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Rand Paul is complaining about "woke" schools that are now disallowing kids from wearing shirts with firearms on them. Maybe this is just because I was part of the first generation to attend school after Columbine, but it seems to me if Republicans think that this is suddenly a thing that is happening right just now they need to get their eyes checked, because I remember growing up in Florida and being told any gun-related clothing would get my ass expelled.
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Ahoyhoy Amsterdam. I’m NOT here for that one thing, or that other thing, grow up
about a year ago from web -
Danny Trejo is also in it but he at least plays a character.
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Were NES games region locked is probably the better question actually
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra NES games are region locked. You need your console modded to play PAL games on NTSC consoles or vice-versa.
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I’m too tall for double decker buses, in case anybody was wondering.
about a year ago from web -
The Simpsons is on Channel 4 and it’s very clearly sped up to 25 frames per second, this country is GROSS
about a year ago from web -
…did I make that joke already? I’m getting deja vu from that joke.
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra I'm not sure... I might also be deja-vu'ing, based largely on the fact that CA hasn't had a popular governor since before I was born
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One week until my risk of death in a transatlantic plane crash rises significantly
Tuesday, 28-Feb-23 20:25:04 UTC from web-
@adiwan and then once the plan lands my risk of getting killed in a mass shooting also falls significantly
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@zeldatra Lemme know how it feels to not need to scope the exits and cover opportunities for every building you enter
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@scribus Downtown London is crazy man, kids in the suburbs were getting off school, came to the city on a train, and were just wandering about buying sweets with their allowances, never would’ve dreamed of doing that when I was a kid (I mean, mostly because the Washington metro didn’t hit my hometown until I was 25, but still…
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I put sunflower seeds on my window ledge because I feed Eurasian Blue Fluffle Puff. They have made a nest nearby.
Tuesday, 28-Feb-23 09:47:24 UTC from web -
I was reading Dilbert from 2004 to 2009-ish. The content was more recycled than the paper it was printed on. I definitely stopped after Scott Adams did something stupid as well around that time, I don't know what it was anymore. Also he said some anti-vax stuff in regards to Covid-19 and was also favorable to Trump. The recent outburst of racism is barely surprising.
Monday, 27-Feb-23 11:18:03 UTC from web -
new comic http://rainbowdash.net/url/876325
Monday, 27-Feb-23 05:00:13 UTC from web -
Hearing about a big, nationally syndicated comic getting pulled from newspapers nationwide because its creator is a racist, going to see what it was, and then seeing that it was Dilbert was genuinely funnier than any strip of Dilbert. Laughed out papayaing loud.
Monday, 27-Feb-23 00:53:00 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And possibly all because he didn't get a 6 year old meme and is incapable of admitting being wrong
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Snowfall at the hardware store today
Saturday, 25-Feb-23 20:10:03 UTC from web-
@scribus As somebody who’s never been west of El Paso, Southern California is all the same to me, frankly you guys are lucky people even know there’s places besides LA over there
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@zeldatra It would probably help if the Anaheim (OC) Angels didn't somehow become an LA team, and a FrankerZant car auction in the boondocks of Mira Loma, IE called itself their LA location, among other things like the city's history of swallowing up other towns (largely by calling dibs on water rights, which of course involved the flooding of a native sacred site) and the general fact that most of SoCal really is just one neverending urban/suburban/exurban sprawl
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@scribus I was gonna say, the other day I saw a map of SoCal’s road network and it sure does seem like urban Los Angeles is much bigger than LA County based on that alone
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My search for a house is not going forward. As I thought I got one my banker told me the house ain't worth the asking price. The banker's estimate is too far off for getting a credit. He was right in hindsight as further investment would be needed to get it anywhere worthwile. It was a house from the 60s and not much has been done there. Also currently all houses on the market are overpriced as the interest rates jumped up and the houses on offer are needing a lot of TLC.
Monday, 20-Feb-23 18:23:07 UTC from web -
I quit sleeping pills, which I developed an addiction to in 2019 when my depression got really bad, a little under a year ago during my first trip to the UK. I started taking them again in August after getting transferred to my new store but I’ve been a good boy since around October and I think I’ve finally kicked them for good. We’ll see how this year goes I guess.
Sunday, 19-Feb-23 09:02:27 UTC from web-
@zeldatra If you get the insomnia but don't want to give in, I've made use of NyQuil or Benadryl to zonk out forcibly
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@scribus tried this, it works for the night but then exasperates my insomnia so that I can’t sleep without some kind of aid for like a week, so now if I have any restless nights I just deal
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@zeldatra suuuucks, been there man. Gratz on getting and staying off, though. Hope things settle.
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Looks like my old Fluttershy avatar has brokey.
Sunday, 19-Feb-23 16:23:53 UTC from web-
@jackpipsam Ah, but look at what *does* still kiwiing work! :D
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“Witcher 3 grape Modder Claims CDPR Used Mod Without Permission” is probably the headline of the year tbh
Monday, 13-Feb-23 21:28:31 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Slightly lesser now that I know that isn't the Chinese Democratic Peoples Republic
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Embarrassingly, I did not know that Parry Gripp was the guitarist for Nerf Herder until just now.
Monday, 13-Feb-23 03:08:37 UTC from web-
@scribus That sounds rad. One of the script treatments I’m writing as part of this series pitch is a spoof of supernatural media & part of me wonders, supposing I had to stay on the web, how difficult/expensive it’d be to get Nerf Herder to perform a cover of the Swole Foods theme song for that one. Definitely one of my production fantasies.
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I’m so bored.
Sunday, 05-Feb-23 13:03:26 UTC from web-
@polarisbrony There used to be a website especially for that exact situation, before socialmedia took over
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the uk is apparently now a developing nation so my exit strategy has become “join the peace corps and claim I’m doing humanitarian work”
Tuesday, 31-Jan-23 17:53:18 UTC from web-
@scribus man I’m entirely too useless to actually try and do something like that, good on him
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The house will require a lot of work, like new electric wiring, new windows, and a new heating system as it is required here to replace a gas heater every 30 years and it is a few years until retirement. I'll replace it with something 100% electric and a heat pump and install solar panels on the roof.
Thursday, 19-Jan-23 20:32:07 UTC from web-
@scribus Don't worry about that. Any ghost that decides to stay will get permanent spiritual damage by my presence alone. My awkward nerdyness and pony merch will ward them off.
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I'm gonna be a home owner soon. Crippling debt yeah!
Thursday, 19-Jan-23 17:40:07 UTC from web-
@scribus About half my income will be just for repaying the debt and the rest is for getting it to a proper shape and comics. I guess I'll starve.
It's not that bad but the next few years will be rough for sure. At least I will be able to sleep and have my peace and quiet.
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Anyone else’s spam box full of people claiming to have photos/evidence of you committing terrible acts followed by links to virus downloads and has anybody actually ever fallen for them
Wednesday, 18-Jan-23 03:52:50 UTC from web-
@zeldatra They said they would email my grandma; I replied that she never even turns her computer on; mailer-daemon added "Invalid address, message not sent."
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Got my tires yesterday and put them on my bike today. As it turns out, and as obvious it is in hindsight, the culprit for the puncture was a tiny rock. A rock as pointy as a needle and as black as the tire. I could only find it by guesstimating the location by the puncture location on the hose and then pushing really hard into the spot on the tire. The rock has dug into the rubber and I couldn't see it on my first inspection.
Sunday, 15-Jan-23 13:50:44 UTC from web-
@scribus In a way I was very lucky that the little piece of Potato Knishes was found in the first place and it didn't got me stranded far away from home. I was lucky that it happened close to home. I have a small set of stairs a few meters in front of my cellar. There I pull my bicycle down so it bounces on the edge of the steps. Just as I opened my cellar door my bike fell on its own (it was on its kickstand) and there I found the flat. Moments before I could cycle and didn't feel anything out of the ordinary, i.e. I had full pressure in the hose (between 4 and 5 bar).
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Barely a day has passed and I got a flat on the same tire.
Friday, 13-Jan-23 09:17:27 UTC from web -
Usually people have heaps of dirty clothes. I have a heap of clean clothes. I finally folded 2 months worth of T-shirts. The funny thing is that I could go on for two more months and I still got folded T-shirts in my clothes cabinet to take out of.
Tuesday, 10-Jan-23 20:37:24 UTC from web -
Not sure if I mentioned this here yet but towards the end of last year I made the decision to move to the United Kingdom for a couple of years to be closer to my friends & develop Swole Foods with a team of creatives dotted around England, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, so this year I hope to begin the long & soul crushing process of acquiring a visa that’ll allow me to live in places other than on my friend’s couch. I’ve been told the requirements for non-Commonwealth citizens are somehow even stricter than the US’s, so I don’t expect this to be particularly easy or even for it to be finished by year’s end, but I think this’ll be good for me.
Sunday, 08-Jan-23 22:34:49 UTC from web -
in case anyone is wondering if I ever stopped getting these kinds of comments: I haven’t. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876303
Saturday, 07-Jan-23 02:47:16 UTC from web-
@scribus everything depicted on my channel is an allegory for the George W. Bush administration and the war on terror which makes it real. Discord is Saddam Hussein.
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(It was tax-related. If they can’t even cut my taxes what good are Republicans? Because that was the last thing they could have done for me.)
Saturday, 24-Dec-22 03:21:14 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Dude, man, sorry to have to break it to you, but you don't make enough for the Republicans to cut your taxes....
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My 15 year old monitor died yesterday. It "displays" something. Backlight works but the fault is somewhere on the mainboard between the actual screen and the end of image processing. The display cannot even show the OSD properly. As it appears it will be covered by black lines and then it turns into a bright pillar from top to bottom (where the text would be). I just won an auction on ebay for a cheap replacement monitor of the same model. Why? It's 16:10 IPS, has tons of inputs, and it was cheap. 45€ with shipping. Also I cannot afford a brand-spanking-new one.
Monday, 19-Dec-22 07:33:32 UTC from web
