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It’s my opinion that like if a white supremacist/Nazi is going to be reformed. They need to do so willingly. The only times I’ve heard of successful rehabilitation of fascists is when they made the conscious decision to no longer be one anymore and seek atonement. People who try to like hug and change fascists that don’t want to change are fucking morons

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Does @dduane know about this post

i think women should get into polearms in a big way. not a lot of women in polearms these days. would love to see women doing battle with polearms.

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Personally I've always been very into bicycles.

What's the Nonbinary equivalent of the Horse Girl and the Train Boy?

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In an alternate universe the cybernetic rat-king which rules New Jersey has greatly improved the rail and light rail networks, mostly through maintenance and updating the system (and making more tunnels, the rat-king loves tunnels), as part of the overall reorganization of the eastern seaboard which is its goal. And it hates cars.

In an alternate universe I'm wanted for man slaughter

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Sinks should be self-cleaning, this is bullshit.

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…it occurs to me that while I can just leave this hanging here, it would be much, much worse (better? funnier? more awful, but in an "if I have to know this so does everyone else" way) to actually record the whole story.

The story of how I started my weekend doing duct work and ended by removing dead rodents from my basement. Pretty sure that I own this house now, btw, I will be suing for adverse possession or at least serious emotional damages. So seriously: caveat lector from this point on, okay?

The salient facts are as follows:

My apartment has a basement

Which is where the washer and dryer are

The exterior vent port for the dryer is partially concealed by the porch

The port does not have a cover

I did laundry immediately before leaving for a week

I did laundry (where I was staying) immediately before returning from my trip

Okay. With these facts established, I will commence the tale of the worst weekend I've had which didn't involve going to the ER or a house fire. AKA the story of why I need new kitchen tongs and extensive psychological support.

I went downstairs to do a load of laundry on Saturday evening, while I was doing other stuff, because I wanted clean dry sweats and I deserve a nice warm hoodie. Now, my basement is about the size of the whole upstairs, mostly open space with a few weird corners and a whole room right under the back bedroom (that the previous tenants used as an anime hole* and I use as a gym). The main space is fairly well lit, but there are some shadowed spots and currently there's a bunch of boxes down there which are the remnants of that truckload of stuff I asked my mother to not send me from the storage unit I haven't seen in six years but she did anyway.

Moving on.

Normally I do my laundry on Sunday, but I thought, y'know, I'd get a head start on the chores. Coming downstairs, I did notice that The Smell On The Stairs was a little …mustier than usual, but it had been damp as well as cold, and that sometimes has an effect. In went the laundry, upstairs went I, then I came back down an hour later to flip it. Bundle it into the dryer, twist the knob, push the button.

That's a lot of noise. It hasn't always made that much noise, right? And the hose is, like, shaking. It definitely didn’t used to do that. So I stopped the dryer and visually inspected the dryer hose as best I can. The dryer hose itself extends from the port at the back of the dryer about six feet up the wall, where it clamps onto a straight section of duct, and then into an elbow, and then into the exterior port. I noticed, after about thirty seconds of looking, a very regular hole— square, almost, being between two sections of the interior wire which keeps the hose hose-shaped and accordioned, and just over an inch wide— just south of the duct. That explains the noise and the movement (a hose with a big hole in it is gonna dance around, and is also spitting dryer lint etc out the hole and generally there’s a lot more turbulence in there on account of the unexpected exit point); with a sigh, I realized grimly that it also explained the smell.

Vent port with no grille plus hole chewed in the host just under the point at which a critter would have no traction plus a smell in my cool dry basement added up to one thing, and once I knew what to look for it only took me about three minutes to find the first dead chipmunk. Yes I said first. It had died in a dark spot but thankfully it hadn’t gotten into any of the nooks, crannies, or piles. Accordingly, I gloved up, grabbed a grocery bag and the heavy-duty disinfectant from under the sink, and tucked it into a snow pile with the intention of transferring it to the trash bin closer to garbage day. I thought about burying it for the bones later, but the ground was frozen and it was sleeting, so. Temporary interment in the snowbank it was.

