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2024-09-14 12:49:50

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 oops, my error; somehow I missed that.

2024-09-14 12:38:34

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 I guess the font isn't allowed to provide a character for ꙮ , the ten-eyed cyrillic O used in reference to many-eyed angels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_O_variants#Multiocular_O

2024-09-14 12:29:25

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@npub1gpa…xlk0 probably a good idea to add the #emacs hashtag.

2024-09-13 11:46:38

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 an accurate depiction of the fundamental ugliness of widespread car use and its horrid effects on society.

2024-09-11 21:10:29

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I want all phones to stuff surveillance capitalism with false information.

2024-09-11 21:04:44

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 66 million years before Euclid, Dinosaurs ruled the earth, and all their ruler-straight lines defined spherical geometry for 150 million years.

2024-09-10 09:36:14

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I am reminded of the Up Island or Hearse House Spider of Up Island, Maine. Said to be a large, maybe even up to 8 inches across, including legs. Sometimes said to live in caves (in addition to hearse houses).

2024-09-07 13:35:18

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@npub1xn9…xx39
yeah, don't listen to kids who just eat the soft and gooey interior, the crust is the best part of eating a planet!

2024-09-06 20:57:41

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
somewhere out there, there must be people who are more or less like furries, but dress up as books. But that still wouldn't be an equivalent.

2024-09-06 10:33:15

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 but wait.
If true, why are ants so successful? Each colony is a monoculture!

2024-09-02 18:21:45

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 people using the word "jumper" for clothing nearly always confuse me, unless they're referring to clothing for jumping out of airplanes.

2024-09-01 18:57:51

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 ok, good to know ... but is the NFT Imported Direct From Japan NFT Sushi still ok?

2024-08-31 19:43:59

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
If I hadn't spent large parts of my life with sinuses so stuffed up I couldn't smell freshly cooked rice, I imagine I'd think this was silly.

2024-08-31 12:12:54

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
what do they mean "we can make it do haptic feedback"?
Haptic, by definition, refers to something you feel. If you can't feel anything but unmoving glass or plastic, it's not haptic feedback.

2024-08-31 09:03:26

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@npub1xn9…xx39 yeah - Juno faced the same issue. Jupiter is about 5.2 times as far away from the Sun, so sunlight is about 27 times weaker, so 27 times as much solar panel area is needed as would be at the distance of earth.

2024-08-30 12:36:05

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I used to have a pink hairbrush which had the words "Genuine Boar Bristle" in metallic gray letters on the side. on the side.

2024-08-29 22:40:05

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 honestly I was confused as to what that fursona was meant to represent, but "naturals" is maybe not the right word.

2024-08-29 22:20:19

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 ok, someone with Dunkleosteus as a fursona is awesome and does not deserve criticisms, however gentle.

2024-08-27 10:52:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I'd like to know how journalists would respond to the question "What are social media companies are using journalists for?"

2024-08-27 06:43:05

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
Entire City of New York Taken Away To Another World By Beatiful Cat

2024-08-26 11:39:31

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 isn't that how the famous(?) "tombstone pterosaur" fake photo originated? Marketing for a cryptid pseudo-documentary, made to look like a lost historical photograph?

2024-08-18 11:56:47

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
wait a minute.
I've heard of pigeon milk, but turkey milk??

2024-08-16 11:42:52

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I've actually had touchscreen advocates insist that debouncing is totally unnecessary for touch screens. Let's just say I'm skeptical of that claim.

2024-08-15 23:20:06

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Plant pests? Well then, may as well add some triffids to your order. Mabye even Audrey too!

2024-08-15 22:34:31

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 it's also great for: "I've got an awful lot to do for the next 7 days, so I'm going to temporarily trim the size of my feed until that's over ..."

2024-08-15 22:33:02

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I use it every day.

2024-08-13 17:01:10

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@npub1e2e…0xnw is it _Requiem in D Minor_ ? I had a DM who would put that in his CD player when he was about to push the party to brink of death.

2024-08-13 16:33:17

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@npub1jsh…hspt
use it to encourage people to leave twitter. Ok, I don't know how to do that. But that's the only good use of an account on twitter.

2024-08-12 11:30:47

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 it's not at all hyperbolic. That is what those "mass deportation now" signs were about.

2024-08-11 17:20:57

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
if it's an artifact it needs to have mysterious powers and terrifying curses.

2024-08-11 09:24:33

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@npub17vj…g088
"... ghost looking on in horror as its zombified body staggers around ..."
this sounds so much like a regular human

2024-08-09 11:26:46

before digital culture there was manual culture. Before that was ulnar and radial culture. Before that, culture was just a big joke.

2024-08-08 03:10:49

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Godzilla's baseball cap

2024-08-07 09:43:13

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
given what is happening in the UK, I expect a wave of violent protests here in the USA at some point.

