my veilguard tags: dav -> datv and datv spoilers btw
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i love the word "ostensibly", you can write some mean ass sentences with it
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the banner image of the digital culture MA at the university of oslo is a photo of a man opening MS word over his official skyrim desktop wallpaper
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good music should beat the shit out of you
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Of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependent on the ingot
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i think there might be mold growing inside me
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i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.
There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.
For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.
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the moulting weaner has a joyous demeanor
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By the time winter comes, many plants lose their leaves and flowers, but there are still evergreen or winter flowering plants that can cause problems for your pet.
Mistletoe and Holly are seasonal favourites, which are often brought into people’s homes or gardens over the festive period. They can pose hazards to your pets, especially if the berries are eaten – so remember to keep them out of paws’ reach!
Some plants, such as amaryllis, can grow indoors as well as outdoors at this time of year, so don’t forget to check our list if you’re thinking of bringing a new plant into your house.
Plants to avoid:
- Azalea/Rhododendron (Rhododendron sp): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Amaryllis (Hippeastrum sp): Also present in autumn.
- Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster sp): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina domestica): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Holly (Ilex sp): Take care to avoid berries in the winter. Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Ivy (Hedera sp): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Laurel (including Cherry Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) and other laurel species): Also present in spring, summer and autumn.
- Mistletoe (Viscum album): Take care to avoid berries in the winter. Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Oak (Quercus pedunculata): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima)
- Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
- Snowdrops (Galanthus): Also present in spring.
- Yew (Taxus baccata and related species): Also present in summer, autumn and winter.
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While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.
Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.
In a post published Thursday entitled, Here's Why I Decided To Buy Infowars by Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO, the fictitious Tetraeder writes that Infowars "has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses." "No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds," Tetraeder writes, celebrating "the continued consolidation of power and capital." (CBC.ca)
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i found the best peanuts strip
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I find the “here are how to address organizational problems” takes way more interesting than the pure ideological axe grinding, so here’s one I like.
Similar idea. I think there are challenges to making this work, especially without a dues paying base to your party, and the support of other organizations with lots of money and members (like unions), but it’s a way more interesting idea than “tweak messaging for the thousandth time”
The first link directly addressed one of my biggest annoyances in this past election:
Take as an indicator how the party handled its last major crisis: the collective grappling with whether President Joe Biden should withdraw his candidacy. Party leadership never considered responding by asking the membership of the party—the county chairs who plan the monthly meetings, the super-volunteers who knock hundreds of doors and bank thousands of phone calls each election cycle—to deliberate locally and weigh in. Rather, the membership watched as George Clooney, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and wealthy donors decided for them. When I floated to a group of party activists the possibility of every local chair hosting an emergency meeting to deliberate with their members about what the party should do and then transmit their responses to national party leaders, the most common response was: I don’t think we are even capable of gathering our own party membership to participate in such a discussion. This is not the sign of a healthy civic organization—and it urgently raises the question: How does this hollowed out state affect the way we present, as a party, to the voters we are trying to reach and persuade?
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tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse
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started sending bird facts to my math teacher anonymously
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Anonymous asked:
are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?
concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me
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It’s weird how everyone hating you when you’re nine years old still affects your self esteem when you’re 26 like yeah nobody came to my birthday party but that was like 17 years ago why is it stopping me from going to a gay bar
The human brain needs the ability to be recalibrated faster. Yeah we’ve been doing this healing process for like six or seven years now make it snappy hurry it up
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