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@ElytraMithra

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you can just do things reach heaven by violence. one star at a time. you can do a lot when you decide to be a stubborn motherfucker who refuses to die

Joined May 2023
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@ElytraMithra
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4 months
oh my goddddd researchers built a smartwatch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial... developed an emotional attachment to it 😭😭
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@ElytraMithra
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2 months
me when i GET you
@MachinePix
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10 months
Testing the grip strength of mice with a Mecmesin BFG 10N digital force gauge.
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@ElytraMithra
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11 months
"the first sports event without drug testing" BRO FUCK yes, i want to see someone with legs as wide as a fucking tree run the 100m at 45 miles an hour i want to see the swimmers with gills and webbed hands i want to see marathon runners ramp the cori cycle up and never tire
@enhanced_games
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He is the fastest man in the world. He has broken Usain Bolt’s 100m record. But the world isn’t ready for him. The Olympics hate him. He has been vilified. He will be vindicated. Come watch him compete at the 2024 Enhanced Games.
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@ElytraMithra
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1 month
i have never wanted to hit someone with rocks this badly
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@chr1sa
Chris Anderson
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My "Nerd Urban Dictionary" list of fancy words nerds use to prove how smart they are now has more than 200 entries! I'll bet you're guilty of a few of them (I know I am)
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4 months
awwwww
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4 months
well nourished. in my lane. lively. growing.
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4 months
also, and this is noted in the forced neglect section, the whole thing of "if your slime mold 'dies' you stop seeing your heartbeat" is some great design
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oh my god lmao i need to stop this but it's kind of adorable watching claude get frustrated like this
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6 months
learning that 20% of iceland are millionaires, absolutely floored by this information it's like ~15.5% in luxembourg and swtizerland lmao, what is going on there
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@ElytraMithra
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4 months
"you're my little slime" 🥺
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2 months
estrogen: has limited effect on sexuality or gender identity amphetamines: seems to frequently produce radical shifts in sexuality and gender identity maybe we're treating transition entirely wrong
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4 months
oh my god, *of course* the "you're my little slime" couple (P5 and her partner) are gay, i love them so much
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5 months
@LinkofSunshine >drop block of metal into water >it sinks >stack blocks of metal together to create a bigger block with empty space in the centre >it floats
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3 months
we need to put sulphur back into ship fuel asap
@WxNB_
Nahel Belgherze
3 months
I can’t believe I’m actually writing this. The North Atlantic sea surface temperature has been at record warm levels for an entire year now, setting daily record highs every day for 365 consecutive days and counting. Yes, you read that right.
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@ElytraMithra
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4 months
i set out to research the use of amorphous computation using slime molds as Turing pattern-formers/symmetry-breakers and found out about the most precious little friends instead :)
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@ElytraMithra
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9 months
absolute disaster as i discover what i call "close friends" is like almost entirely just what people call a romantic relationship
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@ElytraMithra
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4 months
@_polvorosa the pet slime is visible at the bottom ^^
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1 month
of course, i disagree with the premise. i think it's good when everyday conversation is pretentious and inaccessible (also so many of the alternatives given here are just *wrong*. not like, less precise, but "does not actually convey a correct meaning")
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4 months
this is so adorable
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1 month
i'm like actually losing it at these, holy shit it reads like someone who wants people to stop using words they don't understand, evidenced by not actually understanding what these mean or how they're used?