2024-08-05 16:45:58

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
to be clear, they never thought it would print real money. They just thought they'd have more time to spend the fake money.

2024-08-03 12:30:41

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 was the roach already facing you before it launched into the air, or did it turn to face you before launching?

2024-08-02 04:21:41

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
land: already done
ocean: hard, but pirate ants
space: hard, but spaceship ants

2024-08-01 14:41:43

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 my cat nibbles on me regularly and that's all the human beef jerky she's going to get.

2024-07-29 16:02:08

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 you can't outgrabe the mome raths

2024-07-29 04:08:02

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 once I was in a library looking at old calculus textbooks. 2 or 3 were over 100 years old, and described calculus in terms of fluents and fluxions and so forth.

2024-07-28 18:32:21

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
and people say domestic cats are solitary by nature. HA!

2024-07-28 16:22:18

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
hm, in that yellow spandex, perhaps one of the classic X-Men?

2024-07-28 13:50:01

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
huh, I do this a lot during the winter, and it actually doesn't bother me? But, probably, that's because I can't afford decent tea, and so the stuff I drink is terrible anyway.

2024-07-28 11:29:00

some lambeosaurines, most famously Parasaurolophus walkeri, have very large hollow crests, possibly used in making noises. Due to the length and size of these crests, they would have made deep, low frequency noises, in some cases as low as 55 hz, below the minimum frequency limits of many commodity speakers, though well within the range of typical human hearing. Fortunately, no one has used this fact to write a horror story titled _The Silence of the Lambeosaurines_ .
#dinosaurs
#horror

2024-07-28 00:47:35

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
then Deborah stumbles upon the strange and troubling hints that maybe the deceased friend died unnaturally ...

2024-07-26 11:56:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
if magic with consistent, comprehensible rules is science, then what the heck is quantum mechanics?
ha ha ha only half joking.

2024-07-26 06:33:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
the fact that the Falklands are colored as having no ants makes me skeptical of much of the rest. Wikipedia claims the Falkland Islands have over 200 species of insects.

2024-07-25 17:08:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
this bridge: https://sauropods.win/@llewelly/112848068330748577
(hopefully none of your students find out I told you about it)

2024-07-25 17:04:34

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
wow, that's completely different from what I was thinking of. Nevermind.

2024-07-25 16:52:11

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 is this about the bridge?

2024-07-25 16:27:50

somewhere out there, the author of differential equations text has written a story problem inspired by this bridge:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@icecolbeveridge/108341927860122232
#trains
#canal
#boat
#bridge
#intersection
#math

2024-07-25 11:15:41

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
The Life of a Spider: Struggle and Tragedy
(in case it's not clear: although the spider may claim a few stray ants, there's no way it comes out on top here.)

2024-07-23 16:19:12

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
are Belomastids even nocturnal?

2024-07-23 11:35:48

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
everyone loves a machine that solves all the plot problems, until the machine decides they are the plot problem in need of solving ...

2024-07-22 01:46:03

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
all my life I thought Utah's state drink was robotussin cough syrup, but it's not even listed here.

2024-07-20 16:54:54

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
utah often did well in these kinds of list all the time when I was a child, and on through my 20s, and it taught me not to trust the makers of lists like these. It's at number 13 in this one, so ...

2024-07-20 03:30:57

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 how come ant fanciers haven't bred ants to hatch out numbered and color-coded?

2024-07-19 23:00:13

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 that's kind of what got me into Tackhead.

2024-07-18 08:13:40

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@npub1jsh…hspt a tragedy.

2024-07-17 21:28:05

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
nah, two leaves, just like two dwarves, two elves, two shelves, two hooves, two proves, etc.

2024-07-17 20:28:19

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
vacant lots: ant lots in disguise.

2024-07-16 22:14:13

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
it's strange, if I'm outside with a task to do, I am ok with 6 or so hours of 36C heat, but if I'm inside trying to read, it will make me miserable in about a half an hour.

2024-07-16 22:09:52

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 that's what she says, but what if she lost it all on catnipcoin and can't admit the truth?

2024-07-15 13:44:01

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I would like to know if there is species-specificity here: do some species of lichen specifically require cyanobacteria?
do other species of lichen specifically require eukaryote alga?

2024-07-15 10:54:40

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
for starters we need a large number of standardized scratch'n'sniff study cards for every child, and a whole section of each grade year dedicated to improving smell vocabulary ...

2024-07-15 09:02:40

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
their relatives the scale insects go even further: they (usually) pick a spot on a plant, and spend their whole lives on that one spot (if female) or stay until it is time to seek a mate (if male).

2024-07-14 11:21:47

34,000 yr old termite mound still in use!! @npub1zdp…vqv8 , how old are the oldest still-in-use anthills?
https://mastodon.online/@bug_gwen/112781274235894720

2024-07-14 08:09:50

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I did wheel-thrown pottery for years, and I can guarantee the part about many types of clay is real.

2024-07-13 22:28:45

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
they're preparing a clear field of fire.
All joking aside, my guess would be it mitgates traffic problems when ants bring home something large.

2024-07-13 11:27:59

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
hm. cool, but I'm kind of afraid it was just some vandal.
You know, setting out to overthrow the Roman Empire with it ...

2024-07-12 11:59:31

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
makes me wonder how many times I have reccomended _Nor Crystal Tears_ to you. Probably only 2 or 3 times. : ) It's good, but it's not quite as good as _Children of Time_ or _Serpent's Reach_ .

2024-07-10 22:17:14

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
how about that guy who is named Jupiter bc he writes the longest posts in the solar system

2024-07-10 21:16:24

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
1/5
when I was quite small I decided to walk south along the street we lived on until I was too tired to continue, but somehow, not too tired to walk back.

2024-07-10 20:40:32

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
hm. Sounds like remote control for you neighborhood cyber criminal.

2024-07-09 15:34:43

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 if she burned down your apartment, I'd switch sides, I assure you.

2024-07-09 15:32:03

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 it's a face which deserves more beef jerky.

2024-07-08 21:39:38

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 angry? I don't understand what there is to be angry about.

2024-07-08 20:51:31

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
but does it really have Electro-Sensory Perception?

2024-07-08 10:54:40

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
ants dream of that distant time when Antarctica was covered not by ice, but by ants.

2024-07-06 21:45:16

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
they don't look like photos to me. They look like someone with previous artistic experience newly learning to use an airbrush. Especially the man's hair.

2024-07-06 10:26:35

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I keep seeing the place where you wrote "... mistakes of the path ..." and thinking: this must have been meant to be "mistakes of the past", but maybe it's just as good that way.

2024-07-04 08:45:14

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I'd like to know if similar issues occur in other areas with strong tornado producing conditions, such as the Pampas of Argentina, the vast steppes of central Asia, and so forth.

2024-07-03 13:55:12

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@npub1upk…tcwy
this rather makes me feel like I didn't understand your question about job control the other day, because I use & and kill all the time. What I don't do is use fg and bg.

2024-07-03 12:57:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I was frequently subjected to violence all throughout my childhood, and the most frequent excuses, and the ones the adults respected the most, all revolved around not preforming gender correctly.

2024-07-02 09:22:32

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
culturally, mathematicians seem to prefer their proofs in the butters, rather than the margarines.

2024-07-02 08:55:15

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
yeah, ride them out of town on a rail!!
except, my sympathy for the poor bird.
probably we should use rubber chickens instead.

2024-06-30 12:19:17

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@npub1jsh…hspt @npub1q50…uvf3
maybe some artefact of how nostr works.

2024-06-30 11:06:14

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 wow, that is beautiful.

2024-06-29 21:27:46

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 use mutualAid hashtag to ask if anyone needs each of the gifts .... maybe forget that and don't tell Pica I suggested it.

2024-06-28 23:29:38

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@npub17nc…9dam
did you know a 10 kilometer sea star caused the extinctions of ammonites, several groups of marine reptiles, and non-avian dinosaurs?
ha ha ha

2024-06-28 09:10:49

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I don't own any cameras. Cats get on the internet through cameras. I see it every day.

2024-06-27 09:54:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I would have assumed Crematogaster used their gaster to cremate things, like a bombardier beetle, but this makes much more sense.

2024-06-27 09:52:28

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
it's not specifically related to covid19, but the GOP has spent decades attacking safety regulations on food, and they will surely continue those efforts.

2024-06-27 09:51:09

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
It's an easy way to attack leftists.
It's an easy way to leverage anti-asian racism.
It's an easy way to leverage the fabricated anger they've built up about the trivial covid19 precautions.

2024-06-26 21:35:47

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
I bet it's Jack. He's gonna grow a beanstalk, climb up to get into those fancy high rises.

2024-06-23 19:00:08

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
in the last 15 years, I think my sympathy level for people feeling better with their heads in the dark has gone from nearly zero to almost infinity.

2024-06-23 18:51:12

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
a predator would note the delicious and nutrition rich abdomen is totally unprotected!
... except by nestmates.

2024-06-23 10:58:43

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
so the Quakers abandoned two women, and then locals imprisoned the two women? Both sides sound awful to me.
Also: Megapolensis?? Did Megapolensis live in a big pole?

2024-06-23 10:55:52

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I don't quake for the lord. I quake for plate tectonics.

2024-06-21 11:07:31

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 I think they have a bedbug infestation and are trying to sell as many as possible before people find out.