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OMG, FINALLY I FOUND THE RING WITH FREE SHIPPING!!!!

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occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

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We're talking about personal morals here, not legality.

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Please enjoy this updated meme:

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I couldn’t keep going back to that first moment all over again. And I was diagnosed with a relatively straightforward, well-understood form of cancer, at a time in my life when I was in excellent physical shape to fight it. Had this happened twenty years ago, with the science at the time, or twenty years later, in an older body, the news might’ve been different. Larger than all that, however, was the actual crossing of the threshold: going from “not someone who has cancer” to “someone who has cancer.” Everyone I hadn’t told yet was someone who had unconsciously sorted me into the group of people who had never had cancer. Or, perhaps, it was more about me: before I told someone, inside their mind existed a world where I didn’t have cancer. Telling them would change that world, and the version of me that was inside it, forever. It wasn’t that it was hard, or emotionally taxing, or devastating to tell people. It was that every time I told someone, another world in which I didn’t have cancer ended, almost as if I was giving myself cancer all over again.

I wrote about Kate Middleton's cancer announcement, my own cancer diagnosis (3 years in remission now), and how we maybe should all extend each other a bit more grace.

I hope you'll give it a read.

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If you come in you don’t have to come out

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listen to me. listen. your actual job in life, and it sucks that your 5th grader teacher didnt explain this adequately enough, is to ask for help when you need it and to accept charity when it would take a weight from your shoulders. Otherwise you end up like Sisyphus- or even worse, Walter White

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learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally

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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

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i think it’s really amazing how total strangers who have nothing in common but their shared love of a work of fiction will come together across distances and dedicate their time and energy working collaboratively to build an extensive, richly detailed fanon that completely fucking sucks

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2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST 

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OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???

“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”

I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT

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"pasta only fills you up with empty calories" have you considered that it also fills me with love

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another thought about "gen z and gen alpha don't know how to use computers, just phone apps" is that this is intentionally the direction tech companies have pushed things in, they don't want users to understand anything about the underlying system, they want you to just buy a subscription to a thing and if it doesn't do what you need it to, you just upgrade to the more expensive one. users who look at configuration files are their worst nightmare