Random Stuff

anything I think of and want to post, whenever I can get around to it or even remember.

[lagi-the-mechwarrior]

I would love to stop seeing Kushladora in Monster Hunter for awhile.

[orcboxer]

my elf roommate: *smoking a caterpillar*

me: Are you fucking kidding me Larius I told you to do that outside, now it's gonna smell like ass in here all day

my elf roommate: *puffs a perfect ring of smoke* What Is A Day In A Life That Lasts Centuries?

me: not everybody lives as long as you dude. put that thing away

my elf roommate: That Is Not What Thy Mother Said

me: hilarious

my elf roommate: Hello

[homunculus-argument]

You dig a big enough hole that water can stay in, it becomes a pond. And once it's been a pond for long enough, fish somehow appear. Even though it's not connected to any other water - hell, consider all the lakes that aren't connected to any other water. How the fuck are there fish? Where do they come from?

One day, something in space is going to look at humans the same way. You go to a new galaxy and there's freaking humans in there, like they just spontaneously manifest on random planets that have the ability to sustain them. All you need is an atmosphere with enough oxygen, some form of water, and that's pretty much all you need before they seem to just pop out of the ground and start terraforming it.

The mystery of the lake fish has been solved, by the way. It's waterfowl. Much like the birds that eat seeds and spread them around, waterfowl consume roe from the water, and while the number of fertilised fish eggs that pass through the digestive system of a duck or wild goose alive and unharmed may be small, it's not zero. A goose will shit in the lake water, and through comes the roe. It happens just often enough that lakes and ponds become - and remain - populated with fish.

Humans don't pop up on unknown planets and and unreachable galaxies on purpose. They couldn't get in there any more than they could get out of there, they have no choice but to claim the most viable-looking planet they can reach and start terraforming it. But how did they even get there?

You see, every once in a while an unfortunate human spaceship gets swallowed by a cosmic duck

[mightymo63]

Some fish are also just able to straight up walk on land

[homunculus-argument]

"They just walked there" is now my favourite theory of "how are lakes populated with fish".

[hopepunk-humanity]

[thethornpatch]

They are very much not back (yet), but there are 4 wild trees that survived and produce viable nuts. Their locations are secret for obvious reasons but the nuts are collected and planted. I'll have to look into it but the saplings available are probably the extras that don't get used in they hybridization and resistance experiments. So, almost certainly not going to survive till maturity, but there's always a chance! And its a good for education and outreach and reminding the land of what used to be here, and we will keep working to bring back!

Edited to say that it looks like there are at least some hybrid saplings!

[nimblermortal]

The American Chestnut Foundation will give you the chance to buy nuts or saplings - what they offer varies by year. Last year, since we were recovering from Helene, I sprung for a seed level membership, which gets you 4 wild type (original unybridized) nuts, and then got to order a dozen hybridized nuts as part of that membership. I'm a pretty crap gardener, so only a few of those survived.

It is still considered an experiment, so you have to sign an agreement not to propagate the plants.

[kittydesade]

…. I need to get rid of some Bradford pears in my yard, I wonder if I could replace one of them with a chestnut.

[headspace-hotel]

the forest where I work has a small population, they are still vulnerable to the blight but several of them are able to grow big enough to produce nuts before they die. This means they could have some genetic immunity to the blight and their offspring could be more likely to survive.

so there is a grove of baby chestnut trees that have been intentionally planted up in the forest to try to preserve these genetics

[memequeen-official]

[difty-dift]

[genericalosers]

[lizbukchoy]

[sophisticatedoyster]

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

[watercolormagicalgirl]

[uhuh100]

up next, the triangle.

we know what hole that goes in, right?

[uhuh100]

that's right, the square hole!

[wickedcriminal]

[codex-entry]

sometimes i just think about Overwatch and just get sad

[codex-entry]

Like, you drop the most inescapably popular and influential shooter of an entire generation, with a cast overflowing with some of the most instantly iconic characters we've ever seen, that captures a fanbase which is so eager to learn about any aspect of these characters that they start willfully lapping up character trailers and ARGs as though those are good forms of storytelling for games in order to get just the vaguest taste of what this world offers,

And then proceed to single-handedly fumble the bag so bad that the primary legacy the game can claim to have is using that promise of a story to bait-and-switch it's fans into buying an incomplete sequel that was rushed into production because you punished a Hearthstone player for being pro-democracy, being the final needle to pop the e-sports speculator bubble there by financially draining nearly every competitive gaming scene to the brink of bankruptcy (at best), and having indirectly lead to advancements in 3D animation because your game effectively has it's own category on pornhub. Oh, also, you alienated the director of the game so hard that he leaves the company and seemingly retires from the entire gaming industry.

Only a room full of the most cynical and dollar horny suits imaginable could fuck this up so bad. I'm not even mad at this point. Just saddened on behalf of everyone on the dev team who actually gave a shit and embarrassed on behalf of the lootbox blinded execs who didn't.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

WHAT

[ririazul]

[myleftpinkytoe]

Oh, i remember this! No truck fucking, but also hard to explain...?

Basically, a lot of truckers feel VERY attached to their trucks, to the point where it's common for truckers to refer to them as their "first baby".

So, knowing this, this trucker's wife organised a photoshoot where her husband's "first baby" got to meet his "second baby". Kind of like those pregnancy photoshoots with dogs?

He thought it was great, and they shared it on social media trucker groups. In a turn i would not expect, a lot of other truckers got really emotional about it. Like, grown men cooing over a stranger's pregnancy photoshoot, going to their wives and asking if they can do something similar 🥺🥺🥺. All in all, strangely wholesome???

[fruitcakebro]

Ohhhh, the truck is the big brother :)

[veryberryskye]

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.

