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Bookworm and amateur photographer who likes the surreal and the silly.

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“It’s not taking longer because you suck, it’s taking longer because you don’t lie. You don’t cheat, you don’t steal, and you’re not trying to claw your way to the top by being dishonest. You’re doing it honestly, and that’s really admirable. Keep going. You got this.”

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A: Let me guess, you came to get away from the breakneck pace of your life as an executive in the city.

B: No.

C: You got fired.

B: No.

A: Widowed?

B: No.

C: Runaway bride?

B: No.

A: You inherited a bookstore here in town?

B: No.

C: You’re a single mom whose husband ditched out on the family, and now you’re here to meet up with a single dad whose wife ditched out on his family, so you can blend both families together by Christmas?

A: You came to run a Christmas children’s chorus and find your own voice in the process.

C: You have amnesia, wandered into town by accident, and won’t remember your identity till Christmas morning?

A: Your boyfriend is here for the winter, but he’s secretly a prince of a small Slavic nation.

C: You’re here to track down the owner of a locket you found hidden away in a Christmas ornament. A: That’s locked inside a music box. C: That’s been hidden away in your attic for 40 years?

B: No.

A: Oh. Well, that only leaves one thing.

C: You’re being stalked by your ruggedly handsome ex-husband.

A: But that’s pretty rare for this time of year.

C: It is.

B: No, it’s none of that.

A: Well, why else would an attractive, successful, single-city girl come to Yule Town at Christmas time?

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CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story : NPR

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RFK Jr. can’t ban gender-affirming care through CMS: expert | Advocate.com: “They are trying to do something that CMS simply isn’t empowered to do,” a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official from the Biden administration told The Advocate on Thursday afternoon. “CMS is prohibited by statute from regulating the practice of medicine, and that is exactly what this is. The authority that they are citing for these actions does not exist.”

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“ … for not registering their products as Class I medical devices for the 2026 fiscal year. The companies have never been required to do so before, and three of them are not located in the United States.”

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Rob Reiner, 1947-2025

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(9)Beluga Whales Helping Humans: A Heartwarming Connection | TikTok

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Egypt and Iran tell FIFA to cancel World Cup Pride Match

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The Truck Driver Gear Shift key change - YouTube

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foulserpent: “I think my ideal job is being paid $50/hr. to sit on the computer doing whatever I want at an empty rented office space for mysterious employers. Definitely running some kind of money-laundering scheme and just needing me to keep up appearances of one of their shell companies, but I’m not like, in on anything, and no one can charge me for anything.”

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Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You: “Sometimes, I feel as if my craving for safety creeps in to fill the space my enthusiasm or awe once occupied when I allow them to atrophy from disuse.”

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Rasputitsa

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Gall’s law says: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.” [John Gall p.52]

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Finish every day and be done with it You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”

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HHS replaces Rachel Levine’s official photo with deadname

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UK’s ‘Girl Scout’ Group Has Banned Trans Girls From Joining In Cruel New Low

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moultano: Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You’re telling me that there’s a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?