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@torshi.bsky.social

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Never felt the touch of a lover...never heard the words "you are fine" from a doctor

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Nope @torshi.bsky.social · Dec 19

I think the main reason to become a parent is to have someone to join your car dance party when a good song comes on and you crank it up

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Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 1h

Yup. Black people with power, visible homelessness, my personal children not speaking to me, all these are considered crime by a large percentage of the population

Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 16h

Ooh he's tryin

Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 17h

Sequim

Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 18h

Babies and toddlers are harder physical labor. Older kids are logistically and emotionally more challenging by far.

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Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 23h

It's kinda not though? The suckage changes over the years but teens can definitely be as hard or prefer to parent than babies

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Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 23h

He was all about kindness and sharing and getting along? A normal little boy is supposed to hate that shit, according to the stereotypes I grew up with

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Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 1d

Getting an email back from the bakery like "yeah we can make that cake, just give us a call to place the order" cmon Jenny it's 2025 over here. I just PLACED the fkn order

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Actually got some junk in my trunk, implausibly enough

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One thing about not having a desk job is my ass is the least flat it has been in my whole adult life

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Or MAYBE we'd have bankrolled one of our white neighbors to do the exact thing we did

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I.e. we would have just let them do what they wanted and put up with it because we'd have been scared of how they'd react to being told the thing they were doing was not legal

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Just thinking about a legal/land use disagreement we had with our slightly unhinged, right wing white male neighbors in 2015 and how differently we'd have approached that situation in any of the years since

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It's so hairy. In a good way

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Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 2d

Dilute! Dilute! Or rinse off well! Ok!

Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 2d

America's rich tapestry: saw deer, coyote and raccoon roadkill in a single drive yesterday

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Yes! I have to do a full background check every other year to proctor a one hour math competition after school! How the fuck!!

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Get em Pynchy

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"I'd vote for the Democrat here in my blue state where my vote doesn't matter, if only the national party was willing to run a segregationist, anti-abortion Democrat in Mississippi. But if they didn't do that they clearly aren't serious about winning my vote"

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It is I, history's dumbest idiot

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translator: Keith Urban has age-typical erectile dysfunction and refuses to believe anything could be the cause other than "my wife is now older than she was when we met"

Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 3d

Move! Get out the way

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Nope @torshi.bsky.social · 3d

To be clear: I salute you either way. Getting a ton of teeth pulled is an intense experience.

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I'm DEFINITELY positive of that exact thing. Michael Bay should get some kind of American history educators' award

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I thought I was a badass getting 7 out at once

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22 previously root canaled teeth?? Or just 22 teeth in general

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