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I wish depression were an emergency. I wish someone could take one look at how sick I am and go “oh my god, we need to get you to a hospital!” and then when we get there I get rushed into surgery and the surgeons say “it’s a good thing you brought her here when you did, this is a seriously advanced case” and then they put me under and spend the next ten hours pulling metres of long, sticky black strands of gunk out of my body, throwing it immediately into an incinerator so that it can’t infect anyone else. And then they could stitch me back up and I could rest a few days, and when I leave the hospital everyone can see how much better I am and they congratulate me saying “well done, you’ve been so brave, I’m so glad you’re ok. I love you.”

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some of my friends said that me being so nice about herobrine makes them happy because of how often he's portrayed as malicious and evil (and how i at times portray him as misunderstood because of this) really just. had me thinking.

modern minecraft horror, especially those horror videos or args / etc that feature herobrine, entirely miss the point of the 'horror of herobrine'. SO often do they make him extrmely evil, like entity 303 style, and have him out to Get You so he can kill you/otherwise harm you.

but... the horror of herobrine? it was never about him being malicious, or evil, or out to get you, or destroy something you made or kill your pets, or take your stuff. the point, and why he was scary, was that his existence was impossible, that it should be impossible for something else, especially something player-like, to alter your singleplayer world.

that's what was scary about him. it was that he was doing something that was impossible, and back when his myth started, it made sense too — a glitch where blocks didn't line up correctly and would occasionally have eye-like white lines between them existed, and because people knew so little about the game (as compared to now, where we have people who know the ins and outs of minecraft's code and mechanics (shoutout scicraft), it was super easy to assign that to the myth of herobrine (or as it started, the 'white eyes' myth, which later morphed into herobrine) to various glitches, especially the one where white eye-like shapes would appear in the dark and deep fog.

and that's not to mention, everything he ever did? it wasn't something that largely affected you. quoting from the original 4chan post; "as i expanded the world i saw things that seemed out of place for the random map generator to make; 2x2 tunnels in the rocks, small perfect pyramids made of sand in the ocean, and groves of trees with all their leaves cut off."

he dug random tunnels, built small sand pyramids in the ocean, and deleafed trees. funnily enough redstone torches weren't even mentioned once! they weren't actually associated with herobrine until a server pluggin called "iLoveYou." was created (and that's also when the summoning altar is from too!), where he'd have the same behaviours as the oriignal creepypasta, including new behaviours, which were placing redstone torches, teleporting behind players, building underground dungeons and luring players into traps (the latter three you don't really see in more faithful herorbrine retellings). of course there's been many other abilities given to herobrine through other mods and plugins, but we won't be delving into those (other than an offhanded mention in these parenthesis that one of the actual mods let him use tools, because i thought that was interesting). it's really interesting how, despite the first original incarnations of herobrine had no association with redstone torches, and yet it's iconic to him nowadays.

all the malice and intent to harm you was introduced in later fan-made interpretations, but in the sources largely considered original? he just existed, maybe chilled in your house a little or floated above some lava (brocraft streams), dug some tunnels, built some pyramids, observed you from the borders of the deep fog, and deleafed some forests (original 4chan post).

that was the horror. the scare was that his existence and actions were supposed to be impossible, because it shouldnt be possible for a non-existent player to exist in your world, and alter or change it like you could. it wasn't that he was evil. it wasn't that he wanted to kill you. it was that he was just like you, and that it shouldn't be possible for him to be like you.

barely any modern minecraft horror projects portray him like this. it's all malice and evil intent and wanting to kill you. and that entirely misses the point of herobrine, and the horror of having him in your world.

and honestly, if the way people have talked about herobrine in the tags of my mc art series, and how they wanted to be his friend even way back when he was new, and still extremely scary tells me anything, its that if herobrine can be loved, so can you.

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look at the excitement in his body language

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you know how some people sleep with guns or knives under their pillows for protection? KEEP YOUR KNIGHT IN YOUR BED INSTEAD!! FOR SAFETY REASONS!! THAT'S YOUR LIVING WEAPON!!!! #mylivingweapon

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i simply don't think nonbinary people should have to see having our gender/s respected and acknowledged as a luxury. i think it's frankly sickening that that's the state of things tbh.

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You idiot…………… You just fed that american a Slutburger.

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donald trump will die on july 20th 2025 at 1pm pacific standard time

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this is romance

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If you’re using Skype you should dump it and get Discord instead!

Pros:

Cleaner, easier to navigate interface

Free servers for more permanent group chat things (way easier to hop in and out of chats)

You can actually have different nicknames on each server if you want

Is actually well built and doesn’t make your computer yearn for death

Stuff coming down the pipeline soon according to devs:

Video chat

Linux client

Cons:

All your friends aren’t on it

But you can change that

Download it. It’s great and it’s only getting better. It’s aimed at gamers but it has nearly all the functionality of Skype and then some.

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My, my… what big teeth you have! Meet the Pacific stargazer (Astroscopus zephyreus). Found in coastal waters from California to Peru, this fish is an ambush hunter. Spending most of its life buried beneath the sand, the stargazer’s upturned face is an adaptation that allows it to see even when most of its body is concealed. What’s more? This species is capable of stunning prey with electrical shocks of up to 50 volts! Photo: alboertoalcala, CC BY 4.0 iNaturalist

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does anyone have that 4chan post about the guy who got like. deradicalised from being an incel because he started taking care of shrimp?

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Piping plovers have made a dramatic comeback.

Author: Rob Caldwell

Published: 3:53 PM EDT June 30, 2025

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — In a world where encouraging stories about conservation and the environment seem all too rare, it’s heartening to hear what has happened in the last 44 years to piping plovers in Maine.

In 1981, according to Maine Audubon coastal bird biologist Sophie Garland, the state had 10 pairs of plovers nesting on its beaches. This year, there are 174 pairs.

That dramatic increase did not occur by accident or happenstance. Back in 1981 , the Maine Audubon began monitoring, counting, and working to protect plovers as part of its Coastal Birds Project. The mission goes on today on 26 beaches stretching from York County to Reid State Park in Georgetown.

Garland and another Audubon coastal bird biologist, Katie Burns, spend much of the summer walking those beaches, binoculars in hand, scanning for plovers, which are an endangered species. To the untrained eye, the birds can be difficult to spot because their feathers blend in so well with the sand as they nest.

While the locations vary, a key part of the job does not. 

“Know where the nests are,” Garland said as she stood on Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport. “Know where the pairs are that are nesting, and know where their chicks are.”

The other part of the job is educating the public. Garland and Burns spend a lot of time talking to visitors on the beach, explaining why the tiny plovers are so vulnerable.

People who don’t know better can step on nests, get too close and stress plovers, or let dogs threaten the birds by running unleashed. Management areas have been set up and educational signs posted on parts of the beach where the birds nest.

“When you see [a management area marked with] stake and twine, don't sit right up against it,” Burns said. “Give it plenty of space—100 feet, if you can."

If you're planning to toss a frisbee or build sand castles, sharing the space is particularly important. 

“If you're playing catch on the beach, do it towards the shore away from the management area so you don't disturb chicks or the nest," she added. "Basically, just give the birds as much space as you can.”

The education efforts have clearly paid off, as the growing numbers of plovers in Maine demonstrate. After talking with some folks on the beach who were delighted to receive one her “Plover Lover” stickers, Burns offered a final thought to them: “Thank you for caring about the birds.”

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today at work a coworker warned me that my patient’s owner let us know her cat is homophobic, meaning he tends to attack gay people violently on sight, which I thought was a joke. but that cat saw me and may have been the angriest cat I’ve ever worked with and DID in fact bite me through Kevlar gloves because he hated me so much

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you will NEVER be able to guess what this post from the official US government consumer product safety commission was in response to (under the cut)

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Captions shouldn't be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

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i think if i was a biillionare i simply wouldnt be a billionare. like id buy myself everything i could ever need and give the rest away. idk why someone would need to sit on so much money like girl. use it. youre not gonna be alive forever.