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does an Android TV have an accelerometer/gyroscope in it at all? and if so, can that be used to have a built-in level display?

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I wonder if there's any Android TV games which require tilt controls, and how that works, exactly

gofundme for a winning bid on the Amazon/SpaceX initial flight so that I can commit a murder in low-earth orbit arstechnica.com/science/2021/0

sure love getting random notifications about 6-year-old posts on reddit where people are ridiculing me for a gender-related tumblr post. Good thing I'm able to see it for what it is: random people being mean because it makes them feel better about their own terrible lives.

I've been watching Solar Opposites and while I'm enjoying it, I'm struck by how many of the ads are for discreet erectile dysfunction treatment ads which are clearly targeted at cishet men, which tells me a lot about their expected audience per Hulu analytics.

also back in 1995 this game was going to totally revolutionize graphics, what with having DYNAMIC SHADOWS and stuff

youtube.com/watch?v=kAzJ6yoQec

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I want to see someone reimplement classic demos but using modern non-cheat graphics approaches, now that pretty much all of the stuff that was impossible in the 90s is like... really trivially simple on modern graphics hardware

Comic books make extreme sensory sensitivity seem like an amazing superpower but I absolutely promise you it isn’t

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electric ants crawling over me, and my eyes are full of sparkles

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tried another MSG sausage dose today, with a larger patty than last time, and yeah I'm definitely feeling something like what I used to

anyone in Seattle want a bunch of pretty good but MSG-laden ground sausage? I don't think I'll be eating the rest of this

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Now there’s a big fat pigeon pacing around in front of the coop and she’s doing the little bird chatter thing.

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Current status: staring at the chicken coop while doing a cute little grumble every few seconds

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Anyway my garden is coming along. I had to thin the carrots yesterday and there’s still too many! A nice problem to have.

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The other day I was getting some mulch from my mulch pile and I was surprised to see that there were some peanuts buried in it.

Just now I looked out my window at it and saw a squirrel trying its best to not be seen, standing on the fence by the mulch pile, a peanut in its mouth.

I think the mystery is solved.

I was taking her on a walk and she was curious about the neighbors' chickens. So I took her over to the coop.

Fiona locked eyes with a chicken.

The chicken went "bok."

Fiona went "nyooooooom," tail puffed up, all the way back to the house.

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Today I found out that Fiona is afraid of chickens.

She's a chicken scaredycat.

Your regular reminder that the Japanese word for “cat” is (probably) derived from “meow-beast”

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