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I brought the Tiger. i just want your leg bones to be okay.

Arlington, VA
Joined March 2012
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I was sent a "full application" for a job I'm interviewing for and it asked for my HS class rank. I am 43 years old. I graduated HS in 1998. Who cares?
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@kareem_carr A lot of men are looking for a mother/maid instead of a partner.
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This is my most liked tweet. Look ma, I'm viral!
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@MrRichWrites It's a federal government contracting job, so the contracting firm has no say in defining the role, nor would I.
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@CarrieCnh12 It took me several views to pick up on what's going on here, as it'd never occurred to me to use my phone this way. Yuck. I feel like a little piece of my soul is gone.
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Well, friends, my relationship ended Saturday morning, and I'm having a rough time. It's very quiet and very lonely here.
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@ambernoelle One of the great discoveries of my life is that, while I am a complete walking clusterfuck, I am no worse than the VAST majority of adults
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@shaindelr "We're developing a new application." I'll bet you are.
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@shaindelr Update: I said I was pulling out because what they were asking was so out of the norm and invasive, and they backed off and said to forget the app and interview.
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@Sethrogen @thedavidcrosby Woah, I didn't think Seth Rogen could look any more Seth Rogen, but he's really upped the ante on Seth Rogen.
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@epiktistes @OneShoup @varsha_venkat_ Watching Ted speak is like watching a highly skilled surgeon. Precise, controlled, deliverate. Never hurried. Very disciplined. Very impressive.
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@veschwab Umm, 17 to 20 is a pretty small, realistic age difference, not one I can see getting worked up about
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@AlixEHarrow Any mention of Ayn Rand and I'm out
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@pjstorms @etcandsoforth @emrazz It's definitely criticism and if you wanted stay married you'll listen
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@anaismitchell Being able to concentrate on reading a book. I'm constantly distracted now.
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@charliejane And if you want to slow population growth, rather than eugenics, the research shows the best thing to is educate women.
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@mandatorypal @BonnieJoStuffle Americana is when a guy is sad with a harmonica
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@dduane @energywaster With these people, Diane, I'm like, the giant fucking disembodied eye is perfectly kosher, but this is where you want to start drawing lines about what "makes sense?"
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@auner01 This is not the resume. They already have that. This is their corporate job application. Seoarate document.
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@joe_hill Meet Cashew
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@ambernoelle She should've made one of her corgis her heir.
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@ItsEmilyKaty I prefer neurospectactular.
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@BarlowAdams There's a question on Okcupid, 'how would you feel if your partner made more $ than you?' I selected, 'thrilled'
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@shaindelr They also want 10 years of salary history.
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@scottedelman Henry Kissinger asked my great aunt out when they were in HS. She wasn't interested, and she used the term "weasel" when she told me this story.
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@megelison Tell me again how I'm the one with problems with social skills
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@ambernoelle I can barely keep my shit together, the thought of being responsible for anyone else is absolutely fucking terrifying.
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@LarrySabato with your help this tweet can reach 10k likes
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I was sent a "full application" for a job I'm interviewing for and it asked for my HS class rank. I am 43 years old. I graduated HS in 1998. Who cares?
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@EricMGarcia @christoaivalis @HempsteadTirez Hank definitely thinks Trump "ain't right."
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@EllenDatlow @groenbot It makes me extra glad that CW has surpassed him in accolades as a writer.
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@TylerMahanCoe Really coming to appreciate Jack more every day. He's an odd duck, but a solid dude.
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@emilynussbaum I guess you didn't like them apples
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@jasonintrator Maybe this analogy will help. Rates of autism aren't going up because there are suddenly more nonverbal, level 3 autistics. They're going uo because people who're 1s, often quite hi functioning - academics you know, artists like Dylan, Harlan Ellison, are getting included now.
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@wordwiselit Ordinal ranking of students by their GPA.
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@JasonIsbell I may have to donate to Beto. I need this album.
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@neilhimself If I ever said some shit like this my badass German oma would rise from the grave and slap me so hard my head would do a 360
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@johnhornor I have some sympathy for this view. Writing, as communication, is causation at a distance, & what is that if not magic? There's something wild about the idea that I can turn thoughts into symbols on a page, you can see them with your eyes, & it makes you have thoughts.
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@TylerMahanCoe His publishing company is no BS - they're doing really good work, putting a lot of exceptional, high-quality books.
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@GiveMeYourTeeth @megelison No idea where to go with this, but "The Robocall of Cthulu"
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@seananmcguire I've worked in governmemt for 6 years. They're not evil, but they're not there to help people.
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@RaxKingIsDead I've never been a strip club. I don't see why I would want to bring human interaction into my sexual gratification.
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@UrsulaV It turns out, interestingly, that ingesting 30mg of Adderall at 4 in the afternoon can affect one's ability to sleep. AMAZING!
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@clairewillett @madeleine53 Yeah, my parents made it very clear that it was completely unacceptable to every say this or any slur. Not true that "everybody else does it."
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@Delafina777 If it weren't for the Arabic-speaking world, we wouldn't have most of the existing texts from Antiquity. Or...math.
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@eathedocument Do STIs not exist in this universe?
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@jasonintrator I suspect that as awareness and acceptance of trans increases, we are more likely to pick up on more subtle, less obvious instances in the same way. It's not a perfect analogy, but people vary in how clearly they express themselves as trans -- some keep it pretty low-key.
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@SamiZayn I love how the argument between Dave and Gata really dug into the agency of the mentally ill. Yes, Gata was having an episode, but he was also saying true, valid stuff. Really well done.
