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I really think retro video games are onto something with their complete disregard for which artefacts of the medium are actually characteristic of which eras. I think we should extend it to other media – like, forget a GBA retroclone with a CRT filter, I want to see a black and white silent film with baked-in VHS tracking errors.

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a one vampire quest to singlehandedly experiment with wheat genomes for millenia

I know vampirism is often used as a metaphor for the drain of the aristocracy but I think it would be fun to have more vampire characters who were just some guy before they got turned. You seek out the most ancient vampire in existence and find out he was a 40 year old wheat farmer in ancient Mesopotamia when he was turned 7,000 years ago and he hasn’t been doing much since then.

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your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

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Cats Stealing Food in Paintings

Still Life with Cat (1705) by Desportes, It's no use crying over spilt milk (1880) by Frank Paton, Still Life of the Remnants of a Meal with a Lunging Cat (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Fish Still Life with Two Cats (1781) by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, Still Life with a Cat and a Mackerel on a Table Top (18th Century) by Giovanni Rivalta, The Collared Thief (1860) by William James Webbe, Cat Stealing a String of Sausages (17th Century) by Abraham van Beyeren, Still Life with a Cat (1760) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Kitchen Still Life with Fish and Cat (ca. 1650) by Sebastian Stoskopff, An Oyster Supper (1882) by Horatio Henry Couldery, Still Life with an Ebony Chest (17th Century) by Frans Snyders, Still Life with a Cat (1724) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Attacking Dead Game (18th Century) by Alexandre-François Desportes, Still Life of Fresh-Water Fish with a Cat (1656) by Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Fruits and Ham with a Cat and a Parrot (18th Century) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, A Cat Holding a Fish in Its Mouth (18th Century) by Sebastiano Lazzari, Still Life with a Cat and a Hare (18th Century) by Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Rayfish (1728) by Jean-Siméon Chardin, A Cat with Dead Game (1711) by Alexandre-Francois Desportes, Still Life with Cat and Fish (1728) by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

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WE’RE SO BACK!!!!

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It makes me so angry that Trump's favorite song is the gayest song in existence and he has no clue and he even dances like he is yanking dicks and I can't laugh at this because facism.

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not retail but research: i worked on a proton beam line at a particle physics experiment. a part of that was the use of a cryogenic moderator, i think it was made of xenon but this is over a decade ago, and that part was not important to my work. we had a new masters student join the project for a place and they had the fun job of configuring the proton beam line for the new experimental run. it is dull work but important. i heard the student was having a problem where it was getting worse and worse performance no matter what they did. after a fortnight of this more and more of the professors and supervisors were visiting him in the lab to try and help him get it to work. all of them were struggling too, and what was meant to be a small problem for the masters student to work out was beginning to consume more and more of the group. at our weekly meeting this issue was brought up and the masters student had a long ppt going through everything they had tried. on the third or fourth slide they mentioned fixing the connections for the cryogenic system for the moderator. i said 'did you fix the leak', and almost annoyed at me they said that obviously they had fixed the leak. i told him you shouldn't have fixed the leak, it only works if that leak is present. it worked 36 hours later and i think that masters student gave up on experimental physics at that moment

my god you're fucked: the lady at the help desk just went to ask someone else for help with your issue and everyone's got a confused look on

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SEVERANCE (2022- )

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get involved in mutual aid people literally need someone to make spreadsheets for them all the time

i love making spreadsheets. the only problem with making spreadsheets is that i don't have enough things to turn into spreadsheets. the spreadsheet market is in shambles. but i can't just ask people if i'm allowed to make them spreadsheets, because if you go up to someone and go can i make you a spreadsheet they go literally why would you do that. but Sometimes you can social engineer your way into making a spreadsheet for someone and that's the most beautiful feeling in the world.

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you can't just ask someone why they're a child, Mark

SEVERANCE (2022– ) S02E01: Hello, Ms. Cobel

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My tattoo artist told me his teenage son came out to him as trans by giving him a bunch of blue cupcakes and a greeting card that said "it's a boy!"

"That's cute," I said.

"It was NOT cute!" he snapped. "I thought he was pregnant."

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