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This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

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#school tried to crack down on students smoking weed in the bathroom #led to all the bathrooms being locked during class hours and unlocked during lunch/break #which led to dozens of students lining up for a bathroom IF staff remembered to unlock it #got so bad a group of kids reported it to the local news and we were in the newspaper in a bad way #i suspect a few of the teachers supported this but can confirm nothing

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Jgy is literally so beautiful hes like jin zixuan but cuter and no one knows this because of that stupid hat 😭😭 take off that damn hat jgy

THEYRE LITERALLY THE SAME PERSON

#give this man back his good boy ponytail

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this can't be a thing right?

people can't be mad that books have words

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

#how context or structural clarity conveys it is up to the author but not my own vocabulary #thats literally a skill issue

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which is definitely not an omen

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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

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would you mind explaining the “and me i feel also not so good” thing? i tried looking it up without luck 😔

phrases that stick in your mind like tar to an unfortunate paleolithic beast

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Your parents are not "narcissists". They're typical authoritarian assholes who treat you like their property because society allows them to.

Your ex boyfriend is not a "narcissist". He's a typical misogynistic douchebag who treats women like shit because society allows him to.

Your boss is not a "narcissist". They're a typical classist dipshit who thinks workers' entire purpose in life is to generate profit because society allows them to.

And even if they happen to be a "narcissist", that's not what gave them the power to get away with abuse.

So stop blaming mental illness and start blaming society's normalization of abuse. Stop acting like someone has to have a mental illness in order to do something cruel when ordinary people have been doing atrocious things since forever.

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I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

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a story about tumblr’s collective ability to fact check

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I've noticed something I find somewhat concerning and it's that for a lot of people, 'pluto is a planet' has fallen into the stock list of examples for what one might call 'science denialism', along with things like antivaxx, denying the existence of feathered (non-avian) dinosaurs, and flat earthers

there's a sentiment that goes like 'well, sure, you learned in school that the solar system has nine planets, but Science Marches On and we now know it has eight' and while certainly people should not take what they learned in school to be immutable law they should also like. have a concept of the rather significant difference between 'we've learned something new about the world' and 'we've decided to slice up the world in categories along different lines'

slicing up the world into categories is one of the basic operations of human thought and if you do not understand it well enough that you think 'people used to think the earth flat -> now we know better' and 'astronomers used to call pluto a planet -> now they don't' are analogous processes then you fucked up somewhere.

and if you don't think they are analogous, if you understand the difference i am pointing out and think it does not matter to the quest of listing stock examples of people disagreeing with things scientists say, well. you fucked up in a different place, probably.

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Spot the difference

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by drhydra

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Woof likes water. Water very nice. 

(via)

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lmaooo

#i mean im sus this drop will last bc tech bros and rich ppl have goldfish memories but you know

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i absolutely do not go here but jsyk from the outside? the way everyone got mad and made theories about the asian guy and insisted the other two were hapless victims doesn't -not- look racist

#ofc im not tagging this i dont hate myself that much #fr i have no insight i actually thought this was something about the witcher but there was a typo