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people use "sensitive" like it's an insult. i'm sorry for spending my whole life giving a fuck i guess

Bread is a broad term referring to the prepared, edible flesh of the starchbeast. Because starchbeasts are found across the globe and display local speciation, the bread in various areas of the world takes a different form depending on the constitution of the animal. In France, for instance, "horseshoe" starchbeasts have crisp, laminated muscle tissue; once the hard carapace has been removed, they are consumed as croissants. The "saucer" starchbeasts of China, meanwhile, have delicately chewy skins and flat, circular bodies. Once flayed, the skins are stuffed with vegetables or soup to create sausages known as dumplings.

Not my original observation but it does seem like a particular fuck you from the universe to RFKJ that ivermectin is completely useless against cyclospora. Like they really said not only are you getting a parasite outbreak we're not even going to let you use your favorite anti-parasitic for the one thing it's supposed to be used for.

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe

i remember being 15 and wanting literally nothing more than to be taken seriously and listened to and every thought and feeling i had was dismissed because i was a hormonal teenager. i was well aware at that point that a lot of the things i felt were probably because i was a kid, but that didnt make any of it less real, and being dismissed because of my age 1. did not help 2. did not make me feel better 3. made me angry at and untrustworthy of adults because they refused to listen to me. teenagers are people. kids are people. one of the only major things separating them from adults are experience and wisdom. they have like. you know. interiority

like in YOUR mind you may think youre being helpful by going 'well you're a kid, its not really a big deal, youre okay, youll get over it' but that does not register as "helpful affirmation that everything will turn out fine and the only reason im upset is because of something out of my control so its better to just try and come to terms with it" it registers as 'adult dismissing my real tangible problems and sadness and anger because of my age and inadvertently calling me stupid'

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potato battery? no. potato usually fried by itself. potato starchy enough to go in oil without batter

Potato battery? no, it only threatened you, which is assault

yes. good. fried potato taste very good with a salt

just saw someone call malala yousafzai, the pakistani woman who was shot in the head as a girl for activism regarding the education of arab women in the middle east, a white feminist because she attended the eras tour & talked about how taylor swift's music was foundational to her activism. it's SO fuckin over, y'all can never use the term "white feminist" again

i honestly think we should've seen the writing on the wall re: kamala's campaign being tanked by misogyny when i realized people think white feminism is enjoy a white pop star's music

People realized long ago you can say the most sexist and homophobic things in the world as long as you put "white" in front of women/gays. Now they are just finding more ways to apply it to non white people

sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"

You are allowed to grieve the person you could have been if life had been gentler with you.