• Tiefling IRL
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    “What the fuck”

    Saved you a click and way too much scrolling

  • @Astronauticaldb
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    8314 days ago

    To save you visiting the hellscape that is The Independent: those 3 words were “What the fuck?” Nothing really remarkable.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      1114 days ago

      Could have fit that right in the headline without even increasing the number of words.

      Thank you for your service.

    • @Sweetpeaches69
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      614 days ago

      Damn. He could have gone with, “Fuck Ron Desantis.”

    • @Noodle07
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      313 days ago

      You mean “what the f***” right? You know it’s illegal to swear online and will have you face capital punishment

    • @A_Random_Idiot
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      014 days ago

      i mean, its pretty obvious what the 3 words were just given the context of the title.

  • @HarriPotero
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    6815 days ago

    I snapped this at my local library last week.

    I snapped this at my local library last week.

    • @Agent641
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      5115 days ago

      The image is a flyer for a “Banned Books Club” (Bokklubb för förbjudna böcker) targeted at young people between the ages of 13 and 18 in Bromölla, Sweden. It invites readers to explore the topic of banned books, asking questions like “Which books are banned, where are they banned, and why?” The club aims to discuss these books during the fall and winter, and the first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 19, from 3 to 4 p.m. at the library (biblioteket).

      The flyer has a “STOP” sign, a warning label at the bottom, and a bird illustration. It encourages participants to sign up via email and features logos for Kulturpunkten and Bromölla Municipality.

  • Zerlyna
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    15 days ago

    Every book report in high school where I could choose the author was a Stephen King novel and I turned out fine. And in Florida too. Class of 1991. 😁. BRD.

    • @IphtashuFitz
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      1715 days ago

      Back in the ‘80’s I had a high school English teacher that had us read his Night Shift short stories. The entire class loved it.

      • Zerlyna
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        815 days ago

        Not at all.

        • @[email protected]
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          Welp, then according to their plan, you didn’t turn out fine, you’re the problem. Good for you though, I’m hoping your state turns it around quickly because I really want to live there. It’s beautiful and I love the weather there, I just can’t deal with the bullshit they’re doing.

          • Zerlyna
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            14 days ago

            It’s not cheap. I left in 2005 because the insurance cost kept doubling every year despite never having a claim and I was 30 miles inland. And the deductibles would increase too. t’s worse now. Just do your homework first.

    • @RaoulDook
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      814 days ago

      I read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with “inappropriate” material. It resulted in improved reading skills.

  • Subverb
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    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

    Love that book. There’s some sad sex in it and a very unsympathetic preacher, but overall pretty tame by King standards.

    • @theherk
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      614 days ago

      I absolutely loved the entire series. I miss Eddie and Susannah, and I want to reread it again now.

      • @Machinist
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        213 days ago

        Everything after Wizard and Glass doesn’t exist.

        Cut my teeth on King, but he ruined his magnum opus in his rush to complete when confronted by his own mortality. It has some good moments, there are interesting bones in the structure, but he ruined it in the last few books.

        This opinion formed after reading the entire series twice, and the first 3-4 books many more times.

        It makes me happiest to view it as an incomplete series.

        • @theherk
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          I respect your view. A few weeks back I was complaining that I hated reading the Dune series. I enjoy the story and having read it, but I really hate reading it. Somebody told me they felt the same way but about the Dark Tower. Different strokes and all that, but I loved every moment of the whole series including how the tone changed after his accident.

          • @Machinist
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            113 days ago

            See, I don’t know how many times I’ve read the Dune series. It’s probably my favorite series and rewards rereading. (Not counting the crap his son and Kevin Anderson put out.)

            Different strokes for sure.

    • @[email protected]
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      Did you forget about the shit weasels in Dreamcatcher, the various instances of SA in Hearts in Atlantis, the forced abortion in the Gunslinger, insomnia, and so forth

  • Lad
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    14 days ago

    I was hoping for “go fuck yourselves”

  • Blackout
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    I could have done it in 2 words and I’m no great writer.

  • @Pacmanlives
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    514 days ago

    I started reading King in like the 4th grade. WTF is right

  • @Snapz
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    214 days ago

    “I hate florida-nazis”