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old lady in majora's mask: oh thank you for helping me young child, as a reward here is a bomb you can strap to your face. yes it only works if you're wearing it.

From #PrivateEye

#Humour #Cartoon #Lockdown #Timezones

blackout poetry

before and after i get compressed into a .tar.gz

This is very much worth thinking about given the current events:

"As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."

The Onion IMHO

discord: tell us about your call. how did it go? how was it?? good? not good?

me: not good

discord: how so?? how can we improve??

me: ughhhh. well. my D&D character got REALLY badly hurt

"The sea is so beautiful," the sailor said.
"It truly is," the mermaid said.
"Yet so wild, unpredictable and cruel."
"What? No, the sea is calm, regular, and comforting."
"No, there are storms and hurricanes and-"
"Those are not the sea. Those are the sky clawing at the sea."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

When does the infotainment media not call a politically motivated suicide bomber who takes out a critical emergency telecommunications facility a terrorist? When do the police with specific foreknowledge of his bomb making and intentions do nothing to stop him?

When it is a white male conservative QAnon fanatic.

"Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows"

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/29/nashville-explosion-woman-warned-mnpd-warner-building-bomb-2019/4082253001/

#xkcd: #FirstThing

https://xkcd.com/2404/

Exceptionally well-preserved snack bar unearthed in Pompeii

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/26/exceptionally-well-preserved-snack-bar-unearthed-in-pompeii

#History #Food

An observation from June 2020. Grammodes geometrica, a moth spotted while walking at Coney Island, Singapore. One of those lucky sightings: if I had looked elsewhere while walking past that spot, I would have missed it.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51453494 ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Singapore #Photography #2020 #Insects #Moths #Lepidoptera

Looks like Amazon is retiring the Goodreads API, which just another step towards basically abandoning Goodreads and folding it into some other Amazon service I guess: https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API

My advice? Get off Goodreads while you still can (ie export your content) and move over to StoryGraph: https://beta.thestorygraph.com

A black-owned startup finally developing a viable alternative to Goodreads. Fuck yeah!

(Why not LibraryThings? Because, guess what.. it’s also owned by Amazon!)

Pro-tip for queuing at the supermarket checkout:

Keep your trolley *behind* you, so people can't come too close, breathing down your neck. You still get to control the distance to the person ahead of you.

I have done my prep for tonight's D&D games.

Fortunately nothing bad is going to happen, so the prep was fairly easy.

Yep, nothing bad at all. Not even a mild sense of foreboding.

excited for this winter storm