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[chiosavinces-deactivated2026032]

I could be your ibuprofriend :).....or your advillain >:)

[queerliblib]

it’s a beautiful day to check out a book from the library

[meeliesaysno]

its a beautiful day to return a book to the library unread after it auto renews 3 times

[ksfoxwald]

The library says thank you for boosting our circulation stats and the book will still be here later if you want it another time <3

[ryan-sometimes]

I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor

[mankillercalledbunny]

Not to bring the serious to a very fun post, but this reaction is exactly what Mamdani is working for with his image, because in a very real way the most effective way for him to be The Mayor is if he looks like The Mayor.

This is a man who is VIOLENTLY aware that when it comes to conservatives, he is a Muslim first, a Brown Man second, an Immigrant third, a Socialist fourth, and a human a very distant fifth, if considered at all. He was also a young adult during the Obama Years and will have seen Republicans rip Obama to shreds for wearing a tan suit instead of a dark one and use literally ANY excuse they could to try and degrade his image.

Despite the fact that a mayor who wears a T-shirt and jeans might "seem more approachable" in the eyes of the average American, Zohran Mamdani knows that someone with his profile fundamentally cannot get away with that the way his White colleagues can. He has instead put in the effort to look professional and BE approachable, because not only does it make it easier for him to reach and represent his constituents, it forces everyone, including both his opponents and establishment Democrats, to engage with the work he is doing instead of judging his image. The fact that he is always seen in a suit and is recognisably The Mayor is, while also something he has fun with, a deliberate choice to ensure he is as inarguably A Professional Politician To Be Taken Seriously. The added humour of e.g. the hi-vis is a bonus, only achievable because he works so hard to Look Like The Mayor.

[mankillercalledbunny]

Adding these tags from @haunted-stranger-garden bc they illustrate this brilliantly

[dogpuppy]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[livingchancy]

we all know the x-files pilot is insane and one of my favorite insane things about it is mulder (understandably) initially being concerned scully is just being sent by the government to spy on him, because you think to yourself, oh surely this will be a longstanding conflict and she will slowly have to earn his confidence, considering that his entire life’s work is built on his fundamental distrust of the authority that sent her. but all she has to do is say “no i swear i’m not you have to believe me :(” and bat her eyelashes and he’s immediately like god you’re so right you would never lie to me i’m going to tell you my entire life story and deepest trauma NOW. they’ve known each other 4 hours btw

[jewfrogs]

kids were roleplaying with minecraft figurines and one of them had their figure go up to the other and say “i’m in love with you” and the other one replied “sword slash to the chest. and you’re on fire”

[randomfae]

[myothertardisisonthemun]

[rickybabyboy]

Ricky's mom: we've added over 1,800 new Ricky images to the rotation on the random Ricky image site! Enjoy!

[playwrongs]

I think strange horrible things should stop befalling my friends

[catastrophespouse]

I think strange wonderful things should start befalling my friends

[scooter-witch]

rb to give prev strange wonderful things

[musthavebeenthecombat]

I'm sorry.???

[reject-tiefling]

@acarefreewind

Okey

[mortalityplays]

there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.

and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit

[mortalityplays]

thank you small americans in my phone for correcting me: beloved cgi bible show did not portray the son of god as a vegetable, because that would have been sacrilegious

[theweirdwideweb]

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

nobody:

half full water bottle left behind on the floor of a public bus: *rolls around*

[thejoanglebook-deactivated20210]

OP is an optimist

[prokopetz]

I feel like 90% of "ancient curses" are probably adequately explained by the fact that the self-proclaimed adventurers who ostensibly fell victim to them were, as a class, a bunch of dipshits who engaged in frequent international travel in an era before antibiotics and vaccines. Like, the list of novel pathogens these guys were risking exposure to on a regular basis was effectively "all of them". That's gotta leave a mark.

[prokopetz]

@mytheralmin replied:

The other 10%, well let’s just say the sand got them

Quite likely, if by "the sand got them" we mean "they got mesothelioma from inhaling tomb dust".

[siegesquirrel42]

if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with the pharaoh's curse

[queen-zigzag]

[kitkatpancakestack]

sidewalk art I walked by today. there is love out there.

[starridge]

gruel facts for kids