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If I had a nickel, etc...

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BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS — DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Same image with alt text. Original source: web.archive.org/web/20180503...
Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”? Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word “finally”. If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished. Tumblr post by olofahere.
October 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Screenshots for posterity
September 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Why does my the text preview display the :-/ emoji as a little "no glyph" image, and will it go away when I skeet it?
Other emoji are fine...
🙂🫤😎
Screenshot of a smiley face next to a narrow white rectangle with vertical text "no glyph" next to a sunglasses emoji
September 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Mice don't know about the hierarchy of controls...
A photo of a mouse staring at a mousetrap baited with cheese. The mouse is wearing an adorable red helmet.
September 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Paging Jonathan Swift...
Search result for naturalparentingcenter.com with headline "How Many Calories Are in a Baby" and text: A baby's caloric needs depend on their age, weight, and activity level. Newborns typically require about 100 to 120 calories per kilogram of body...
September 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Biblically accurate Serra Angel
A Magic card with a blue frame. The art is an abstract dragonfly-like creature covered in colorful clocks and wheels. The name is "Angel de Serra" and the casting cost is three and two white.
August 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Much more intriguing headline when I misread where the quotes were and thought it was the birth of a friend's "baby"
Screenshot from the Am I The Asshole sub Reddit: A I T A for not canceling plans to be there for the birth of a "friend's" baby?
August 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Hmm, here's another stock image—the receipt hangs differently but the gibberish text is 100% identical. I've never seen AI that could add text to an image with that level of reliability. Seems to me it's more likely to be rendered from a reused 3D model. stock.adobe.com/images/conce...
Screenshot of Adobe stock photo website. "Concept of shopping. Two credit cards coiled in check from shop." by sveta A receipt draped over some credit cards. The text of the recipt is mostly gibberish like "c g f c b, j" and includes the date 15/02/15. The image is not a photo; in my opinion, it is a render of a 3D model. A receipt in front of a shopping cart. The text of the recipt is mostly gibberish like "c g f c b, j" and includes the date 15/02/15. It's the same gibberish as the previous image. The image is not a photo; in my opinion it is a render of a 3D model.
August 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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OP deleted so here's a fresh screenshot of the OOP tweet they were mocking
Tweet by Conor Sen: "My gut feeling is that parents trying to make their kids elite at reading and writing as a backlash against our screen/video world are like teaching their kids the Dewey decimal system, microfiche, driving a stick shift. Kids intuitively know they’re growing up in a video world."
August 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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loser : street :: winner : emergency room
A skeet by swozey: "do you live in the suburbs? i sure as fuck carry a knife around people are crazy post 2020 and im speaking from my own experiences, not tv, in my city where i walk around without fear at all. but i will mase or cut you. you know men do try to fight one another right? you an be doing jack shit."
July 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Panel from the What Happens Next webcomic: Xandra is saying "he's going to censor your name with asterisks. But not the whole name. Just, like, the middle 2 letters." Xandra is a white trans woman with multiple piercings wearing a T-shirt that says "world's best grandpa".
July 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I hate LLMs
DuckDuckGo search results for "wedding permitted at Alcatraz". First result from some website says "Yes, you can get married at Alcatraz!". The second, presumably authoritative result, is from the USA National Park Service and says "No weddings are permitted on Alcatraz."
May 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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(source: www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/beatin...)
Webcomic: an old man (Liquid Ocelot) proclaims "your guns and your weapons are no longer your own!" Soldiers try to shoot him but the guns only click uselessly. One soldier, Meryl, shouts "He's got us shut out of the System! None of our guns work!" There is a sudden BANG and Meryl looks startled as Liquid Ocelot is shot. A random soldier looks at his smoking gun in confusion, saying "Umm. I jailbroke my gun so I could play MP3s on it." The final panel is Meryl and the soldiers lifting him in the air in celebration. Meanwhile, Solid Snake, a ninja looking guy, is randomly lying dead, stabbed in the shoulder with a knife. (I'm not sure how that connects to the rest of the comic.)
March 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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(source: andhumanslovedstories.tumblr.com/post/6167102... )
Tumblr post by "and humans loved stories" : I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either.
March 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🤔
A brightly colored drawing of a bear leaning over the undercarriage of an overturned car such that its crotch is right where the crotch of the car would be if cars had crotches. A brightly colored drawing of a bear crouched over the rear of a boxy 90s hatchback car in a similar pose to that one animation of a dragon fucking a car.
February 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Patent drawing of a hand holding a joycon, rotated so the fingers point upward. Patent drawing of two handa holding joycons, fingers pointed upwards. Patent drawing, two hands pointing upwards. Patent drawing of a hand holding a joycon pointing upwards, on the left of another sideways-oriented hand.
February 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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TFW signing up to the $5 tier on Patreon
Panel from Achewood webcomic. A cartoon cat says "Why did you send a check for $10,000 to 'Oreos'" A teddy bear responds "I like their product! I wanted 'em to have a little walkin' around money!".
February 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Evolution in action...
Several classic rage faces labeled "extant ecological community". Then, "mass extinction" - only wojak and trollface remain. Finally, "survivors refill vacant environmental niches through speciation" shows variations on the wojak and trollface which express various emotions.
January 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Yes! She's in of my favorite Oglaf comics. (Warning for any unfamiliar, this site is wildly NSFW.) www.oglaf.com/dimorphism/
Cartoon of a T-Rex holding hands with a T-regina. The Regina is shaped like a human woman but with scaly dinosaur skin and sharp teeth.
December 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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On the topic of Fallen Empires, I love this header image. Single worst set to use to cash out your ill-gotten gains; single best set to have a photo of "lots of booster boxes."
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=uranium-finance-hacker-cash-out
A huge pile of around 40 red shrink-wrapped cardboard boxes labeled Magic the Gathering: Fallen Empires
January 12, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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Reading https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kmjz/porn-brain-social-media and was totally perplexed how Josie the Redheaded Libertarian could be "holding a pie with a large cross behind her". You're gonna drop your Jesus pie if you hold it like that!
But the picture explains all.
Text: "Josie the Redheaded Libertarian, for example, is shown staring doe-eyed for the camera standing in the kitchen wearing stilettos and a short, apron-covered dress, one leg kicked back, holding a pie with a large cross behind her. This, many people said on X, was pornographic, too. " Photograph of a red-haired white woman. She is holding a pie the normal way: grasped with both hands in front of her. Hanging on the wall behind her is a wooden crucifix.
January 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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The AI's training set contains many images with thought bubbles, of course, associated with text like "imagining".
But it has no way to know that a thought bubble is an artistic convention rather than a physical object. Thought bubbles are exactly as real to it as anything else.
AI-generated image, cropped. Soldiers standing on a floating grass platform with a white puffy edge hanging down over a crowd of people, two of whole are holding up white rods a couple feet long to poke the puffy edge.
January 6, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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There's an amazing misunderstanding depicted in this AI image. Prompt was "A magazine illustration showing how people internationally imagine some patriotic Australians celebrating Australia Day." by @stilgherrian.com .
Do you see it?
AI-generated drawing: many khaki-clad soldiers stand on a flat grassy platform that is hovering a few feet over a vast crowd of civilians. White cloth drapes over the edge of the platform and some civilians are poking it with rods. In the background, skyscrapers and an enormous Australian flag fade into the clouds.
January 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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Finally, question 6.

Which artist
contributed
the most
artwork to
the 'Fallen
Empires' set?

Options are:

Anson Maddocks
Christopher Rush
Drew Tucker
Mark Poole

The real correct answer is Mark Poole (tied with Heather Hudson at 10 cards), but the game wants Anson Maddocks.
Screenshot of question. "Anson Maddox" is marked correct.
January 5, 2024 at 2:28 AM