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· Aug 25
listen i know this might sound boring but can someone make a sim tree game? like sim city but with a tree. you play as the tree. thanks #simtree
tfw your students are well-behaved and every lesson goes as planned and you still feel like this
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
tfw your students are well-behaved and every lesson goes as planned and you still feel like this
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Returning to work after Jan 1
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Returning to work after Jan 1
i don’t know who the woman was who sang “imagine” right before the nyc ball dropped, but she looked so much like erika kirk that i opened the live chat pane for the first time in my life. i was not disappointed. everyone else noticed it too and let’s just say the youtube mods don’t enforce much
January 1, 2026 at 6:08 AM
i don’t know who the woman was who sang “imagine” right before the nyc ball dropped, but she looked so much like erika kirk that i opened the live chat pane for the first time in my life. i was not disappointed. everyone else noticed it too and let’s just say the youtube mods don’t enforce much
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Flossie, the world’s oldest living cat, has celebrated her 30th birthday.
December 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Flossie, the world’s oldest living cat, has celebrated her 30th birthday.
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showing extraterrestrials how i play my cats belly like a little bongo
December 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
showing extraterrestrials how i play my cats belly like a little bongo
tomorrow, i was already planning to go alone to the Korean bathhouse an hour away, but then my oldest friend just texted and said she just got back from her family Christmas and she needs healing. sometimes the stars align. so i am taking my friend of 23 years to the bathhouse for her first time.
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
tomorrow, i was already planning to go alone to the Korean bathhouse an hour away, but then my oldest friend just texted and said she just got back from her family Christmas and she needs healing. sometimes the stars align. so i am taking my friend of 23 years to the bathhouse for her first time.
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ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes!
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
September 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes!
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes
having a partner that understands my obsession with Korean bathhouses and my inability to visit one frequently has led to a Christmas filled with bath gifts and i could not be more thankful
he also got me my customary Christmas earrings, which today are the derpy cat from kpop demon hunters
he also got me my customary Christmas earrings, which today are the derpy cat from kpop demon hunters
December 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
having a partner that understands my obsession with Korean bathhouses and my inability to visit one frequently has led to a Christmas filled with bath gifts and i could not be more thankful
he also got me my customary Christmas earrings, which today are the derpy cat from kpop demon hunters
he also got me my customary Christmas earrings, which today are the derpy cat from kpop demon hunters
ok, my dad’s new fear is that Islam is taking over. what happened? he swears he doesn’t watch fox news anymore but all of a sudden he’s talking about how Muslims will behead you if you don’t join. who can help me figure out which indoctrination channel he got this shit from?
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
ok, my dad’s new fear is that Islam is taking over. what happened? he swears he doesn’t watch fox news anymore but all of a sudden he’s talking about how Muslims will behead you if you don’t join. who can help me figure out which indoctrination channel he got this shit from?
when i go home for Christmas, i will read all your passive-aggressive emails to my friends and family and we will laugh heartily about your cowardice. but then we will immediately forget about you as we sing songs and bake desserts and set up the tiny Christmas village.
fuck you, Merry Christmas
fuck you, Merry Christmas
December 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
when i go home for Christmas, i will read all your passive-aggressive emails to my friends and family and we will laugh heartily about your cowardice. but then we will immediately forget about you as we sing songs and bake desserts and set up the tiny Christmas village.
fuck you, Merry Christmas
fuck you, Merry Christmas
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When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
When my grandmother was 9 years old, she and her family lived in Texas and they were extremely poor. She lived with her mother and stepfather and three sisters. My great-grandmother made all their clothes, and they scrimped on everything so that they had enough to eat.
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This procedure is not performed on transgender children. It IS performed on intersex children, often without full knowledge or consent of parents. GOP laws protect this practice.
19thnews.org/2023/03/bill...
openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstreams/6...
19thnews.org/2023/03/bill...
openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstreams/6...
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This procedure is not performed on transgender children. It IS performed on intersex children, often without full knowledge or consent of parents. GOP laws protect this practice.
19thnews.org/2023/03/bill...
openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstreams/6...
19thnews.org/2023/03/bill...
openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstreams/6...
POSSESSION (1981). in 2018, in a theater full of first-timers. me & friends who had already seen it before would occasionally glance behind us to see the utter horror on the newbies’ faces. at first there were people who thought it was MST3K and tried riffing, but this is a movie that shuts you up
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
POSSESSION (1981). in 2018, in a theater full of first-timers. me & friends who had already seen it before would occasionally glance behind us to see the utter horror on the newbies’ faces. at first there were people who thought it was MST3K and tried riffing, but this is a movie that shuts you up
2nd grader: “i told my dad koala bears aren’t real bears and he said yeah of course. which ruined my joke.”
