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Buddhist, meteorologist, data scientist, @, fan of nerdy media like Doctor Who, probably not that interesting. I like translating ancient texts in my spare time, so I am super-boring. AuDHD so I am super-awesome. "Woke" af (that means "as foretold")
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A van has driven through a two-storey brick home. The caption reads: Same as it ever was... And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"...
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Post from DR Lucky Tran @luckytran: The "problem" with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I am really uncomfortable with how long it's been since I came across something and thought, "This cannot possibly be true," fact-checked it, and found it wasn't. And this is another thing that isn't that. This is a real thing that happened.
post from hinted: [A picture of Luigi Mangione modeling a shirt] The e-commerce platfolm Shein appears to be using accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione to model this shirt. response from daddy_addy: Shein advertising with an AI deepfake of Luigi Mangione truly is the culmination of everything we've been through in the last year
September 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Posts from The Asexual @AsexualJournal: Normalize cuddling without a sexual expectation. Normalize cuddling without a sexual expectation. Normalize cuddling without a sexual expectation. Normalize cuddling without a sexual expectation. Normalize cuddling without a sexual expectation. This tweet isn't saying that cuddling can't be a "precursor" to sex. It is saying that cuddling (and other forms of sensual intimacy) shouldn't be expected to lead to sex. Sensual intimacy must be free from the expectation of sexual intimacy. As long as sensual contact is understood to be inherently sexual, we are confining how human beings can express closeness to one another in our relationships to others.
August 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Post from Page Turner @_Page_Turner: Yes, I want to know what you ate for breakfast. Absolutely, I want to talk to you at the end of the day and hear about what you got up to. Send me the photos of that squirrel you saw in the park. Little updates are love.
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Post from mr cakes Xavier Holland (@nomchompsky): Unions are like condoms, if someone is trying extremely hard to convince you that you don't need one, you DEFINITELY need one
August 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Post from Scott King @scottking: CLERK [while ringing me up, at the local market]: Out doing women's work, today? ME: Hell no. My partner is a chemical engineer. She literally stops explosions and saves lives. I would never want that stress or responsibility. I'm not tough enough for women's work. CLERK: [wide-eyed suprised emoji]
August 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
post from attentiondeficitstarscream: if you're offline or away and i message you something (like a link to a meme or a picture or w/e) honestly just assume that i'm just leaving it there for when you get back and not expecting you to answer straight away. i don't need you to respond with "hey, sorry, i wasn't at the computer!" or anything. i was leaving u a gift for later. response from slightmayhem: This also applies if you're online and just don't want to or have the energy to deal with humans in the moment. Just because we have the ability to reply in real time does not mean we have the obligation.
August 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Tweet from Henpecked Hal @HenpeckedHal: My son on why Caleb is his best friend at kindergarten: "He doesn't really speak English, so we can skip all the talking and just get right to the karate."
August 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A page from a lined notebook with the words: JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T REQUIRE A LOT IN ORDER TO BE HAPPY DOESN'T MEAN YOU DESERVE ONLY THE BARE MINIMUM
August 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
shorthalt: Girl Scouts encounter Bigfoot the most frequently. Part of their oath is to keep him a secret because he's very kind and makes up 30% of their revenue due to his fervent love for thin mints. hlahlahlahlahly: As a Girl Scout leader, I am telling you that this is NOT true, and any former girl scout that says it is, should think about what they are saying and what oaths they may have sworn in the past
August 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
mentalheathmargo: how do you tell the difference between executive dysfunction, procrastination, and laziness bc fuck idk how to trainzelda: idk if you were actually looking for an answer but i talk about this with my therapist a lot so heres his wisdom: Laziness=You don't want to do a task, so you choose not to, and you're fine with that. You either dont care if it gets done or you figure someone else will do it. Procrastination=You want to do the task, but you put it off because it seems difficult/boring/time consuming. Executive dysfunction=You want to do the task, and intend to at that very moment. There is no signficant reason not to, but you can't because your brain is having difficulty transitioning between activities The key difference, he points out, is that if you experience guilt or shame from not doing it, then it's NOT laziness, because those feelings indicate, on some level, a desire to complete the task The latter two have more overlap imo, but for myself, I think of it as whether you are having trouble confronting the task itself, or just the transition. jeanjauthor: An excellent explanation!
August 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
(you can find the author at www.youtube.com/user/jball1123 among other places)
Post from Dr Jordan Fields, Clinical Psychologist @thesuperpsych: Resistance is NOT a one lane highway. Maybe your lane is protesting, maybe your lane is organizing, maybe your lane is counseling, maybe your lane is art activism, maybe your lane is survining the day. Do NOT feel guilty for not occupying every lane. We need all of them. We NEED everyone
August 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Post from Noah Garfinkel Noah Garfinkel "Uh oh, what's gonna happen with thiiiiiiis?" (Picking up random objects at Checkhov's house.)
August 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Dad ranted about how LGBTQIA+ identities were getting too confusing to keep up with, my 88 year old grandma shut him down. "The way things are now is better than when people had to hide away or killed themselves because nobody understood who they were. Respect costs you nothing."
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My cat is truly feeling at home now, because she has become incredibly annoying. I love her so much.

