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#I am critical of the ways our culture and institutions privilege marriage over other human connections and #the inequities that reproduces #but I also want to marry N

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#good for her dot jpeg

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Woman Dinner or whatever

#I love eating I love being alive #pardon my food photography I was just delighted at having made myself breakfast for dinner

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It's middle school bike safety education season for me and this morning I had the kids practicing riding in a single-file line because that's what they'll have to do when we take them out for their neighborhood ride next week--it's really the only safe way to take 30 kids out on a ride on streets that are also open to normal car traffic. Anyway, the first time we tried it, one kid got out of the line and passed another kid, clipped him a little, and that kid fell off his bike and into a puddle. But the kid wasn't passing him to be a dick, he just only half understood what was going on because he's a newcomer who speaks Spanish and almost no English. So, after I comforted and deescalated the kid who fell in the puddle, who was understandably pissed, I had to go to the other kid with my VERY limited Spanish and go "Hector. En la linea. Siempre. Por favor. Ok?" And he was like "ok" and was I like "ok, gracias." But ANYWAY the conversation would be different and better if I actually knew Spanish! I need to buckle down and learn it properly! I'm sorry, Hector!

#what I tell the classes is that the stuff they do with bikes at home--tricks; riding side-by-side with friends--isn't wrong #that there is not one right way to engage with bikes and that it's awesome that they have their own #but that we have to do things a certain way when we're at school just because we're #a big group and that's how we keep everybody safe

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I just want you to know I show these to the kids at work sometimes and they all yell excitedly

Well then, here are some special photos for the kids at work...

Bengal monitors wrestling!

Bengal Monitor Lizard (Varanus bengalensis), males engaged in combat, family Varanidae, Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka

photographs by Alex Yee Wildlife Photography

#I'm yelling excitedly

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#sharp babies

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this too shall pass

#for the next five weeks I will be in middle schools every day leading bike education #which is rewarding but also exhausting #in the same five weeks I will also run a total of 274 miles according to my training plan #here we goooooooo lol

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tuckered out

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TINY WRLD (2020)

#always reblog jentol totche

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In these parts, they say, if you are lucky when wandering the wastes between city and town, you may encounter a truly exemplary creature. Its skin, like that of the rhinoceros, plates its body in geometric folds; its feet are like four enormous sand-dollars, pleasing to the eye and rapid in their movement. Its snout is broad with the same placid strength as a great ox and its breath is heavy and warm as the same, but its eyes flash so like those of a lion at night that no traveler could believe it truly tame for long. The name of this beast? Toyota Corolla.

#I love my 2003 Toyota Corolla #I have had it since 2014 and I am its third owner and nothing in that fucking thing ever breaks down #and my first car--a 1999 Corolla--gave its life for mine #a noble beast

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cat: [puts his hand in my water cup]

me: No! Bad

cat: [cries like he's been kicked, sprints to the broom closet and starts pulling everything out of it]

#pets are fun

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download killing upload pain. instant thousand deaths to brain. motherboard on murder spree. blood computer victory.

#WOW new best gimmick blog #relevant to my url

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HELLO?2!2$)3)3!3

#Monica Lewinsky is the only funny person

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#strawberry shortcake bar my beloved #sudden VIOLENT craving

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FEARA NERYS

I know, lol

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Smooth-headed Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus ophiurus), family Anguidae, Misantla, Veracruz. Mexico

Photograph by Bruno RF (@b.r.u.n.o.rf)

#LONG tail

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A greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi) in the USA

by Noah K. Fields

#this buddy brought a smile to my face and maybe it will do the same for you