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New Secret Knots comic: "Cryptid".

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The best way to have first contact.

by @beetlemoses

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This guy must have been on cloud nine right up until he realized the terrible truth.

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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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The Twilight Zone, 1963, dir. David Lowell Rich

SE04E14 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

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We're all sinners here

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SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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I watch it here and on youtube, but I will forever chase the high of watching this movie in a theater with other people. It was magnificent and made me feel whole in a way I don't think I've ever felt before.

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A Tale of more woe cannot be imagined than Sun Tzu and his Art of War.

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The thing we have is that the idea "Money can't buy happiness" is some have taken it to heart. Happiness is not found in the obtaining of money, but in the things that money can resolve. I believe the better way to phrase think of this adage is "Greed can't buy its way to happiness." because this is the truth. The mindless accumulation of money, objects, or anything else in the world always leads to despair.

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I would have been furious if I had left before this scene. A handful of people left during the first credits roll and I was baffled.

SINNERS (2025) — dir. Ryan Coogler

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THE WITCH

by Mihael Milanovic

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Rating the birds in my backyard by tendency toward violence

Northern Cardinal, 4/10

I'm sometimes worried the male is sexually harassing the female but I'm pretty sure they're just doing some elaborate public pickup roleplay. The rest of us didn't agree to participate in your kink, guys.

American Robin, 1/10

Literally just some dude hanging out. Never bothered anyone but worms. Big fan of the way you just stand there in the middle of the grass like you forgot what you were supposed to be doing.

House Sparrow, 10/10

You're a gang. You're participating in gang violence. There's ten billion of you living in a single wood pile and it's been civil war for three years now. When will the bloodshed end?

Tufted Titmouse, 1/10

A shy baby. A pretty little guy. I saw you on the neighbor's garage roof and time stopped. There were anime sparkles around you. Come back.

European Starling, 9/10

Why is it always you? Listen, I know, I KNOW the sparrows are the problem, and YET. When the fighting starts, it's always you in the middle of it, provoking them and then screaming like you're an innocent bystander defending yourself. I'm onto you.

Carolina Wren, 3/10

This rating is not for physical violence, which you don't engage in, but for your role as an incurable narc. A tattle tale. I know they're fighting again, okay? I see it. Our yard has been a warzone for years, you don't have to make a big announcement every time someone misbehaves.

Eastern Wood-Peewee, 0/10

If this were "birds who think they're better than everyone else," you'd get 10/10.

Red-bellied Woodpecker, 6/10

It's a utility pole. It's not a tree. You're surrounded by trees that are full of bugs. But there you are, on the utility pole. Committing vandalism.

American Crow, unrated

For who am I to cast judgment on the actions of La Famiglia? I assume you are doing what is best for the neighborhood. If I could, though, without criticism, make a single observation. That when large numbers of you gather in the ominous dead cottonwood - no? No, you're right. None of my business.

Great Crested Flycatcher, 5/10

Frankly, I think you could be doing more. I think your name implies a great potential. I think you should massacre the insects. I think your beak should drip with viscera.

Stay tuned for more criminal activity!

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A test... on rules from a made up system? Don't threaten me with a good time.

There's an evil twin to "has only ever played Dungeons & Dragons and thinks all tabletop RPGs are as complicated as Dungeons & Dragons" that lives somewhere in the vicinity of "went straight from Dungeons & Dragons to rules-light storygames and thinks Dungeons & Dragons represents the high end of tabletop RPG complexity". Like, buddy, you have no idea.

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I love Delroy Lindo. He's always that guy with a smile in the corner of his mouth even when he's being desperately serious.

It is aspirational to live through the march of time and its plethora horrors and wonders to impart your knowledge to another person who practices your art.

SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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"There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death. Conjuring spirits from the past and the future." SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler