Retired teacher at 57, FI blogger, single parent to dogs and 4 adults. Reads books, writes blogs and hates spreadsheets. https://xitter.cf/t.co/mCgF1VeJbs

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined May 2018
Frogdancer Jones retweeted
To all the silly sausages who say "must of", "should of", "could of", "would of", etc.: Stop it.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
I’m suspicious of homes with no pets. Like where is your creature?? Who’s roaming the premises?? Who’s in charge of security??
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After weeks of rioting in Paris no one was killed. Which technically means your child is safer attending a riot in Paris than a school in America.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong [📹 Johann Hari | TED]
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It is absolutely bizarre that the President of the United States is actively committing open treason with no fucking consequences.
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This is so true.
There’s something oddly satisfying about spotting a book you’ve read in a bookstore and smiling at it like an old lover nobody knows you had.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
okay, i want him-
Christopher Chung finding out he landed the role of Roddy Ho in Slow Horses
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1. Our skeletons are wet. 2. Your nose is ALWAYS in your line of sight, but your brain ignores it. 3. When you receive a donated kidney, they don't take out the bad one. They just add the good one in. 4. Your immune system doesn't know you have eyes. Otherwise, it would attack them and make you blind. Injuring one eye can introduce eye bits to the bloodstream and basically give your immune system the knowledge of having eyes. Then it might decide it really fucking hates that and attack your non-injured eye. 5. The quality of the male sperm is responsible for morning sickness, preeclampsia, baby's gender and almost every single pregnancy related issue. 6. You breathe through one nostril at a time. Don't believe me? Put your finger below your nose and try. 7. The brain itself has no nerve endings, so it can't feel pain. That's why patients can be wide awake during brain surgery and made to perform certain actions. 8. That ringing in silence isn't silence. When everything is quiet and you hear a faint ringing? That's your brain listening to its own nervous system. You are hearing yourself functioning. 9. You will never experience your own death. You only experience approaching it... Then nothing. Everyone else gets closure, stories, funerals, and memories. You don't. You never know you've become a memory. From your perspective, the story just stops mid-sentence.
Tell me something about the human body i probably don’t know.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
Non-readers will never know how one perfect sentence can make you clutch the book, kick your feet, and grin like an idiot.
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Absolutely. I couldn't believe it when I first heard about them.
the idea that most people have an internal monologue bugs me the fuck out. like what do you mean there are words in your head???? wouldnt it take forever compared to just thinking in vague concepts and pictures? having an inner voice seems like it would be annoying
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
Galera, não me levem a mal, mas se vocês pegaram um livro emprestado com alguém há muito tempo e acham que a pessoa esqueceu, deixa eu te falar: ELAS NÃO ESQUECERAM.
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Queensland Hotel Association just posted this on their Instagram…
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Fabulous story.
#cr flowers for algernon
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
ME:getting up from the sofa for any reason MY DOG: FUCK YES, LET’S DO THIS.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
Fun fact: It's NOT possible for the earth to be flat because if it was, capitalism would have exploited it by now. The “ends of the earth” would be tourist destinations with theme parks and hotels and a damn swing set that would let you swing over the edge.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
The United States plunges deeper into the abyss: live-streaming a firing squad, an oil deal with Putin, sanctions on the ICC…and now Trump whining - yet again - that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a sick, sick society, an object of international derision and contempt laughed at by its enemies, distrusted by its former friends.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
Let's be clear, the free world has nothing to learn about western values & civilisation from MAGA USA. Most of us can see what Vance & Rubio really are, as they strut around Europe telling us where we went wrong. They should clean up their own filthy & stinking yard, a country of botched executions & now a return to public executions. A cesspit where milliions of its citizens can't afford decent health care & thousands die each year due to archaic gun laws. It's a country that routinely breaks international law. Worst of all, it's a nation in thrall to a corrupt & criminal authoritarian leader who is all that Christianity, liberal democacy, the Renaissance & the Enlightenment were not & are not. MAGA has only one thing to teach us; the urgent need to avoid sliding back into barbarism. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
I’ve just heard a woman call the man she was arguing with a “cognitive minimalist” and I’m not sure the English language has anything left to give after that.
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Oh, they are hilarious! My mouth and eyes hurt! A simple premise, but beautifully executed!
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Frogdancer Jones retweeted
My mother just used my middle name so I guess this is goodbye.
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