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S. H. Marr
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I'm definitely feeling A Way about this joke in today's OotS, but I have yet to ascertain what direction that way is heading.
A screenshot of the last two rows of Order of the Stick #1335. O-Chul, a paladin man: I appreciate the suggestion, but honestly, I prefer to keep my scars. They serve to remind me of the adversity I have already overcome to get this far. Minrah, a young dwarf cleric: That makes sense. I thought I'd put it out there since a lot of warriors change their mind when they retire and start looking at dating O-Chul: Thank you, but I have never had any interest in such pursuits, and I am unlikely to change my mind. Minrah: Okay, fair enough, forget I said-- Sunny, a young orange Beholder: Wait, are you asexual? Me too!! O-Chul: I...suppose so. I don't usually use that term... Sunny: So how do you reproduce? Parthogenesis? Budding? Or mitosis? Do you split into two smaller versions of yourself? Wait, is that where gnomes come from?? O-Chul: No. How do I put this? I reproduce by living my life in such a way that my deeds might inspire others and my ideals may take root in their hearts. Thus, when I am gone, there will still be those who are my descendants. At least in the way that matters to me. Sunny: Ohhhhhh, like /spores/. O-Chul: Yes. I make invisible mind spores. Sunny: That is so cool!!
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Ooooh, whole seconds!

Come on, I need those seconds to tuck my credit card back in my wallet anyway.

This world is so relentlessly stupid.
Wendy’s says generative AI has helped shave seconds off customer wait times
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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From my Dem congressman.

Honestly, I said no. I want the government back open, but like. IDK. Stop with this "bipartisan" nonsense.

Also, the GOP refuses to vote anyway, so...? What's he looking for as an answer here?
I want to know what you think. Do you support a bipartisan solution to reopen the government and make health care more affordable?
October 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Decided to check FB for like my once a year check, and found this from 13 years ago.

Remember when the web wasn't all algorithms?

Jesus this was depressing.
A shoddily-censored screenshot from FB. It reads, from 13 years ago today, "Today, Facebook decided to show me a post from Barack Obama even though I don't like him on Facebook. None of my friends shared the post. Facebook simply decided to tell me what I should like."
October 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Well, if I'm going to keep buying colored pens, I should actually...use them.

Although this was the Pigma Microns, because I mean. If I have 'em...
Photo taken of a lined journal open with two satin strings to mark pages hanging down across the page. The journal is propped open to show two pages covered in tiny handwriting in red pen.
September 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I don’t really understand how Californian laws work, I guess, but why tf does this man want money from me to pass a bill?

Go yell at the legislators for free or something and stop bumming at my phone.
Spam text from fucking Gavin Newsom begging for money even though I do not and have never lived in California so why is he on my phone and how did he get this number? How do I make him stop he keeps doing this? It reads “Hi there. It's Gavin Newsom. I'm reaching out to respectfully ask you to make a contribution to help me pass the Election Rigging Response Act in California. I want to stress the importance of this ask: ballots drop in just a few weeks and our opponents have already started paid advertising because one man with a history of giving to extremist causes and candidates contributed $10 million. We will put your donation right to work getting on the air with our own ads. This is critical. Folks... God help us if we're not successful here. We may have enjoyed our last free and fair election. They're redrawing districts to hold…”
August 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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#DrawABird
Picture of a piece of paper with a thin line drawing of a bird in silhouette in pencil. The artist definitely did not use a reference nor do they remember what a bird looks like, but it seems like probably some kind of small songbird/robin/sparrow type thing. It looks mournfully up at a god who had no mercy on this horrific creature. The lighting of the photo is extremely not white. The photographer needs to buy new lightbulbs.
August 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Thought seeing Halloween stuff in the grocery store on August 1st was bad, and then I saw the turkeys.
Plastic trick-or-treat buckets in green, orange, and purple on the top of a store shelf. Under it are purple, green, and black table covers. More grocery store shelves filled with plastic skeletons, glittery spiders and spiderwebs, jack-o-lantern candles and other assorted Halloween paraphernalia that's not entirely distinguishable at a quick glance. A friggin' wood turkey with a pilgrim hat and "give thanks" written on it in WASP Wine Mom Font in white. It's on a shelf over an assortment of "Tuscany" candles.
August 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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And while I messed up the exact quote, the line is, in fact, in a book.

It's called "Another Fine Myth" by Robert Asprin.
Wonky photo of a page in a print book. For some reason this seemed to set Isstvan off into peals of laughter from his eyes. "We are going to have such fun this afternoon!" He gestured absently and the inn door slammed shut. There was a sudden ripple of dull clinks behind me, and I realized the room doors were locking themselves. We were sealed in! All of us. "I don't believe I've had such a good time since I made love to my week-dead sister." Isstvan's voice was still jovial, but it struck an icy note of fear within me. I realized that not only was he a powerful magician, he was quite insane.
August 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I have the best friends in the world.

