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An oldie but a goodie: The Case of the 500-Mile Email:

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte. "Come again?"

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."

ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail

eye contact, realistic fursuit/mask 

@masklayer yeah I saw that and holy heck, want.

It greatly amuses me that the character `⪮` is officially called "U+2AAE EQUALS SIGN WITH BUMPY ABOVE"

Apparently that line with a bump in it is called a bumpy, according to the unicode consortium!

@Azure Pretty much, that and an token effort towards anonymization.

@Oneironott @Aradia@mastodon.social :adds a fuzzy glow paw to the stack:

(skims a wikipedia article on quantum field theory)

Yeah, this is way too complicated for me to shitpost about.

(carefully reads the entire wikipedia page about Homestuck)

Actually, let's give quantum field theory a second try.

@chr@cybre.space me, explaining Undertale to my partner: "yeah Toby Fox did a lot of the music for Homestuck."

Partner: "Isn't Homestuck a webcomi...

y'know what, I don't want to know."

I'm finally getting around to reading Thinking Fast and Slow, and even though I've already been introduced to a lot of these conclusions I find myself wanting to screencap and share about every third page.

Recommend.

Anyone who was interested in an #mtg instance: there is one now. Come join us at wubrg.social for friendly Magic discussion and play-by-post.
#MagictheGathering

Technical Note: We originally wrote this article in Word, but then we converted it to Latex to make it look more like science.

i straight up don't know what to make of the tiny crab that is sitting at the bottom of my workplace bathroom sink.

@benhamill@cybre.space can you link the piece? I'm curious.

A brief history of gnolls 

3e: gnolls are vicious savage creatures, play one if you don’t mind being shafted ECL

4e: gnolls are vicious savage creatures, a gnoll PC is torn between two worlds and gets a cool encounter ability

Pathfinder: gnolls are vicious savage creatures beholden to Lamashtu, NEVER PLAYER CHARACTERS!

5e: gnolls are vicious savage creatures spawned by Yeenoghu zirself, NEVER PLAYER CHARACTERS! AND FFS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO THINK THEY’RE HOT!

I have a suspicion that a lot of cishet men are shy and reticent about challenging gender norms because they have this internalized idea that it isn't their lane. Go for it, yo. You have the best armor rating. Tank.

Subnautica lategame 

@Doephin what baffles me is the Prawn. Making you lose the three-dimensional freedom of being underwater is just a weird choice.

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