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An 🇺🇸 learning 🇩🇪 || book wyrm 🐉 || word nerd || salad main/plantbrand in GW2

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maybe i should play this game sober
A dartboard with 1 dart with a red flight in the single bull, 1 dart with a yellow flight in the inner single-20 slice, and 1 dart with a blue flight in the triple-20 band.
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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yo! what?!

SW VA is still mostly red results but some of those SW spikes are *double-digits* margins toward blue.
From AP (Associated Press) election coverage: Map of Virginia with its counties' borders visible. Richmond (capital) and Norfolk are labeled on the map. The map is also a graph, with vertical spikes in each county area showing the voting margin shift in either the Democrat (blue) or Republican (red) directions and the size of the spike showing the size of the margin. Every single county and city shows a blue spike, from as small as 4.5 points to as big as 22+ points. Text below the graph clarifies the comparison: "Margin shift compares each county's latest results to its vote margin in the 2021 governor election. This comparison is available once a county or county equivalent reports at least 50% of its estimated expected vote."
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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a gw2 new expac side-story/lore-like achieve had me fucking go look up Gerk again and cry because of Rades's blog
Cropped screenshot of Guild Wars 2, showing my sylvari firebrand guardian (Lledrithina) at the Comfortable Spot in front of Memorial to Gertie (Shipwreck Strand zone), with a dialog box open that says: "To Gertie. You always loved hearing of the adventures you missed. To many more in the next life." Actions are: 'Hi, Gertie. I was instructed to tell you a story.' to continue and 'Good-bye.' to exit.
November 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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"women aren't into scifi or star trek"

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the New Worlds book has a note from relatives that it was a present for my 15th birthday
A green banker's box (cardboard) from Staples full of nothing but Star Trek franchise novels and other franchise books. At least 33 books are visible in the photo, with many more stacked in the box. green lid (cardboard) to the other image's box. This is marked with black marker "BOOKS: STAR TREK". On it sit 4 Trek (The Next Generation) novels with their spines visible: - The Valiant by Michael Jan Friedman - I, Q by John de Lancie and Peter David - Death in Winter by Michael Jan Friedman - Reunion by Michael Jan Friedman A fifth book sits cover-up on the box lid: STAR TREK SPEAKS, [quotes from the scripts of The Original Series] compiled by Susan Sackett, Fred Goldstein, and Stan Goldstein. Two big Star Trek books, side-by-side like by having the left book sit on the open cover of the right book. Left: Star Trek The Next Generation: Technical Manual, depicting the USS Enterprise-D in copper-on-brown technical drawing imagery. By Rich Sternbach and Michael Okuda, with special introduction by Gene Roddenberry. Right: Star Trek: New Worlds, New Civilizations. By Michael Jan Friedman + many other illustrators.
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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If we aim the tip of Maine over Moscow and let Florida tickle Greece, then please see how Portugal just barely left the west side of Texas, Hawaii is back where the US starts to really care about Atlantic hurricanes, and Alaska is not only still touching Canada but still mostly west of Greenland.
Map overlay from thetruesize.com. Base greyscale map of Europe, showing Moscow, Russia on the upper right side. An orange overlay shape of the United States covers Moscow with the northern hat-tip of Maine and Greece with the Florida finger. Map overlay from thetruesize.com. Base greyscale map of the Western hemisphere, showing mainly the Atlantic Ocean, with Europe/Africa off to the right, and eastern US peeking from the left. An orange overlay shape of all 50 United States is overlaid as before, with Maine/Florida in Europe.
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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re: LRP

I remember years ago trying to explain to some Germans online that the bottom line of my state (VA) is almost as long as their country is north-south & we're not even in the top HALF of states by total area (we're #35 @ ~42k sqmi).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Map overlay from thetruesize.com. Base greyscale map shows Europe, with Germany centered. A pink translucent shape of Virginia, from the United States, is over Germany, rotated approx 90 degrees so the southwest tip of VA is in the northern tip of Germany, and the Chesapeake tip of VA is just past/approx Munich, Germany.
October 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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in case people think I'm riffing somehow

no this is a real email subject header
Gmail email crop: [sender:] Inoreader [subject:] Supercharge your workflows w...
October 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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mood
extremely cropped screenshot from Hades II showing some Crossroads shades' conversation. text: "dying wish: riches"
September 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Hades II, like its predecessor, wonderfully twists different myth re/tellings in its text and story, of course, but then there's delightful visual details like how Ares in his dialogue splash screen is posed like the Ludovisi Ares.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovis...
Ares, God of War, in his dialogue-box splash screen before a boon offering in Hades II. Ares is black-skinned, dressing white/gold Greek battle armor, sitting with his left knee up slightly, with bright-red bloodstained hands, holding his sword by the hilt over his left knee, blade pointed back towards his rear. Ludovisi Ares plain marble statue, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovisi_Ares
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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my roommate's cat, but Lady of the Apartment, Demander of Screen Time, nonetheless
A longhair calico cat on a white plastic chair, pointed upper-left, but looking back at the camera.
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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sorry i am depleted of hope rn so please have a picture of Patroclus the baby rubber plant who is living his best life and definitely not dying the way he does in the Iliad
A green baby rubber plant, very leafy. One stalk left (that's their flowers!).
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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oops all chicks?

My monster of a sempervivum that got extremely leggy, & then when I beheaded it, it refused to die. I didn't notch it or anything; it just sprouted rosettes everywhere on the stem, even where I didn't cut it!

