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zoya the destroyer
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@combledore.bsky.social I forget... is it just that both sides offer a definition of the term in question and the jury gets to decide how to interpret? my trial law practicum was so long ago
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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texting with my mom about baseball
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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we need to make Petruchio’s “wive and thrive” from Taming of the Shrew a thing
Petruchio: Such wind as scatters young men through the world To seek their fortunes farther than at home, Where small experience grows. But in a few, Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me: Antonio, my father, is deceas’d, And I have thrust myself into this maze, Happily to wive and thrive as best I may.
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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me, reading the part of Virgil where the sibyl takes Aeneas to Tartarus: maybe I do hope the ancient underworld is real
One sold his country and imposed a tyrant; One, for a price, made laws and then remade them. One stormed his daughter’s room—a lawless marriage. All of them dared great evil and succeeded. A hundred tongues and mouths, a voice of iron Wouldn’t allow me to describe the crimes In all their forms, or list the punishments.
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Ok maybe the long ziti are bad
Dan and I bought a thing called "long ziti" from the local Weird Bargain Store, largely as a joke, but.... I have never had a more unsettling pasta experience in my life. They wouldn't bend enough to cook from top to bottom simultaneously, and while they were cooking boiling water kept spouting out from the tops of them out of the pot, like a boiling pipe organ. Then they were so long and floppy and hoselike that we couldn't pick them up with anything other than tongs, and then they were so long and unwieldy that it was basically impossible to sauce them without them all slithering out of the bowl like wet snakes. They then proceeded to cool down almost completely within the the seconds it took to walk to the living room. Eating them was like eating a bowl full half melted drinking straws.
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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tbh mine looks better
udon noodles ground turkey and spinach in a blue and white bowl with a fork
October 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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autumn morning
view from my bedroom: a big round maple (?) tree just starting to turn yellow-orange at the top, and a tall redwood with morning light streaming through it
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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soft pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, Tween’s first solo bake
soft, vaguely orange chocolate chip cookies cooling on a rack
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I can make highlights/annotations and the text into separately scrollable panels, which is great for finding quotes during discussion, and I keep a color coded system of highlights which I can adjust as necessary. Wish I’d had this in school.
screenshot of a page of the Aeneid in my Kindle iPad app, with the text in the left column and a few selections I’ve highlighted in the right column
October 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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now we are doing the traditional “sister helps burn the ex’s stuff in the front yard,” classical epic poetry is so relatable
Sister, I swear it by your darling life And by the gods—I wouldn’t choose such weapons. Build me a pyre in secret in the courtyard. The arms that evil man hung in our bedroom, The clothes he left me here, our bed of union (My death)—put it all there. I want the remnants Of the criminal destroyed. She’s shown me how.”
October 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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her parting shot is extremely good (trans Ruden)
I hope that heaven’s conscience has the power To trap you in the rocks and force reprisal Down your throat, as you call my name. I’ll send— I’ll bring black flames, I’ll hound you after cold death Draws out my soul. Even among the dead In hell, I’ll hear when you, at last, are paying.
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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but then
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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we also went to the top of the De Young museum observation tower, which is free and one of my favorite SF secrets (it's not signed anywhere, you just walk in through the entrance at the end and take the unmarked elevator up to the top, where it's often fairly empty)
My kids standing at the observation tower window looking out at the park below with the Richmond District beyond Little Kid with more park and houses in the background plus some of the bay and hills
October 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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vacation
Little Kid standing in front of the kelp forest tank at the Monterey Bay aquarium A cute alley with Tudor-style buildings in Carmel Sunset over Asilomar Beach Museum concourse in Golden Gate Park
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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My family, immediately upon returning home from a 5 day vacation that was mostly sitting and relaxing, including sitting on the drive home today:
October 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I'm at the aquarium right now, and the giant Pacific octopus just gave us a show! She knew it was her day 💅🏻🐙
October 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I can't quite see the ocean from my vacation bed but it's out there
View out a window near sunset with houses and trees, with the edge of the light falling across the foot of a bed
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Top alarm is a blackout thing I rarely use, middle is the daily except I have to change the days all the time, bottom is the flexible one that gets changed and turned on as needed, like for a midday nap. I like spinning wheels.
September 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I hope everyone is aware of my beloved profile header (please read in Attenborough voice with audible scare quotes around the slang phrase)
A sea otter floating peacefully on its back with eyes closed, from Blue Planet, with the caption “Here, at least, sea otters can chill out Californian style”
September 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I have actually had the game for 8 years so I guess it’s not that crazy…I am also a new save addict (I have 122 hours of a new save since I made this meme 😶‍🌫️)
girlfriend guy meme where he’s looking away from a long list of Stardew saves at another girl labeled A New Stardew Save
September 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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the TMNT logo but it says HOLD ME CLOSER TINY DANCER
September 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Oh look what just popped up on my Tumblr dash www.tumblr.com/denynothing1...
September 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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re LRP everyone knows the Pelican meme from tumblr right? a vital modern text
a pelican in the water with huge mindless yellow eyes and its mouth gaping open above the text pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put baby in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in Pelican Mouth. Put Baby In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for baby neck weak of big baby head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a baby put baby in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to baby. friend pelican source: maverick-ornithography on tumblr
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Yesterday we got a lemon fry bread
Native American fry bread in a paper tray with a ton of lemon topping in the middle
September 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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when I open it, it’s the typical stories on top (blocked out here) with videos playing that I can only swipe randomly through TikTok-style, but if I go to the little following tab I get just my actual follows
Instagram home page, with a video playing, icons down the side, and stories at the top blocked out for privacy
September 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM