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Cantras
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Cantras many other places. Bookish, anxious, full of anecdotes. Any pronouns.
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This image as a custom emoji in a past moderator Slack:
Image of actor Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette, possibly on a balcony. He looks very exhausted and done with everything.
November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Had to wash her feet from the digging and now she knows The Hose is also in the house.
Photo of white dog with brown face standing in a bathtub, sniffing at the tap and controls. The detachable shower head is hanging down loose.
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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LeggyDog folds up so smol and then she jumps almost high enough to bap me in the chin with her toy.
Photo of my lap with the dog curled in it. I am sitting tailor style aka criss-cross-applesauce style, with my knees apart and ankles crossed over each other, and the dog, white shorthaired with brown ears, is curled up entirely enclosed in the gap between my legs.
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Trying to think this through so the tail part comes out more cleanly than the fins part.
Having a sewing machine doesn't make my plans cleaner or more thought-through, just faster.
Photo of a mermaid costume in progress. green lizard scale printed fabric wrapped around legs. At the bottom, a bit of my jeans stick out, and my feet. One foot is in inexpertly made fins at the bottom.
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Sweet potatoes are doing well in here, gonna unload them my next day off.
I have not been using a thermometer, i just unzip the door a ways and go "ooof yeah it's unpleasant in there ew"
Photo of a green plastic greenhouse, about 6 feet tall, with a blanket draped to cover the top half. It's in a basement utility room and a small brown dog is crossing the bottom of the frame. There is a tiny orange spot in the center of the photo: the light on the space heater inside the greenhouse.
October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Screenshot of tweet. Text reads "A month ago Dusty found half a pie in this bush, so every day until the end of time we must closely inspect the Magic Pie Bush." There is a photo of a dog, possibly a yellow lab, with his head deep in a bush.
October 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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This dog Wants Something. Despite my best efforts (taking things he's been standing up to sniff at off the new dog's crate and putting them on the floor to sniff more), neither of us knows what it is.
Photo of small orangish brown dog with huge ears looking intently at the camera. On the floor to his right are two boxes of canned dog food and a packet of treats. Whatever it is he's been sniffing around for and pleading to have, these are not it.
September 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Convergent evolution, come over here, it's fine, I just want to have a chat.
Crane flies and lake flies are at least in same *order* with mosquitos, this thing (owlfly) isn't. It's more closely related to BEETLES than to mosquitos.
A photo of an insect on the side of a white person's outstretched hand. The insect strongly resembles a shorter-legged mosquito but is about an inch and a half long, not counting long thin antennae.
August 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Screenshot of timeline showing OP's skeet immediately above a stranger's skeet of a photo of an apparently screaming hawk.
July 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Photo of a baby meerkat on a brown rocky background. Its face looks despairing and overwhelmed. Screenshot of tumblr posts. One user says on January 16, "Are Pinky and the Brain still trying to take over the world? Because at this point, I'm willing to hear the Brain's platform." Another user adds on, dated February 2, "At this point, I'm willing to hear Pinky's platform."
July 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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this face omg
close up of one of the meerkats in above post. Its eyes are wide open, looking like it's despairing and overwhelmed.
May 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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My stupid brain is like this person's stupid brain:
chaoslife.findchaos.com/comic/flight...
4-panel comic featuring one person with short, light hair and one with long, dark hair. it appears to be late evening. First panel: Overlaid text "Given any chance, my brain will come up with the stupidest possible answer." Short hair is looking up into a tree, "Hey, that sounds like a tree frog!" Second panel: We are looking down at the pair through the branches, and can also see the frog and a bird. Long hair, reaching up, says "I think I see it. Let me just tap it with a leaf to see if it moves." Third panel: The bird and frog have leapt in opposite directions; short hair flinches as the bird, too dark to identify, squawks and scrambles over them. Fourth panel: Short hair looks confused and alarmed, with a thought bubble showing that their brain has linked up the dark flapping object and the frog they knew was there into a furiously flapping flying frog.
May 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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a screenshot of a tweet. Text is "A month ago Dusty found half a pie in this bush, so every day until the end of time we must closely inspect the Magic Pie Bush." Photo below is of a dog, possibly a yellow lab, with its head deep in a bush.
May 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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It still claims today but I'm not getting my hopes up.
A cropped-in screenshot of the fed-ex package tracker. It has stopped between "we have your package" and "out for delivery", with a large red exclamation point labeled "shipment exception."
April 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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My brother tells me the same stories and illustrations were also published as "Im Reich Der Märchen."
My father bought this book, but doesn't remember if he got it in West or East Germany or if it was new/used at the time.
The cover of a book, in german: Die schönsten Märchen. It's a blue hardback, with the front illustration being 3 kids peeking around a tree at a princess, squire-type person too small to make out, and a castle in the distance. It's printed directly on the binding, instead of a book jacket. The bottom says "Hemma", a publisher. The inside front cover of the book. The inside of the hard cover has been ripped out. The first page is intact, with title again, and crediting illustrations to J. Lagarde and text to I. Flemmes. A photo of a page of Rottkäppchen -- little red riding hood. One illustration of her strolling along with a basket, one of her stopping at a direction sign. Honestly she looks way too young to be on this task alone, can she even read the sign? The text is in a pretty standard serif font, but uses french quotation marks -- guillemets. Bottom of the back of the book, showing a partial illustration of animals and kids in the grass, and the UPC. Small text at the bottom reads, in german, Kollektion: Die schönsten Märchen. Hemma Verlag. There's a logo for Hemma, and underneath it says S. 203.
April 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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From the internet, forever ago:
February 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Photo of a sign. Relevant portion reads "the name crinoid is derived from the Greek work krinon, meaning "lily form;" however they are actually animals." Photo is edited to cross out "Greek work" and replace with "Greek word," and to add a comma after "however." Photo of portion of sign near the floor. It refers to the time of the great dying in the Permian period, 252.28 k y a, meaning thousands of years ago. The K should be an M for millions. Photo of a sign, describing trilobites on display and giving their provenance information. Evidently the font does not include certain diacritics; the photo is edited to highlight multiple instances of lowercase letters replaced with incongruous capitals. For example a capital O with a caret stands in place of a lowercase i with two dots.
January 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Editing and proofreading are important. @hmns.bsky.social
Photo of part of a sign discussing mollusk life cycle, explaining that some displayed shells were found in stomachs of predators. Shells number 19 and 20 were consumed by predators like number 21, triplofusus gigantea. Photo is edited to add red underline to "number 21", corrected to 23. Photo of a sign. Photo is edited to flag a dangling modifier in the first sentence: "Found throughout the world and now in permanent orbit around our planet, the earliest representatives of the species Homo sapiens were discovered in 1967..." Photo of a sign, edited to add a copy editing mark to remove an apostrophe in Bambis (intended as plural, the animals were not timid Bambis.) Photo of sign. Relevant paragraph is titled "The only thumbless dinosaurs" and reads "Look closely at the forepaws. Duck-bills are the only thumbless dinosaurs. Scientists use this symbol for duck-billed dinosaurs. Can you decipher it?" Photo is edited to underline "this symbol" and draw a question mark in the margins; there is no symbol.
January 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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okay first can you move your shelves? but also that image shows two stacked on top of each other. I have them separated in mine:
Inside of a tan cupboard. Along the sides and back are u-shaped black shelves. Spices are divided by height to their fitting shelf, and sorted alphabetically. A tray with salt, pepper, and two shallots rests in the middle.
January 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM