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@thomas_violence

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I'm Mr @boontavista , Mr @twobitmovieclub and Mr BORLFF.

Brisbane
Joined August 2009
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@thomas_violence
thomas violence
9 months
introducing the sequel to BORLFF, BORLFF
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4 years
i love little regional quirks like how everyone in austin has the same handwriting ☺️ the world is such an interesting place
@Austin_Police
Austin Police Department
4 years
We can’t express enough how grateful we are to serve you, Austin. Our officers have been working around the clock during these unprecedented times and thank everyone who took the time to write and make our day a little brighter. #OneAustinSaferTogether #Thankful
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3 years
tonight a 19ish year old in the bar very nicely asked me if I could give them a refund on a vodka coke they bought because they realised they were too drunk and drinking it would be a bad idea, a move both so ballsy and sincere I couldn't possibly refuse
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2 years
found out today that in my 7-unit "no pets allowed" apartment building, I am the only one without a cat. I've been surrounded by secret cats this whole time
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@thomas_violence
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5 months
using a desk that faced the screen so i didn't have to turn 90 degrees to type
@CHSOHY
Sohail Charef
6 months
10 years old boy writing program in python...what were you doing at his age?
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10 months
after a couple of years of working in hospitality you start to develop an almost supernatural sixth sense for if a customer is going to be rude or difficult, going off very slight, almost imperceptible cues, like a south african accent
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3 months
the tech industry has some of the sharpest minds in the world
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4 years
I wonder why this happens. why would this happen. can't imagine why this would happen. couldn't even guess why this would happen
@CNBCMakeIt
CNBC Make It
4 years
A sobering stat during coronavirus fears—90% of employees admit they have gone to work when sick.
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5 years
please enjoy these heavily cropped photos of a friend of mine who works at a bat sanctuary carrying bats around in her pocket
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4 years
every post about defunding the police has dozens of replies from terrified suburbanites convinced there are 10,000 cartoon robbers hiding in their hedges waiting for the last cop to sign off so they can finally steal their stand mixer
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@thomas_violence
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a guy got removed from our flight today and it's incredible how much it brought us all together. they should kick one person off every flight to build cohesion and morale for the passengers and crew. they can be a paid actor or whatever, they just have to cause a scene
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@thomas_violence
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3 years
@kimT9410 I'm one of the dozens of people worldwide that live in a country that's not America
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3 months
it does
@skyrocketstella
Stella
3 months
*KETCHUP DOES NOT EXIST* What you having with these????
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ever get so racist it makes you believe romeo and juliet were historical figures
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5 years
no billionaire has ever worked harder than anyone that cleans toilets for a living
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@thomas_violence
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2 years
americans are so beautiful 😍
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3 months
i have felt like this man for my entire life
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@actor_Nikhil
Nikhil Siddhartha
3 months
In Australia unknowingly Got onto a flight full with Taylor Swiftys on Board OMG 😅 Mid Air songs and dancing ... #Taylorswift
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10 months
what part of the human brain is this meant to light up. what is it doing to the people who enjoy it. are they watching exclusively this or is it an "on in the background" type deal. what in the hell is going on
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3 years
the Lord of the Rings is mostly a bunch of really old guys walking around telling some 40 year old Hobbits "yeah this place used to be really cool but it sucks now"
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5 years
oh my god.... the Queen received Trump in the Funtleburough Room and not the Sussleburey-Oxenflart Parlour 😂 and she seated the Marquess of Doombledendowndurredge two seats to Trump's right at the Saint Pheasantsmas dinner 😂😂😂😂😂 she is a messy bitch i am SCREAMING 😂
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9 months
impossible to convey how much as a non american it seems like sororities and fraternities were just made up for movies because they're too alien to be real and then people post these videos and it rocks your shit. what a unique, odd little enormous country
@1929stockcrash
levy
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I love how Texans fully commit to being texan; it consumes them, it’s their primary identity — similar to oberlin grads and Bushwick
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1 year
the anti 15 minute cities / qanon stuff is amazing. geniuses hard at work
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1 year
some really interesting stuff in the hidden replies on this one. looks like Disney’s trying to cover something up
@DisneyD23
Disney D23
1 year
Get to know Spider, a human friend of Jake and Neytiri's children in #AvatarTheWayofWater :
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@thomas_violence
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8 months
yep absolutely i've seen the mona lisa before why do you ask
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@prompt_mastery
Ray Wong
8 months
