ikr - gonna have a lot of explaining to do for my desk, she’s gonna be so confused

love that map back look and huge honkin beak 🤩 I wanna be their friend, we can bite our enemies together

American Hexbears:

We all brow down before you!

Beaniosa

every time they hit him with another zap, he says, “THE IDEA”

When I ask myself whether I want to live like that, I feel confident that I don’t. I think too many things are cool to forsake them for greatness in a particular pursuit.

It honestly looks a little empty, too, at least to me. Maybe it’s so incomprehensible to me because I’m just a wildly different kind of person, but I have a hard time imagining how that single focus could fill every nook and cranny of my heart.

I don’t want to be Special or Great. I just want to be Seen and Understood.

sometimes I feel like I’m missing some fire or edge because I’m not striving to stand out.

I relate to this a lot, I feel like I disappoint a lot of people because they expect more from me than they get.

Thank you ❤️ I wish we could get him to live with us, he and my husband are super close, and I think they kinda need each other right now. He’s way too proud for any kind of charity though - he will barely let me buy him a drink for his birthday - and idk how to get him to see the offer as anything but that.

Omg!! Idk what I would have done in that situation, I don’t have many mutuals with him anymore, and I was helping him solo because my husband’s got a herniated disc. Beg his neighbors for help, I guess.

When you move, or when you end up in the hospital - that’s when you find out who your actual friends are, and boy howdy did you come through! Hope your friend treasures you the way he should ❤️

She was very busy in 2010

uhhh … are they shackled by their clit rings or what

“deranged” doesn’t really seem to cover it

enthusiastically yes

have done so professionally

Do you think Biden would pardon him?? I think he’s too committed to appearances to actually do it.

more of a Certain Dog

definitely wasn’t teen me…

I didn’t watch it. I’ve been creeped on and assaulted and would like to avoid triggering traumatic memories.

That sense of “shared fate,” as the scholars put it, arises in part because rich and poor tend to cross paths often, which Mr. Jacobs has noticed even in his own rural community, Vassalboro, Maine, population 4,520.

“If you go down my street in Vassalboro, the nicest house on the street is right across from the least nice house on the street,” Mr. Jacobs said. “Their kids go to the same school because there’s only one school.”

This was also my experience growing up near a town of ~5k in Ohio.

As millions left rural areas seeking economic opportunity, an appreciation formed for the businesspeople who stayed and tried to create jobs. That led to an outsize influence by local business leaders in the political realm, driving support for anti-union laws and tax policies generous to businesses.

This rings very true to me.

I read the post title and thought, “Man, there have been a few threads this week about men being creeps!” and then your username looked familiar, and I realized the other creep posts were both from you.

It seems like this is heavy on your mind lately. What’s going on?

One of them linked the Wikipedia article about Perot’s campaign and I learned something new:

Exit polls revealed that 35% of voters would have voted for Perot if they believed he could win. Contemporary analysis reveals that Perot could have won the election if the polls prior to the election had shown the candidate with a larger share, preventing the wasted vote mindset. Notably, had Perot won that potential 35% of the popular vote, he would have carried 32 states with 319 electoral votes, more than enough to win the presidency.

That is so wild to me, I had no idea he had been that successful and that it was only Wasted Vote Mindset that stopped him.

It reminds me that there was a Perot bumper sticker on the telephone pole outside my childhood home:

Ross Will Win
WITH YOUR VOTE!