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William T. Perkins
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Former local journalist, current library worker, MLIS.
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025.
On Threads (where I do not go anymore), power_star_wars_memes tells another user (fairly unprompted) “I do not have any advice for you.” And honestly, I find that refreshing.
December 28, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Reddit is great, because when you need to know why your cheese has lines, you want to bring that to the cheese community.
Reddit post in r/cheese asking "Why did my cheese get these lines when it melted?" Pictured it a portion of a plate with an American cheese slice over hash browns, with faint vertical lines running across the slice.
December 14, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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Oh my god they made it into reality
From a viral post of kindergarteners’ Thanksgiving “recipes.” Ragen's Chocolate Pie 1 gallon of regular chocolate ½ gallon of flour ½ gallon of white icing Cake on the bottom Put the chocolate and the flour in a bowl and stir with a spoon. Pour it out of the bowl on the cake part. Flatten it all out with a spoon on the side you don't eat with. Now you have to put it in the oven. It only needs to be half hot. Set the timer for 2 or 3 minutes. Take it out and you have chocolate pie! Dip the icing on the pie with a spoon for decoration. Put it on a plate and now you can eat chocolate pie!
December 7, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Really unsettling! Please stop saying my name!
December 4, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Literally from an article I read tonight for one of my classes. hbr.org/1995/09/the-...
In every community known to linguists, the patterns that constitute linguistic style are relatively different for men and women. What's "natural" for most men speaking a given language is, in some cases, different from what's "natural" for most women. That is because we learn ways of speaking as children growing up, especially from peers, and children tend to play with other children of the same sex. The research of sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists observing American children at play has shown that, although both girls and boys find ways of creating rapport and negotiating status, girls tend to learn conversational rituals that focus on the rapport dimension of relationships whereas boys tend to learn rituals that focus on the status dimension. Boys tend to play very differently. They usually play in larger groups in which more boys can be included, but not everyone is treated as an equal. Boys with high status in their group are expected to emphasize rather than downplay their status, and usually one or several boys will be seen as the leader or leaders. Boys generally don't accuse one another of being bossy, because the leader is expected to tell lower-status boys what to do. Boys learn to use language to negotiate their status in the group by displaying their abilities and knowledge, and by challenging others and resisting challenges. Giving orders is one way of getting and keeping the high-status role. Another is taking center stage by telling stories or jokes.
November 8, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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Me, with an I Voted sticker, giving a thumbs up
November 5, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Granting the existence of ancient deities, it seems incredibly foolhardy to provoke one whose domain is so closely tied to your organizational mission.
The headline of a "National news" press release from the USPS, dated June 21, 2024, states: "Mercury Remains Prohibited in The Mail."
September 9, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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My girlfriend sent me this from a community center in Philly. Giving @albumscover.bsky.social vibes.
Top, a headless Barbie/Ken-proportioned merman doll lies on its back, arms outstretched, on a sort of raised landing space of a dollhouse. Along the left edge of the shot, patches of very utilitarian yellow-brown community center tile and a few scattered scraps. In the bottom foreground, a gymnastics pad prominently bisects the screen to create a field of purple, with red kiddy-font lettering near the edge (seen here upside down), reading “antsy pants.”
August 10, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Have they ever owned a copy of a book in their lives?

You know what, scratch that. Stupid question. How about a DVD? I know it must have been long, long ago, but surely they must have realized that that didn’t mean they *owned* the IP.
July 1, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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June 23, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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“Death of the author’s husband”
A still frame from the film, “Anatomy of a Fall,” showing, from above, a dead man lying on the snow with blood around him, and, several feet away, a woman and adolescent boy.
February 24, 2024 at 1:14 PM