Another inspection of the dryer hose revealed another, larger, hole closer to the base; I patched both with my remaining duct tape and restarted the dryer, nothing to be done until I could get out to the hardware store the next day. My clothes, while dry, did smell a bit musty, so other than my sweats, I hung them up to air before putting them away. I’d identified the problem, I foolishly reasoned, I naively believed, and I’d deal with it on the morrow.

Well, deal with it I did. Understand the problem, however, I truly did not.

STAY TUNED FOR THE MUCH, MUCH WORSE SEQUEL.

*yes, I do know how upsetting the term "anime hole" is, I will continue doing so

IN WHICH

Our hero (me) discovers that their clothes dryer has become a RODENT SARCOPHAGUS

#I have had the worst weekend #i have no mouth and i must scream #fml #fml lmao #the answer to the question no one wanted to ask #things it is not good to know at all #fml for real

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Oh y'know this is fun okay

getting to know my mutuals and followers: if you had to sing karaoke on the spot RIGHT NOW what would your go to song be reply in the tags

#these boots are made for walkin' #yes Nancy Sinatra #or The Distance by Cake #don't ask

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Oh, and by the way? We are all undesirable.

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

#i'm queer now and will always be queer #queer discourse #all of us under the big umbrella #stand together or fall apart #our history is queer #peculiar bent uncertain drunk #don’t split the party #idiot #respectability politics #respectability politics kill

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I'm closer to 40 than I am to when I started my most recent job, and I've been calling myself nonbinary, genderqueer, or genderfucked since I learned that I had options. I've been public and insistent about it for about seven years. I don't see that changing any time soon.

@ the people who think all nbs are teenagers

#genderqueer #nonbinary #non-binary #queer #lgbtqia #lgbtq #nb #enbies #we're here we're queer we're middle aged

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gang I need your help I have a phrase I really want to catch on and it’s calling any secret or invisible struggle you have a “fight with a gorilla” like the onion article. if they can have cinnamon roll catch on this can too. “yeah she told me about it, I had no idea, sounds like a real fight with a gorilla” “sorry man I can’t come I’ve really been fighting the gorilla lately” do you see the vision

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Trainpunks, obviously

Rogue train kids who grew up to be actual rail engineers and mechanical engineers; mechanics who have basically stolen a train and keep it running because it's always been their train; metal shop enthusiasts and transit nerds and solarpunk diy collectives; all arguing about railway gauge but also keeping things running

When America collapses, what will happen to the Northeast Corridor and its railway infrastructure. The service amtrak provides along the Corridor is vital

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i don’t think mordecai and rigby were ever gay for each other but i do think many times rigby would be like dude if i was a girl would you want to fuck me and mordecai is like dude that’s weird. no. and rigby is all bent out of shape about it and in the middle of the night when they’re both trying to sleep he’s like why wouldn’t you fuck me if i was a girl. i’m cute right? or am i ugly and that’s why i’m single… and mordecai is like fine whatever i’d fuck girl you. stop bringing it up now. & the next day rigby is like fuck off muscle man i’m not ugly mordecai said he’d fuck girl me & then a portal opens to an alternate dimension where they’re genderbent like that adventure time episode and the voice of god is like mordecai you must make good on your word. fuck girl rigby.

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My buddy fought Satan in a parking lot once, which is I feel halfway between these examples

usamericans do really love making posts about parking lots. i met god in a parking lot. fighting my ex in a parking lot. it's like their main biome

#they're our main form of open space #except cornfields #stay away from the cornfields #anyway we paved the continent and all we got was climate change

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#other: if I worked out that day yes but not necessarily an everything shower #like if I didn't get wrecked I'll just rinse off #hair gets washed every 3 days in summer unless circumstances are desperate #hair gets washed once a week on the winter #it is very cold here okay #if I get wrecked it's an everything shower minus hair #seasonal #activity based #I work a desk job I'm not getting stinky every twelve hours

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Sinks should be self-cleaning, this is bullshit.

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