"The children are scared
of the bird mask
And can’t go to sleep"
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"Since the race’s inception, nine pilots had perished from mountainside crashes, unexpected plummets, or rogue lightning storms."
An excerpt from the new Atavist Magazine story, "The Balloon That Fell From the Sky," by Nick Davidson: https://longreads.com/2025/04/03/balloon-race-belarus-disaster/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Longreads · The Race That Turned to Ruin
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In my past dating history, I've been fetishized for being Asian & also for being disabled. I'm not an object, like some men treated me as. I chose to stay single for years after my last split because I deserve better, was patient & had rebuilt a pretty content life by myself that I'm not willing to compromise for anyone who doesn't completely value my full worth. I won't negotiate on my own worth - I am a golden soul & deserve an equal.
Fair warning… I do not always give spoiler alert warnings for movies that are more than thirty years-old.
The stairwell smelled of baked beans.
An odd story about resilience and failure at summer camp, I wrote about a tumultuous time for me in the early 1980s.
It's the tale of one day where I went through an ordeal and came out of the other side more awake.
www.sounding.com · Resilience on Rattlesnake Mountaina story of failure
Omar Two Tone
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@leaf
Flaming toast is one of my earliest memories.
#UnsolicitedComment #NoReally #TrueStory
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@threecoloured Oma hatte ein Luftgewehr für Taubensuppe und die Nazis haben es ihr abgenommen, weil es angeblich für die Front gebraucht wurde #trueStory
You know what works really poorly? Trying to scroll the label on the back of a food package. 
Printed labels scroll for shit.
So there was that time when George started meowing at floating Phil Collins emojis whist Czesław Niemen music played.
#TrueStory
https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/mamYmt9un9YTp4FxJ2ru7k
me, last night: Wanna see another example of how nerdy I am?
@kleen: Of course.
me: *points to minor geektastic contribution*
@kleen: Thank God you're here to overthink things for us.
#TrueStory
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@detondev Psycho was the first film in history to depict a flushing toilet on screen. #TrueStory
Bright full moon
shed its red hue —
"Aw... I slept through it."
On the night the full moon first rises, I like to go out to the field at the edge of the neighborhood with my dogs to sit and watch the moon rise.
It changes position and trajectory each month, not aligning with the east-west dirt road we sit on except for twice a year.
The sun is always setting in the west at the time the full moon rises. So I'll have in front of me a big ole full moon and behind me, sometimes, a spectacular sunset.
I have found if I sit very, very still and position myself so that some object on the close horizon is in the path of the moonrise (wires on electric poles are the best) I can almost feel our planet turning.
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@blue1337blood hör auf bevor die Türklingel nicht mehr funktioniert weil sie ihre IP Adresse vergessen hat (und man sie für nen reset abmontieren muss) #truestory
I went to see my doctor. He said “You’re falling apart”. I said “I know”. We both laughed. 
#TrueStory