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The Red Wheelbarrow

by William Carlos Williams

#poem
The Red Wheelbarrow BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?

by Robert Hershon

#poem
Robert Hershon SENTIMENTAL MOMENT OR WHY DID THE BAGUETTE CROSS THE ROAD? Don't fill up on bread I say absent-mindedly The servings here are huge My son, whose hair may be receding a bit, says Did you really just say that to me? What he doesn't know is that when we're walking together, when we get to the curb I sometimes start to reach for his hand
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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This is Elon Musk
Viral Nathan Fielder tweet with a photo of him alone, laughing and looking to the side. The text says “Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They’re all just out of frame, laughing too.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I don’t remember where I saved this from but this woman rocks
The bride, for her fifth wedding, wore black and carried a scotch-and-soda.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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My Christmas cactus is blooming 🌸
Christmas cactus with several large pink blooms and a few buds that haven’t opened yet
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Here’s baby me as an immigrant to the United States. Thinking about how the fact that I and other immigrants were/are labelled “aliens” might be linked to where the US is today with all the xenophobia, ICE raids, etc.

That’s probably too simplistic but language matters. Human beings are not aliens.
“Alien Registration” card with a photo of a baby on it
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Found this while deleting 42,567 screenshots from my phone hahaha
Tweet by man eater / @frybreadwhore and to my great grandchildren i leave 42,567 screenshots 2:39 AM - 2023-07-30 - 1.7M views
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Found this saved on my phone
Bugs Bunny holding a sign that says “The rich want a society based on punishment because a society based on care would render them obsolete”.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#DailyWalk Riley Park, Douglas Park, Shaughnessy #Vancouver (8.84 km; 13,157 steps)
Nat Bailey baseball stadium (“the Nat”) Random fir tree on a boulevard decorated with Christmas ornaments A tiny door and other decorative items placed at the foot of a tree Small toys on shelves attached to the trunk of a tree
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Can this trend of designing every new building with the same wavy lines die already, thank you
An artist’s impression of Civic Plaza and the surrounding buildings for the Lansdowne redevelopment project (Vancouver Sun)
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Volunteering for HUB Cycling at the Bicycle Film Festival 🚲
Rio Theatre neon sign Now Showing: Nov 19 HUB Cycle for Change 6:00 PM HUB Cinematic 8:30 PM Nov 20 Frankenstein 6:15 PM Shelby Oaks 9:30 PM Nov 21 Nouvelle Vague 2:15 PM Requiem For A Dream 11:30 PM
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A teacher helping a student, who has his head in his hands. She asks him, “Are there any classes you’re struggling with?” He answers, “The bourgeoisie”.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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24. You can have fun without booze! #alcohol #sobriety #ReasonsToQuit

This is the end of my Reasons To Quit thread. Have I missed anything?
"I will do something no one has ever done — be fun sober!" (Homer Simpson “woo hoo!” meme)
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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“a quite handsome hellhole”

[dylan thomas on vancouver, 1950]
In a letter to his wife, Caitlin Thomas, dated April 7, 1950, Dylan Thomas wrote: "Vancouver is on the sea, and gigantic mountains doom above it. Behind the mountains lie other mountains, lies an unknown place, 30,000 miles of mountainous wilderness, the lost land of Columbia where cougars live and black bears. But the city of Vancouver is a quite handsome hellhole. It is, of course, being Canadian, more British than Cheltenham. I spoke last night--or read, I never lecture, how could I?-in front of two huge Union Jacks. The pubs--they are called beer-parlours--serve only beer, are not allowed to have whiskey or wine or any spirits at all--and are open only for a few hours a day. There are, in this monstrous hotel, two bars, one for Men, one for Women. They do not mix. Today, Good Friday, nothing is open nor will be open all day long. Everybody is pious and patriotic, apart from a few people in the university & my old friend Malcolm Lowry--do you remember Under the Volcano--who lives in a hut in the mountains & who came down to see me last night... This afternoon I pick up my bag of soiled clothes and take a plane to Seattle. And thank God to be out of British Canada & back in the terrible United States of America."
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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23. Get a whole new personality! (I ended up with “literal 90 year old hermit”) #alcohol #sobriety #ReasonsToQuit
When you stop drinking and doing drugs every day and have to find a new personality: - internet sad girl - religious zealot - gym wanker - inspirational quote peddled - memelord - a literal 90 year old hermit
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Late afternoon sky
Dramatic clouds over a city. The clouds are lit from underneath by the setting sun.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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22. Heal from past trauma instead of running from it. It may be rough at first but the only way out is through. #alcohol #sobriety #ReasonsToQuit
Sponge Bob flipping hearts with spatulas in such a frenzy that it looks like he has multiple arms and spatulas. The caption says “when you start getting all your feelings back now that you’re sober”.
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Tonight’s #movie - FRANKENSTEIN (2025), starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Charles Dance; dir. Guillermo del Toro
Frankenstein movie poster featuring the monster in an icy landscape
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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When your friends ask why you don’t connect with people emotionally anymore: “My enthusiasm in those days was fueled entirely by the alcohol.”
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Cam from Modern Family says “I’m playing a new drinking game, it’s called ‘every time I get depressed I take a drink’. Mitch from Modern Family replies “That game exists, it’s called alcoholism”.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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“I may process moments and thoughts differently, but it does not mean that I feel any less than you.” - Tech #StarWars #TheBadBatch
Tech, a human male character in the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. He is wearing clone trooper armour and goggles.
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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A middle-aged person talking on a landline phone while tucked into bed. A black and white cat is tucked in next to them. The caption says “me, 5 years sober on a Friday night, living a life beyond my wildest dreams”.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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From his website. There’s some kind of generator for creating slogans in this typeface and format, from what I gather.
Zohran for New York City slogan. Yellow letters on a blue background.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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An elderly man in athletic wear riding a skateboard. Caption says “when you get sober at age 30 and don’t even know who you are, so you pick up where you left off as a teenager”
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Don’t tell me what to do
Small desiccant capsule from my vitamin bottle labelled DO NOT EAT / NE PAS MANGER / NO INGERIR
November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM