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Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

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I for one welcome our new strygine overlord. :)

Backstory: This gentleman escaped from Central Park Zoo in March after his enclosure there was vandalized, and there was a lot of concern over whether or not he could/would survive out of captivity. Unconcerned by this, Flaco settled himself in a particular area of Central Park and spent all the spring, summer, and most of the fall eating large numbers of rats, and genially allowing himself to be photographed by an ever-growing cadre of bird paparazzi.

Then a few weeks ago, possibly irked by repeated mobbing by assorted hawks and corvids, Flaco took off from his normal haunts and went on a brief tour of apartment-building courtyards on the Lower East Side. Now he's on the Upper West Side, within sight of Central Park (so food's no problem, should he feel like heading back that way to hunt), and shouting for everybody to hear that he owns the place. The image above shows him on the water tower of an apartment building at 86th and CPW.

If you look back through the Manhattan Bird Alert and Above 96th Twitter feeds, you'll see many splendid pictures of him. He's a handsome lad, and it's good to see him thriving.

What's in his future? Hard to tell. (Though some people on Twitter are suggesting he should run for mayor.) He may head upstate at some point. But he may decide he's quite happy to be a Manhattanite. As a fellow one, I wish him very well. :)

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the suffering never ends

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if they don’t make sci-fi like this i don’t want it

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did this last night

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in like the age of kiwifarms i am actually going to have to expect people to do better and be less gullible and more vigilant rather than believing any accusation is in good faith if an appeal to moralism is being used and it is couched in the right language. you cannot afford to continue being this ignorant/callous/stupid/malicious how much benefit of the doubt are you supposed to get for that while simultaneously practicing none to those you clearly treat as inherently wont to malice or simply as socially disposable

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on the planet of the…

TREBLE

DEATH, IT LIVE SO CRAZY

MEN MY FAVORITE TYPE OF LADY

SEX, I’VE HAD ENOUGH

TELL THE WORLD “BLOW YOURSELF UP!”

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ok actually i'm putting this to a poll because i'm curious on the populace's takes

#individual videos #easier to download individual tracks for future use #also get one of those youtube apps that skip all the ads #I have android ones and apple ones if you're interested

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Me and my mutuals

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The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.

legendaryjay_ on TikTok

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a story about tumblr’s collective ability to fact check

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as a writer i used to think the best feeling is when an audience laughs at your work. it’s actually when several people audibly say “oh fuck” at your work despite the fact that you aren’t supposed to do that in a theatre.

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It should be illegal to require that any device or software connect to the internet just to run. I shouldn't need to log in with microsoft to open any of their programs on my local computer. All games should be playable without access to an online server. All media you pay for should be downloadable to local disk as a raw file and if they don't like that because they know you'll share it and upload it, tough shit. They took your money already, they'll live.

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Imagine if you had a neighbour who keeps performing songs from Phantom of the Opera in his apartment every night, by himself but accompanied by a parrot, which he has taught to sing Christine's part. Admittedly it's kind of obnoxious but you are far too baffled to even be properly annoyed. And also you don't want to confront someone with that kind of power and determination. So every once in a while you just hear this guy dramatically bellow

"SING FOR ME!"

[ASTONISHINGLY HIGH-PITCHED PARROT SHRIEK]

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this is legitimately one of my absolute favorite pieces of animation of all time