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me sliding my compact and potable cube in my pocket for when im thirsty later

that's very impudent and impatient small british child of you

Part of me wonders if this is linked to European politics of blood.

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Why is "bloody" considered profanity? As the only counterpart to "fuck" in the very small category of "words English language can infix" it just seems so pathetic and childish. It is like a little pathetic English boy is trying his hardest to be rude, but is too scared to use a real curse every time I read it. Whenever I read authors who use it I am immediately losing immersion. There is simply no way an adult would say that as a curse, im-fucking-possible.

Sent the prehistoric fish to a friend.

The response was flawless:

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Reporting by many outlets including The Continent has shown that some of the violence and neglect that kills migrants is by government forces in North Africa which have received hundreds of millions of euros from the EU over the past decade to “manage migrations”. continent.substack.com/p/mass-

I like media that is just like "hey we got some mysterious repeating numbers for you to ponder". Is there still any of that?

PSA: have you replaced your bicycle helmet recently? Remember, they are good for only ONE impact, and they degrade over time. Helmet technology has also gotten a lot better in the past ten years -- Virginia Tech has been testing helmets to an actual quantifiable standard (whether that standard tracks human brain impacts, different question, but at least there is a number to track), and the best helmet you can buy for $65 today is roughly HALF the concussion risk as a $250 S-Works Evade II from 2018.

This message brought to you by my Echelon II MIPS, having given its all to keep my head safe when it hit the ground at 18.7mph indicated; it was replaced by a Chamonix 3 that is 20% safer. (I got away with some road rash, a concussion that appears to have mostly resolved itself by T+4 days, and what are surely going to be truly astonishingly large ER bills. The bike is fine.)

The water in my bottle started to freeze when I was jogging outside

Aard2 is available with material design under the name OSS-Dict for all you phone dictionary enjoyers out there.

*places you in the beaver dropping box and drops you off over southern Idaho*

Friends in the CNT-AIT (France) have sent me an English language edition of Al Amal, a newsletter produced by the Sudan Anarchist Gathering describing conditions in #Sudan.

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