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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 3h

their strongest argument is “sure they were absurdly and violently racist and bigoted. but they wouldn’t have verbally praised the nazis” as though that means much to the victims of their actions

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 4h

i need a big glass of it

pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 7h

obviously in many ways medicine has made fantastic advances since the 19th century. however it feels deeply unfair as someone with a cold that i can’t be getting blasted on laudanum right now

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 1d

maybe you need something more matte and textured? like a wax? unfortunately my short hair days are over so i don’t know products well

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 1d

it looks good though even though it’s not as artfully tousled as the picture

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 1d

the problem with hair ime is the shorter it is the more work it is

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 1d

i think you need a lot of product and potentially a curling iron

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 1d

is this person marrying the fish

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 1d

lmao. integration into australian culture via becoming a shitty cafe owner…a tale as old as time

This brother was also part owner of the Pekin Cafe and was so immersed in the Australian ethos that at one time he was sued for unpaid overtime by a unionist waiter.

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Cuðbeorht @cudbeorht.bsky.social · 2d

'The campaign against white minority rule in S Africa offers a historical touchstone and strategic playbook. The country was banned from the Olympics from 1964 onwards; Fifa expelled S Africa in 1976; cricket, rugby and tennis bodies followed, leading to almost total exclusion from big competitions'

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 2d

rip in advance to my stomach

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 2d

just took extra dose of lexapro instead of ibuprofen 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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oresteian @oresteian.bsky.social · 2d

That’s history

Screenshot of a tumblr post from user glocknee:

“ring ding dong really starts with no warning. jonghyun said BE READY
BITCH”

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 2d

i have no voice but i must scream

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 2d

hot milk in this case but yes

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 2d

is coffee good for laryngitis

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 3d

magpies do not swoop me because i am pure of heart. now noisy miners on the other hand

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 3d

neighbour with no eyes: do NOT go into the woods to try to discover the secret. once someone tried that and paid a terrible terrible price

Our Narrator: lol don’t know who that was but sounds like they were a HUGE IDIOT for getting caught, simply couldn’t be me. i’m gonna go into the woods

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 3d

Our Narrator has woken up with a hangover and does not understand why the community is now shunning him for making a scene at the human sacrifice party

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 3d

getting drunk and making a scene at the human sacrifice party

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 4d

“but pip how are you posting” i am holding the phone one inch from my face and squinting

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 4d

optometrist is forcing me to wait with no contacts in so i am essentially blind. trapped!!

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 5d

Obvious Hints of human sacrifice are constantly being dropped and our narrator is like la la la la la i love the countryside I love tradition la la la

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pippercorn 🍉 @pippercorn.bsky.social · 5d

okay no it’s definitely on purpose. this book rules it’s like if midsommar was in new england in the 1970s

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