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A hiker, clearly shaken, enters a remote English village pub, his clothes all torn and he's full of scratches. 

"You won't believe this," he says to the bartender. "I was attacked by a leopard!"

"Really?"

"Yes! A leopard! In England!" The hiker sits down and orders the strongest liquor they've got. "I tried to run, but it was if course much faster than me."

The hiker gets his glass, empties it, and asks for another. "It sent me to the ground with a mighty push from its paws, but weirdly enough it then just gave me a really sad look and left."

"Ah, you met Father Andrews," the bartender says, matter-of-factly.

"What do you mean?" asks the tourist, confused.

"Father Andrews was our priest. A truly kind-hearted man, loved by all. His only goal in life was to serve his congregation as well as he could. So when he one day found a lamp with a genie, his very first wish was to be a loving shepherd to the community."

"That's nice "

"Absolutely, if only he hadn't been so prone to spoonerisms."

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It's gonna be may, bestie

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okay this was so cute

ref's friends/fam for his first game !

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Tiffany couldn't quite work out how Miss Level got paid. Certainly the basket she carried filled up more than it emptied. They'd walk past a cottage and a woman would come scurrying out with a fresh-baked loaf or a jar of pickles, even though Miss Level hadn't stopped there. But they'd spend an hour somewhere else, stitching up the leg of a farmer who'd been careless with an axe, and get a cup of tea and a stale biscuit. 

It didn't seem fair.

“Oh, it evens out,” said Miss Level, as they walked on through the woods. 

“You do what you can. People give what they can, when they can. Old Slapwick there, with the leg, he's as mean as a cat, but there'll be a big cut of beef on my doorstep before the week's end, you can bet on it. His wife will see to it. And pretty soon people will be killing their pigs for the winter, and I'll get more brawn, ham, bacon and sausages turning up than a family could eat in a year.”

“You do? What do you do with all that food?”

“Store it,” said Miss Level. 

“But you-”

“I store it in other people. It's amazing what you can store in other people.” Miss Level laughed at Tiffany's expression. “I mean, I take what I don't need round to those who don't have a pig, or who're going through a bad patch, or who don't have anyone to remember them.”

“But that means they'll owe you a favour!”

“Right! And so it just keeps on going round. It all works out.”

“I bet some people are too mean to pay-”

“Not pay,” said Miss Level, severely. “A witch never expects payment and never asks for it and just hopes she never needs to. But, sadly, you are right.”

“And then what happens?"

“What do you mean?”

“You stop helping them, do you?”

“Oh, no,” said Miss Level, genuinely shocked. “You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant. Everyone's poor round here. If I don't help them, who will?”

"A Hat full of Sky" - Terry Pratchett

#terry pratchett #discworld

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On a scale of Steve Rogers to Miles Vorkosigan:

How well do you balance your ambition to live up to your father's military career with your physical disabilities?

How well do you cope with finding out someone tried to replicate the process that made you who you are and failed miserably?

How invested are you in maintaining a secret identity?

How well do you handle waking up from cryogenic suspension?

How well do you handle people's assumption that you are from a much more unpleasant culture than the society they consider home?

How well can you out-stubborn beloved childhood friends who run after you to try to stop you from what they consider bad decisions?

How well do members of the gender you're attracted to react to seeing you shirtless, especially if they could wipe the floor with you?

How often do you find yourself gravitating to people trapped in torturous, abusive relationships?

How easily do you make friends with the outcomes of mad science?

How often do you self-medicate your mental health challenges with substances that would kill anyone else?

(Co-written with @cosmictuesdays)

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Gen X: [raises hand] Can... can we also maybe not get worked to death?

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Gen X: [raises hand] Can... can we also maybe not get worked to death?

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in fucking tears rn

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Get that money!!!!

Are you in the USA? I cannot stress this enough: search your state's unclaimed property site to see if there is anything in your name.

I just got a check for nearly $900 that I didn't know about. Apparently it was sent to me at the end of 2019 and I never got it, so it was sent on to Unclaimed Property.

My friend checked the state he used to live in. He didn't have any unclaimed property of his own. But his dad, who died 20 years ago, had over $10,000 in unclaimed property. My friend is the heir, so he gets that money.

It involves a little paperwork to get the money but it's so worth it!

You can search ALL states using MissingMoney.com. And I recommend that you search ALL states - sometimes you might get a surprise about post property in another state (as my friend did with his dad!)

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God bless Mr DeGroot, most long-suffering middle manager and purveyor of OSHA compliance ever. A true Cassandra of the high seas.

#black sails

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The Expanse | 3x06. Immolation

#the expanse

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stagnation, 2022.

( cropped. full painting here. )

#black sails #miranda barlow #miranda hamilton

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noooo don't remind me of s1 'we might be friends by then' oh my god.......

#black sails #john silver #james flint #jack rackham

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CATE RANDA & MAY OLOWE-HEWITT Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)

#monarch #cate randa #may olowe hewitt #monarch legacy of monsters

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So, thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation will be receiving electricity for the first time — ever.

Also, water treatment devices are being developed to help the tribe access clean running water. After decades without.