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fluidstatic

@fluidstatick

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Divination, Writing, and Nonsense.

lol i hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn’t behave exactly as you’d wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn’t text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he’s just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don’t do it anymore. someone isn’t instantly available for you? disinterest. just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life. like. stop. literally just stop it

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the most bangin parts in house of leaves nay in all literature ever are when jed leeder gets shot in the jaw and suddenly the text formatting gets all fucked up and when navidson is alone in the maze and lights each page of his book on fire so he can read the next and once the whole thing is gone just sits alone and waits to die. Literally changed me

My phone informs me that I've been talking in my sleep. I had a dream that it was Christmas, I was at my parents' house, and they brought out a massive box, beautifully wrapped, with my deadname on it in sharpie. When I opened it and pulled out a mountain of tissue paper, there was a knife block full of multicolored kitchen knives, sitting on top of a bunch of soap and cologne sets. This morning the first thing I saw when I opened my phone was amazon showing me an ad for an expensive knife block with multicolored knives in it. I closed that, opened Pinterest, and got an ad for a soap and cologne giftset. I hate surveillance capitalism, these fucks are listening to my DREAMS NOW.

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dallasrecklessandrelentless

That fuckin smile at the end

To the worried person in the comments: 

No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink, which is a Pokemon that supposedly powers its heart by bouncing, and as such can’t stop moving. Hummingbirds don’t sit often because they’re busy looking for food, but they can and do sit. The females sit on eggs in nests, after all, and they do have to sleep. 

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Fun fact: the leg muscles of a hummingbird are so stripped down to save on weight that they cannot walk. They can step sideways along a branch or other perch, but they cannot go forward without taking flight.

However they absolutely do stop moving. In fact, hummingbirds hibernate! Overnight. Instead of sleeping. Because if they tried to sleep like a normal animal their hyperactive metabolism would mean that they starve to death before breakfast.

Unrelated fun fact: the primary Aztec god of war would take on the form of a hummingbird, and the souls of the bravest warriors were said to turn into hummingbirds in order to join him after death, presumably because every hummingbird is approximately four grams of pure concentrated asskicking which fears no man nor beast and will gladly throw down with somebody seventeen thousand times their size if offended.

this is a really cool post and i love seeing such a small bird but reading “No, a hummingbird’s heart will not stop if it stops moving. You’re possibly thinking of Spoink” killed me 

Ok, so something I've noticed that is utterly baffling to me is that all the Americans I know primarily dry their clothes using a machine called a dryer. I don't even own a dryer. So, I need to know:

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well, in florida specifically, the air makes clothes wetter, not drier :') but in the wider US?

  • HOAs often put restrictions on clotheslines as 'eyesores'
  • that has given clotheslines a lower-class association
  • americans are generally WILDLY paranoid about theft
  • apartments don't always have space

but, imo, the least-discussed reason is:

  • there's so many fucking cars everywhere, always, at all hours of the day, often at high speeds, and car exhaust/tires kicking up dust/etc means that stuff left outside tends to get dirty really fast

Hey so I know the discourse is doing an end-run around this point, but I was curious about how to interpret your "American Football should never be played" post. Are you saying it should be banned, or legally discouraged? Or maybe it should be socially discouraged but legal for consenting adults? Or something else?

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wasn't really a policy prescription, but at the bare minimum: shouldn't be an organized sport played by minors, shouldn't give people chances to get scholarships, and the NFL shouldn't exist

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