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Em
@emjr.xyz
She/her.
Mad Cat Lady in training.
Blue IdentityVerificationQuestion. She was a giraffe.
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The *unpowered* analogue listening device.
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
One of these? They're probably sold in different lengths if that one's not quite right.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM

I'm an engineer. If I'm going to make mistakes they'll be my own.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I also have a "for someone else" loophole. I can sometimes (very, very rarely) get it to accept Future Me as the other person.
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
90% is enough to prove you could do it if you really had to. You've done all the interesting bits working out how to do it, so the rest is irrelevant.
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Someone in (based on her match notifications) Illinois has recently signed up for a dating site using my email address. I'm tempted to do a password reset and update her profile to say her messages are being sent to Australia, but I'm waiting a bit so she has time to realise and fix her settings.
September 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This is true. Where you look is where you go on a motorcycle. It's useful for getting around a very tight bend, but the way to avoid a pothole or an SUV heading straight for you on the wrong side of the road is to not look at it, and that takes practice.
August 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
But significantly less disturbing.
August 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
They are Maine Coon cats.
August 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Huh. Adding my postcode actually reduces the number of local results in a DDG search.
July 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The DDG results are no more localised that way than before, but thanks for trying.
DDG is set as my default search engine, but the sad truth is that google is just better at many of the things I need a search engine for.
July 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Not much use for people outside the USA.
July 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I tried the first Reddit screenshot I came across in my feed today, and got zero hits on DDG. The Reddit thread was result #2 on google, so my sense that DDG just isn't useful in this scenario remains strong.
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Local shopping results are useless on Duck Duck Go, and I also switch back to google if I'm searching for a specific phrase, for example to find a Reddit thread from the text in a screenshot someone's shared.
July 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You need to get a real cat for Sherlock.
July 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I watched the SGU finale for the first time last year, and I am not ok.
July 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
On the topic of poorly-thought-out gun-shaped objects, I give you... Bubble Santa.
July 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
There's a 4:30 in the morning too? That just seems unnecessary.
July 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
49 here, and yes on the "wake up" half of the question.
I wake before my 06:15 alarm on weekdays, but I often sleep until midday or later on weekends. My "natural" bedtime is midnight or later, so I tend not to stay up more than a few hours beyond that even knowing I can sleep in the next day.
June 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It doesn't even tangentially approach a marching cadence.
June 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
100% agree that the uncoordinated marching and choice of music with no marching cadence were both malicious compliance.
June 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Apparently they're halfway through introducing new dress uniforms, so half have the old ones and half have the new ones, and the only way to have them all match was to put everyone in something else entirely.
June 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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