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Made all the more fun by the contrast with the author’s later books for small children, such as How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
December 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I remain hopeful that someday the KOTOR remake will land because it remains my white whale in this department

give me Revan in glorious HD
I would like to know! 🤓👾
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.

I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."

HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant was the first Discworld novel I read, and it introduced me to STP’s incredible ability to use his plot, vivid characters, and situations to explore both minor and major philosophical points. It was the gateway to so many views I now hold dear
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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It's Friday night baby
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The Christian is charged to do a singular thing... and that thing is not bible bash, be weird about someone's sexuality, gender, judge, criticize, be critical, or demeaning

... we are charged to help

That's it that's all... Just help
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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listen...

you do not have to be smarter than your intimate partner

you dont have to make more than them

or have a greater social status

The purpose of the relationship is not to reinforce your ego

The purpose of the relationship is care
October 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Read books you enjoy. This includes comic books and manga.

Do not read books you don’t enjoy. If you don’t like the author’s writing style, don’t read the book, no matter how compelling the story. (Looking at you, Dan Brown)
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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some days I have actual commentary and some days I'm like this is all stupid bullshit and today is one of the latter

this is all stupid bullshit
September 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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PUT AWAY YOUR GLAIVE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.
September 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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"school shooting industry"
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Sep 9
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I do make a good cast-iron deep dish pizza
Pie is very important in the marriage
I didn't marry my husband only because he's amazing at baking pies, but the pies may have been a factor.
September 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
September 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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if you really want to fight and you haven't been hit in the face lately I have news for you: It sucks and you won't like it, 0/10, zero stars, bad, let's not
it's kinda funny how much a hard slap shocks and disorients the hell outa you, leaves you open for a hot sec to someone really going at you
August 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM