Apr 18 2025
I shudder at the idea of people faking seduction. Especially if it’s actively directed toward me! I don’t want to see naked people who wouldn’t even want to see me shirtless at the beach. That’s my baseline. Yes, I frequently avert my eyes during sex scenes in movies. “Oh, do you need more popcorn? I’ll …
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Apr 18 2025
Todd was monaloging at you again. “This is how I see it. My heart doesn’t know why it pumps. My heart doesn’t care, it just does what it does. And maybe, who knows, on some microscopic level, in its atoms, or in the atom’s atoms, it is searching for an answer. Maybe at night I …
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Apr 06 2025
Some storytellers draw you in with nostalgia. Others, with vulnerability. Then there are those like DJ Rybski—people who land a punchline so precisely you’re still chuckling hours later, even while processing the sting of truth buried inside it. For our April 6th Story Luck show, we’re thrilled to welcome stand-up comic DJ Rybski to the …
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Mar 14 2025
Teachers who think they hold all the power learn the hard way I have a superpower. Conversations are often thought to be back-and-forth volleys. But I have the ability to carry out a whole conversation all by myself. Those who know me understand I can talk for an entire day. Assuming I get the chance. …
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Mar 12 2025
Ashley and I look like two peas in a pod. Classic best friends: Same figures, glasses, same class schedule, similar habits and ideologies. But our personalities? Polar opposites. If you had known us back in high school, you’ld have wondered, “What set the foundation of their friendship?” She wanted peace. I wanted chaos. (Not the …
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Mar 10 2025
How did Vaisya unlearn communication? Vaisya lingered on the video call, watching her best friend Rachel fidget with her necklace — a nervous habit she’d recognized from college. Fifteen years ago, they’d solidified their best friend status by going horse debating everything from foreign policy to third wave feminism. Rankling over who was a better …
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Mar 09 2025
Fall of 2022 was a turning point. I sarted my self-discovery journey and never looked back. I was tired of feeling trapped by my own decisions. Always being a push-over. Going over and beyond for everyone else and getting nothing in return. Dating men I don’t like to protect their fragile ego. The list goes …
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Mar 07 2025
Maggie was underappreciated. She stared at the shared Google Doc where her carefully crafted process improvements disappeared into an endless sea of comments and suggestions. Three months of research condensed into, “Looks good. Will review more next week.” Which would invariably lead to a shifting initiative. Just in time to make sure no project completed. …
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Mar 07 2025
Are you part of our mailing list? Because if you are, then you know I didn’t do my homework last time because life got in the way. But this time, the odds are stacked in my favor in so many ways: 1. My niece is now healthy and well (modern medicine is a game changer!) …
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Mar 03 2025
I have always had a passion for writing. When my parents got my first phone, I remember scrolling the internet and seeing beautiful and insightful write-ups with beautiful images on them. Going ahead, I googled what these beautiful write-ups with awesome images were all about and I found out they were called “Blog posts”. Hence, …
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this is EXACTLY why we need to stop people like Musk shutting off transparency and telling us "don't worry, we'll tell you what we find". without the full picture, it's easy to mislead.
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