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WARNING FOR ANYONE WITH AUDITORY EPILEPSY AS OF 8/23/25 - theres a new ad for i think it was "the conjuring" ? that starts with yellow text that reads "test your hearing, best to wear headphones" -

THE FREQUENCY THAT PLAYS SECONDS IN IS A SEIZURE INDUCING PITCH!

please mute the ad or click skip!! in our ad we couldn't click skip in time because it made us sit through the beginning of the pitch.

PLEASE STAY SAFE and avoid this ad's audio if you're seizures or migraines are triggered by high frequency noises!

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everyone say thank you ancient central and south american agricultural heroes for beans

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let's form structures with mamas

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Uncomfortable facts of life:

Nobody's going to magically swoop in to rescue you. You can't just sit there and expect someone else to come save you. You have to get your shit together and do it yourself.

About 90% of the time, the "it" you have to do on your own is pushing yourself to walk up to someone else and use your words to say "hey I need help."

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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Go my scarab

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bad guy: *lowering me into a pit of piranhas*

me: just so you know that pool is not big enough for them at all and they also don't have any foliage to hide within in order to feel safe and by the way you obviously haven't been feeding them enough if they're ready to rend the flesh from my bone, the water looks scummy, and your pulley system looks extremely unsafe and none of your goons are wearing PPE despite the jagged spikes and open leaky pipes and-

bad guy: *frantically lowering the crank faster* please just die

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raidcore

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We are all now very invested in a summer journey of a moose from Poland that is probably trying to go to Šumava (south west of CZ) via an ancient moose migration route to join the local herd of 15 (!) mooses. He is crossing the forests, cities, rivers and ponds alone and I really hope he makes it! 🫶

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i have a youtube video about the use of jumpscares in horror games playing in the background while I work, and it reminded me of the single worst jumpscare i've ever experienced, which happened while I was playing a little game I like to call... Google Maps. (you play Google Maps by turning on street view, zooming in to somewhere that looks interesting, and clicking on any 360 photo views that people might have uploaded. i have spent many hours of my life playing Google Maps)

Anyway, spin this guy around to see something that legitimately made me jump so hard that I damn near threw my drink across the room

(more info under the cut if you're worried about what you'll see)

there's a fish very close to the camera

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has anyone noticed that to clean smth u often have to get smth else dirty

massively fucked up

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i love it when italians argue about italian. like we don’t even know how our language really works we just roll with it

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(work in progress)

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You guys! You can get the whole Murderbot Diaries series and have it benefit charity right now! I am so obsessed with it, I cannot recommend this series enough! And it helps feed people in need, what else do you want?!

Other works by Martha Wells, you say? Well it has that too, go look!!!

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shoutout to my homies who are deeply bizarre and have something wrong with them