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yes I'm reviving an old tumblr because i'm afraid twitter is going to die but i promise i'll be cool ok

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Hmm. Not sure if I'm interested in following this account. I'll have to think about it

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they call it his achilles heel because ack! It killies him

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they call it his achilles heel because ack! It killies him

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I'm just realizing now that it's been blown up and attached to this post that this says lim and not llm lmao. Call my joke the worst thing you've ever heard. Curse me out in the tags. These comments make me stronger. But chatgpt could NEVER

[monamoni]

[littlefeatherr]

Unrestrained summer fun 😁

[weaselle]

this must be such a delicate experience for a creature that can dive two stories deep and has been seen cliff diving into the ocean

[fleshdyke]

[artisticlicense-personal]

Such a quiet and gentle experience for a megafauna cryptid that can headbutt a speeding truck and walk away It’s like seeing Godzilla in a kiddie pool

[thistlewhistler]

During a summer heat wave in Alaska growing up (yes it’s a thing), my dad had several sprinklers and a tractor sprinkler going in the yard. From the woods behind the house suddenly came two young babies and a very large mother.

They came directly towards the tractor sprinkler and sat right down.

My dad verrrrry slowly pulled the hose of the other sprinklers, and repositioned them in the backyard so they would spray grass under the shade of several trees.

Lo and behold, the mother moose got up, walked over to the water now pooling beside these trees, and plomped down. The two babies followed after and just fell over in the cool water.

[girlknots]

Some utility pole hashira with my Ash @giveherswords ❤️

[hustlerose]

give a man a NEW LAMBORGHINI and he'll SLEEP for a day. teach a man KNOWLEDGE and he'll DRIVE UP HERE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS

[puppytruck]

unclogging is severely out of code plumbing

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

found backstage at my local theatre 👍

[testdevice]

? What is that safety equipment going to do for him? He's already dead?

[bluehawk54]

This is the best email I’ve gotten all year

[bluehawk54]

Holy fuck I’m dying

[testdevice]

Disappointed this is a website for selling team fortress 2 cosmetics and not various transformation potions

[serpenservm]

Adam Curtis, “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”. 2011.

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I thought this was Pulse (2001)

[serpenservm]

Adam Curtis, “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”. 2011.

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they call it his achilles heel because ack! It killies him

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[wintercorrybriea2]

Zimbabwe Akashinga Rangers, all-women anti-poaching unit

[duel-of-the-dolls]

I give you: a Lego geode

she's a star!

[testdevice]

Kind of obsessed

[testdevice]

today i worked on a numbers-heavy task (have dyscalculia) and muttered "ack it killies me" before i even realized. congrats on your legacy 😒

YES!!!!!! thank you so much for telling me this

[testdevice]

Found a Wikipedia article about my life

[yodaprod]

[dietspam16]

[foone]

Hi, Foone here, I'm a retrocomputer educator! I'm here to explain the real reason this laptop is like this.

So this is the Panasonic PRONOTE PD CF-62, it's a Pentium 133mhz running Windows 95, released in August 1996. Panasonic did this sort of trick more than once, they did a similar thing with an under-keyboard CD-ROM drive in the PD CF-41, from 1995.

This one is so fancy because that's not just a self-loading under-keyboard laptop CD-ROM drive, it's a HYBRID PD/CD-ROM self-loading under-keyboard laptop drive! It has to be this complex because it takes PD discs (which are the size of caddies) and caddyless CD-ROMs!

So what's PD discs?

They're an optical format by Panasonic, the Phase-change Dual (or Phase-change Disc). They're from 1996, store as much as CD, but are rewritable... much like the later CD-RWs which used basically the same technology, just in a slightly different format. Unlike CD-RWs (which you had to burn (usually), they acted like a hard drive, fully rewritable at any point. That's why the disc is hard-sectored, which you can see through the shutter gap. Those vertical lines indicate where sectors start and end.

So yeah, this laptop has a complex drive that can take both types of discs, and the whole thing folds under the keyboard. Fucking wild.

But the root reason, of course, is that they did this because it's a cool design, and they wanted to do that. Why did they think this was cool, why did they want to do this?

Pervert reasons.

Next question!

[demonprincex]

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[testdevice]

They don't make stuff like this anymore because too many people got their dick snipped off trying to fuck it