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Stop Doing Poetry

“Constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic” “each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables” - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

Look at what poets have been demanding your respect for this entire time, with all the words and letters we built for them,

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“But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,”

They have played us for absolute fools

according to this blurb in the Star Trek Adventures Klingon sourcebook, the Klingon Empire says trans rights, and also non-binary and queer rights in general

glory to you, and to your chosen form of personal expression

id: [bubbling over with dozens of different stressors, inspirations, mania, dark turbulent oceans of subconscious urges and inhuman imaginings]

ego: dude i gotta express all this somehow or something's gonna break

superego: best i can do is a shitpost, hoss

Good morning, everycreature! Today, I wish courage for everyone sharing what they enjoy, what they make, or what they are

[Booming voice, panel taking up half the page] Thiisss! Siite! Useeessss! Cookieessss!!

[Learn more] [Just track me forever]

ADHD sometimes means forgetting to do stuff – even stuff one really wants to do. That's why it took me over twenty years to follow up on a spot-on recommendation to listen to King Crimson.

Have some tritones, nerds.

youtube.com/watch?v=X_pDwv3tpu

absolutely fucked-up that 'stagflation' has nothing to do with inflatable deer. get your shit together, economics

"it's common sense!" and "everybody knows that…" are arguments that are easier to make the *less* you know about people different from you

anything can be common sense if you only talk to people you have everything in common with

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Kobolds live similarly to dwarves: Underground, in caverns of their own construction.

Kobolds also build traps. Lots, and lots, of traps.

Therefore, I posit that kobolds should be just as prolific miners, metalworkers, and artificers as dwarves.

"I've never seen the media interview a black parent about how race is being taught to their children."

nitter.42l.fr/covie_93/status/

@fluffy Because reprimanding folks for openly being wrong rarely changes anything for the better and they get to keep acting like unparented children while we feel like we're being punished for having done nothing wrong?

At least, that's why I loathe mouthy Internet randos. One of many, many reasons.

You can tell how old a social media is by its muting options.

we're at the point in the pandemic when all the mystics have become jaded with their own tarot decks and people have decided that feral divination with fridge magnets, screaming, rotting leaves, and taco bell hot sauce packets are the way forward

Remember, remember,
the third of the fourth,
and the Forth of the Firth,
and the sixth;
The fifth and the fall,
and the major lift,
or however it goes,
But not this.

everyone asks "why are you in my house", but nobody asks "how-
hm
no wait that's usually the next question

no i guess things are all fine here

The #Meta plot thickens! Turns out that #Facebook doesn't actually own the name Meta because it belongs to another company that's currently in stealth mode.

That didn't seem to stop Facebook from publicly announcing the name change and branding, quite the Zuck move. :blobpopcorn:

Meta (the real one) have posted a public letter about this on their front page. I'm linking the Archive copy because the front page will be eventually replaced by an actual website:
🔗 web.archive.org/web/2021110321

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