melloween

melloween

@randomthursday.bsky.social

(she/her) mostly retweeted stuff i like and/or hate, with occasional cat pictures and personal bitching

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The replies and quotes to this were full of polio vaccine and antibiotics but dudes. Smallpox. We eradicated smallpox so hard that people don't even think about it anymore. A disease that is estimated to have killed 300 million people in the 20th century alone is just GONE.

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blocking just isn’t a super serious thing, it doesn’t have to be saved for a massive transgression “I didn’t enjoy interacting with this person on the internet” is a perfectly good reason now you won’t find each other annoying anymore, everyone wins

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

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Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

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People has named Sexiest Man Alive, so it’s time for vintage nerds to name their Sexiest Man Dead! In past contests, Toshiro Mifune and Paul Newman have taken top honors. Who are your picks?

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Replying to @alexblechman.bsky.social

Cheesecake Factory made a bold artistic choice and provoked a genuine emotion in the viewer. Love it or hate it, decorating a cheesecake restaurant to look like a pre-Sumerian ziggurat worshipping a cosmic squid is the core of what it means to be human

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Replying to @thelionmachine.bsky.social

Evangelical women are why I will never accept the Victorian claptrap that women are softer and gentler and less prone to violence, the better and wiser sex. Nobody commits to hate like someone who knows their only avenue to express power is over children.

it is 9:32 am and we already have two (2) incidences of "talk to the person who triaged the ticket instead of the person it is assigned to" is this just how this works now. have i missed a memo

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Replying to @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

At the resurrection everyone from the St Nick's churchyard is gonna be straight up out of the ground and absolutely SPRINTING towards the horizon due to the copious amount of meth that's been stashed in their ribcages.

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i can buy weed at the store instead of some shady guy’s apartment

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Replying to @revan.eurosky.social

17. Generally in gaming having the option for suboptimal builds is actually ideal Sometimes this can lead to far more enjoyable gameplay

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Replying to @rincewind.run

as always: video was a mistake, text is the only safe way to interact with Online

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American Constance chain-smokes like it's the source of all her power.

Zoe TunnHELL@zoewithasword.bsky.social

Reading Redwall growing up I assumed all badgers were the adorable, social, omnivore burrow buddies that were NOBLE WARRIORS in those books and was so shocked to learn the badgers over here in America are asshole murder engines that can and will pick a fight with anything they can

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literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I think it was Bambi, and I was like four. you know, the one where his mom gets shot in the beginning, on the big screen. I'm sure that went fine. First one I *remember* going to was Little Mermaid...I was psyched because the theater had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the marquee, but *no*.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

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Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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The three rules of the Moopsy. 1. "Oh, fuck the Moopsy is free!" 2. "You dont understand, the Moopsy drinks your bones!" 3. "Run, run for your lives!" ~ Narj, former Managerie owner

The Orion@gettheorion.bsky.social

Schwarzenegger voice: "You ahr one cuddly muthafukah."

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Replying to @tom.medsky.social

We gotta make a chart of all the founding fathers and how obsessed they would be with internet porn on one axis and Doritos on the other.