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eddiegayass

I didn't have hunter biden being the funniest person on twitter in 2026 on my bingo card yet here we are

eddiegayass

He is the peoples princess

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autie-j

Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely

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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;

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what-even-is-thiss

That last post I reblogged got me thinking again about how people can’t separate their idea of manhood from violence.

It’s like some people are capable of imagining womanhood without submission but can’t imagine manhood without dominance. Like for some reason in their minds women can escape their gender norms and make a new definition of what gender is for themselves but men can’t.

what-even-is-thiss

My cishet dad has often told me that he found feminist theory to be very freeing. It told him that yes men can be gentle and caring. Yes men can be sensitive. Being a man means what you want it to mean.

I’ve met other cishet men that feel the same way. I really do like talking with cis men about gender sometimes. You really see them become a lot happier when they fully internalize the idea that being a man means whatever they want it to mean.

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hardwrench

to me, correctly using 5+ commas in a single sentence is like perfectly executing a combo in a fighting game. to me.

little-theatre-fairy

if you think a sentence needs 5+ commas it should be two sentences

hardwrench

it’s not about what the sentence needs, i’m afraid, nor is it about economy, clarity, or style. it’s about winning, little-theatre-fairy.

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fleysh

bluesardine

Some great additions from the comments.

#idk abt u but to me it looks like אתת #jumblr #jewish #how do you want to queue this

kyoukorpse

Someone to be brave for.

excerpt is from chapter 29 of the novel.

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reggiemess

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

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scorebug

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thotsandpreyers

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teathattast

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rowlfthedog

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glorious-spoon

While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'

And like. Allowing for the fact that there absolutely are adults who think every distressing topic ever should be banned from children's literature - they're children's books. You were allowed to read them when you were a kid because they were written for kids. Bridge to Terabithia is also a children's book. So is Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller and Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and The Giver and loads of other books that deal with heavy, difficult topics. It is appropriate and good for children to have books about these things that are tailored to their reading levels and it genuinely really bugs me when people act like they're somehow not really for kids because bad things happen in them or they end tragically.

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infectiouspiss

disabled ppl we need to start lying to nosy people okay? you tell me i'm too young to need a cane and i will tell you point blank that maybe you should tell that to the guy who ran me over. you don't get an explanation of my health issues you get lies and depending on how much of an asshole i want to be that lie will be anything from a humble car crash to a 1 billion lions attack. mind yr business.

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chutzpahchesed

from this thread

sharing this just because I know so many of us have experienced this and then we’re gaslit about it not happening or not being that bad and pervasive. you’re not imagining it.

imyourbadjew

I think that they’re missing one element which is the massive astroturfing campaigns. Reddit is absolutely riddled with bots. Most top posters on an mildly popular sub are bots or karma farmers.

vettir

Yeah. Russian, Iranian, others.

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gatheringbones

tbh a lot of my advice boils down to “hey you know that terrible horrible looming thing you’re doing your best to avoid and distract and escape as much as possible but no matter what you do it just keeps looming and looming and ruining your life”

“just, fuckign, run straight at it screaming.”