cornpro
@cornpro.bsky.social
She/Her // Interests include knitting, weightlifting, crying about LOTR, adding new hobbies I don't have time for, and overthinking
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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“When it comes to putting together a crew with the skills needed for a bank job or a jewel heist, a majority of Americans reported knowing just one or two guys, tops,” said lead researcher Jane Iannitello
Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist
NEW HAVEN, CT—Shedding new light on a previously undocumented effect of loneliness, a team of psychologists at Yale University found that at least 80% of Americans lack the social connections necessar...
theonion.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“When it comes to putting together a crew with the skills needed for a bank job or a jewel heist, a majority of Americans reported knowing just one or two guys, tops,” said lead researcher Jane Iannitello
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
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Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.
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Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
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"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer."
-Samwise Gamgee
Fresh snow outside! A good day to share this winter wonderland I painted ❄ created w/ ink, watercolor, + acryla gouache.
Art prints + greeting cards at albaillustration.etsy.com.
-Samwise Gamgee
Fresh snow outside! A good day to share this winter wonderland I painted ❄ created w/ ink, watercolor, + acryla gouache.
Art prints + greeting cards at albaillustration.etsy.com.
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer."
-Samwise Gamgee
Fresh snow outside! A good day to share this winter wonderland I painted ❄ created w/ ink, watercolor, + acryla gouache.
Art prints + greeting cards at albaillustration.etsy.com.
-Samwise Gamgee
Fresh snow outside! A good day to share this winter wonderland I painted ❄ created w/ ink, watercolor, + acryla gouache.
Art prints + greeting cards at albaillustration.etsy.com.
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first year I'm actually willing to post my Spotify wrapped lmao
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
first year I'm actually willing to post my Spotify wrapped lmao
first year I'm actually willing to post my Spotify wrapped lmao
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
first year I'm actually willing to post my Spotify wrapped lmao
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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GANDALF: Can you see anything?
FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it.
GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."
FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it.
GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
GANDALF: Can you see anything?
FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it.
GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."
FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it.
GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
spoilers for Frankenstein...
okay but the modern need to tack a happy ending onto movies based on gothic novels is WILD. it feels so wrong, like the characters forgot what story they're in. Victor Frankenstein when did you have time to go to therapy?? it's just... no, let them be tragic, it's okay
okay but the modern need to tack a happy ending onto movies based on gothic novels is WILD. it feels so wrong, like the characters forgot what story they're in. Victor Frankenstein when did you have time to go to therapy?? it's just... no, let them be tragic, it's okay
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
spoilers for Frankenstein...
okay but the modern need to tack a happy ending onto movies based on gothic novels is WILD. it feels so wrong, like the characters forgot what story they're in. Victor Frankenstein when did you have time to go to therapy?? it's just... no, let them be tragic, it's okay
okay but the modern need to tack a happy ending onto movies based on gothic novels is WILD. it feels so wrong, like the characters forgot what story they're in. Victor Frankenstein when did you have time to go to therapy?? it's just... no, let them be tragic, it's okay
if i had a nickel for every movie I watched today where someone gets stabbed in the chest with a sickle, I would have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
if i had a nickel for every movie I watched today where someone gets stabbed in the chest with a sickle, I would have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
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gender neutral alternatives to “ladies & gentlemen”:
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
gender neutral alternatives to “ladies & gentlemen”:
millenial non-men as well - it started with me calling my dog "buddy," now I call every kid and dog that. it's a real slippery slope
it's carcinisation for millennial dads, we all become guys who say "buddy," there is no other ending
somehow becoming a dad transformed me into the kind of person that says "buddy" all the time, even though I never use it for the actual Sweet Baby I'm on diaper duty for
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
millenial non-men as well - it started with me calling my dog "buddy," now I call every kid and dog that. it's a real slippery slope
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All timer thread
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
All timer thread
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me boarding the Acela
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
me boarding the Acela
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The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The return of extremely skeletal bodies for women as a norm is deeply concerning.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.
Being hungry all the time cooks your brain.