[the-stew-goblin]

I shall prepare a stew for the wedding! Extra salt!

[veryberryskye]

wait wait wait stew goblin wait

[peachdelta]

get ready for the wedding

[alphacrone]

when you drink all the wine in the house and then you have. :( no wine in the house

[podcastwizard]

me when i excuse myself during a dinner party to sneak outside and milk more cabernet sauvignon from the Creature

[podcastwizard]

had food poisoning when i posted this

[martinkhall]

Well if you'd pasteurized the Cabernet Sauvignon you milked from the creature maybe you wouldn't have gotten food poisoning from it.

[podcastwizard]

oh suddenly everyone's an expert on the Creature i milk

[cipheramnesia]

Listen, if it's going to take nine pregnant women a whole month for one simple baby, I cannot see why on earth we're paying so many pregnant women. One or two pregnant women who actually want the work will be plenty to make the baby in a month. I'm so smart. Let them know there's a big bonus to finish the baby in 20 days. Once that's consistent, like after maybe two babies, we can set that as the new goal and make it the foundation to predict our expected 20 year profit growth. I have a degree in business.

[cock-holliday]

People love to say things like “Hiding Anne Frank was illegal, turning her in would have been legal” without like fully grasping the modern implications properly. You have tons of folks like “if WW2 happened today id have __” that do not realize what is happening around them.

We have this idolized AND sanitized version of what happened then, and so we do not recognize it when it happens now.

Resistance fighters assassinated nazis and blew up weapons and infrastructure and destroyed records and forged paperwork and raised secret funds and smuggled people in vehicles and yes, hid them in their homes.

“Well it’s sad he got sent to an ICE camp but he faked his permit :/“

Whoever helped him fake his paperwork did what fighters in ww2 did. People who cut through chain link fences do what fighters in ww2 did, people who blow whistles chasing after ice cars do what fighters in ww2 did, people who destroy arms factories and cop city cranes do what fighters in ww2 did, people unmask agents do what fighters in ww2 did.

People are doing it now! They’ve been doing it now! You keep saying “oh if this happened here__” it HAS! It IS!

What are you doing about it?

[munchy-k]

ive always rly liked the idea of a member of a group of adventurers having what everyone assumes is very well trained hawk and then at the end of their journey its casually revealed that thats actually just his buddy whos a shapeshifter and just rly likes being a hawk

[munchy-k]

the guy also like thinks everyone knows bc he never tries to hide the fact that the hawk is a person but everyone assumes hes always just joking. like the others being like "damn its crazy how he knows exactly what you want him to do its like he knows english or something." and the guy is just like "well yeah thats his first language so ofc he's fluent??" and they all go "haha good one" and move on, leaving him confused

[munchy-k]

they just think hes a quirky guy that really loves his pet and says things like "the 9 of us" even tho there are clearly only 8 people! he just cares about the bird so much he counts it as a group member haha !

[autumnleavesrevisitedd]

ragebaiting my fat dog ending explained

[lakemojave]

ragebaiting my fat dog cinematic universe

[brucebocchi]

ragebaiting my fat dog where to stream 2026

[animentality]

[discoursedrome]

monks debating whether vows of silence should still allow you to leave emoji reacts on the monastery groupchat

[gallusrostromegalus]

So a guy I went to middle school with now works in the vatican and according to Cam, the rules on:

Whether you can leave emoji reacts in the groupchat

Whether you can leave regular messages in the groupchat

Whether you can HAVE a groupchat

Whether you can have Electronic Devices

-vary from one silent monastic order to another, but none of them have ever successfully banned "Long trail of increasingly hostile post-it messages on the fridge".

[locked-keye]

[virtualgirladvance]

[idontevenhaveone]

... the worst bit is I know several people this could be, especially given the 'in Australia' clarification

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If you know them then there's a chance I might know some of them and that thought will keep me up at night.

[antikate]

This wasn’t the guy who we all know who used to spray his jeans with Mortein and then light himself on fire, was it?

[harlemshakemp3]

He used to sit at the back of the bus, cup his hand, spray deodorant into it, then open it and light it on fire with a lighter in one fell swoop to try and impress girls.

He had to stop because the bus company begged our school to tell him to stop bc of legal liability. His hands never actually got damaged after doing it for about a year.

[harlemshakemp3]

I reached out to my old friend in question here, because I've been thinking about him all day.

I do not know what "the amulet" is. I have no idea what "the amulet" is referring to.

[harlemshakemp3]

I instantly remembered when he said that.

While we were all at the local park doing legal things that teenagers would do back in the late 2000s, my friend here found a rock at our old smoke spot that was unusually smooth and flat. He liked it so much that he took it to the woodwork classrooms at school, drilled a hole in it, and hung it on a necklace.

When we asked why he weanwearing this dinky-ass pebble on his neck, he claimed it prevented him from ever getting food-related illnesses: wouldn't get food poisoning, couldn't over-eat, was able to ingest anything (prior to him finding The Amulet, a few of us used to play a game called "Devil's Piss" where we would take turns shoving random food bits into a bottle of coke, and the first person to take a sip would get two dollars from the other players).

When we all asked him for the proof that this rock is magical—because nobody believed him, obviously—he said to meet him behind the History block at lunch, where he said he would drink two litres (or half a gallon) of milk in one go and not puke.

We met him there, and about ten of us all watched him down a whole bottle of strawberry milk in two or three breaths.

He didn't puke.

He jumped up and down and punched his stomach to prove it.

He still didn't puke.

I'm so glad I'm alive.

[lumsel]

I think the types of oppression that are the most intense are the ones that apply to me personally. For some reason they're just so much more visceral and personally affecting than the ones that don't affect me, which all seem distant and abstract and not as big a deal. If you don't restructure your worldview around this I will decide you're part of the problem.