(idk plants man, this is my first time still)
A sempervivum plant in a terracotta pot and saucer. The plant has grown out of the pot & is now hanging down, almost touching the saucer, on one side of the pot. Many, many green rosettes have sprouted from the long stem, facing out. Close-up on top of the previous picture, showing the two biggest rosettes and some smaller rosettes inside the pot, one of which was the beheaded top of the plant.
September 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Nö.
September 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Hades II screenshot of dialogue: Melinoë: What do you think, Dora? Dora: They don't pay me to think.
September 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Hades II shade expressing: dying wish: riches
September 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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bro our defense must've gone home at half
American (college) Football game scores between Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech, divided by quarters. 44 VAN to 20 VT, 4th quarter 2m06s left VAN: 0, 10, 13, 21; total 44 VT: 10, 10, 0, 0; total 20
September 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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If you get a translation of a prolific poet/writer out of a book, usually in the end-of-book notes section is something like [images].

This helps people find the text elsewhere/in other translations (EN or otherwise!).
To those born after [An die Nachgeborenen] BFA 12, 85-87; 1939; P1939; T.K. (Sourcing abbreviations explained in other image on this post.) Notes from The Collected Poems of Bertold Brecht, translated and edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine (2018). For every poem, these notes provide the original German title; the volume and page reference to the standard German edition (the /Grosse kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe/, abbreviated as BFA) on which our versions are, for the most part, based; the date or approximate date of composition; the date of first publication (indicated by P) insofar as we have been able to ascertain it -- for poems first published after Brecht's death we have not always gone beyond the principal Suhrkamp Verlag publications; and the initials or name of the translator.
September 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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air quotes
September 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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"there is only one way to do north and if you didn't pick it up the first, second, or third time, maybe when west gets done they will come help you out"
Close-up of the first step on the "North" path of the Octovine map meta flowchart as posted by a Reddit user in the previous skeet. The question is "Did you take the Chemtrails Cannon 9000?" The 'yes' branch leads onward. The 'no' branch loops back into the same question. [An arrow from another later step reroutes back to this question, firmly indicating that if you fail, this is the only way you start again.]
September 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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6. IDK if WoW has this also, but many high-end GW2 players also promote or create Low Intensity (LI) builds for people to play. Think hybrid/support-level dps numbers, not min/max cutting edge.

see also: annual Extra Life charity event + one of the fractal titles is "Leaves No Hero Behind" title.
Achievement pane from the GW2 wiki, showing "Be Dynamic" from Fractals of the Mists. Achievement hint text: "Accept the harbinger's challenge and complete the Shattered Observatory fractal with no one in your group being defeated." Flavor text: "A full party of five must participate in the fractal from start to finish without dying." Title (reward): Leaves No Hero Behind
September 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
myrsora.bsky.social
what the actual fuck

I'm just *so angry* right now.
text from end of https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html And at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in. “I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March. “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”
August 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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from Emily Wilson's 2018 translation:

"All who pass this way hear honeyed song / poured from our mouths. ... The music brings them joy, / and they go on their way with greater knowledge, / ... and we know whatever happens anywhere on earth."
text from Emily Wilson's 2018 translation of The Odyssey by Homer, book 12: Difficult Choices, p307 / lines 178-194. of each man in his turn. They bound my hands and feet, straight upright at the mast. They sat and hit the sea with oars. We traveled fast, and when we were in earshot of the Sirens, they knew our ship was near, and started singing. 'Odysseus! Come here! You are well-known from many stories! Glory of the Greeks! Now stop your ship and listen to our voices. All those who pass this way hear honeyed song, poured from our mouths. The music brings them joy, and they go on their way with greater knowledge, since we know everything the Greeks and Trojans suffered in Troy, by gods' will; and we know whatever happens anywhere on earth.' Their song was so melodious, I longed to listen more. I told my men to free me. I scowled at them, but they kept rowing on.
August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Kronk voice: "oh yeah. it's all comin' together."
Anki desktop styling window for a custom card type. On the left, the edit pane shows the styling code for the Back Template of the DE>EN card, which contains a combination of HTML and Anki-specific curly-bracket tags. On the right pane is a preview of the card after styling takes effect. Displayed is a card for the German verb 'treiben', with a focus on the definition in the context of the Käpt'n Blaubär book, a typing answer sample correction, other meanings/contexts of the word, and some of the word conjugations that I find useful.
August 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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let me know when y'all get to WoD because I forgot I wrote this little poem in one of the loot lists

blizzardwatch.com/2015/02/14/b...
Screenshot snippet of an article on Blackrock raid loot for Warlocks in WoW. Header is "BLACK FORGE", then a bold "Hans'gar & Franzok" boss heading, then the poem (text in brackets links out to a similar item): Each reset you’ll find down in Slagmill Press Twin fairytale orcs with footwork finesse. Kill them together, the loot you shall find Is just two pieces, one and one combined. Choose [versatile shoulders] and you’ll look like a priest. But [a mage’s tier robe]? Over my body, deceased.
July 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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(I usually only scroll my subs page, but) can we talk about how on the home page of YouTube, the distance between each video varies, such that you can't scroll all the way down without triggering any videos to auto-preview-play
Very cropped screenshot showing the intersection of four videos in the corners, such that the spacing between the two videos on top is narrower than the spacing between the two videos on the bottom, and the spacing on the bottom is just barely by pixels to the left, so the right side of each spacing looks like it will line up but doesn't. Very cropped screenshot showing the intersection of four videos in the corners, such that the spacing between the two videos on top looks similar in width to the spacing between the two videos on the bottom, but the spacing on the bottom is very obviously set farther to the left than those on top.
July 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM