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B810. The Man who Bit Himself on the Ear. A man explains to his doctor that the wound on his ear (or forehead) is where he bit himself. He explains, "I stood on a chair."

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Just a quick lunch you know how it is
this mf eating burdock your honor
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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New gym fear unlocked
One of those spring-based deals you put on the end of a barbell to keep the weights in place but it's broken quite in twain
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
Try to get a clear view of the sky Terrain, buildings, or trees can block connection
December 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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You downy orbs of pleasure … you perfumed Cydonian spheres … you could not elude me all season …
the heavenly quince
December 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Just read this page this morning
represented in the multicultural program through artists, classical jazz performers and others'. 154 Another major arts logo for 1990s Los Angeles is the deconstructed Pop architecture of Frank Gehry - heralded as the first major indigenous style since the bungalow. Gehry's work has the peculiar quality of transmuting noir into Pop through a recycling of the elements of a decayed and polarized urban landscape (for example, rude concrete, chain-link, empty back walls, and so on) into light and airy expressions of a happy lifestyle (law schools, aquariums, movie libraries, etc.). It is a kind of architectural alchemy that makes the best of 'bad urban spaces', like downtown Hollywood or the Pico-Union barrio, by (as we shall see in chapter four) combining delightful geometrics with complex physical security systems. Not surprisingly Gehry, who has characterized some of his own proposals as 'stage sets', has struck up a lucrative relationship with Disney CEO Michael Eisner to design 'enter-tainment architecture for the Disney World expansion in Florida as well as the Disney Concert Center on Bunker Hill.1» As the 'human face of the corporate architecture that is transforming Los Angeles - uprooting neighborhoods and privatizing public space - Gehry has acquired a popular authority over regional taste that at times recalls the historic functions of Lummis, or even Disney. The Los Angeles Festival's sponsorship of 'Pacific Rim con-sciousness', along with Gehry's gestures toward an architectural synthesis of 'Los Angelesness', have been mirrored by the combined efforts of planners, developers and business leaders to coin a 'new urban archetype to emblematize the city's official future.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Color scheme doesn't work super great if one is using a dark mode fyi!
Very low-contrast dark text
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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"Susie Smoking"
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Reacting super usefully to having finally noticed that @nyc-noise.com has easy calendar links
Screenshot of a calendar with multiple overlapping events per day for several days running
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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how to make hot chocolate. I guess this is from before I discovered that you can temper an egg into it for a drink richer than Croesus
Warming and most delicious mugs of hot chocolate are easy and rewarding to prepare, yet cafes to sell and serve them are but few. Therefore, should you indeed wish to taste and learn how to prepare on your own account this decadent beverage that all year long brings forth from its drinker a smile and happy song, then follow diligently all such as is set out below, which has been tried and tested by generation and generation of gluttonous men, all of whom found consummate satisfaction. Choose whatever appropriate cooking vessel you wish, whether double boiler or a simple bowl set over a pot is of no consequence. Put into the bottom a quantity of water and into the top a quantity of bittersweet chocolate, either in chip form or shaved from a large block, and set the lower chamber to simmering. When, anon, the chocolate has all melted, yet still retains its form in outline, pour into the melted chocolate a small amount of milk. Thereupon it will lose all its smoothness and seem as if it is on the verge of seizing. Then take out your balloon whisk (the same that every man keeps carefully concealed within his drawers) and incorporate the milk, and all the radiance will return to the chocolate and its separated fragments (it being supposedly about to seize) will disappear, and the whole will begin to shine with a satiny sheen. Once more add a small quantity of milk and continue doing so until the chocolate mixture becomes liquid and free flowing, all the while humming either the song of the scorned or the hymn to the unjustly slain, at which point you may add as much milk as you estimate will be necessary to satisfy you. Now you may enjoy a reprieve and rest, idle and languorous, for several minutes of the clock while the simmering water heats the milk from coolness to tepidity to the desired warmth. When such has transpired, remove the bowl or upper chamber from the heat and pour its contents with assurance into a mug, and allow it to reveal its richness to you. And a…
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Cooked peanuts aren't bad though
A dish full of cooked peanuts
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Get a load of THIS hack work
One The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Murphy sat out of it as though he were free in a mew in West Brompton.
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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let's not forget my super good xmas mix from 2012
01. George Crumb - Makrokosmos, A Little Suite for Christmas, Vox Balanae - A Little Suite for Christmas 6. Canticle of the Holy Night 02. Califone - Roots & Crowns - Burned by the Christians 03. Current 93 - Dogs Blood Rising - Christus Christus The Shells Have Cracked 04. John Fahey - Red Cross - Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today 05. Charming Hostess - eat - When Jesus Christ Was Here on Earth 06. Tom Waits - Mule Variations - Chocolate Jesus.flac 07. Bill Monroe - Bluegrass 1950-1958 (disc 3) - Wait A Little Longer, Please Jesus 08. Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Christian Life 09. Various Artists - Prayers from Hell: White Gospel and Sinner's Blues 1927-1940 - Dorsey Dixon _ When Jesus Appears 10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well 11. Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio - Other Valentines - Jesus Etc 12. Food - The Last Supper - Christcookies 13. Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess - Prayer Oh Doctor Jesus 14. Low - One more reason to forget - If you were born today (song for little baby Jesus) 15. Various Artists - The Art of Field Recording v1-2: Religious - Leona Ruth _ Over Yonder Where Jesus Is 16. Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time [Tashi] - Praise To The Immortality Of Jesus
December 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Not quite!
Al Overview +5 "Senex bis puer" translates to "old man, twice a boy" and refers to a Latin phrase describing the dynamic between the "senex" (old man) archetype and the "puer" (boy) archetype. The phrase can be interpreted in multiple ways, including a religious one from St. Augustine where "the old man carried the child; but the child ruled the old man," and a psychological one from Jungian analysis that explores the tension between tradition/stasis (senex) and spontaneity/idealism (puer). Meaning of the phrases • Religious meaning: From a sermon by St. Augustine, the phrase Senex púerum portábat: Puer autem senem regébat is translated as "The old man carried the child: but the child ruled the old man". It describes Simeon carrying the infant Christ, but being spiritually governed by the hope of the Messiah. • Psychological meaning: In psychology, the phrase represents the dynamic between two archetypes: • Senex: Represents the "old man" archetype,
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Hat bearing the text "no useful generalizations are possible about the attitudes either women or fish bear to me"
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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"I posted engagement bait and got engagement"
I'm not sure what this platform can do to make it more enjoyable, but I'm definitely not enjoying whatever pile-on is taking place right now in my notifications and I'm also not really sure how I could make it stop.
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Bust of Marcus Aurelius asking "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Hundreds of Beavers
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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They can't *keep* getting away with it, no, but they can, for any specified duration, get away with it for that long
Broadly, how do finitists get away with it? : r/askphilosophy
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Somehow this is more upsetting than merely the bare denial of LEM
is total and therefore, by the continuity theorem, continuous. But then f must be constant, so either R = A or R = B. An instance of unsplittability is that it is false that every real number is either rational or irrational. For if it were, we would obtain a non-trivial splitting of the continuum by assigning 0 to rational, and 1 to irrational reals.
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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cover of "hitler's willing executioners" by daniel goldhagen
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Sluggo levitating with the speech bubble deleted and flipped left-right
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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My other contribution to thanksgiving cooking discourse is to remember to baste
The right rear panel of, hopefully, an eventual pair of pants (or "trousers" as they say in the UK). There's a wonky horizontal dart and a basted-on patch pocket
November 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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predator meme with the texts "Is the bicycle the guy is riding part of the guy?", "Maurice Merleau-Ponty & Brian O'Shaughnessy", "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien"
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Cash transactions totaling over $10k in a day require the filing of a Currency Transaction Report (CTR). A withdrawal of $9k does not, and of course is permissible. But it is *not* permissible to avoid CTRs via a pattern of transactions that just skirt the threshold; this is called "structuring".
So, let’s suppose that Cal’s background evidence is such that, if someone approaches him to give directions, his credence that the directions are accurate should lie between 80 and 90 per cent, and any credence within that range is permissible. And suppose that, whenever it is a woman who gives the directions, Cal becomes 81 per cent confident she’s right, but whenever it’s a man, he becomes 89 per cent confident he’s right. In this case, it seems to me, Cal wrongs Elspeth, and indeed any woman who gives him directions, and yet no-one receives either credibility deficit or credibility excess. And so we cannot say that Cal wrongs Elspeth by not treating her with the epistemic respect she is due. He does treat her with due respect; and he treats the men who give him directions with due respect as well. But nonetheless, he wrongs the women.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Ground level down where the dry leaves
Blow, and burn slowly
No ground is ever gonna hold me
White candles in the manor, where the curse takes hold
Bodies reassembling down where the worms crawl
Make your own friends when the world's gone cold
Pope Leo sings "Hebrews 11:40" from the Mountain Goats album "The Life of the World to Come"
November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM