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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 1d

"Power is an aphrodisiac" — The Prurient Wizard

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 1d

Sideways walking has been found to be correlated with handsomeness
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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 1d

I have now seen the trailer for the Springsteen biopic roughly one hundred thousand times at the cinema. No one is more aware than I of when they blew up the Chicken Man (last night) or where (in Philly)

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 2d

I've accepted that media player UX will nevermore whip the llama's ass, but any further change is rubbing salt into the wound

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 2d

They're A/B testing a new YouTube interface on me that looks quite horrible. Probably to punish me

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 2d

That can't be right

Daily Recommended Non-Essential Mineral Intake:
Mineral | Recommended Intake Per Day
Arsenic | NA

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 2d

The Statue of Limitations

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 3d

It's insane how bad humans are at writhing. Hope I get a looser spine in my next incarnation

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 7d

I support you but I'm beyond saving. Less than 5% of what I post is factually accurate

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 7d

Actually those words don't sound the same at all in my accent. Just shameless pandering

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 7d

I've sold out my principals, as well as other members of faculty

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 7d

Actually, it's called Rubikscube's creature

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 9d

Essentially the world entire is abuzz with the scandalous news of a 35-year-old woman releasing songs called stuff like Having Good Sex with My Husband.

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 10d

There's already a little device that tells me obsequious lies inside my brain

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 13d

It's so great that after 40 years of online communities their owners still start talking like George Smiley when they get annoyed. We're mere architects of a grand system...

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 13d

My unbelievably high standard for professional ethics is that a journalist presented with half a dozen dismally cheap computer-generated images of women that sort of look like each other should not immediately accept that they're looking at a "digital actress"

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 15d

lol

Quote from 2011 'Globe and Mail' article on Jane Goodall:
"My favourite animal is a dog. I love dogs, not chimps," she declares.

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 15d

I'd also rate my life's work a solid B-

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 15d

Very funny thing to say after devoting 6 decades to a different animal

Screenshot from Wikipedia: "Goodall stated that dogs were her favourite animal.[109]"

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 16d

I'm starting to get really freaked out by how many elemental resistances that palette-swapped version of me they've hired has

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 23d

Man modern Protestantism is so cool. Thousands of people asking, How should I dress for the Great Tribulation? Is a light sweater OK

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 24d

You don't hear so much about microplastics these days. I guess we pissed all that stuff away at some point

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 24d

Frebrile dreams of markup...

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 24d

Thought some text on here was in italics but it turns out I had a low-grade fever

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ovine grace @drjacobram.bsky.social · 29d

I'd skipped it too until I read the Kael review where she calls it "cadenced and exotic and deliriously complicated" and thought, Wait, that sounds like it rules

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