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Every now and then I think about how most of the universe, between dark matter and voids, is essentially invisible to us, and I have a brief mental schism- either we (planet-bound organic life tied to stellar systems and made of baryonic matter) are the bacteria that squirms atop vast soap bubbles of nothingness, or we are the bacteria that squirms atop a windshield while the rest of the universe carries on within, vaster and more numerous than we can imagine.

And that's just the maximal scale. Bring it down to even just our star system and you can get a little dizzy just thinking about the distance from here to the fucking MOON much less Mars or god help you Neptune and beyond into the black. About how this planet is a real oddball thanks to a big moon, a big iron core making a strong magnetic field which allows for life altering the atmosphere, the temperature, even the topography a bit.

Might go have a lie down now. It's really cool to think about, but I am still fundamentally an ape with indoor plumbing and my mind is easily blown by the infinite.

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Go here:

Generate 1 Pokémon, doesn’t matter if you know anything about Pokémon or not

Based on looks + whatever knowledge you have about it, COULD YOU TAKE THIS POKÉMON IN A PHYSICAL FIGHT?

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it’s ween

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He died a bit over ten years ago, but today would've been my dad's 73rd birthday, and the Dodgers won the world series. He'd have been fucking thrilled beyond description. I miss him, but his team winning makes it a little lighter this year.

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Today's Seal Is: Serpent's Tongue

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i love baikal seals. they always look like they've just gotten out of a sixteen year relationship and are now having an existential crisis. sopping wet cats. weirdly smooth. i love them.

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You know that Amazon review of the like... sugar-free haribo bears thing that gave people like. Biblical plague levels of gastrointestinal despair?

I have been having... some issues, of late, and I am starting to think the no sugar added peanut butter crunch chocolate things I've been eating might be implicated in the matter.

Gonna avoid them for a while and see what happens.

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I've tried not to be especially vocal about my dislike for DT because it's FFXIV's sacrificial trash and any noise I make about my genuine, good-faith issues with the story's focus, pacing, and slew of incomplete and half-baked ideas will ultimately just add to the deluge of transphobic and misogynistic haters.

But that said, I think there have also been plenty of bad faith defenders who have made it. VERY annoying to talk about Dawntrail with any kind of sincerity. I understand where they're coming from, I understand that impulsive, reactionary defense because you're uncertain if someone's critique is made in good-faith, but paranoid readings of any and all critique is also really unhealthy to a community and more importantly, makes it so that good-faith criticism which creators NEED to address issues is only going to get silenced and drowned out by bad faith actors.

I would love if the talk around DT was about real things in the story that are actual problems instead of this one fucking cat.

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Hanging out with some friends tonight- said friends average about 10 years younger than I am because they're my spouse's friends first so they're more her age. One of said friends is dating someone ten years or so younger than him, who proudly boasted of her skills at Mario kart. I had a think about it and realized that the last time I played a Mario kart game- the first one, for the snes -she would've been... about negative six? Years old? And instantly my bones turned to dust and mold consumed my flesh.

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Spouse, speaking to her friend about her mmo and ttrpg characters: "most of my rogues are little dudes"

Me, distracted, mishearing "most of my ROBES are little dudes"

Cue moment of deep confusion

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my spouse needs some sort of background noise to sleep, which is almost never a problem for me, and even in this instance isn't a problem but it did cause the following anecdote.

so I'm dreaming and for whatever reason the dream incorporates the TV show in the background (Murdoch Mysteries) with weird elements of dimensional transposition (there was a person who was able to swap places with beings in another dimension, then swap back, but it always carried side effects for other people in both dimensions) and sandworms ala Dune.

I don't recall the full plot but the dimensional transposer guy was a villain who was somehow forcing a bunch of people to dig a vertical pit, while local people were being gradually half-fused with otherdimensional beings and acquiring debilitating mutations, there was a detective trying to solve the case of the missing people (the ones enslaved to build the pit) who got drawn into the mutant shenanigans and like other creatures who were not equipped to survive in our reality would occasionally come through, rampage out of fear and pain, and then die, which also threw a wrench into the investigation. Eventually the detective was getting too close so the villain somehow brought over a sandworm, let it to his pit, and had it destroy it/devour the people he'd enslaved so there was no evidence. So the detective shot him and then arrested himself.

weird shit, man.

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Brief update:

Things are mostly good, apart from some stomach issues. They seem to get worse when I lie down, unfortunately.

End statement.

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He has been imprisoned for impersonating a single grain of rice