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SethRudy

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Literature Professor specializing in #Enlightenment #encyclopedism and the #HistoryOfKnowledge.

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Squirrels: steal our tomatoes
Me: dammit
Internet: squirrels hate coffee, put coffee grounds around tomato plants
Me: puts coffee grounds around tomato plants
Squirrels: thanks for the coffee, fucko, next time leave out some cream and sugar too PS. We took more tomatoes

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Everybody thinks about poor Prometheus stuck to the mountain but no one spares a thought for the eagle who is also trapped in this relationship and is probably thinking “ugh, liver? Again?!”

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How long would I, a midwestern American, have to live in Europe before I felt even remotely comfortable wearing a dress shirt with no t-shirt underneath?

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Do you remember that experiment you did in high school physics, where you built a bridge out of toothpicks or whatever and then tested its strength by slowly adding more weight until it snapped?

That’s what we’re doing with American democracy.

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Ok, but what’s his supporters’ excuse?

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I am at a rehearsal for my four year old’s ballet recital. I am surrounded by dozens of four year old ballerinas. This is some Twilight Zone shit going down right here.

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The answer to .

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You must be the shutting up you wish to see in the world

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Explained to a friend just now who doesn't like rum that I like rum because it's at the center of the so-called "girl-drink" and eighteenth-century naval history Venn diagram

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Parenting achievement unlocked: left child alone for two minutes with pair of children’s pinking shears; child now has bangs

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My institution is switching insurers in July. To determine the best package for me and my family, I have scheduled a special one-on-one meeting with a Ouija board.

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I have stumbled upon a show called Farscape and what the hell am I watching here

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What department could beat up all the other departments in a campus battle royale? I want to say bio because they’re outdoorsy but I think English has the berserkers

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It’s just geopolitical Calvinball out there, isn’t it

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GOP: public school teachers are dangerous lazy woke leftist communists who are indoctrinating our children.

Also GOP: and they need guns, give them all guns

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It looks like he’s being interviewed

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My thoughts and prayers go out to , which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails

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Yeah sure by all means, let’s integrate AI into more parts of a college that can’t make sure the fucking classroom projector is always working

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You have been installed as the president of an Ivy League university (condolences)! How would you try to resolve what’s happening on your campus? Realistically?

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Let’s see here…what seemingly minor or straightforward thing are our institutions and leaders going to demonstrate themselves incapable of handling today…hmmm…

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The dog next door can see me through my kitchen windows and barks at me in my own house; I am at war with this dog

SethRudy,
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@Lizette603_23 we do not negotiate with neighbor dogs

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I am being mugged

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Is there a way I can reframe my total lack of productivity as some form of protest?

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Thrilled to have received a micro-grant for my research funded by the Institute of Cash Found in Old Coat Pockets (ICFOCP).

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