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Yet another good reminder that even other Anglosphere authors have to basically arm-wrestle US book editors to be allowed to retain any vestige of their own dialect and culture in their writing and this is why lots of people have Opinions about American...everything.
i'm shocked but then not really
never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It
signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
americans are making this post about their shit education system and the literacy crisis whatever that is and i say this with love in my heart: it really is not that deep. pathology this pathologizing that. how about the universal human inclination to take da Path of least resistance
i could do a great one of those “get ready with me” morning routine videos. like hi welcome to my channel everyone! first thing i do when i wake in the morning is i step outside and i take a deep breath and i get real high and i scream from the top of my lungs what’s going on—
and after that i try. oh my god do i try. i try all the time. in this institution
Fictional woman: *does anything remotely competent*
Her: haha yeah it's because I have 47 fathers. I learned that skill from my league of brothers. It was a necessity to know when my two football teams worth of brothers and I were left stranded in the pine forests for weeks as a training exercise
Why is this making me so emotional. Everyone please be nice to the skull.
People don’t even want to say le sigh anymore. le sigh
#but I am more le tired than ever
alas, the meaning of "enshittification" is already getting diluted
one might even say - no, I daren't -
i started playing Disco Elysium and last night (the same day i started playing) i woke up to my stomach hurting so bad that in my delirium i thought it had to do with something from the game.
and looked it up…
i thought this was completely normal until waking up later after the pain was gone.
you’re playing the game better than anyone else has ever played it
hi im your cat do you mind if i touch your coffee. do you mind if i put my whole foot in your coffee
at least there is a storm. the horrors may be endless but there is rain on roof and thunder.
getting pointlessly annoyed by reels I am forced to see on Facebook and posting about it on tumblr so as not to encourage the algorithm: just saw a clip of a cool move Taylor Swift does during one of the Eras tour songs where she drops really fast to her knees from standing posted with the caption "I will never understand how this knee drop doesn't hurt!!!" like. Have You Considered The Possibility That It Does Just Hurt.
scantily is basically the most classic way to be clad
this image came to me in a sudden burst of enlightenment
the thrilling sequel
fuck
