Queer as in qwerty

[telltaletypist]

weirdest part of being an adult is the fact that you can put off watching a movie for nearly a decade and barely notice

[rowanisawriter]

You can survive your childhood and escape the horror of your parents by creating and existing solely in a rich inner world in which you contain all your thoughts and feelings and this will not have any effect on your relationships as an adult

[stjohnstarling]

you finally confess your attraction to the hot priest and he's like "oh darling, I thought you'd never ask" and proceeds to bite your neck and turn you into another catholic priest

[personalmephistopheles]

#hm. that sounds wrong but i dont know enough about catholics to say for sure [via @kirtlandswarbler]

[alias-milamber]

My assumption was that no jungle animals would enter the Dance Dance Revolution competition,

But apparently toucan play at that game.

[trzpiotka]

in fact i'd like to know less about the US

[cerubean]

most recent windows 11 update is wiping SSDs

there's been multiple reports of people's computers not booting properly after the windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 update due to it essentially wiping the hard drives (specifically SSDs) on computers and laptops. users have reported their SSDs aren't able to be read/recognized and unable to be seen in bios settings either.

sources: - https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-is-investigating-windows-11-kb5063878-ssd-data-corruption-failure-issue/ - https://www.nichepcgamer.com/archives/windows11-24h2-issue-with-writing-to-the-ssd-is-this-caused-by-kb5063878-kb5062660.html

it's safe to assume all SSDs can be potentially affected by this update, so if you haven't updated yet turn off autoupdates

the bug caused by this update is seemingly triggered by installing/moving/deleting large files (50+ gb), which as simmers is what a lot of us do very pften

if you're unsure what windows version you currently have:

go to settings > system > about (at they very bottom) > and scroll down to see the current OS version

if you do currently have windows 11 24H2:

in settings, click 'Windows update' > 'Update history' > and under 'Quality Updates' check to see if the KB5063878 update is in the list of recently installed updates

don't panic, you can uninstall this update!

while in 'Update History', scroll to the very bottom and click 'Uninstall updates', and click 'Uninstall' for 'Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5063878)'

from there, give it some time to remove the update and after pause updates for as long as possible (5 weeks is the longest i think), but it will force an update if there's a big/official update for the fix

if you've already been affected and your computer is not starting or giving errors regarding your hard drive, i recommend visiting small pc repair shops to try data recovery as some have reported placing their SSD in an enclosure seems to work to recover the data

hopefully this is helpful is any kind of way! friendly reminder to back up your data to an external drive routinely!

[pitchlag]

THIS AFFECTS WINDOWS 10 TOO For W10 the faulty patch is KB5063709. You can access and uninstall it from Control panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features -> Installed Updates The out-of-band update KB5066188 is supposed to fix issues with the "Reset this PC" recovery failures, the SSD drivers failing hasn't been fixed yet afaik. Best uninstall the faulty patch.

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[miaislying]

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

decay exists as an extant form of life

[miaislying]

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

[haystarlight]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???

[words-to-accomplish-something]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[mockva]

[rlyehtaxidermist]

the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

[anxeious]

[trollrider1111]

Old woman in mesopotamia doing what is now known as a "fix-it fic" about enkidu and gilgamesh

[the-same-as-never-before]

Leto Adreides 2: 'Would you still love me if I was a worm?'

[beemovieerotica]

i'm still thinking about that cowboy fic that used the stoplight system because one of the cowboys had a prophetic dream about modern traffic control systems...and while i find this hilarious i think it would be even better to try and reverse engineer stoplight colors for kink, but for completely context-appropriate reasons.

like a caveman au

"when grug think color green...grug see big field of grass. and grug like to run in grass. grug goes! grug goes far.

when grug think yellow...grug see yellow grass. grug know that cold time is soon. grug slow down. grug prepare.

when grug think red...fire. big fire. red and burn. grug get hurt! grug stop. grug done."

[the-same-as-never-before]

I'd like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.

[beguilingcorpse]

anyways the genius thing about the way john gaius has set up his empire - and the genius thing about the way TM has structured the books - is that there are multiple ways to view him. gideon the ninth starts by painting him as this unknowable and inscrutable god figure - the King Undying, the Kindly Prince of Death! - and through most of that book he is more of an emblem than anything. a symbol of dominicus, the patriarch of the nine houses, the divine being of whom the eighth house has a massive fucking portrait for some reason, and ultimately the key to what sets this version of the solar system apart from our own.

harrow the ninth strips him down. he’s not just a god anymore. he’s a cool god. he makes shitty jokes. he eats peanuts. he fucks his friends on the dining room table. he tells our main character that he sees her as a daughter figure. he shows emotion; he makes mistakes; there are things that he cannot do. if gideon the ninth introduces him as the wizard of oz’s huge and intimidating head, then harrow the ninth is john pulling back his own curtain to show the man behind it. see! he’s kind of pathetic! he’s Just Like You!

and both of these images of john ultimately serve the same purpose, because they both play to his favor. whether you fear him or you woobify him, you have fallen into the trap he has set for you. because nona shows us an even truer john, a john who doomed the world and fucked it all up, a john convinced he was in the right even as his friends killed themselves in front of him. if harrow pulls back the curtain, nona peels off his face.

it does make me wonder whether there is a secret, smaller, fourth john gaius that will be explored in alecto the ninth. alecto is the only being in the universe who really and truly knows him. she knows what he’s done and why he did it. she chose him for a reason. beneath the god and beneath the god pretending to be a man and beneath the man pretending to be a god - is there truly just a man? is there anything left?

tl;dr version: john gaius is like an onion. john gaius has layers too

[jacindasthought]

I don't think the Trinity is that hard to understand or explain. o:

I usually think of it like this:

You have a friend; they have 3 jobs.

They have a job as a engineer, a cashier, and a janitor.

You wouldn't go to your friend in each job and ask "Are you the same guy I know????" - You know it's the exact same friend at each job, even though they're doing something different at each job.

Or think of it in gaming terms:

It's like someone with three different characters in a game. They switch between each character whenever needed, but you know it's the exact same person controlling each character, despite the different skills/class abilities.

Heck, even further think of someone who changes their hair color + style every day. You don't question or ask if they're the same person from when you first saw them. You know it's the same person, just different presentation.

[entanglingbriars]

That view of the Trinity is called "modalism" and Sabellius was excommunicated for it in 220.

[sapphiresonstrings]

It's almost impossible to describe the Trinity without committing some kind of heresy.

[nightcore-nasheed]

Right, which supports the view that the purpose of the Trinity is to get people to affirm a logical contradiction as a commitment device.

[eightyonekilograms]

"Stop saying the Trinity is obscuratinist or hard to understand; it's easy! *immediately commits heresy*" is a genre of post which never stops being funny.

[podcastwizard]

affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

[ross-hollander]

I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.