My mother told me once
Dec. 30th, 2022 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulythat sometimes, after having sex with my dad, she'd look around and idly say something like "Did you know that you can make 200 words out of the letters in the word 'sustained'?"
She just made up the numbers, she assured me.
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She just made up the numbers, she assured me.
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Her work as a pioneering animator was lost to history — until now
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Only English Would Try to Shorten a Word This Way
Thai elephants compete in their own 'World Cup' (Video)
For Humpbacks, Bubbles Can Be Tools
TikTok Told Me to Adopt a Pigeon
How new drone technology is helping scientists in the uphill battle against plant extinction
Supreme Court asked to bar punishment for acquitted conduct (FFS, why is this even a thing!? Did you know this happens? How is this allowed?)
Christmas Eve 1914, a soldier writes home
Revolución on the Cookie Factory Floor
The Promise and the Politics of Rewilding India
Inside South Africa's 'hijacked' buildings: 'All we want is a place to call home'
The sneaky economics of Ticketmaster
New year expected to bring more changes to state voting laws
The Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud fictions in U.S. courts
Millions have the same ‘bendy body’ disease as my daughter. Why isn’t the medical profession paying more attention?
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