me: “oh do tell”
2nd grader: “they don’t have the right KOALA-ties”
me: *agape, seeing god*
me: “oh do tell”
2nd grader: “they don’t have the right KOALA-ties”
me: *agape, seeing god*
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
2nd grader: “i told my dad koala bears aren’t real bears and he said yeah of course. which ruined my joke.”
me: “oh do tell”
2nd grader: “they don’t have the right KOALA-ties”
me: *agape, seeing god*
me: “oh do tell”
2nd grader: “they don’t have the right KOALA-ties”
me: *agape, seeing god*
texting my dad this with “states rights?” right before i fly home for christmas
Trump has signed an executive order blocking states from making their own guardrails around artificial intelligence
Trump Signs Order Blocking States From Enforcing Their Own AI Guardrails
www.huffpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
texting my dad this with “states rights?” right before i fly home for christmas
cat pets asmr (very little sound) (bear bear edition)
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
cat pets asmr (very little sound) (bear bear edition)
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Pleased to announce I have signed a partnership with Kalshi to allow live betting on students' grades in my classes. PowerPoints will now feature a realtime odds ticker. It does create perverse incentives—I imagine a lot of surplus death in the grandma sector—but we can financialize that, too.
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Pleased to announce I have signed a partnership with Kalshi to allow live betting on students' grades in my classes. PowerPoints will now feature a realtime odds ticker. It does create perverse incentives—I imagine a lot of surplus death in the grandma sector—but we can financialize that, too.
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For the next two weeks we will be fundraising for our winter ministry project … consider partnering with our local ministry in providing grocery gift cards for the community venmo.com/u/solomon-MI...
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
For the next two weeks we will be fundraising for our winter ministry project … consider partnering with our local ministry in providing grocery gift cards for the community venmo.com/u/solomon-MI...
enjoy my most popular post of the year
“space is finally going to be glam,” i say as microscopic debris from my glitter eyeshadow slowly works its way into one of the many crucial control panels of the rocket
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
enjoy my most popular post of the year
i know the point of
#ArtAdventCalendar is to show off work instead of conforming to a theme, but my partner and i got together and brainstormed a list of 25 Christmas-related things and we’re drawing one a day until the 25th. is anyone actually interested in our list/doing this? lemme know!
#ArtAdventCalendar is to show off work instead of conforming to a theme, but my partner and i got together and brainstormed a list of 25 Christmas-related things and we’re drawing one a day until the 25th. is anyone actually interested in our list/doing this? lemme know!
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
i know the point of
#ArtAdventCalendar is to show off work instead of conforming to a theme, but my partner and i got together and brainstormed a list of 25 Christmas-related things and we’re drawing one a day until the 25th. is anyone actually interested in our list/doing this? lemme know!
#ArtAdventCalendar is to show off work instead of conforming to a theme, but my partner and i got together and brainstormed a list of 25 Christmas-related things and we’re drawing one a day until the 25th. is anyone actually interested in our list/doing this? lemme know!
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
“oh, you’re an elementary school teacher? so basically babysitting?”
other than that, teaching as a profession tends to elicit comments rather than questions (and i don’t wanna hear those either)
other than that, teaching as a profession tends to elicit comments rather than questions (and i don’t wanna hear those either)
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“oh, you’re an elementary school teacher? so basically babysitting?”
other than that, teaching as a profession tends to elicit comments rather than questions (and i don’t wanna hear those either)
other than that, teaching as a profession tends to elicit comments rather than questions (and i don’t wanna hear those either)
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We gotta revive the ‘80s style family sitcom so we can have Very Special Episodes about sports gambling apps and letting AI talk you into eating a handgun and whatever else this evil ass culture is doing to kids. People my age still cut up plastic rings to save sea life, that shit 100% worked
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We gotta revive the ‘80s style family sitcom so we can have Very Special Episodes about sports gambling apps and letting AI talk you into eating a handgun and whatever else this evil ass culture is doing to kids. People my age still cut up plastic rings to save sea life, that shit 100% worked
i hate that i have to trick my depression into letting me shower because it feels so great. nonchalantly cleaning the bathroom and the tub, taking out a different-scented soap, washing towels… like leaving a trail of resse’s pieces for my inner goblin
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
i hate that i have to trick my depression into letting me shower because it feels so great. nonchalantly cleaning the bathroom and the tub, taking out a different-scented soap, washing towels… like leaving a trail of resse’s pieces for my inner goblin
late night werner herzog thought: he used to do narrative movies about the end of the world (or the end of A world) and now he does documentaries… because we’re at… the end…
(but seriously if you’ve only watched his documentaries you’re only getting half the story)
(but seriously if you’ve only watched his documentaries you’re only getting half the story)
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
late night werner herzog thought: he used to do narrative movies about the end of the world (or the end of A world) and now he does documentaries… because we’re at… the end…
(but seriously if you’ve only watched his documentaries you’re only getting half the story)
(but seriously if you’ve only watched his documentaries you’re only getting half the story)