not like other girls

im worse https://bintmaher.weebly.com/

[myjetpack]

No cartoon from me in today’s @guardian so here’s one from the archive. Also, my book REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS is out now and makes a good gift. Details at www.tomgauld.com

[blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060]

SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK MY SCHOOL PUT UP A LARGE BANNER DEDICATED TO THE :-) EMOTICON

[blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060]

[id: a banner with a huge image of the :-) (smiley face with nose) emoticon captioned “smiley / first emoted here / 19 september 1982 / computer science department / www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley / carnegie mellon.” end id]

happy birthday :-) face

[blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060]

it’s that time of the year again everyone say happy 40th birthday :-)

[weaver-z]

This is apparently what was contained in the original message that invented the :-) and I'm obsessed with Fahlman's diction here

[bourbonmetaphors]

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

—Rae Carson, from The Bitter Kingdom, (Greenwillow Books, 2013).

[guidancerune]

scam texts aren't even trying any more. i have to pay my taxes? at latina fiesta dot co???

[corpsebrigadier-deactivated2025]

More people should abandon Internet discourse and get into observing/engaging with local politics. I say this not because local politics often offers more meaningful opportunities for effective praxis (although it does), but because local politics often offers just as much highly toxic and entertaining petty drama.

I highly recommend city council meetings. You might make yourself an informed voter and active community member or something. You also might get to watch an ongoing soap opera of old men ready to murder one another over trash collection ordinances, and unlike the Internet, none of them can effectually tell one another to kill themselves no matter how hard and how clearly they are thinking it.

[orangerosebush]

From Chen Chen's "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" (American Poets Continuum Series, 194)

[nevver]

I see green, icy blue - Maciek Jasik

[strangebiology]

Some protorohippuses around town! This early horse was found in this little town (I mean…they find a lot of fossils here, just, this is probably the coolest)

Now it’s in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History!

[strangebiology]

Did anyone notice the first one has an extra half-leg

EDIT: TWO extra half-legs

[valtsv]

"you look tired" well the torment is relentless and the horrors never cease

[unsubconscious]

Martin Salter, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset, 2021

[geryone]

Above Ground, Clint Smith

[excitementshewrote]

[fleursdesmorts]

from "Tenebrous" by Georgia Rebecca

[vilekasen]

THIS ONLY HAPPENS ONCE EVERY FEW YEARS, REBLOG WHILE YOU CAN

[grumpy-gh0st]

Hello fellow sloppy bisexuals how is not putting away the laundry going

[caats]

Aww look at this kitty ♡

[thoughtkick]

“We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.”

— Paulo Coelho