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roses poetry, "this is just to say" 

This is just to say
I have eaten
the roses
you kept in
the icebox

and which
you were definitely
mistaken
in putting there

They're roses
what's wrong with you
they don't go in the icebox

what do you mean what's wrong with me

Of course I ate
the roses
I had to
that's how the poem begins
yes the thorns hurt a lot

sometimes
we do foolish things for love

The part of the DMCA that makes it a crime for breaking DRM is like you go to jail for picking someone's lock, but the person put their lock on _your_ front door and stopped you from going into your own home.

i am begging white leftists to stop adopting the rhetorical style and memes of the right

you're doing their work for them, even if you manage to rework them into something that's not just bigoted on its face

the Mastoverse™'s Waste and Recycling crews now accept grade 5 toxic and cursed posts. Please safely wrap them for disposal, and leave them at the side of the federated timeline on your normal bin collection day

but in an unforseen plot twist, Han Solo is frozen in carbonite and delivered to ABBA.

purge “daily driver” and other car culture terminology from your speech and thoughts today

it looks like Gumroad is refusing to pay out any remaining balance to users deleting their account below their standard $10 minimum twitter.com/inverts/status/149

- 🎒 💢

trans community heads-up (twitter link, sorry) 

Beware the so-called "Gender Unity Project." They're a front for Matt Walsh and Justin Folk, known-quantity shitwagons, to try and trick people into taking part in an anti-trans "documentary" with it.

More info here: twitter.com/EliErlick/status/1

@starkatt Yes, but my doctor says it "doesn't count" and that I should cut it from my diet. I was trying to be healthy!

(did not actually happen)

ME: This song is about childhood sexual abuse.
ROGER SMITH: My uncle used to tell bedtime stories about a spider man what ate children.

ME: This song is about animism during an age of widescale extinctions.
ROGER SMITH: Oh, it's about animals fucking m8.

ROGER SMITH: When I was a child I used to be terrified by nightmares of being lost in the woods.
ME: This song's about werewolves.

sciencealert.com/the-discovery

This is the largest such discovery since the beginning of the 20th century. The items called "ostraca" were cheaper than papyrus and often used by the common people, for shopping lists, recording trades and the like.

#science #Egypt #Archeology

if anyone is hiring software developers for remote or boston-area work, hit me up if you respect the basic humanity of your employees, i can send you a resume and everything, please get me out of this job

Ah, yes, modern technology, in which I must replace a yellow ink cartridge before I can scan a document.

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