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KevinJY
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Sign in the form of a Zohran Mamdani campaign sign that says "Adagio for Strings"
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Love songs for the heat-death of the universe
Genius screenshot of Taylor Swift lyrics reading "You could be my forever-night stand, honey"
October 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Ukraine reverting to its original form
Map of Kievan Rus' in 1054 CE
September 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I can't explain why either but for me it's this one
1814 oil portrait of Olivia Simes Morris by James Peale, from the Art Institute of Chicago collection. The painting depicts a seated, smiling woman with pale skin and dark curly hair, wearing a white dress with lace and an embroidered red shawl.
August 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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You're looking for a marilith
Illustration of a Marilith from D&D (a creature with a snake body, a woman's head and torso, and six arms, all of them holding swords)
July 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I looked at the response from Replit, and. . . did they not already have this? You can't even interact with the thing without giving it write access to everything?
And yes, we heard the “code freeze” pain loud and clear -- we’re actively working on a planning/chat-only mode so you can strategize without risking your codebase.
July 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The common English word "kwee"
Google AI overview of how to pronounce the French word "cuir", reading: The word "cuir" is a French word pronounced /kɥiʁ/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). This can be approximated as "kwee-ehr" or "kweer" with a somewhat guttural "r" sound. Here's a breakdown: /kɥi/: This represents the "kwee" sound, similar to the English word "kwee". ʁ/: This is a voiced uvular fricative, a sound produced in the back of the throat. It's often described as the typical French "r" sound.
July 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Two high-rise apartment buildings in Sandburg Village, Chicago seen through a window wet with rain at night. The sky behind them appears yellow.
July 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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#NoKings
A crowd of protesters in front of Trump Tower Chicago
June 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I like reading fragrance reviews online, because it's interesting to see how people describe the exact same scent so differently, and also because you occasionally find stuff like this
Review of the fragrance "In The Belly of The Beast" by Toskovat by Fragrantica user RifleZZ, reading "One of the worst smelling scents I have tried in a long time. It smells like if you killed a giant whale and you took its organs and then made leather and rubber in very large quantity out of it. You then put all of that stuff in a giant empty abandoned mall."
May 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Zuck: The average American has three friends.
The three Moirai, or the Triumph of death, Flemish tapestry, c. 1520 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
May 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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He has more in common with the Scramblers than just his lack of self-awareness
Excerpt from "Blindsight" by Peter Watts: He sighed. "Biochemistry is a tradeoff. The faster you synthesize ATP, the more expensive each molecule becomes. It turns out scramblers are a lot more energy-efficient at making it than we are. They're just extremely slow at it, which might not be a big drawback for something that spends most of its time inactive. Rorschach—whatever Rorschach started out as— could have drifted for millennia before it washed up here. That's a lot of time to build up an energy reserve for bouts of high activity, and once you've laid the groundwork glycolysis is explosive. Two-thousand-fold boost, and no oxygen demand." "Scramblers sprint. Their whole lives." "They may come preloaded with ATP and burn it off throughout their lifespan." "How long would that be?"
April 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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If you name your first son Saxon you have to go all in and name the subsequent children Angle and Jute
Saxon, Piper, and Lochlan Ratliff from The White Lotus S3
March 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo meme: Trochee trochee trochee trochee
March 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I wish I could do this
Film still depicting a person holding a tablet and adjusting an "Intelligence" slider on the screen. The slider is set to 93%.
February 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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I also have a fondness for regal themes, so. . . oh
February 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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"Everyone disliked that" meme
February 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Wooden Danish modern table lamp made in the 1950s
January 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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BG3 mod that replaces Withers with David Lynch
Withers from Baldur's Gate 3 responding "No." to "Are you going to explain further?"
January 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I remember there was a popular Tumblr post about this ambiguity at one time
Map of Latin America defining zones for the three meanings of "concha": a shell, a type of pastry, and slang for "vulva"
January 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Getting kicked out of the dungeon for incessantly singing "Old Joe Clark"
Wikipedia article titled "Play party (United States)", with visible text including "A play party is a social event in which toddlers gather to sing and dance. Play parties began in the 1830s in the United States as a route around strict religious practices banning dancing and the playing of musical instruments. The areas most influenced by the practice were the Southern and Midwestern parts of the United States."
January 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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In my hometown, it is traditional for children to spin the ominous relic
The Cube in Ann Arbor, Michigan, being spun by some children
December 26, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Happy Boxing Day to all who celebrate
Still of the Gom Jabbar trial from Dune (1984)
December 26, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Caves of Qud discovery: if a village merchant is a trining lamprey, all three lampreys have the same dialogue, but sadly only one has any inventory to sell
Screenshot from Caves of Qud showing points of interest in a procedurally generated village
December 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM