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"you gotta play with the cards you're dealt" WRONG. i play pot of greed which lets me draw two additional cards from my deck

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'god i wish i had smart in stem autism instead of blorbo autism' is such weak mentality because if you have stem autism your special interests wouldn't be something like curing cancer or fusion reaction but about lambda calculus and katydid morphology

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A library that only contains used notebooks

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no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

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my new hobby is reading the reviews for parking lots

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just switched to from youtube to self-hosted inviduous, reimported my subscriptions, and holy shit youtube's been hiding so much of my subscribed shit from my recommendeds. i forgot half of these guys. and i love their videos. y'all. where have they been. i love my subscriptions.

all this time the algorithm's been feeding me fuckall. they gave me that stupid AI prompt like "tell us what you wanna watch." when i literally gave them the answers. the fuck.

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You can just write code You can just make a software project

for some reason, "you can just do an art project" unlocked a realization that "you can just make art" wasn't able to access.

like yeah i know i can set aside an afternoon and sketch a still life.

but also i can, like. select a random marine creature from a hat and then research them and then spend a bit of time in the evenings and weekends over the course of a few weeks making a diorama.

or i can make an abstract sculpture out of scrap cardboard and masking tape, and then paper mache over it, and then paint it.

or i can draw something with markers and color it in with crayons.

i dunno why it took me so long to realize that, in the same way that i can revisit the games and hobbies that i enjoyed as a kid, and i can orchestrate "presentation parties" so my friends and i can flex our slideshow animation skills, i can also Make Art, Grade School Style (and not just Grownup Art/School Style)

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oh, to be a resonant trans-Neptunian object

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phineas and ferb and three whos from whoville versus a mad max. contraption competition

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update: i figured it out

Sometimes I kinda wish it were more acceptable to ask lookup-able questions.

I just saw a CLI tool detect the height of my terminal and adjust its output to fit exactly in the terminal, and I wondered, "how does it know how big the terminal is"?

I thought this was a fun question, because it seemed on the boundary of something I probably could figure out on my own, but not very well. I kinda wanted to ask it to some folks, because it seems like a fun question. But I also just know that the answer is on stackexchange, you can probably find it with a search in less than 20 bytes. No point asking.

I kinda wanna try and find the answer without a search engine out of spite. Surely it exists in some docs that I have on-hand, or maybe a textbook. Sounds like a fun adventure.

But the answer's always there, beckoning one from that thorny, uncharted path to the well-paved road that's destroyed ecosystems and served generations.

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Sometimes I kinda wish it were more acceptable to ask lookup-able questions.

I just saw a CLI tool detect the height of my terminal and adjust its output to fit exactly in the terminal, and I wondered, "how does it know how big the terminal is"?

I thought this was a fun question, because it seemed on the boundary of something I probably could figure out on my own, but not very well. I kinda wanted to ask it to some folks, because it seems like a fun question. But I also just know that the answer is on stackexchange, you can probably find it with a search in less than 20 bytes. No point asking.

I kinda wanna try and find the answer without a search engine out of spite. Surely it exists in some docs that I have on-hand, or maybe a textbook. Sounds like a fun adventure.

But the answer's always there, beckoning one from that thorny, uncharted path to the well-paved road that's destroyed ecosystems and served generations.

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you ever notice that most wallpapers online emphasize the center, but that's like, where your stuff is gonna be. so like. it should have a more frame-like composition. innit

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fuckin' hardware, how does it work

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thinking about the meme potential of the "Great perspective" 1-click reply button on LinkedIn

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The Drop trait

reblog with your favorite rust feature

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tumblr sometimes makes me remember how much i'm into speculative fiction