Aurelius Raines (He/Him)

I am noticing the race to make a synthetic is soooo serious. Every CES there is a new robot woman that woll pretend to like you and follows orders. 😒

Aye!

Stop cussin' at your kids like they a stranger that owe you money.

I didn't say don't cuss in front of them.

I said stop cussin' AT them. It lowers their self-esteem and loses its effectiveness as a fear motivator.

I been out here for a minute and some of the stupid stuff women have had to get used to.

Do better, mayne.

If you don't like women, stop dating them.

NGL.

I assumed this was a real heaine because...its not inconceivable.

What I love about Guy is that he is a living link to a musical history that is lionized but erases the men and women that made it.
Chicago Blues.

Seeing him on the screen made me so happy.

Buddy Guy says he's "just trying to keep the Blues alive" after his 9th Grammy win. blockclubchi.co/45IaCvd

Imagine if Iron Lung and Exit 8 became two of the biggest movies of the year

Leading to a bunch of indie game devs getting paid as people make their movies

Tell me you don't do creative work without telling me you don't do creative work.

Do you know how much investment I have in my "Brush" folder, alone?

Some libraries also have stashes of personal hygiene products for those in need. They're really wonderful places and we should treat them as such.

Beating a lion with another lion?
I'm in. 😂

Now may not be the time.

But as someone who remembers that ICE was created specifically to harass Arab-Americans in 2002, I have to ask why it wasn't disbanded by either Dem administration as easily as Doge was formed.

Wait.
Y'all will be dissolving Doge... right?! Putting those jobs back?

Primal Season 3 is kind of a hard watch

😂

a man is making a funny face in the dark and saying `` uh ... yeah '' . ALT: a man is making a funny face in the dark and saying `` uh ... yeah '' .

Look, if you come out to your friends & family and they just keep the conversation moving, it's not that they don't care.
They already knew and they were waiting for you to figure it out.

me before snack: I wanna kill everybody

Me after snack: I wanna maim everybody.
Except that girl who brought me a snack. She can walk out.

when we are laughing with each other

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

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It's giving "I only buy bootleg Harry Potter"

I love treaching because it's such a large lever.

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a woman in a blue sweater and glasses is sitting in a chair and talking to herself . ALT: a woman in a blue sweater and glasses is sitting in a chair and talking to herself .

Does Starfeelt Academy ep 4 count as one of the courtroom episodes of Star Trek?

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

None But the Righteous: A Novel A Novel

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Might have to drop a few coins in the ProPublica basket. They doing real justice journalism over there

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We have talked to a filament manufacturer about setting something up with them, and we are looking into wholesale buys in areas where we have a lot of printers, but in an era of state crackdowns on legal behavior, we have to prioritize the privacy of our printers.

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“Can we still fall in love this summer?”

“Probably not.”

“Why?”

“The world is at war.”

“So, who has time for love?”

She kissed me, passionately.

“Sweetheart, the world was always terrible. Some years it's just better dressed. The terrible years are when people need love most.”

 #FiftyWords