Role reversal. This is Mona Lisa painting a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
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7 years
lol i'd never checked out LMFAO's full discography before
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5 years
IT: Chapter 2? no thanks. if I wanted to see a bunch of people that are still clearly processing issues from their childhood be antagonised by a clown, I would simply open the twitter app on my phone. you see, the clown is none other than president of the united states donald tru
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6 years
congrats on having a photo taken with your dad dude. that's pretty cool
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
6 years
Just hanging out with #POTUS on #NYE !!! Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous #newyear #2018
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1 year
(basing my entire understanding of history on staged photos for print advertising) wow everyone looks so happy
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@thomas_violence
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10 months
decided to look in the kettle i've been using for 14 years but never cleaned and i learned a very important lesson: never look. there's no reason. it's not like, going to make you any happier or anything. nothing good can come from this
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5 years
roger that we have a milky boy on our hands. i repeat: the boy is milky. he's a very milky boy, over
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was pissing in a cubicle and the guy in the cubicle next to me was loudly humming a really haunting rendition of Silent Night and then when i came out to wash my hands he looked me dead in the eyes and said "that was for you mate". merry christmas everyone
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5 years
man if i wanted to see what you will look like when youre old id just fucken cherish and tend to our friendship so that it remains constant throughout the years to come
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3 years
a funny prank Disney keeps playing is finding young directors who won a Palm d'Or for a self-funded surreal drama about a woman in Bhutan who can speak with all of the women she is descended from, and then asking them to direct Captain Miraculous 4: The Goblins of Foothand
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8 months
the replies to this are incredible. the number of americans that believe they are some sort of special forces operator and that every trip to the shops they might be called on to go john wick mode
@wrenscarborough
Wren Scarborough 🌿✨
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Question for men: My mom, who has been married to my dad for over thirty years, just found out that my dad constantly scans for, assesses, and plans for possible threats Menfolk, do all of you do this?
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2 months
everyone in the replies to this is saying it's because of no smart phones not the realising the poster is a nazi and they actually mean because everyone's white, which is the perfect intersection of the only two things on here now (engagement bait, racism)
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4 months
(watching a corporate training video) holy fucking shit these are the happiest people on earth
@LindyTasteful
TastefulLindy
4 months
Imagine being a boomer growing up. Every massive chain restaurant was new and exciting, instead of depressing. You could go to Pizza Hut and celebrate the dream of capitalism with your community.
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1 year
oh cool! oh fuck
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10 years
the year is 3403 AD, crime is legal and cop's are illegal, only one man is willing to break the law to make the law legal again: Crimecop
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4 years
this is very embarrassing but an AI i trained on 100,000 hours of inspirational speeches has escaped, possibly into a human host. it doesnt actually understand language but can mimic the cadence and rhythm very convincingly. please let me know if youve seen it
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6 years
oh dope, one of my most hated enemies just gave me a giant wooden horse for free. completely unexpected, this rules
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5 years
people in fantasy novels absolutely love removing from their knapsack some bread and hard cheese
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4 years
hard times for libertarians right now, forced to choose between their allegiance to opposing state violence or their allegiance to being extremely racist
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10 years
boy: i hate being poor grandpa: were going to fun factory mr chocolate: hello naughty children its murder time
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2 years
just saw your spotify wrapped and holy shit dude, that's such a rich inner life! this whole time I thought your existence mirrored my cursory assessment of it as an outside observer but you've actually got so much more going on, inside
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1 year
americans are coming to terms with saying cunt. what will it be next? bank transfers? driving the speed limit? using your inside voice at tourist spots
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7 years
counterpoint: not a single living person has ever looked at moments on purpose
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8 months
i dont think i ever really believed before that there was like a split between creative / non creative people but i am now pretty convinced that there are a bunch of people incapable of creating art. as in they do not get what it is at all. most of them pay for twitter
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5 years
a story in two parts
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1 year
people talk a lot of shit about him but i think its amazing jar jar is doing this
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3 months
putting on a $5000 head set so i can figure out how long to boil pasta for
@joeyabanks
Joey Banks
3 months
This was the first frame from an Apple Vision Pro review that made me believe we’re all going to be using and leaning into spacial computing soon enough. It always comes back to timers.
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5 years
there is definitely no equivalent of a hippocratic oath for hairdressers
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2 months
(trying to indicate to my partner that i would like another beer if theyre getting up, but using only skills i learned from point and click adventure games) wow, i could really go a beer right now. maybe some beer would help in this situation. i think there's some beer over there
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7 years
hell yes I'm FLAV
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1 year
the algorithm pushing all the blue check replies to the top means you have to scroll past 50 geniuses saying “how is this legal?? this is, the devil” before you get to one person asking if it might be fake. the system works!
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i don't know the names and addresses of all the people who made the internet full of meaningless garbage that's designed to trick robots and is not only completely useless to humans but actively obstructs you from reaching the useful stuff. but here's one of them
@jakezward
Jake Ward
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We pulled off an SEO heist using AI. 1. Exported a competitor’s sitemap 2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles 3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI 18 months later, we have stolen: - 3.6M total traffic - 490K monthly traffic
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4 years
please, you have to understand, when I overleveraged myself to create a now-flailing airnbnb empire, I was only trying to get rich quick at the expense of everyone around me
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i think its very nice when you see someone clearly using a halloween costume as a soft launch for a fetish theyve hitherto been slightly too apprehensive to broach with a partner
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@backpackerFLASH do you reckon there's any version of this where i go "oh the racist one yeah"
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3 years
that isn't "some guy"... that's our bloody pm
Just found out Australia has some theme park called "movie world" and some guys job there is to do the Austin Powers dance. Probably multiple times a day.
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bad news: scientists got close to making new wind-powered tech that would make international shipping less awful for the environment but they stopped because every time there was an article about it people would quote dunk on it like "they think they invented the sailboat 🤣🤣🤣"
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it really is a shame the music sounds like that
@Rainmaker1973
Massimo
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OK Go recorded this music video shot in near-zero gravity aboard a parabolic airliner without using CGI, wires or green screen: the video was cut from one take filmed over 45 minutes of continuous flight.
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3 years
the two things Americans love most are candied yams (?) and driving 7 hours to indirectly kill their own grandmother
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5 years
sometimes i get worried that cops are up to no good but then the cops are investigated by the cops and the cops say that actually the cops are fine, so it's fine
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6 years
every band has one person that looks like an extreme normie and you're always like "what are they doing there??" but the answer is: they own a car
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6 years
often times i look at the skills and knowledge i've cultivated and feel like that moment when you play an RPG for the first time and realise you've built your character all wrong after finally figuring out how the game works
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4 years
every normal person got this insufferable shit out of their system on forums when they were like 13 and now everyone tells this guy hes a genius because he made a website
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
4 years
@flcnhvy We are literally a brain in a vat. The vat is your skull. Everything you think is real is an electrical signal. Feels so real though.
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ai art people are so funny come on. extreme fine art. award winning photograph. documentary vibes
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now that wizards of the coast has lost all its good will theres a bunch of people being like "FINALLY now youre group that has been playing D&D for 14 years can switch to FishBlade, the diceless storytelling game where the party controls one fish with a knife"
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i’m enjoying finding out that Teslas don’t have spare tires at the same time this man is learning that other cars do. life can be so beautiful ☺️
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dressing like "horse girl The Joker" to make my family miserable
@ejrosetta
EJ Rosetta 💚🖤💜
8 months
My twin came to visit so I’ve passive aggressively dressed in TERF colours. Yes, to annoy them. 💜🤍💚
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2 months
what the fuck are you talking about
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6 years
heaps of replies i'd like to get to here but i have to turn off the notifications, i'm too busy denying christ, implementing white genocide, making christmas illegal, kneeling during the anthem, and reading up on the automatic gun known as the Assault Rifle 15
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2 years
one day I will wake up and open twitter and everyone will be gone and I will put my phone down and immediately go paint the most beautiful and significant oil painting in the history of human art
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2 years
well i just found my favourite new reaction image. wonderful
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@Yelix
woke stifler
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jar jar binks’s dad’s name is just george and his backstory is really fucked up
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3 years
brisbane UFO sightings group having a moment
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4 years
bernie sanders might have won in votes but, as biden said in his speech, there's no sense planting an apple tree in your yard if you're hard up for nickels to buy pie crust
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lauren boebert low key zoomer coded for thinking no one can tell you're vaping indoors when you're visibly sucking on something and exhaling clouds of strawberry scented benzene mist
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ricky gervais: i'd bloody shag the queen me: thats weird ricky gervais: oh you're offended? are you offended??? have i offended you????????
