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submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

this is about the time you'd retreat from the forum to the irc channels where you and your specific friend group would wait out the mod drama. we did not plan an additional remove from this because we didn't think it would ever be of national importance

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

that horse belongs on a GPU box from 2008

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

just chased a mouse out of a raised bed, across the patio, and into the night. i used the 'jet' setting on the hose as a probe to find the mouse before herding it into the far corner whence i could blast it across the patio and into the night, clean yet confused

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

do people actually like it when computers take this tone with them

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

*elbows neighbor in theater* is that the cone?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The more I encounter LLM output in the workplace, the less concerned I become about the current and future utility of my humanities degree.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

fyi if you haven’t read all of this blog at least once, please, do

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Molecule Man Wolverine Jean Grey

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

@timtoon.com sent me some articles on medieval marginalia and somehow I turned that into drawings of cats in snail shells

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

what a game

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"all your base are belong to us" is the weirdest insult and it feels lowkey sexist tbh

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

the democrats could easily out-message the republicans on trans rights, but they do not want to. they know what works and what doesn't and they will keep doing what doesn't work on purpose

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween

submitted 221 days ago • 174 comments

lol, i think stephen miller took a swing at him

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I want the bpd azealia has. she is a black woman who can assume the first person of a white person and do an HP lovecraft level of white on white racism with a dash of what I'm going to generously assume is holodomor affirmation

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

when i'm in charge it will be forbidden to tell somebody their package has shipped when you've just printed the label

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

But the protein powder’s real star is Dandy, a beloved family milk cow. Ms. Neeleman said the couple began drinking Dandy’s leftover colostrum—plain and in smoothies—each time she gave birth to a calf.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

OK, sure, everybody working at the Mars base was either transformed into or ripped apart by demons, but I’m different. I would simply crawl into a ventilation shaft with my yellow key card and hang out with an action figure until help arrived.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

the reason the seventies are so disparaged is they don't want us to remember the time when silly little guys were the sexiest things in history

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Ok so I didn’t really need that in my adult beverage but thanks for sharing

submitted 9 days ago • 328 comments

"Heed me, Kingdom Hearts! Lend me your power, so that we may be complete! The power to erase the fools that hinder us!"

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Ordinary regular poor people trying to live their lives and raise their children: Can we please get subsidized safe child care open all hours of the 24hr working day? Governments: Absolutely not Cop making an average of $98k/yr base: Can we Governments: Say less lol

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments