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Danilo Piazzalunga
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he/him or they/them | Just let me be weird sometimes. | Embrace the silliness. | If I unfollowed you, it's because you keep posting things without alt text.
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She is a seal. Look at how she's spreading her fins, er, paws.
A brown and grey cat, sitting upright on a white, wooden table, next to a basket of fruit (apples, pears, and persimmons) in a warmly lit kitchen. Her front paws are spread out. A close-up image of the cat's spread-out paws. Her fur is somewhat long-haired and fluffy; her large belly is touching the surface of the table she's sitting on.
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Pixie and Sabbipode enjoying a sunny morning.
Two cats on a double bed, lying in the sunlight. On the foreground, a white and tabby cat is lying with her head upright, her eyes half-closed, and her paws stretched in front of her. On the background (somewhat out of focus), a grey and brown cat is fast asleep next to the pillows; on top of a pillow, an orange plush octopus is looming over her. This time, the brown and grey cat has turned her head towards the camera; she's still half sleeping.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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"You wouldn't hide your ADHD". White text on a black background, following the format of the "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy ad.
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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You don't understand! No taxes will make them all move into your country, and you're going to earn so much money from their taxes... OH, WAIT. OH NO! /s
A four panel meme featuring Gru from Despicable Me. He's giving a presentation with a whiteboard. 1. Gru, looking confident: Lower taxes for rich people. 2. Gru, looking more and more sly: Let them move to your country. 3. Gru, finally revealing his plan: Make no money out of them, as they aren't paying taxes. 4. Gru, looking embarassed and disappointed, is staring at his last whiteboard slide.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Pixie and Sabbipode at 18:01, making sure I don't work too much.
Two cats on a white wooden desk next to a wooden window. It's dark outside. One cat is white and tabby, and she's minding her business; the other one is grey and brown, and she's looking expectantly at the camera. Beside them, there is a refillable water bottle.
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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You're okay, just don't snap spaghetti!
Egon Spengler from the original Ghostbusters movie, captioned with: «Don't snap spaghetti. It would be bad.»
November 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Entropic lines mean that, if you take any 3 cells long stretch along the path, they contain: one "low" digit (1, 2, or 3), one "midly" digit (4, 5, or 6), and one "high" digit (7, 8, or 9).
The starting grid once again. A red line has been drawn across the centres of some cells (this is how entropic lines are usually represented). It is filled with alternating low, mid, and high digits: 6, 9, 1, 4, 9, 3, 5.
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Killer cages mean that the digits in their cells must some to a given total.

In this puzzle, no totals are given: all cages sum to the same number, but it is not revealed which value it has.
The starting grid again. This time, three of the cages (each cage is an orthogonally connected set of cells, delimited by a dashed line) have been filled with some digits: 1 and 7 in r1c1c2, 3 and 5 in r8r9c5, and 1, 2, and 5 in r4r6r6c7. Each cage sums to eight.
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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You have to draw a 1 cell wide path (by colouring cells) without any crossings, any dead ends, any bifurcations, and no 2x2 squares.

Additionally, the path must be closed.

Beware of diagonally adiacent cells: they cannot both be part of the path.
The starting grid of the above sudoku puzzle. A closed loop has been drawn by colouring some cells with red. Both r3c7 and r4c6 are red and, as it makes the path touch itself diagonally, they have been marked with crosses (just to highlight them).
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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7:00, freezing cold, wet weather:

«Please let us go outside! Our lives depend on it!»

9:00, sun is up; it's a warm and pleasant morning; the Ideal weather for a trip outside. Meanwhile:
A white and tabby cat with yellow eyes peeking from underneath a warm blanket on an unmade bed. Her look suggests that she won't come out of her cosy nest any time soon. Another warm blanket on a different unmade bed. No cat is in sight, but there's a suspicious bump under the duvet. Whatever is hiding there, it will likely sleep for the next few hours.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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> Looks for Sabbipode
> Can't find her
> Decides to remake the bed
> Still can't find her
> The bed starts purring softly
A double bed with a flower-themed bedspread, a headboard made of a double round arch of white wood against a sage green wall, and an orange plush octopus guarding the pillows. There's a suspicious-looking hump under the covers.
October 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Sleep well, my baby ^^

