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clevermanka
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Still wearing combat boots with dresses
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Queer as in fuck you
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Also I wasn't joking about the freezer. Send help.
A very, very full freezer. Ignore the cigarettes. They're only there for nostalgic purposes.
November 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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When I re-load the app after supposedly registering on the site it says I still haven't upgraded
Deezer app telling me Surprise! I still don't have a free trial account despite registering for it twice
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Attempts to use Deezer continue. Temporarily set Edge as my default browser so I could get logged in on the app. It told me I still hadn't signed up for the free trial. Went through that again & it flashed an error so fast I couldn't see it then sent me to this page. Any other suggestions? 😂😅😩
Deezer message telling me I still don't have a Premium account (not even the free trial) and giving me a 404 "Sorry we couldn't find the page you're looking for error"
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Lovely, free journaling techniques for anyone who could use a gamifying angle to dig in the dirt of their interior landscape www.restlesscourage.com/ttrpgs/
I believe that role playing games have tremendous potential for helping us to develop deeper empathy, connect with parts of ourselves we often ignore, and imagine new ways of being in the world. Play can teach us things about our “real” selves that we might otherwise miss, and experiences of play can be steered in a transformative direction if approached with intention and attention. Approaching "heavy" topics can also feel less threatening when viewed through a playful lens; it can give us permission to be vulnerable in a safer container than our everyday life might provide. I also firmly believe that, through play, we can imagine better worlds into being. Yes, building a better world takes hands-on, hard work, but imagination and play can guide that work in exciting new directions. And, as Terry Pratchett's iconic, anthropomorphic personification of Death says in the book Hogfather, "YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" Toward that end, I am developing contemplative journaling games that can be played on your own time, as tools to help you reconnect with yourself and your world. Any games that I develop can be found and downloaded (for free) below or by going to my itch.io page.
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Exhausted Ben Affleck smoking reaction image
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🕯️😙🧡
A tealight candle burning in a metal and red glass holder. Colorful origami stars are sprinkled all around.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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If you see this, post an #anime you love!

Literally just finished watching an episode
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Post you from a different era.

I'm not gonna lie, the 90s were *very* good to me.
A young white woman with long black hair poses and makes a kissy face at the camera while standing on the balcony of a Lake Shore Drive high rise. Taken in Chicago, Illinois, summer 1994.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Forever grateful I got to see that tour in person 🧡😊🧡
A very old printed ticket from the July 1993 Denver, Colorado show of Peter Gabriel's US tour
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Omg wtffff
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November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Accountability Post: I'd planned to start final novel revisions today but am fatigue-dizzy from excitement over the elections news. So I'm publicly committing to starting tomorrow! Then I was like 🤔 when did I actually finish this thing and did some digging. TWO YEARS. Y'all this has been A JOURNEY
Discord message from me (now y'all who didn't already know my legal name have it lol) dated December 6, 2023 that says "YOOOOOOOO I think I just finished The Novel 🥳🍾🥂"
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Thank you for sharing your finalists 🧡
Text says "Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent." Image is the corner of a room that looks like a murder scene with blood on the walls and a chest with a lamp and a small TV which has, on its screen, an image that looks very much like a naked butt.)
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Browsing the memoir/biography section at the library yesterday and got slapped in the face with this
Spine of book displaying the title "Omega Farm"
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Task completed now please give me my much-deserved gold stars I'm gonna go lie down
A damp-haired post-shower Manka, doing her best to not look as tired as she feels
October 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Norman Rockwell would never
Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges being escorted to school by US marshalls Norman Rockwell painting "Murder in Mississippi" depicting the murder of activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner by the KKK. Norman Rockwell painting The Right to Know, depicting a racially diverse population questioning their government. Norman Rockwell painting New Kids in the Neighborhood, depicting two children of the Black family moving in looking at three white children and a puppy.
October 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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October 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Omg the playlist image garnered me my first post slapped with a SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE CONTENT label 😂
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October 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Me, unable to access Netflix UK:
October 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Post is from Nov. 4, 2024. Still important, still relevant, and still helpful.
The list of things that fascists cannot do is almost unending; every one of their malicious intentions reveals another fine thing they despise too much to value. We can value education. We can value science rather than fraud. We can value diversity rather than conformity. We can value correction rather than punishment. We can value justice rather than corruption. We can value critical thinking rather than propaganda. We can value truth rather than lies, and journalism rather than conspiracy. We can value peace rather than violence. We can value true friendship rather than domination and solidarity rather than brutality. We can value kindness rather than bullying. When we do things fascists cannot, we differentiate ourselves, and we attack their great weakness: their addiction to their own dominance. This is a profound weakness, one which they in their grotesque ignorance believe is their great strength, having failed to realize that their refusal to recognize the humanity of others leaves them unable to access their own.
October 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM