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September 27, 2024
“He did it in broad daylight” as opposed to male daylight?
“He did it in broad daylight” as opposed to male daylight?
This feels like it’s an unoriginal joke honestly
He did it in bloke daylight
That’s the way I should have written this bad joke, thank you
They won’t even let you do things in broad daylight anymore. Because of bloke
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Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.
“I’m sure it terrified people,...
September 26, 2024
scienceandstorytelling:
moniquill:
image: a tweet from b...
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image: a tweet from bookish.bailee that reads, “Your ancestors didn’t sustain millennia of complex oral story traditions for you to call audiobooks cheating” end id
shamebats:
Danny Kaye (The Court Jester, The Inspector General)—Danny Kaye, idol of my childhood, maker of the…
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Danny Kaye (The Court Jester, The Inspector General)—Danny Kaye, idol of my childhood, maker of the weirdest faces! This man SETS HIMSELF ON FIRE and then puts himself out in a bucket in a movie based on a Gogol short story. In the same movie (Inspector General), he flirts by playing a carrot as a musical instrument. In Wonder Man, he’s brilliant but struggles with things like riding buses. I have been envious of his fake Italian/French/German/Spanish monologues in The Court Jeste...
fipindustries:theamazingsallyhogan:st-just:Happy Petrov Day,...

Happy Petrov Day, everyone. To celebrate, try to follow his example and not end the world.
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Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as “the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war” for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. The incident was unknown to the public until it was revealed shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
On 26 Septemb...
British Laundry
British Laundry
If your character uses a washing machine in Britain, you need to know that some things are different on this side of the Atlantic. Especially if you are American!
If this is what you think of when you are writing about when your character puts his bloodstained clothes into the machine….
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….then your character is NOT in Britain.
Brits use front-loading machines that look like this:
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There are a lot of reasons, mostly due to efficiency. Water and electricity are expensive, so...
September 25, 2024
So proud of himself
So proud of himself
I need to hold hands with a red panda. It would cure me of everything, I just know it.
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