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During one of the most powerful earthquakes in the Philippines, skyscrapers with rooftop swimming pools turned into waterfalls.

In Australia, cannibalism was both an act of love and an act of hatred. It depends on who you asked. Some tribes ate the flesh of their loved ones. Others tribes only ate the flesh of slain enemies. (Howitt, 1904)

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, eighteen years old, in a letter to his brother

You don't see half breeds in Tolkiens world? Where are all the taverns full of hobbit / elf / dwarf crossed bastards

One Berliner claims that German prostitutes benefit from blackout: "Even ugly girls can safely hide their faces in the dark, shining torches on their legs in invitation."

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I already want to be pregnant again😅

The most female thing ever would be if Kamala interrupted Trump like 50 times and then he interrupts her once and she goes I’M SPEAKING and everyone goes HOORAY and they sell 100M I’m Speaking t-shirts and we declare I’m Speaking Day a national holiday. Oh god I’m already mad.

In one of the most fascinating podcasts I’ve ever listened to, the members of NPR’s This American Life got their testosterone levels tested. All of the males had very low testosterone; some low enough doctors would recommend medication. And a trans guest talks about how taking

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The Wolf of Wall Street

My only regret about having kids is not starting sooner.

My local Waterstones still giving a prominent place to the BLM fraudster lady 2 years after she went out of fashion in the states, like a backwater roman province building statues of an already deposed caesar

My handsome little man

Wife at a friend's birthday negging me

It's grim in the imperial backwaters