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5 years
no, everyone born before 1995 died in one car crash last week. surprised it didn't make it into the news
@_HelenDale
Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)
5 years
Anyone else here old enough to remember this?
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7 years
are they suggesting that some of those that work forces...are the same that burn...crosses????
@IBTimes
Intl. Business Times
7 years
A groundbreaking report on secret FBI investigations reveal white supremacists are infiltrating US law enforcement
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in his novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton alludes to chaos theory (specifically the "butterfly effect") to demonstrate how one tiny mistake can spiral out of control into a major disaster. the tiny mistake was bringing dinosaurs back to life
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3 years
every day this man gets paid a packet of dark money to sit on his computer in Malaysia and post "i can't even wear my ten gallon hat inside a Piggly Wiggly anymore, because of the Democrats"
@stillgray
Ian Miles Cheong
3 years
Are they seriously trying to ban Thanksgiving? How is any of this normal, or okay? I reject the new normal.
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the genius american: 97 huh? that must mean it's really hot because it's close to 100 which is really hot the idiot rest-of-the-worlder: 32?? guhh? buhhh? i'm going to have to look this up on What Is Temperature Mean Dot Com
@MattZeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin
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100 degrees is really hot, 0 degrees is really cold, we are human beings not water
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if the dog puts himself to bed before i've said it's time for bed i figure it's probably time for bed for both of us. generally speaking i think whichever of us has the idea first is correct
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3 years
after having 2.9 beers: I am perfect, I exist in a state of immaculate grace, I am a wave passing gently on the oceans surface after having 3 beers: I am an accumulation of regrets shambling towards the grave, I am an aggregation of generational curses, I am a golem of sadness
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was telling my neighbour I was worried someone might snitch about Louie and he just just like my dude literally everyone here has a secret pet
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5 years
putting a cuss word in the title of my self help book to let people know it's not a regular self help book that a loser would read but a cool one that a cool person would read
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got a steak for myself as a treat and the butcher said "here's a nice big one for you big fella". I feel electric. this is what I imagine it would feel like if your dad gave you praise
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I'm going to become the joker
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4 years
i wonder if there are other fun facts about christmas island and migration
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7 years
i am loving this
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2 years
(jordan peterson's shredded vocal chords uselessly flapping around as he tries to hold himself back from tears) the hamburglar STEALS their food. that THEY paid for. and the left wants you to think this is somehow OK
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5 years
is it so bad that ellen and george bush are friends? is it so terrible, in these polarising times, to cross the aisle in the spirit of friendship and shared humanity and crack jokes with a guy responsible for the deaths of between 500,000 and 1,000,000 iraqis?
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6 years
literary fiction is defined as fiction that doesn't have cool shit like space ships or wizards in it. no one does cool spy shit or anything. its mostly about staring at a grey sea in turmoil, or walking away from your family when you're middled aged
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5 years
pitch: cooking travel show called You Came To The Wrong Place where I get bagels in Denver, cheesesteaks in Tucson, deep dish pizza in Omaha, gumbo in San Francisco, BBQ in Bismarck etc
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5 years
reading rob zombie's name is a real wild ride. at first you're like "rob? ok, i know what we're dealing with here". then things get weird
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6 years
"targeting cryptocurrency scammers" is code for "elon forked out $2,000,000 to make sure Italian Elon Musk never resurfaces"
@verge
The Verge
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Twitter will lock your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk
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6 years
@FrankWibble215 dunno, made a throwaway joke and checked my phone and now a bunch of yanks are being pissy at me, so it didn't get me anywhere great I guess
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1 year
the sick bastard globalist elite are trying to take away the 90 minutes i spend in traffic every day taking my kids to school
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6 years
this is so fucking adorable 😭😭😭😭😭 this woman with a bee allergy helped an injured bee and it stung her on the throat, killing them both and allowing them to spend time together forever in hell 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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