Love you, @lkarcadi.bsky.social
A photo of a square blue, white, purple, and black crochet blanket my friend made spread over a black bedspread. We're going to ignore the pajamas and pillow lumps under the bedspread. Those aren't the point. The point is the very pretty blanket with the mandala center and gorgeous scalloping.
July 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Weirdly enough, the definition in the dictionary is correct.
aromantic adjective : having little or no romantic feeling toward others : experiencing little or no romantic desire or attraction
July 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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... @merriam-webster.com, you're literally the dictionary, c'mon, guys...that's the wrong one...
Filled out crossword clue: ARO
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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It is, however, WRONG.
Filled in crossword clue: "ARO"
July 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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On today's (tomorrow's) @merriam-webster.com crossword.

!!!!
ACROSS 28 ADJECTIVE: "experiencing little or no [physical] desire or atrraction"
July 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Fully 80% of all parents with a child age 11 or younger say their child ever watches videos on YouTube, with 53% reporting that their child does this daily, including about a third who say this happens several times a day (35%).
July 15, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Nearly one-in-five parents of a child younger than 12 say their child has their own smartphone
July 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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NET children who began engaging with a smartphone before age 5: 60%
July 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Ages seven to nine According to a 2014 report by the non-profit group MediaSmarts, 24 percent of Canadian children in grade four—some as young as eight years old—own mobile phones. Cheng says his advice for younger kids also applies to this age group: no phones. However, if some parents want their kids to have phones to keep in touch when they’re away from home, he says an old-school flip phone without Internet access will do just fine.
July 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Children, on average, get their first phones at 11.6 years old. By age 15, almost all children have a cell phone.
July 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Colors I love wearing...

I like jewel tones and blacks.
Pantone "Meteorite" shade. A dark grayish black. Literally just picked a black. Pantone "Dark Blue C". A vivid blue color. Pantone "Winery"--a deep rusty red. Pantone "Beacon Blue". A navy sort of color.
July 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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HELP
Student Records Reveal Bowdoin Alum Mamdani Never Attended Classes At Columbia Mamdani's Economic Message Failed to Move These Trump Voters In Rural Tennessee Diner Mamdani's Modest Bank Balance Suggests Susceptibility to Favors Mamdani Claims Subway Is Safe. We Rode It Once to Delmonico's In 1987 And We Did Not Feel Safe
July 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Well this lil baby was NOT in the manga, so I have no idea what they're adding in this week's episode, but I hope he has a teeny Stan to accompany him.
Anime still from the teaser for this week's episode of Dr. STONE, featuring a child Dr. Xeno Wingfield with silver hair brushed out of his face with a little pompadour, wearing heavy green safety goggles with blue lenses. He has a teeny satisfied smile and you can see the lapels of a white lab coat and perhaps the collar of a black t-shirt. He's holding something indistinct and out of frame.
July 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I want a heist movie with just the most useless spy cameras of all time.
A text group with my parents and older brother. Mom: Cat sitter is feeding dinner now. Could someone please answer about the plates and such and let us know if there was a schedule change? Me: Wtf why was I asked to come over and feed the cats tonight if someone else was? Why am I here then? Mom: Maybe it was you I saw on camera Me: And no one told me about the rest of these chores that need to happen I did not agree to all that Mom: I guess I don't know my own child Same group text. Mom: Yes apparently I don't know what my child looks like sorry it was you I saw Mom: Not the pet sitter Me: Weirdo spy cameras. Da: Pretty much
July 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I'm avoiding my novel edits by...writing something else, apparently. It's kind of mess of obscenely long sentences, poor word choices, and typos because it's existed for about ten minutes and I haven't edited at all, but I think I kind of like it?
Dragon eggs glowed when they were about to hatch. Well, they also glowed before that. And sometimes the shards even had a fluorescent sheen that made them popular in jewelry, if people could be persuaded to part with them after the hatchlings had arrived. But the glow before they hatched was special, an inner light that was only sometimes the color of the dragon inside, but always, always, always a color that their rider was drawn to instinctively, their feet moving as if possessed by the glowing egg itself. That, of course, assumed its rider was near enough to see it. Sight didn’t matter so much—the light possessed who it possessed regardless. But there was nonetheless a distance to the effect. Or so everyone said. Cal Markland knew better. He had stepped off a twelve hour flight only an hour before his boots crunched the warm sand of a dragon nesting ground halfway across the world from the ones he was used to. If he had been aware enough of his surroundings, he could have clocked the different shady trees, the low stone walls unlike the frail wooden fences that kept each egg apart from its littermates his local ones preferred, even the way each egg was nestled into black volcanic sand instead of white. But he wasn’t, because his feet and mind were focused wholly on an egg tucked far to the back of the grounds, glowing a color he couldn’t have named if he tried.
June 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Hey, DuckDuckGo, what the FUCK is happening in your algorithm?
A page of internet search results for the search term "milking" Three results are shown. The first and third results are titled "prostate milking (massage): Definition and how to do it" and "how long does it take to milk a prostate." The second result is the Wikipedia page for "milking" It is patently unclear why the algorithm decided to return any results about prostates or sexual acts at all.
June 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM