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CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly?
DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to
CHILD: So not all bugs follow the same religion?
DAD: No, son… we’re in sects
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Nic Smit
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Nic Smit
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Durban - South Africa Inscrit le Mart 2009
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@simongerman600 @AdrianSaville Asked the concierge in Germany where to eat. They recommended French and Italian restaurants. We asked for where we could get German food and they were genuinely perplexed
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I’ve never seen a map that makes more sense.
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I simply don’t think eIon is that smart sorry. Nothing I’ve seen from him has convinced me he’s anything more than a pseud who wants to seem smart to dumb people
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my dad put a beer in my lunch on april fools day in 4th grade
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If I was on Artemis I’d choose the seat that would make me slightly further from Earth than the other astronauts during the moon orbit, but I wouldn’t mention it until the press conference.
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@mattbencole I did a BSc and my sister did a BA. Not a chance I could have done what she did
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The biggest cliche in higher ed is that STEM classes are hard and humanities/social sci classes are fluff. But how often I see STEM majors fighting for their lives if there are more than 40 pages of reading per class or essay assignments that presume they've done the reading.
Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform”@MrDanielBuck
Harvard faculty report that they've had to "trim some readings and drop others entirely, switch from novels to short stories, and that it’s difficult to keep assigning reading in the face of increasing student complaints."
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ME: Can I buy you a drink?
HER: I have a boyfriend.
ME: {counting coins on the table} He can only get something small then.
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Say what you like about giraffes, but no animal has ever been better equipped to peer at things.
Science girl@sciencegirl
Father giraffe and sibling come to see newborn calf for the first time
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He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.
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Reading one book makes you immediately 10x smarter than most of your adult peers. Reading two books diversifies your perspective enough to make you interesting at parties. Three is a bit much
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There are millions or even billions of people in this world who fundamentally do not understand that children everywhere are the same. This precious child, the tens of thousands dead in Gaza—people don’t connect them to the idea of their own child being violently killed.
Clash Report@clashreport
📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother.
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@matt_theknight I have four kids total so the other two have regular names
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Blind guy tapped me with his cane today while walking through the station and I felt seen in a completely new and beautiful way
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