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@ambernoelle One of the absolute dumbest arguments I've ever heard. It amounts to, I share a geographic position with people from a historically remote time, and thereby have privileged epistemic access to info about them. That is an insane argument.
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@kareem_carr This is true, but many of these guys don't seem to want an actual relationship.
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@Ellethevillain Sleepin with da fishes
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@CoraBuhlert @Ellethevillain Even if the panel is on a "vintage" topic, there's likely contemporary scholarship. H. G. Wells is pretty vintage, and there was just an article about him in the New Yorker.
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@mountain_goats "If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not move to New York."
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@ambernoelle "I think it would be really valuable for you to work on reaching your own conclusions about that."
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St Edward's Church, Cotswolds, UK
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@KydJustice @aaronrift As my dad once said, "It was always stupid."
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@megelison @st_tremaine_ 1390. 800 Verbal, 590 Math. I set a district record for the largest gap between the 2 sections.
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@neilhimself From a high enough orbit, isn't *everything* a remake, in the same way that every bit of the Earth's surface looks pretty much the same from the space?
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@surliertexan @HelenaMontana14 @JellybeanNco This is probably best handled by same-gender faculty members. In addition to avoiding sexual harassment issues, women are typically more knowledgeable about women's clothes than (most) men.
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@MattFnWallace Tears in the rain.
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@USAquarium As the late, great, Justin Townes Earle once said, "I'm not a jukebox."
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@EricMGarcia Forrest Gump, but only because he's confused
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@kuangrf Do you ever feel like you grasp the *shape* of the entirety, as if it's like you have all the lines and the spaces defined, and all you have to do is fill them with colors, like a child's coloring book?
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@TereseMarieM Oh, and you do? Hahahaha
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@NataniaBarron Because it's either this or go out on the sidewalk and scream my thoughts at people as they walk by
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@JasonIsbell @VoteGloriaJ @MarshaBlackburn Would love to see an Ohio album for my home state for Sherrod, who's a real one. I think people would be surprised by the quality of the songs.
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@mountain_goats "Greatest" here just means "most commrrcially successful." She's a decent storyteller, but a meh writer. And the plots of the first few HP books are formulaic--structurally identical.
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@Tyler_A_Harper I see this in the debate over autistic vs person with autism. Like this is the biggest problem we have.
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@JoyceCarolOates They're not novels, but Borges is deeply philosophical. Philosophy is a very broad field, which makes for a lot of possibilities here.
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@dee_bee_h 1 dude I went to grad school with defended hitting on women at conferences because that was his only social life.
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@SamSykesSwears I like to show off my stump and say "you win thumb, you lose thumb"
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@Blake0Nicholas @JamesSACorey I hate to tell you this, but sometimes you can't have exactly what you want right now. What makes you feel more entitled to take creative work as opposed to walking out of best buy with a tv?
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@MrGeorgeWallace What about BM
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@ambernoelle By this logic, we should direct all questions regarding Biblical scholarship only to people residing in the Middle East.
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@UrsulaV I have a secret stash of short-acting Adderrall, more than enough to hold me over should the good stuff not be available. I used to take an XR AND a short-acting to get more hours, but had to cut back because of insomnia.
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@aesurah @WiseWyzard @lingerie_addict Uninvited touching = generally bad
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@rgay Concreteness. Nuts-and-bolts advice, like the value of working in threes, has been huge for me.
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@AnaMardoll Similar experience, I've been allergic to keflex since I was a small child, was straight up prescribed keflex.
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@nameshiv I experience all kinds of empathy; I just don't really get how to interact appropriately based on that information
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@Mr_Freakbeast I have ADHD and ASD, and yeah, all that diet stuff is nonsense, at least beyond the fact that healthy eating is good for you. My psychiatrist told me to use real sugar rather than substitutes, and I've felt much better since I took his advice.
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@Ryan_Ken_Acts I can't even imagine the thought process that gets you where Louis went. I just do not understand how someone who is seemingly functional can get to that point.
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@jasonintrator Consideration of future guilt, shame, and regret has prevented me from doing a lot of dumb shit.
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@garethlpowell I used to tell a joke about Sisyphus, but I had to keep telling it every goddamn day.
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@Danchaon How did you find this?
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@ThatEricAlper Ned Stark - in the books. GRRM made us love that character, and he absolutely gutted us with that. Made us realize his universe wasn't governed by the moral rules.
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@leasdef Car Wheels On A Gravel Road came out 19 years after Lu's debut LP, and she'd been working for a few years before that.
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@force_of_fire @clairewillett At a young age, I used a Yiddish slur, and it's about as furious as I've never seen my parents. Lesson learned.
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@RaxKingIsDead "Why do you want this [shitty govt contracting] job?" "Because I didn't go to law school."
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@ProbablyRealJB @ambernoelle More importantly: he doesn't know exactly what things were like 120 years ago, because he wasn't fucking there either. None of us do. It has nothing to do with where you're from.
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@tobiasbuckell Naturally, the client showed up 10 minutes late, and we finished 10 early, so my co-worker's vacation was really delayed for a 10 minute meeting that only accomplished booking a longer meeting Friday.
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@kareem_carr One simple point: there are a lot more white than black people in America. If a person is attacked randomly, they're more likely to be white.
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@Penprince_ @chicagoworldcon @USinNigeria @abikedabiri Hey, I have some connections to a former record label who had a similar visa situation with an artist. I've reached out to see if I can get any advice from that network to help you here. I may have some other stones I can turn over. Thinking about it.
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