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Damian: I must admit, I am befuddled, and find myself mystified on how to proceed.

Random Classmate looking at Danny: ....

Danny: He said "I'm not gonna lie, I'm confused as hell"

Random Classmate: Ohhhhh! Okay, so we got to lock in for this project. We can't afford to lose any aura points over this.

Damian looking at Danny: ....

Danny: She said, "We must put our utmost focus on this project. Failure would bring great shame upon us"

Damian: You do a wonderful job translating the common folk language.

Danny: Er, thanks? I'm glad I can help with something. Group projects are never my forte, and I always feel bad that I don't do an equal amount of work.

Damian: I have noticed your participation in group projects before. You are not contributing because you are not trying. It's due to your groupmates' exclusion and isolation of you.

Danny: Yeah, well, I'm poor and dumb. I only got accepted into Gotham Academy because my godfather pulled some strings. No one wants me around.

Damian cupping Danny's face: Never leave my side. I shall protect you in exchange for your translating abilities.

Danny: Um?????

Random Classmate: You guys gonna kiss? Cause Wayne might use fancy words, but even I understood he wants to rizz you up Fenton.

Danny: UM????

Damian tenderly: I have no knowledge of what rizz means. Enlightenment me, my dear.

Random Classmate hand over her chest: That's some Shakespearean shit right there.

Danny: ????????

Damian leaning in only a hair's breadth away from Danny's lips: Most Shakespeare plays end in tradgy.

Danny: What the hell is wrong with this school????

kiwi

as a former escape room host i highly recommend doing an escape room as a first date. its a great way to learn how ppl react under pressure and how well they collaborate with you right off the bat. also more than once ive seen people enter an escape room as a couple and exit broken up LOL its a fantastic litmus test

kiwi

sorry to broadcast ur tags but this is also a valuable part of the litmus test! it seems like you learned a lot about how this person makes you feel in their social group. they didn't go out of their way to include you, and neither did their friends. therefore you can come to a pretty good conclusion about how you might feel being part of their life outside of an escape room; someone who doesnt include you or your feelings in a game is likely going to do the same in other situations

softness-and-shattering

An experiment with a clear negative outcome is still a successful experiment.

renmoss

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

PRIDE HAZARD BUTTONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

Only $2.50 each!

Buy assorted 2.25” buttons here!

Buy 1.5” rainbow rad buttons here!

As usual, enamel pins, stickers, and other pinback buttons are still in stock! View my whole shop here

I’m working on getting the explosive pride stickers back in stock— you can see what I have left of them at the moment here

If you want that one test nonbinary pin (the one with the car flying off the cliff) send a message in your order of a NB pin letting me know. I can’t guarantee that you’ll get it (I only have one and it’s first-come-first-serve), so make sure you’re also alright with getting the updated design!

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

christ i was NOT expecting to have to restock so soon!

i’ll try to make more either this week or next

enki2

thebdelliumlady

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

chapscher

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

foldingfittedsheets

My mom has always leaned pretty left. Growing up I was always aware we were the household that voted for the blue donkey party. This seemed unfair as elephants were pretty great. My parents voted dutifully in each election.

But aside from that my mother loathes political signs. You know the ones. They go up on road medians and stick around for months after the election ends because no one bothers to pick them up.

So one day in my childhood long ago I was sitting in the front seat, just kid baggage getting hauled around on errands by my mom. After a while my mom realized the car in front of us was placing those hated signs.

My mom had a couple trains of thought. The first was that we were in the family truck. The second was we had no pressing business. And the third was that we needed to insulate the chicken coop.

Suddenly mom announced we were having an adventure. We were punishing the big bad littering machine by taking their signs. I was utterly delighted by this. We began to follow the election campaign car, pausing after they did. I’d leap out, snatch the sign and toss it into the bed of the truck as fast as I could before flinging myself back into my seat.

It took a long time for the sign car to realize what was happening. They got out to yell at my mom who stoically informed them that the signs were being left on public property and as such counted as litter. The person huffed at her and drove away. Mom followed along hopefully but they were done placing signs.

After that we made a game of snagging signs when we saw them, amassing quite a collection.

That fall the coop was adorned with the plentiful campaign slogans of people vying for public office. But while our poor chickens may have slept under the weight of empty promises and propaganda, each one followed by the watchful eyes of countless politicians, at least they slept warm.

dajo42

i quit cold turkey

quit what?

cold turkey

yeah but what did you quit

im telling you, i quit cold turkey

alcohol?

no i quit cold turkey

i wasnt offering, im trying to figure out what you quit

and im telling you i quit cold turkey

wait. you quit cold turkey?

yes i quit cold turkey

like the meat?

no i dont like it thats why i quit it

cold turkey?

no im gradually weaning myself off it

21st-century-minutiae

"Quitting cold turkey" is a phrase in early twenty-first century English that refers to ceasing a habit (especially an addictive one) completely and without any mitigation factors. There is an expectation that the individual will suffer the full effects of withdrawal with the hope that, should they make it to the other side, the addiction will be gone completely. This is in contrast with weaning off a habit by reducing frequency or intensity over time, or replacing a habit with a similar, but less harmful one.

The above conversation is a joke based on a misunderstanding. The first person is talking about quitting the consumption of leftover meat (literal "cold turkey"), while the second person is under the mistaken impression that they are describing the method of quitting while failing to describe the substance/habit that is being quit.

Some other points of linguistic confusion in the joke include "alcohol?" being potentially interpreted as both "did you quit alcohol?" and "do you want alcohol?" and "like the meat" as both "Are you referring to cold turkey in reference to the meat?" and "Do you enjoy the meat?"

This style of comedy of mutual misunderstanding over potential interpretations of words is associated with Abbot and Costello's famous "Who's on first" skit, but it is a known genre of wordplay/comedy.

teaboot

Took Ollie to the vet today. And I'm not gonna say who. But ONE of us had a panic attack immediately after the checkup and wouldn't get out of the sink

teaboot

it was a difficult morning for everybody

dreadwedge

for sale. shoes baby. yuppp the baby is made of shoes. dont want it. it is not right. babies are not supposed to be composed of that

definitely-not-several-bugs

The spell master: God damn it, where on earth is my magic crystal ball????

The suspiciously hungry and round bug:

the-true-tusk

What is this thing

brappypatty

shoutout to my fellow Ornate Amphipod enjoyers

victusinveritas

God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

lumiklovstad

I can, and arguably I must.

chuckling-chemist

Don't worry guys the Scots have been introduced to tailgaiting either way

frownyalfred

I’ll take “that’s kind of fucked up actually” and other things you can say about Bruce Wayne for 300$, please.

bidulgie

A goth and her ghost boyyy

Close ups! <3

pangur-and-grim

wait I have one more story. there's a group of anti-abortion protesters who often set up by the Ethiopian cafe I hang out in, and when I was waiting to cross one of them held up an aborted fetus sign and said "how does this make you feel?" and I said "hungry", and then I was so satisfied by my own cleverness that I missed the lights and stepped off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic

pangur-and-grim

yaoiblackmold

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

yaoiblackmold

Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun

televisionenjoyer

Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄

audliminal

Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!

bisexual-engineer-girl

Nobody can quite place my accent and that's because it's an amalgamation of several. It shifts. But there's a pretty solid NY/NJ/MA base with a little bit of southern flavor starting to get mixed in.