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Post from nocksie @nocksers: People: cats are so detached and just do their own thing My cats: are you getting up for 20 second to get a glass of water?? I'll come with you, gonna meow the whole time, hey bud so are we going back to bed or chilling on the couch? I am going to be a nuisance in either location
August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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tumblr post from xneosagaepisodeone: sure he's well versed in leftist theory but does he do the dishes response from communitygardens: this is such a succinct critique of male leftists who think of it as theory only & won't even get off their ass to clear the table
August 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Tweet from T. Thorn Coyle (@ThornCoyle): "When keepers of status quo talk about property destruction as form of violence please not they exempt items key to the survival of poorest neighbors. They consider smashing windows at a bank violent, but when cops throw away unhoused people's tents it's not." --@Gus_Kroll
August 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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post from〈 Berger | Dillon 〉 @InertialObservr before getting a PhD i felt dumb.. & at the end of my PhD i still feel dumb, but like in a more advanced way
August 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It's really unsettling how often I fact-check something that seems too dark and absurd to be true and find out it is, in fact, true. And it's gotten much worse in the last eight months.

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Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave. They are requiring Democrats to sign "permission slips" and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it. [two pictures, on the right the house chamber with Rep Collier at her desk, circled in red; on the left, a picture of Rep Collier, who appears to be a Black woman] Response from No Lie with Bryan Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC: This is authoritarianism.
August 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This would 100% work on me, and cut straight through my general distaste for the general idea of dating...

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Tweet from Meg @megann_lynne: [flirting] would you like to come over sometime and make a list?
August 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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posts from laika-the-bitch: in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other scale as in „to climb“ comes from the latin scala, for ladder. scale as in the measuring device comes from the old norse skal, for a drinking vessel sometimes used as a weighing device scale as in the dermal plating on the skin of some fish and reptiles comes from the old french escale, for shell or husk.
August 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I haven't checked this on Fake Buddha Quotes, but it does seem in line with a lot of Dhamma training.
Try to be less of a fucking piece of shit than you were yesterday. - Buddha
August 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Image description: "EVEN PLATONICALLY, I LOVE INTENSELY. Intimacy is not reserved for romance. I will always respect people's boundaries, but i think a lot of people are taken back because they've never been loved for the sake of being loved. I don't want anything. I just really love friends." Page: Cactustate
August 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just a reminder, because a lot of people seem to be confused about what he intends towards us disabled people.

One of RFK Jr's first tweets after announcing his candidacy for president in 2024 had a Nazi reference. (1488)
[Image description: Post from Robert F Kennedy, Jr, who at the time had just announced his candidacy for president, and who is not the head of Health and Human Services: Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me. Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request. Secretary Mayorkas: "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time." Our campaign's request included a 67-page report from the world's leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats. --- Readers added context: The Secret Service does not provide protection to non-incumbent Presidential candidates until 120 days before th egeneral election. The next election is Nov 5, 2024. July 8 2024 is 120 days prior. [this tweet was from before that] ]
July 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM