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An Abbreviated Family Dictionary
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The Ukrainian phrase is a toast: “So our children won’t fear bears.”
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Found this little alley cat boy a home.
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The devil’s in the details. Satan’s in the syntax. Lucifer’s in the long division. Mephistopheles is in the fiddly bits.
December 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My body composition is now 70% water 30% cough drop.
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
But Jorie I don’t wanna go to X.
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My family dramas would all fall apart if we just had and used cell phones.
December 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Shoutout to the person in a nearby cubicle who is whisper-singing My Favorite Things in the style of Joanna Newsom.
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Sing along with my commute. youtu.be/dk8Ag-Vn06U?...
Midnight Sister - Blue Cigar (Official Video)
YouTube video by MidnightSisterVEVO
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December 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Don’t mind me. I’m just squished into this metro window seat, keeping to myself and assigning narratives to you folks.
December 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thank you, Jiffy Lube customer Mike, for that monologue about AI and the WHO and how “they” are going to control us through our phones.
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My mother was a braid of black smoke. She bore me swaddled over the burning cities. The sky was a vast and windy place for a child to play, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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It’s one of the most beautiful photos I’ve ever seen.

Youry Bilak, a French photographer born in 1961 in France to Ukrainian parents –
creates works that capture both the culture and the war of Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ozzie wants to know. DC wants to know. I want to know.
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Baaaa
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Every 14 years we are offered a cat renewal.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dim Kavis loses again. Now please sink into obscurity forever.
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
There will come a day that will be the last time we see Dim Kavis in the news.
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“How can you have a hardcore show without mosh pits? What is this? England?” The mysterious wisdom of my teenage daughter.
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A colleague was out biking with friends and they ran into some other friends they know from protesting and they all got excited and one of them fell off her bike and landed on a rat, which killed said rat, and yes, I live in DC, why do you ask?
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A movie you’ve seen more that seven times with a gif.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Fred and Rita drove from Harlingen
I can't remember how I'm kin to them
But when they tried to plug their motor home in
They blew our Christmas lights
Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If Portugal is Portugal then Kamchatka is Starbordugal.
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Happy birthday to Bootsy
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BOOTSY'S BASIC FUNK FORMULA
YouTube video by Ediblspaceships
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October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In DC.
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM