EasilyDistracted
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I mostly just reply to stuff with piss-takes —frequently a fool. He/Him, all opinions expressed are quite possibly poorly thought out.
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There was a fabled time when the internet was so new that it screamed at you, begging you not to force it into life each time you summoned it.
in the days of yore youths used to engage in a mysterious rite known as planking
Back in my day we used to chug gallons of milk
@acab4cutie.top I regret to inform you that fiesta potato’s and the Gordita were part of a CIA campaign designed to separate Strong Americans out from a bunch of little babies with weak bloodlines.
In the 1960's the CIA did an experiment where they tried to reverse toilet training, the goal was to get an adult to be able to casually shit themselves with the ease of a baby.
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
They could do a Something Awful deal but instead of charging for name/avatar changes (for you or others) you could pay to get someone up or down – ranked for Discover feed weighting.
I will absolutely pay Bluesky the ransom money to get myself out of the discover feed forever
and even despite paying their contractors dogshit, the bsky mod queue was a month long for death threat reports. Read they’re super broke

its why I’ve wanted premium for so fucking long this just keeps compounding. If the doj or fcc even applies a bit of pressure bsky will fail from legal costs
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I don’t know who first thought to pair plain potato chips with caviar (some sort of nouveau rich stoner?) but hats off, that shit works.
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Community service shouldn’t be a punishment, it should just be something we slip into society.

Middle schoolers should be clearing invasive species in parks or reading to elementary school kids 1-2 times a month, just make it a part of school, then carry that onwards.
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Community service shouldn’t be a punishment, it should just be something we slip into society.

Middle schoolers should be clearing invasive species in parks or reading to elementary school kids 1-2 times a month, just make it a part of school, then carry that onwards.
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The wife is off picking a (everyone is having a good time) argument with the head cook about chimichurri.
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
$20 for a new paperback?! Why in *MY* day I (couldn’t afford new books, this bougie outrage is entirely new to me.)

(Also holy shit, they really are printing stuff on hella better paper now, I bet paperbacks last waaaay longer)
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE

Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Does anyone *actually* dilute their cold brew when they make it?

We’re all just maybe using a tad more milk than normal and then downing a mug of the stuff, right?
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Gender is a performance and ours is pretty fucking boring with a handful of surprisingly invested fans.
gender is a performance and ours is a reimagined minimalist theater of the absurd critique of dadaism
gender is a performance and mine is a vaudeville variety show
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
However many toys we’ve gotten these kittens and their group favorite toy for the past three days is a spike ball from a sweet gum tree that someone tracked in.
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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im a major league hater so i made a collage of every sentence in the which google mentions “thermal” in their 12 page Project Suncatcher paper about putting data centers in orbit

heat dissipation is one of the top 3 problems in spaceflight and they give essentially no details lmao
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence

Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence

The LLM: You can eat that rock
August 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Here I am listening to the Decemberists play with the Oregon Symphony, remembering that I got read for filth by past Kelsey.
The Decemberists

You are at present involved in at least three separate fights online about the definitions of "putsch" vs "coup." Your Steam profile is on private because a coworker once casually mentioned how much time you'd spent on EU IV, and that was easily 1000 hours ago.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
ANNIE’S BRING BACK THE GREEN ALFREDO BOXES YOU COWARDS
this is a PRO ANNIE'S MAC & CHEESE account we do NOT tolerate kraft garbage here ‼️
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Still true, and I think about this every time I see some pixel artist sharing great work that I wish I could share in good conscience.
I CANNOT STRESS THIS FOR NEW ARTISTS ON THE PLATFORM ENOUGH:

If you post work without Alt Text, a lot of folks *will not repost/comment on your work*. Accessibility matters a lot to many of us and we'll simply skip sharing if that's what it takes to encourage it. There are tools to help.
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It’s 10:20 and my kittens? They are craaaaazed.
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Fuckshit I haven’t had good spam musubi in ages, that shiz is in fact frightfully good.
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A new customer is fishing around for advice. None of us are being helpful because “everything is good”.

I at least personally told the new dude to “also get a spam musubi”, fwiw.
Witnessing a date at the picnic table by a local food cart.

It’s pretty cute, honestly.
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM