John Pontius

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@TJ_Bongiorno Saving for later

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Secret product is coming along great
Packaging prototype secured ✅

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@CivicNatalist I have a good friend who’s 40 who did ivf, nothing worked, then bam preggo naturally. Husband is 36 I think.

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@BowTiedMarmott I had the flu when I took it and got a 27 🤷‍♂️ A higher score would have helped but it was the decisions after high school that really mattered. Like what are you really talented at?

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@BowtiedRedPants Even putting content aside, kids shows (especially YouTube) are full of candy crush brain crack plus no storylines. Pure chemical signaling on video.

We watch Mr Roger’s here

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A quote I can’t get out of my mind is:

You don’t realize how much filth there is until you’re charged with protecting someone from it.

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Perfect writing

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

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@hanz333_ First hypothesis is a full moon. Second was spirit world activity during voting day, shenanigans are afoot. Third hypothesis is too few androgens

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Anyone else have awful dreams or terrible sleep last night?

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@FLMan553 Not insane in the slightest. Maybe we are supposed to stay up on full moons

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@_saratonnin I’ll be at that level in about a year

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@BowTiedMarmott Great photo series

PS good calves too

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@FLMan553 @AntiDoc That’s what’s up

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@livethefivefs Excellent food and conversation 🙏

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I’m starting to believe self awareness and thought speed are the only measures of intelligence

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@livethefivefs You are throwing down major fuel sir 🏆

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Clarification: This is not about my personal life.

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Can you love a woman out of her disobedience?

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@Geoffiam Yes

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Can you love a woman out of her disobedience?

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The western brain was raised on formal logic and the third act story model. With each story having a tidy ending after struggle. The eastern mind recognizes this is Satan’s world, for now, we are stuck here and the fight never ends until the End. It’s what we signed up for.

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@Geoffiam Her role