bow while being reined. A space ship engineer who is pissed off when perfectly good antimatter ship has been adapted to run on neutral matter. A historian who is still not over the massive failures of a general who lost a specific battle 300 years before she was born.

 The guy currently giving us a series of lectures on the restoration of historical buildings really, really hates polymer paint. At the artisan school our stained glass teacher really hated this one specific Belgian artist - we never really figured out what did that guy even do, but he’s been dead for over 200 years and our teacher was glad that at least he’s dead.

 Experts don’t just know things you’ve never thought about. They’ve got strong opinions about it.

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Check out my new tattoo!!

#the dark tower #ka is a wheel #Stephen King