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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 15m

"depends on whether or not it's sunny because if so I'm risking a migraine by setting foot outside"

Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 17m

Having studied formal written Chinese I can say that very often it's the opposite 😂

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 1h

And unfortunately even the "cold" regions can toss up unbearable summers - I remember multiple occasions of 40°+ days as a kid, and I'm from *Wisconsin*

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 2h

People in the US have long argued that summer vacation is archaic and should be gotten rid of. A thing that is quite literally never going to be feasible because only a fraction of public school buildings have ever bothered to install air conditioning.

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 4h

This happened to the old Bare Marriage page, which afaik is still out there spamming out crap that nobody wants

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 5h

Reading his bio and now I kinda wish I didn't have to know about him either

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 5h

I will read the FUCK out of this

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 5h

Every office should have that one guy who's run in race after race for 30 years and each time gets maybe 15 votes

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 5h

My dad is ridiculously eager to go in and pick up literally any menstrual products. Also has zero chill about mentioning periods either 😂 you'd think he's the one who has them

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 5h

I'm really hoping there's some looooong article or video essay out there about queer coding in gothic literature because in my experience there sure seems to be a lot of it

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly most people I know only kept those for the purpose of sending letters 😂 knowing an exact address wasn't nearly as much use for navigation purposes before GPS

Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 7h

I remember when they added 262 and suddenly a whole bunch of calls were no longer "local" and everyone was freaking out (anybody remember having a work phone that physically could not call outside of area code?)

Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 7h

Yes and we memorized addresses too

(And if you ever didn't know, you just looked it up in the Big Book Of Everyone's Personal Info that would literally be *dropped outside your front door*)

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 7h

Seriously we're old enough to realize that life is always going to suck, can we at least just have the low stakes tales with happy endings

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 17h

They don't own the Bible
They don't own the flag or the anthem
They don't own Thanksgiving dinner or summer barbecues
They don't own "merry Christmas"
They don't own love of God OR country

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 18h

I realize this had nothing to do with the original subject but I couldn't not share

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 18h

And ol' Dino is just one of many, many Italian crooners who dominated mid-century American charts! There's even a whole book on the subject⬇️

Amore: The Story of Italian American Song

Amore: The Story of Italian American Song - Kindle edition by Rotella, Mark. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Amore: The Story of Italian American Song.

www.amazon.com

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 18h

All I knew was that that's the place where my brother's karate school held their yearly holiday banquet.

(Now as to why a karate school would be holding a holiday banquet ... )

Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, it's always either that or condemn the gays, innit

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 21h

I wish all cars could just use the same handle, I don't love the guessing game every time I have to open a door 🤦‍♀️

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 21h

Also of course the use of the 'urban graffiti' aesthetic in an exhibit specifically intended to shock and upset people is racially coded and given the target audience I don't think that's accidental

Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 21h

Most of us haven't bothered to see it either, but the photos I've encountered are appalling. There's an entire montage of newspaper headlines, and later a thoroughly insensitive photographical exhibit called the Cave of Sorrows,

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 21h

(I wonder why they think all the other godless evolutionist countries don't have any school shootings 🤔)

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 21h

where it's made clear that for them everything from porn to abortions to school shootings to the fucking Holocaust is 'because people believe in evolution now'. I'm told there's even a display that puts Origin of Species alongside books like Mein Kampf 🤢

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 21h

Most of us haven't bothered to see it either, but the photos I've encountered are appalling. There's an entire montage of newspaper headlines, and later a thoroughly insensitive photographical exhibit called the Cave of Sorrows,

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Sarah 钟怡珊 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 22h

It's putting me off because the style is too reminiscent of that one really uncomfortable display at the Creation Museum, though of course that's not really a concern for a British audience

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