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TIL That National Donut Day is a thing. And that Krispy Kreme is giving away donuts. Also, stay away from Krispy Kreme in National Donut Day.
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Kid B: C'mon, Dad, dance with us! Me: Oh, I don't dance. Kid B: But you're a ROCK STAR!
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I have an old wooden bird house. I've had it for years. My grandfather made it. It's been hanging in the apple tree outside the kitchen window, more as a decoration really, but this morning I noticed that a house wren was nesting in it, and
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God, what a day. I was just reading last night about "spoons", a unit of psychic energy that you need to overcome obstacles. You only get so many spoons a day, and once you've gone through them, then everything becomes a crisis. And man, did I
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Wonderful meal at Dino's in West Des Moines tonight. Pork medallions on a fried rice cake. Nice Yelp find.
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Even when Trump is gone, the corruption of a significant percent of the American population, those with whom we don’t merely disagree on principles and goals, but on reality itself, will be a lingering problem. They are weaponized minds, and their hate, as hate always is, is easily directed.
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Sorry about that exposed "more" block in the past post. I forgot to mark it as raw source before publishing.
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To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. --The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to
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We live at a time when very centralizing sites are trying to tether us to our real names. Fans fight against this, while providing a living example that you can have anonymous or pseudonymous communities that are not full of horrible trolls. -- Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference
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Word to your mother!
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After meticulously counting every cent from the piggie bank, my son cashed in his life savings of $3.60 to rent Despicable Me 2 (I chipped in forty cents from the top of the dryer). "I don't care how we do it, Dad. We have to watch