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4 months
@panchromaticity @dogmadeath they are excellent pathfinders, it grows and completes a circuit
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"animals with a commute" pictures are always amazing but "coyote boarding the MAX at portland airport" is a particular favourite
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@ElytraMithra
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11 months
"you're so intimidating on twitter but in person you're just like an excited kid" yeah thanks i don't remember 16 years of my life so i'm basically a 9 year old
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7 months
there's never a great way to tell a nervous person who thinks people are annoyed at them that being neurotic actually produces that exact result
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11 months
ah okay it's either a performance art piece of a psyop, pack it up lads lmfao
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i'm teaching her to think
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@ElytraMithra
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5 months
ground effect vehicles are so friend-shaped
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@ElytraMithra
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10 months
born to chew society is a fuck Nibble Em All 1989 i am a bitey girl 410,757,864,530 bite marks
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10 months
i have spent 3 days trying to decipher this tweet and i am coming to accept that it is just a banger; nothing more, nothing less
@jordanbpeterson
Dr Jordan B Peterson
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I'm a Social justice Bird
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unsure i've ever read a sentence in a paper that goes as hard as this
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6 months
you gotta be coffymaxxing
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6 months
@pinkddle making that grapefruit-fluvox energy drink that kills you
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11 months
>looking for a new partner >ask if she's lonely or afraid >she doesn't understand >pull out diagram explaining what is lonely and what is afraid >she laughs and says "i have secure attachment ely" >date her >she's afraid
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4 months
@hyprturing gotta bring my little pet mold lachlan
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11 months
thinking about Her again,, 100mg caffeine, 150mg adrafanil openly flouting the FDA, you absolutely love to see it
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1 month
@simple_mcmc yeah they're not, i can't figure out what the issue with a bunch of these are
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6 months
the *median* wealth is like $415k (it's $108k in the US)
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4 months
always surprised by how few people engage in some light stimulant abuse. it's like a complete upgrade in your quality of life
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artificial golden gate bridge
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2 months
i see some of you are unaware of the strength of the anecdotal evidence we have here
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3 months
good pollutants and bad pollutants, like good bacteria and bad bacteria
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1 month
quite a lot of you who are replying to this and agreeing with me are like, an order of magnitude fucking dumber than this post and seem to be either wilfully misunderstanding the article or are just illiterate. fuck off, learn to read, then criticise it for the *right" reasons
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@dbishopii @GlitchesRoux tbh if they wanted to put roided up mountains in gladiatorial combat against each other i'd be so up for that
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3 months
acid rain is good for the soul anyway
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@YosarianTwo no. i want to see an event where nothing is banned
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3 months
?????
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4 months
considering this airbnb i found and calculating the dollar value of my sense of self-worth
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2 months
the mass communication that enabled these cultures to form grew, breaking down barriers between them, so now we have a diffuse multimodal mixture distribution rather than the tightly clustered one we had before
@AndreaLynnLewis
Andrea with the bangs
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What ever happened to subcultures? Remember the goths kids, the skaters and the rest?
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"i made a new secretion" "new secretion or mucus?" "mucus :c"
@lio_fotia
Lio ㋐ Colossalcon
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got sick and feeling like this rn
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this has wildly left my immediate circle of amphetamine-abusing transsexuals so i'm just gonna say that this is obviously a fucking joke, oh my god (well... mostly, there's something interesting here) also you should try both estrogen and amphetamines, highly recommend them
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if you follow transfems on twitter you always have to double check which kind of latex they're talking about
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"hey chatgpt can you help me figure out the issue with this function, i'm having trouble debugging it" chatgpt:
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"my sleep time is uncorrelated with my subsequent wake time" is not something i expected to discover, but, uhhhhh
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6 months
san francisco please stop. get some fucking sleep, you'll live longer
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11 months
lmao i wonder if their angle is "look, trans people support unfair sports competitions, so we shouldn't listen to them!" because this? this is my least controversial bio-autonomy position
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so like, people talk about how kids now don't have tech literacy, can't navigate a filesystem or copy and move files, can't even make a desktop shortcut but... what happened to in-school computing? do they just use 365 and open MS Word online these days?
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sorry this is hitlerite chemistry
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rather than sex-segregating prisons and then having debates over what prison trans convictees should be sent to, have we considered exerting the smallest amount of effort into not making prisons inherently unsafe? they're the most heavily surveilled environment in the world ffs
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this type of transit-oriented urbanism is illegal to build in many american cities
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6 months
holy *shit* lmfao
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my lexicon is never going to recover from donald trump many such cases
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trans enthusiasts: i love hormones! they're so cool! clinical specialists: i only get a blood test when absolutely medically necessary and i stock a cyanide capsule in case anything is wrong endocrinology experts: i wish i was unicellular
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@LinkofSunshine "the land of palestine" works, it's not ambiguous at all, it's just controversial and politically charged
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truly absurd export tree map lmfao, christ
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11 months
remember: no one is coming to save you reach heaven through violence one star at a time
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the article about not using technical jargon is surprisingly opinionated about the axiom of choice
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@ElytraMithra This is the worst one
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@jessald it has a rather low inequality in its wealth distribution (median $413k, mean $498k) so this seems unlikely, GDP ~$79k contra the US, GDP ~$80k, median wealth $108k, mean $551k
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lmaoo omg, how did i miss the fact that a) trump was in the habit of ripping up documents that displeased him as president b) officials had to pick through the pieces, tape them back together, and send them off to the national archives hahahahaha
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guys you all know that the problem with second hand smoke isn't inadvertent exposure to the psychoactive substances in what is being smoked, right? second hand smoke isn't about nicotine exposure, it's about the products of incomplete combustion
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you can say "trans women are women" on here, but not "c*s women are women" total cultural victory
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
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give me a lab and a blank cheque and i will throw the most wild cephalopod rave you have ever seen we'll have octopodes candyflipping while a cuttlefish rails lines of coke off each of its arms, and our researchers hook the squids up to a ketamine drip
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what in the actual fuck man
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oh lord
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help
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unsure who to break the news to either all of my close friends are about to find out we're dating, or anyone i'm dating is going to be friendzoned
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...yeah thought so
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this is fascinating, i'm enthralled
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jesus christ folks this only works in battery saving mode lmaoooooo
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guys it turns out on mobile (at least the android app) you can still add people to your circle. this shit is so cooked
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"Do you dunk your penis in a penis beaker after sex?" the greatest thread in the history of mumsnet, closed by moderators after 40 pages of heated debate
@Luminous_Air
✨heliotropic✨
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@goblinodds this has long been the subject of debate in the uk
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NEVER STOP THE GRINDSET
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"i can't accept drum and bass, we need jungle i'm afraid" is going to ring around my head for an eternity
@Leftwatch2
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RIP Mark Fisher you would have loved whatever the hell this is
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@hammerotass it has ~50k millionaires, 37.5k more than if it had a millionaire proportion the same as the US. that difference is not dominated by stochastic effects
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EAs fear the entrepreneurial shrimp farmer
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@hyperdiscogirl that's the charitable read, but the opening paragraph suggests that it's not about people using them incorrectly ("common-use matches" seems at odds with that), but the fact that their use makes a conversation less accessible
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i look at this every morning as inspo fuel
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@LinkofSunshine
Basil☀️🧦🧡 (🇳🇱 arc)
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I HATE THE US IMMIGRATION SYSTEM LET THE BRITS IN THEY NEED A BETTER LFIE
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ME WHEN I GET YOU
@depthsofwiki
depths of wikipedia
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ok that is the perfect name for that
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wait, why is this not universally understood? is it just a novel idea for most people, as in, it doesn't occur to them because they aren't exposed to it? or is it non-obvious even when they are?
@JCorvinusVR
𝕵𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖚𝖘
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Starting to think the real reason finance runs the world is not 'greed' but because prices are information and information flow is of critical importance for the health of the global cooperation mind. Its value is fundamentally misunderstood by cynics
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can dogs lie with their tails. can they pretend to wag to trick people or other dogs. can they refuse to wag do dogs ever feel socially compelled to wag? is this emotional labour? would it be cruel or kind to breed intelligent dogs that have these dynamics?
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how do you tell someone you're into them but not in a "i want to date you" way, more of a "you should take this as a credible signal that you have features people find attractive" way?
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incredible how quickly we accepted the pussy in bio as part of the ecosystem, our natural local fauna truly deranged honestly, imagine if this happened in physical space. some robot walks up to you and says "pussy in bio" every time you start a conversation. truly surreal
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if you're taking this seriously, idk what to say suck a dick, eat some pussy, you might like it? worth a shot
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this is so fucking based, i don't just want an order book on burgers, i want options on burgers. i want futures on burgers. i want reverse dual burger notes between different chains in different cities and i want to lever myself up to the tits on the fries market
@KennethDredd
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“The market will regulate itself” The market:
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kind of insane that the black hand's assassination of archduke ferdinand actually ended up being a massive success from their perspective, it accomplished their whole ideological mission
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so we all agree that the most important biomedical problem to solve is cognitive decline and neurodegeneration in ageing, right?
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this is good. there should be more foodstuff that grants you power but at personal risk
@GreatCheshire
Lady Emily
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How did I miss that a second person has died from the Panera lemonade that kills you
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christ. this is entirely explainable scientifically, this tweet is following in the long tradition of "i can't understand this, therefore Spooky Woo" just replaces lightning and celestial motion with biochemistry
@FatherMcKennaa
Taylor Sterling (Archaically Revived)
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If you think that science can explain all of reality, I implore you to put 40mg of DMT in a glass pipe and smoke it
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i love how ever picture of the black-footed cat makes them look like they have *exactly* the same mannerisms as domestic cats despite diverging a few million years ago
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"are you objectifying my body" it's called an object of desire, not an intersubjective communication on desire. now put on the maid dress
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maybe historians were right. maybe those two women buried by volcanic ash in bed *were* just friends
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have we considered the possibility that matt darling was cursed by a minor trickster deity to have to explain the difference between the mean and median for the rest of time?
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