(I tuck her in almost every night)
A white and tabby cat wrapped in an orange and white blanket, resting on a green/sage/teal sofa next to a large radiator. Only the cat's head and neck are not covered by the blanket; oh, and the tip of her tail, curled upwards, is sticking out, too. The scene is dimly lit by a soft, warm light.
October 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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When you and your Italian coworkers speak English at your workplace.
A screenshot from the infamous intro cutscene of Zero Wing, showing a line of dialogue (with a comically bad English translation) below an image. A starship deck with some crew members sitting at their battle stations. Some large screens are all flashing red. Captain: "What happen ?" Another screenshot, with another scene and another line of dialogue. A blond man in a blue spacesuit is punching a table (or the ground) with a fist, whereas his other hand is pressed against his face. He looks very upset, almost desperate. Captain: "What you say !!"
October 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Cisgender, but not too strictly («ma non troppo», as a conductor would say)?

www.idrlabs.com/7-identities...
7 Identities Test Results: A bar chart showing: - Cisgender: 73% - Gender fluid: 40% - Non-binary: 43% - Transgender: 26% - Genderqueer: 43% - Intersex: 0% - Agender: 66% Your identity is primarily cisgender (73.33%).
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Me: It's a beautiful, sunny day! Go outside, enjoy warmth and sunlight!

Them: How about no.
A bedroom lit by sunlight filtering through a window with half-transparent curtains. On double bed with a flower-themed bedspread, two cats are enjoying their afternoon: the fat, fluffy, grey-brown one is facing backwards, her head slightly turned to face the camera; the thin, white and tabby one is sitting with her tail neatly tucked, looking at the intruder in her bedroom. On a pillow, an orange plush octopus is watching over them. A white and tabby cat sitting on a bed, her eyes half closed. She looks relaxed. A loaf-shaped, grey and brown cat with fluffy fur on a bed. She appears a little annoyed by all this racket (me taking three pictures).
October 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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However, Pixie, this is *not* scratching time! Not there, at least.
The same cat on top of the armchair. This time, she's stretching her front paws, scratching the top of the backrest. The cat's tail is curved downwards, and she looks focused on her scratching.
October 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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It's spooky time!
A white and tabby cat sitting on top of a pale brown, corduroy armchair in the corner of a sitting room. Behind the armchair, attached to one of the walls, there's a white shelf made of a recycled, wooden pallet; it has some flowers and Halloween decorations on it: small bats, a larger bat with "Trick or Treat" written on it, and an orange pumpkin/jack-o-lantern with a black cat peeping out.
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Thank you Pixie for removing all the grains of salt from my snack, helping me reduce my sodium intake.
October 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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"FucK LaTeX" written in a font style which is poorly mimicking the actual LaTeX logo.
September 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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*Sigh*

We laugh at how this is ludicrous, but they don't (or don't want to) understand.
A screencap comic where Phoebe from Friends is trying to teach Joey how to pronunce "antifascism". However, he fails miserably and, in the last panel, he still says "antifa", looking proud of himself.
September 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Is she an otter or a seal?
A fluffy, grey and brown cat lying sideways on a white wooden table in what appears to be a dining room. Her rear paws and tail are over the edge of the table, while her front paws are stretched towards my direction, kneading against thin air. A closer look at the same cat. Her head looks smaller when compared to her body. Her eyes are vacantly looking into the void (or at greebles), and her ears are up in a relaxed but alert position. The fur under her neck has a lighter colour.
September 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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So *that's* what "kiki" and "bouba" are about!

sudoku.coach/en/s/9YUe
"kiki-bouba-doku 1" by vajrajames, a Sudoku puzzle on the sudoku.coach website. It contains some green round shapes, and some orange spiky shapes. The puzzle description reads: Green "bouba" cells can contain no sharp angles (digits 3, 6, 8, 9 only). Orange "kiki" cells can contain no rounded curves (digits 1, 4, and 7 only). Cells with both must contain a mix of shapes (digits 2 and 5 only). Research beginning 100 years ago has found that people, when presented with nonsense words, tend to associate certain ones (like bouba) with a rounded shape and others (like kiki) with a spiky shape.
September 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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This is how I check my cats' weight.

(I just did it earlier today with Sabbipode, and now my arms and shoulders hurt.)
A scene from "The Lion King" animated movie. A mandrill is raising a lion cub towards the sky, while a sun ray among the clouds is shining on them.
September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Pixie being a demon with some plastic scraps.
September 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Morpheus from "The Matrix" holding a (badly edited) reCAPTCHA logo in his hand, instead of a battery (as in the original scene).
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM