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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."

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

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!

(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.

tired: Gilgamesh
wired: 🅱️ilgamesh, apparently

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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.

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!

It looks haunting with it’s clipped claws devoid of use and ability, grasping for something which the world forgot. It feels right, though, and you fastening a roof of leaves between the statue’s fingers. By dark, the luminescence of the forest created a dim but peaceful light, and the nocturnal sounds fill your senses. It is safe. The forest is always safe your kind. Perhaps not the long gone creatures whose buildings and statues the forest eats.

The forest at night echoes with dreams of all creatures flowing through the roots of the tall trees. Your lover and you decided to top by dusk at the runes of a statue that looks like the hand of a species you have never seen before covered in moss and vines. The hand’s claws are clipped at the tips of their digits and no fur adorns it, only flesh. it sits grasping at something long since reclaimed by the woods.

On Mastodon, posts don't go viral, they go woolly, and I think that's beautiful.

Waves under grating