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I didn't understand wet t-shirt contests until my junior year of high school (age 16 or 17, I'm not sure). I started private school that year. We could leave campus for lunch, but I didn't have a car and couldn't drive, so I was basically rotated between the friend groups in the junior class (there were around 30 people in the entirety of the junior class) as an intentionally planned way to get to know people which was far, far removed from the bullying I was used to in public school.

Anyway, I went with a trio of girls I had gone with once before and for some reason they started talking about how they thought so-and-so's comment earlier that day about a wet t-shirt contest was awful, and how wet t-shirt contests are dumb. I hadn't heard the comment itself, but I did attempt to try to include myself in the conversation.

"Yeah, it's not even hard to get your shirt totally wet," I said.

After a beat a silence and quizzical looks directed at me, all three started to tell me what the contest was really about.

And so I learned a wet t-shirt contest is not at all about how wet your shirt can get.

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Cap vs. Nazi Scum: 'Nuff Said

The nazis have forever ruined tiki torches.

#fanart #CaptainAmerica #Tikitorch

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According to ambulatory tumor, Sen Ron Johnson of WI. Climate change is going to be a boon to Wisconsin! It'll be a tropical paradise! So f'everyone else!

@theautisticcoach @autisticadvocacy @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics I can figure out a subway/metro/tube anywhere in no time but I will do whatever it takes not to ride a bus unless it's a two points only A to B shuttle situation.

@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @autisticadvocacy Mental and/or physical stamina to deal with something. I have friends with chronic illnesses who say they don't have spoons when they're in too much pain/too weak to do something, for instance.

How do my #ActuallyAutistic comrades feel about the metro/tube/subway? Are you able to take it? Do you enjoy it? Sensory nightmare?

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Do you have one to spare?

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Almost nothing beats getting out for a long walk.

WHAT?

I was under the impression we sort of entered out summer in spring time of the year. Ya know, when the temps go up, in some instances by a LOT.

Now....rain for the coming week? 😲

https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/more-rain-cold-weather-in-sf-bay-area-17998936.php

“About me” update: Always a square peg in a round hole world. Introvert. Intrigued by much, expert in nothing. From Sacramento, California. Radio announcer/producer before most alive today were born. Worked in California state government. Budding photographer (so much to learn, but I’m hungry). Will someday feel I can call myself an artist. Politically Left/Democrat. Non-theist interested in Buddhism. Loves: Jazz, film, genealogy research. Flirting with haiku. And more…
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We should get this person to write all the #movies synopses!

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Well done Billy! 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🤘

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This is not difficult to understand.🤔

One of the occupational hazards of being an urban planner is that you’re constantly being critical of the built environment around you.

While out and about, all I think about is access management plans, lack of pedestrian and bicycle facilities, crappy or non-existent transit facilities, single-use buildings in multi-use zones, disappointment in the lack of residential density, Americans’ distaste for residential density, unchecked code violations in wealthy neighborhoods, low quality building materials, huge parking lots, impervious surfaces and flood plains, crappy landscaping, HOAs and restrictive covenants, unsafe routes to school, lack of healthy food options, poor parks and other green spaces, NIMBYs, and on and on.

Sometimes I wish I would’ve gone into something a little more micro, like landscaping or plumbing.