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EmilyZhou@reversibledestiny.bsky.socialtoday in maria hernandez park i watched a baby squirrel fall dead from a tree and the two lesbians sitting next to me used it as an opportunity to introduce themselves to each other

one of them to the other: "the gay community has had a hard week. dolly parton, tim curry, that squirrel..."

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Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 3d (4 replies)

Damn, tim curry died too?

ratel@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 3d

This is how we find out.

CannonFodder@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d

AND the squirrel?!?

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3d

Fuuuuck. 2026 is the worst year... yet!

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3d

Fuuuuck. 2026 is the worst year... yet!

blaze@programming.dev · 19 pts · 3d (1 reply)

This is how I find out about Dolly??? 😭

edg@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d

🫂

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d (4 replies)

Did they move in after that?

vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 3d (1 reply)

That’s second date stuff. Gotta have time to rent the U-Haul.

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d

Of course what was I thinking

Susaga@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 3d

I mean, why not? The tree's empty now.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d

The Subaru was packed to the gills later that night

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 3d (1 reply)

David Bowie and Alan Rickman died in the same week in early 2016 and I wrote a blog piece since a lot of people were leaning on the trope that death comes in threes.

TLDR: We imagine death comes in threes because we think of things in threes. In fact, people die all the time, and some of them are notable, and we choose which ones go together.

I talk about my cousin who died because he was in the grandstands at the Reno Air Races when one of the racing planes lost control and careened into the grandstands, a particularly unusual way to die.

His family is super religious, and they were desperate to understand why, how this fulfilled a divine plan. In the end, it comes down to shit happening. Attendance at air races isn't even particularly risky, but sometimes the dice role a fumble.

ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 2 pts · 3d

120 people around the world die every minute on average

120 / 3 = 40

Checkmate, nonbelievers

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Maria Hernandez Park

Bushwick mentioned!

thestrike@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3d

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Geobloke@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3d

Gotta get that nut