Canβt decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead π
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Canβt decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead π
Excellent advice, ganked from @adeena.trekgeeks.com .......
06.10.2025 13:34 β π 186 π 28 π¬ 4 π 2And so many cars I can go off roading in!
But the ads explain why we also have so many re-explanations of why Mimsy (46) and Chaz (52) are going to save money by buying a hideously ugly Miami area mansion that they will make even uglier, less functional, and more ridiculous.
Now see, that guy DID put you in a dither with his zither!
28.09.2025 00:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The snacks really help, but if you know what type of TV or music the humans like, the familiar sounds will help, too.
27.09.2025 11:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The settlement has been approved!
25.09.2025 21:02 β π 491 π 106 π¬ 8 π 3Hey friends, Iβm going to go out on a limb and say weβre all pretty damn stressed right about now.
1/ I found this little workbook on the WHO website and it has it in all different languages.
Maybe some of you might find this helpful.
www.who.int/publications...
Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time
19.09.2025 23:57 β π 3734 π 479 π¬ 46 π 32Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
19.09.2025 18:49 β π 518 π 205 π¬ 8 π 2I just spit coffee out. Thanks for the laugh!
17.09.2025 11:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was SO PLEASED to find YOU here!
15.09.2025 13:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βI have been obedient all my life, but it was too much.β (Sister Bernadette)
Me too, Sister Bernadette. me too.
me [lying face down on the floor]: ladies and gentlemen, the weakened
12.09.2025 23:23 β π 497 π 141 π¬ 5 π 6Tennysonβs Lotos Eaters and Websterβs Circe pair very nicely together! And Iβd also like to pitch Treasure Islandβthe fear of being marooned is SO BIG. (Robinson Crusoe also went over well when I last taught it, which was 2013, I thinkβ¦)
13.09.2025 01:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thatβs GORGEOUS! Thank you for sharing!
10.09.2025 22:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
10.09.2025 14:58 β π 4870 π 1250 π¬ 40 π 23being a grownup is just saying βok,β out loud to yourself, right before you do anything
because youβre trying to convince yourself that it will be ok
sometimes it takes several okβs before you can actually do the thing
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
09.09.2025 18:21 β π 4296 π 581 π¬ 100 π 75I appreciate you! I swear humor has been going over my head all of this decade long weekend. And now, back to game!
08.09.2025 00:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kincaid, I think? Double checking now!
08.09.2025 00:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βI am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.β
Edith Sitwell, born on this day in 1887
The TL of every normal person I know right now is like
SCREAMING RAGE
SCREAMING RAGE
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oh look a bumblebee
SCREAMING RAGE
SCREAMING RAGE
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my cat is so gd cute you guys
SCREAMING RAGE
SCREAMING RAGE
timely relevant andor meme
SCREAMING RAGE
SCREAMING RAGE
Thys meetinge koude have been a poignant and thought-provokinge expressionist filme
06.09.2025 00:52 β π 2665 π 275 π¬ 36 π 14Now I know where all my money goes! (Seriously, she jumped on the desk, stole this money, had it taken away from her and replaced with Mr. Lambchop toy, and then was fast asleep with all four feet in the air in under seven minutes!)
I β€οΈs my little whackadoodle so much, even when she is a mischief!
This Is Just To Say (2025)
I have eaten
the radioactive shrimp
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
going
to throw out
Forgive me
they were delicious
and I wanted
super shrimp powers
π
31.08.2025 06:47 β π 81 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS IN DC THAT THIS IS A SCARY MOMENT. WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT??????? THAT'S ALL PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.
28.08.2025 01:41 β π 1530 π 256 π¬ 17 π 0"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
25.08.2025 22:22 β π 381 π 102 π¬ 3 π 0Iβm old enough to remember when a slightly weird yell was enough to sink an entire presidential campaign
24.08.2025 21:33 β π 875 π 94 π¬ 50 π 10