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jamaican + mi'kmaw = whitebread canadian my Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog site

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[melonramune]

2026-06-19

[zoctopode]

can you imagine being a parent in the pokemon world and your kid comes home with one of those straight up basically human pokemon. i know those motherfuckers can talk.

its morning. i see my childs Throh getting some oj from the fridge. 'morning', i say. he doesnt catch himself in time and says 'morning' back. he freezes and we both stare at each other knowingly. 'throh,' he says, but its too fucking late

[tartrazeen]

"Where did you catch this Pokémon, exactly?"

"bus stop :D"

[stimman3000]

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[phyrexia]

Soup

[laszlos-deactivated20250927]

Hot hot soup

[catwithbenefits]

fuck if it’s this easy why do they close the goddamn road for like five months shit

[oppa-homeless-style]

all outta soub :(

[czechs-and-holdings-deactivated]

I work for the road crew in the summer. Crack sealing (the process you see above) is fairly quick and simple. (Though holding a hose that pumps literal tons of 350F tar into the road in the middle of the summer is NOT easy)

I think what a lot of people underestimate is just how much road there is in your city. And just how many directions the crew gets pulled.

For our city of around 50k people there are 8 of us.

Also, crack sealing is a wholly temporary measure, meant to slow the break-up of the roads, it’s not a permanent fix.

Roads tend to get closed for months on end because we have to tear the whole thing up, then, depending on the class of road, we either have to hammer-drill into concrete to lay rebar and the pour concrete, or we can get straight to paving. If it’s a road requiring concrete we’re required to wait at least 24 hours for it to set.

So after 2 days we’re finally able to pave. But the city allocates one (two if we’re lucky) 5 ton truck to transport material.

A relatively short paving job requires at a minimum of 60 tons. So that’s 12 trips to the asphalt factory and back. Each ton is around $80.

TL;DR

There’s a lot of road, not many of us, and soup is expensive.

[magnumpicactus-deactivated20230]

Leave the soup men alone.

[princessofbadassery]

Leave the soup men alone, and go vote for people who will pay for more soup and more soup people

[sephythespooky]

also be careful in workzones and obey speed signs and other directions. Soup men deserve respect and deserve to go home safe ;o;

[tartrazeen]

and soup women 😤

[64mpg]

ads targeted to women: omg you are thirtyyyy. kill yourself

[flannelgirlfriend]

I love this post so much my friend put it on my 30th birthday cake

[fagslop]

[dead-salmon]

reminded me of these

[the-quasar-hero]

We’re just going to the store, you don’t need to bring your Soul Rending greatsword, dawg. What’s wrong with you?

[omegasmileyface]

what if the cashier has a soul

[the-quasar-hero]

They’ll need it to process our purchase. I keep telling you that if we want ppl to do things, they need their souls

[omegasmileyface]

i will Rend it

[the-quasar-hero]

No, cuz that will kill them and that’s… c’mon you know this one, we worked on it last week.

[tartrazeen]

Just got back and can confirm: that cashier has no soul

They came pre-rended

[the-quasar-hero]

You went to the store without us? Did you at least get the milk? Cuz if you didn’t, it might be Rending time

[tartrazeen]

I was gonna get the milk after I got my slushie, but I tripped and got a little on somebody, and you would not believe the freakout that caused

We need the Soul Rending greatsword

[the-quasar-hero]

I told you to stop drinking the slushies right away, they give you brain freeze and you always trip! Bringing the Soul Rending greatsword is just gonna escalate things!

[cowplantblues]

I truly don’t get why people don’t see that “NYC blocks being closed for a parade/film shoot” is not close to the same as “a billionaire shut down 8 city blocks so she can have a massive party celebrating herself because she has more money than anyone could make in their lifetimes”

Like the issue here yes is also definitely the blockages but more specifically it’s that NO ONE should have enough money to shut down parts of cities people live in for their own parties? Like what’s not grokking here

[tartrazeen]

I don't like that I understand the layered context of using grok as a verb that way

[cowplantblues]

Wait I’m so confused do other people not use grokking like that? Maybe it’s cause I ran in some Sci fi nerd circles but I always heard people use it as a slang for like “deep understanding” because of Stranger In A Strange Land? So that’s how I’ve been using it for like… a little over a decade lol

[tartrazeen]

I assumed you were using it because of grok on twitter

Like "what's not clicking here" in a way where it's like "aww your little white supremicist environmental landmine isn't explaining this with enough glossy pictures for you?"

[the-quasar-hero]

We’re just going to the store, you don’t need to bring your Soul Rending greatsword, dawg. What’s wrong with you?

[omegasmileyface]

what if the cashier has a soul

[the-quasar-hero]

They’ll need it to process our purchase. I keep telling you that if we want ppl to do things, they need their souls

[omegasmileyface]

i will Rend it

[the-quasar-hero]

No, cuz that will kill them and that’s… c’mon you know this one, we worked on it last week.

[tartrazeen]

Just got back and can confirm: that cashier has no soul

They came pre-rended

[the-quasar-hero]

You went to the store without us? Did you at least get the milk? Cuz if you didn’t, it might be Rending time

[tartrazeen]

I was gonna get the milk after I got my slushie, but I tripped and got a little on somebody, and you would not believe the freakout that caused

We need the Soul Rending greatsword

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[blacklesbianprincess]

“women, especially straight women have so few outlets” so what exactly do you think lesbians have? like why does it always come back to straight women???

[algolagniaa]

literally where are all these outlets for lesbian sexuality the op lives around

[roycohn]

i'm literally a lesbian and while i've explained this several times, my point in this framing is that i do not have the same fears for my safety when engaging in NSA sex and hookup culture that straight women en masse have to contend with. if i want to meet a woman off an app and hook up after some basic vetting, i can be reasonably certain that if we're not vibing or the chemistry is off, i can leave safely and nothing bad will happen to me. i don't have to tell 6 people where i'm going and set up a bunch of check-ins and code words for my personal safety. straight women do. i have a reasonable spread of outlets for my sexuality as a dyke in a major east coast city but more importantly, i *do* feel luckier and better-off in this regard when compared to straight women who have to take far greater measures to ensure their personal safety and it takes away nothing from me to admit this. i'm a gay woman who has empathy for women who don't have the option to just withdraw from interacting with men while still getting their sexual and romantic needs met, cope and seethe about it i guess

[muppetshow2026]

i genuinely feel like im being edged

[crtscreen]

throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Black people will never stop talking about this, but when we are on sites such as Tumblr, where so many of the white people feel that not only are they not racist, but that calling their racist behavior racist is emotional warfare on them, they will make sure to keep Black voices as silenced as possible.

Also, a lot of the Black people who got deleted or run off of the site weren't even accused of any type of Russian anything. A lot of them were just run the fuck off by the white Tumblr base on harassment shit.

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[covid-safer-hotties]

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[the-quasar-hero]

We’re just going to the store, you don’t need to bring your Soul Rending greatsword, dawg. What’s wrong with you?

[omegasmileyface]

what if the cashier has a soul

[the-quasar-hero]

They’ll need it to process our purchase. I keep telling you that if we want ppl to do things, they need their souls

[omegasmileyface]

i will Rend it

[the-quasar-hero]

No, cuz that will kill them and that’s… c’mon you know this one, we worked on it last week.

[tartrazeen]

Just got back and can confirm: that cashier has no soul

They came pre-rended

[vanillamochi1401]

Nah because I thought I was crazy for hating on Taylor Swift, SHE INVITED A HEAD OF ICE TO HER WEDDING??? AM I WRONG OR IS THAT A HUGE MAGA MOVE?? BRO I THOUGHT I WAS JUST THAT ONE WEIRD CREATURE IN THE BACK OF THE LAB FOR HATING HER BUT WTF

[ratcity]

The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become “person who wakes up early” or “person who reads” no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I don’t know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase “person who x” like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!