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This is the most devastatingly accurate birding meme I've ever seen, bar none

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This anti-piracy PSA was on every DVD in the mid to late 2000s. It tried to demonize piracy by convincing people that using bittorrent was as bad as stealing somebody's car. But as Wikipedia says:

According to the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, the announcement was unsuccessful, and was largely a source of ridicule. Likewise, a 2022 behavioral economics paper published in The Information Society found the PSAs may, in fact, have increased piracy rates. By 2009, over 100 parodies of the announcement had been created

Even though it came out halfway through the 2000s, it's still using the 90s grunge aesthetic. The font used is FF Confidential, created in 1992 by Just van Rossum.

FF Confidential is an allcaps font, but in place of the lowercase it has a more distressed version of the uppercase, allowing you to control how grungy it is by hitting capslock.

Just van Rossum is a collaborator of Erik van Blokland, who created the font formerly known as FF Trixie and now known LTR NCND, another distressed typewriter font that was popular in the 90s. (Also he is the brother of Guido van Rossum, who created the Python programming language.)

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love when a mother asks if they have ever done anything to hurt you. ma'am, you will literally never be ready to have this conversation

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Welcome to another edition of, time is a linear constant that we can't escape while we occupy this dimension.

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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My medieval servant boy has gone missing. I’ll just use Google to see if I can find him.

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Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

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What the fuck is this thing selling me?

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you know what really gets my goat?

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Thera the deaf ferret gets a surprise!

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@importantdogimages

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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yuo think inanimate objects can't have performance anxiety until you meat my friend Public Bathroom Soap Dispenser

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what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like