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2314.

less than an hour between open and frustration but I fight myself for peace

#365 #poetry #idk if i just needed to eat more last night or if the burnout is catching up or if it's the 'pause #or if it's just that one coworker or what #temper was bad today struggle was real

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Passed the Senate, has been signed, aid is (fucking finally!) on the way.

House passed aid for Ukraine. Fucking finally.

#russian invasion of ukraine #stand with ukraine #a fucking crime that it took this long #and there's so much damage and so many lost in the interim #but i hope this summer is catastrophic for russian forces i really do #and i hope mtg stays away from windows airplanes and cups of tea

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Side note: I just realized today that Manuel rhymed "they come" with "break 'em" on the new song and I'm frustrated by how good that is, actually.

#zeal & ardor #'hold your bones to break 'em' is just good in general #but yeah that's kind of annoying in general

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New Zeal and Ardor and new The Warning?

What a good week it's been, and it's Wednesday.

#the warning #Youtube

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Donald Trump has officially completed one full year as president, and holy moly what a year it’s been. You probably don’t even remember how much stuff really happened in the last year because mentally it’s felt like 20.

There are things we never imagined could happen during an American presidency. Remember “covfefe,” or when Trump indirectly called a nuclear weapon-wielding foreign dictator “short and fat,” or when Melania swatted his hand away, or when it was reported that the president needed daily briefings with a lot of pictures?

There’s no better indicator of the bizarre day-to-day developments of President Trump’s first year in office than reading the wonderful chyrons, the headline captions you see at the bottom of your screen during a news broadcast.

So rather than attempt to describe the past year, we picked out some of the best chyrons to illustrate just what a Twilight Zone-esque 365 days we’ve had.

#the darkest timeline #in case you've forgotten the shitshow it was

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Had a hard time stopping myself from overthinking this one, but I think we're finally there:

Pick a song from a bad description! You do not have to recognize any of the songs to vote. Just go by vibes. Pick whichever seems funniest to you. Or most relatable. Or whatever floats your yacht. At the end of the week, I will put all the songs in order from the song with the least amount of votes to the song with the most amount of votes, and share the playlist with you.

If you would like to hear the playlist when I'm done, leave a comment or put it in the tags of your reblog (or just write it in the reblog, whatever) and I will tag you when it's finished. If you're too curious and you just have to know about a song, send me an ask and I will answer.

Also, please reblog! The more votes I get, the less ties I get. (Usually. Last time we had three ties. Maybe all the descriptions were just that good, IDK.) But reblog it anyway. Inflict my weird music taste on your friends, followers, and mutuals. It'll be a good time.

Oh, and for those unfamiliar, let Get Smart! teach you how to frug.

#polls #music #bad song descriptions #chaotic girl summer pt. 2

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Will never stop being stunned by the number of people who think "experienced hikers" can never get in trouble while hiking ever. A remote trail on a steep mountain in slippery conditions does not suddenly become a paved city street with no obstacles because you have experience. Some shit will always be dangerous no matter how many times you do it.

#also often the danger is the point but that's a whole other thing #there's things in the world more dangerous than people #most of these are completely impersonal with no intention and no action #mountains and rain and cloud cover and sun and salt and sand #freezing cold lakes boiling hot thermals #everything in between #it will kill you and it will not care and all you have to do is step slightly to the left once #and that is how it is

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2313.

sometimes you make art out of nothing more than vague curiosity because you know at some point you will feel something more

#365 #poetry #that said i think oil pastels on the rothko script are about to come to a sharp end #because you can't layer color for dick on smooth paper #it's been a couple decades i forgot that bit #we'll get a sketchbook of something better and try again

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

#polls #on writing

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#so many hellos within me

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this is so funny I cannot believe this was posted

#that's because it's the same logic #surely if everything gets bad enough Leftist Jesus will come sort us all out right? #why continue working for small gains when doing nothing gets you Leftist Jesus! #we stay and we fight #environmentalism #is doing nothing getting you nowhere? try making incremental progress! #incremental progress: actually better than actively making things worse #give it a try today!

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NEW ALBUM COMING

NEW ZEAL & ARDOR

#zeal & ardor #and it's a full band album this time not just marco on drums and manuel on everything else #so that should be fun #gonna be a long four months of people not realizing the title's in german and he didn't misspell 'grief' though

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My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.

#food #yes this

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Had a hard time stopping myself from overthinking this one, but I think we're finally there:

Pick a song from a bad description! You do not have to recognize any of the songs to vote. Just go by vibes. Pick whichever seems funniest to you. Or most relatable. Or whatever floats your yacht. At the end of the week, I will put all the songs in order from the song with the least amount of votes to the song with the most amount of votes, and share the playlist with you.

If you would like to hear the playlist when I'm done, leave a comment or put it in the tags of your reblog (or just write it in the reblog, whatever) and I will tag you when it's finished. If you're too curious and you just have to know about a song, send me an ask and I will answer.

Also, please reblog! The more votes I get, the less ties I get. (Usually. Last time we had three ties. Maybe all the descriptions were just that good, IDK.) But reblog it anyway. Inflict my weird music taste on your friends, followers, and mutuals. It'll be a good time.

Oh, and for those unfamiliar, let Get Smart! teach you how to frug.

#polls #music #bad song descriptions #chaotic girl summer pt. 2

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reblog to give the person you reblogged it from a good night’s sleep (maybe)(please)(I’m begging the universe)

#i hope both of you get some sleep #op you good?

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2312.

Understand I have no love for Reagan I have hated Reagan since the old playground at the elementary school with the red brick wall that no longer stands

which is not the point

the point is to imagine him flame struck and sulfurous dragged from Hell to stand before Mike Johnson (without his glasses, blinking, in whatever he wears to bed when he somehow shockingly manages to sleep the sleep of -- anyway), and ask him what in God's good name he is doing, letting Russia, of all countries Russia

it is an entertaining picture (we imagine Mike Johnson, perhaps blinking, sans glasses, in striped pajamas maybe one of those little caps bedtime for bonzo part deux rip his face off) it is --

can we acknowledge, perhaps more sensible than the notion that fuck has seen reason?

regardless, the obstacle cleared we paint our little picture, paint over it again, move on

wait to see what comes next on this goddamn merry-go-round

#365 #poetry #sidenote: i stopped midway through to watch the video for land of confusion #it is every bit as nightmarish as i remember #i forgot the bit where prince eats his own tongue what the FUCK phil collins

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#live from the haunted north