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Book nerds (with occasional notes on soccer, tea, and chocolate chip cookies). But mostly books.

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@vontoven @USMNT

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Don't play #Balogun. If he plays and we win, it's tainted. If he plays and we lose, we threw away a TON of international good will for absolutely nothing.

Leave him on the bench. It's not worth it.

#USA

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Truly creeped out by the sudden uptick of AI-generated #JaneAusten #fanfiction out there. Like, guys: WE NOTICE. If 99% of your dialogue follows the exact same pattern, it's pretty obvious you're relying on a machine

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@StateDept Hey, remember how the Justice Department was legally required to explain the redactions in the #EpsteinFiles by last Saturday, and then just... didn't?

Do the laws no longer apply in OUR HEMISPHERE?

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@JDVance Saying "shit" doesn't make you sound any tougher, dumpling

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@aspiringpeasant No. Someone didn't close a tag (or proofread). This totally falls within the boundaries of "normal human screwup"

The scandal here is this FEELS like something the Trump admin would do... but for once, they didn't. Don't give them the gift of "THE LEFT ALWAYS OVERREACTS"

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I'm not even tired (and I persist ✊😷). Because wearing a mask to do things like sit in an office or wheel a cart around a grocery store is NOT THAT HARD, ACTUALLY

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I'm very tired, yet I persist. #MaskUp

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@2sush @PopBase OH MY GOD COLBERT IS PRESIDENT?

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@sohaibhreads @AbbyMachines I don't think the author is SUGGESTING that people had to be "kept... inside their homes". But could we have pushed normalizing masking, the way many Asian countries do? YEP.

But that might have cast a damper over the economy, so Biden didn't bother.

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@Elkanline @dieworkwear Uh... TONS of good people are forced into being undocumented. Do you think Derek was in a position to tell his parents "No, thanks, I'm good—I'll wait until I have legal permission to enter" AS A BABY?

Also, I wonder what % of these "rule of law" fans respected mask requirements

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@PatTheSocialist I get particularly resentful when my leftist friends sanctimoniously tell me things like: we don't mask because we care about the rights of deaf people

Guess what? When I meet people who are deaf, my mask can actually *come off*

Like... we have the technology

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@wastatepatrol Look, they marched *right through* a planned, announced, public event. It was INCREDIBLY rude—and it must have been embarrassing for the cadets???—so they apologized like normal humans do! They screwed up! Admitting that doesn't make them weak!

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RIP #LJSmith. I read and enjoyed many of your teen novels, and will forever wave the flag of your 'Night of the Solstice' duology, which was actually damn good. #YAbooks

https://t.co/Nhx6455EAG

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@MarkWarner I'm sure, somehow, this is the fault of DEI

🙄

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@MarcoRizzolo @kirawontmiss Oh, sweetie. He had options to punish her, if that was appropriate! He was a school employee, with the resulting authority. All he had to do was manage his emotions enough to not get physical, and this story wouldn't exist, but he just couldn't handle his Big Big Feelings.

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@MarcoRizzolo @kirawontmiss Here, try to grasp this: this girl got upset and misbehaved. Her coach also got upset and misbehaved, only his bad behavior was physical, so he was justifiably fired.

If you are rude to a co-worker, your boss doesn't get to slap you. They have other options. *Grown-up* options!

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@MarcoRizzolo @kirawontmiss Oh, really? What was the lesson? "Have a tantrum, get physical, and then get fired"? Because, yeah, she probably picked that one up from his behavior

But please, keep swearing at people. It shows how calm and logical you are!