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I am once again disgusted & offended, yet sadly compelled by the dictates of my conscience, to relate that nobly bypassing my favorite Little Chocolate Treats (& sticking to a predetermined List) has resulted in a lower grocery bill. How Very Dare You to every factor involved.

#adulting

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#cunk on earth #pride and Prejudice #mary bennet #jane austen

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why are we as a society so divided over mr darcy's personality the book's called pride & prejudice not shyboi & prejudice

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not to be a pessimist on the main blog, but i struggle with the fact that even the most radical leftists i know have almost all gone back to life as usual without wearing masks in public. people who I've sat in community with and talked about changing the world, just to see them not change a tiny aspect of their life to protect vulnerable people.

yes, we've been structurally failed on every level of this pandemic. and also yes, i can't take someone seriously in their ideals and morals if wearing a goddamn mask in public was too much for them. i could rant about this more but I'll just get upset lol.

please wear a mask if you've stopped doing so.

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Potatoes and Mr. Collins

I probably won’t be the first person to complain about this, nor the last, but why oh why do people feel the need to post so many memes about potatoes and Mr. Collins?

I am aware that this happened:

and I even accept that it’s a fine interpretation of this narration:

“The dinner, too, in its turn, was highly admired” (Ch 13)

But here is the thing, even if Mr. Collins said this, in the novel, IT DOESN’T MEAN HE LIKES POTATOES!!!

Mr. Collins says what people want to hear. He flatters them (and not particularly well either). Lady Catherine likes it, it works for him. He even has Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Philips all happy with his delicate compliments at one point. But that doesn’t mean that he believes anything he says.

He praised the whole dinner because that’s what he does. That’s how he makes people like him. If you had given him fried rice he would have said the exact same thing.

What bothers me about the potato memes is that they are missing the whole point. They show Mr. Collins drooling over/obsessively loving potatoes or reading the history of potatoes etc. Mr. Collins’s compliments say almost nothing about his actual preferences.

Rant over.

(and don’t get me started on Mary and Fordyce…)

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21st Century AU fic where the founding fathers write the Declaration of Independence using Google Docs

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PSA: PLEASE MASK AGAIN.

If you stopped masking, it’s time to start again, today. I’m not asking you to stay home, just to mask as well as possible, and do hand hygiene.

In multiple communities all over the USA and Canada, every pediatric hospital bed is full, mostly with babies and toddlers who have severe respiratory infections. It seems to be a combination of flu, RSV and COVID, sometimes more than one at a time in the same child.

We can sort out why this happened later. Right now, there’s an emergency that should be front page news, and isn’t, and the best way to stop it is to reduce the circulation of all respiratory viruses in our communities by masking everyone who can mask, before babies start dying because there isn’t enough care to go around.

Get your current flu shot and bivalent COVID booster if you haven’t already, but also please mask now.

Please do it for the babies! Nov 15, 2022.

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“Look how far we’ve come!”

via CartoonsHateHer

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people out there are yelling nonsense about their Whole 30 menu and keto lifestyle and whatever nonsensical junk diet culture has decided to serve up today, but can we just pause for a moment and pay homage to Albert, the OG lunch guy who knew exactly how to enjoy food

The only intermittent fasting I'm willing to get behind is the time it takes to sprinkle salt on my next bite of perfectly cooked hard-boiled egg, tyvm

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Now that Halloween has passed and Catherine has discovered that Northanger Abbey contains no murders or attic wives, let us remember the real horror in Jane Austen’s novels….

Both John Willoughby and Sir Walter Elliot canonically have seats in Jane Austen’s parliament.

#shocked face but literally #no wonder it took forever for William Wilberforce to get their act together

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The feminine urge to say “have you no compassion for my poor nerves” every time something goes wrong with my life

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I turn to humor when stressed, and this piece from 2020 came to mind as I voted in today's midterms. If you need some levity: "A good candidate must be an opportunist. For instance, Charles Ingalls seizes any and every opportunity to take his shirt off for no reason. Some of you may argue that the last thing we need is yet another white dude running for president. And I get that! America gets that! Not enough to make any significant changes, of course."

#VOTETODAY #voting #humor writing #writing #humor #little house on the prairie