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at the forefront of making chat posts that are followed by an uncomfortable days-long silence http://zaratustra.itch.io

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Caves of Qud

09.03.2026 14:24 — 👍 34    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

did it stop when you stopped working

09.03.2026 14:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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eight blocks from this one post, new record

09.03.2026 14:04 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

maybe just go down the muscle, nerve, tendon, joint list and treat each one like it was the problem. when it's fixed, it's fixed

09.03.2026 13:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

honestly i'm sort of impressed

09.03.2026 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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aw man

09.03.2026 13:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

you'd think bluesky would have at least *some* recommendations related to middle-age repetitive injury in programmers

09.03.2026 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

seriously go play Pipistrello And The Cursed Yoyo store.steampowered.com/app/2870350/...

09.03.2026 13:17 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
4-panel SMBC comic update. Two women are talking as they walk down the street. The first woman, dressed in yellow, asks which modern democracy is the most like Athenians. The second woman - a bespectacled redhead, answers without hesitation that it is America. She continues to explain that some countries are as intellectually vibrant as the United States, and some countries are just as violent as the United States. She concludes that only one modern nation could both produce and execute Socrates. The woman in yellow responds that it's not *exactly* the same, as Athens didn't let women vote, prompting the bespectacled woman to say "we'll get there! Don't give up!"

4-panel SMBC comic update. Two women are talking as they walk down the street. The first woman, dressed in yellow, asks which modern democracy is the most like Athenians. The second woman - a bespectacled redhead, answers without hesitation that it is America. She continues to explain that some countries are as intellectually vibrant as the United States, and some countries are just as violent as the United States. She concludes that only one modern nation could both produce and execute Socrates. The woman in yellow responds that it's not *exactly* the same, as Athens didn't let women vote, prompting the bespectacled woman to say "we'll get there! Don't give up!"

On the last Socrates joke, like a dozen people told me I should've called his nutritional supplements Himlock, and it just kills me that I didn't.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/athenian
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

02.03.2026 23:30 — 👍 241    🔁 44    💬 4    📌 3

if you think about it franz ferdinand did cultural appropriation of war imagery first

09.03.2026 13:10 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

sheesh what happened

09.03.2026 13:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Extreme / ZX Spectrum / Digital Integration / 1991

09.03.2026 11:04 — 👍 97    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 7
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found the best PS1 boxart I've ever seen

09.03.2026 05:16 — 👍 131    🔁 48    💬 0    📌 2

the trick to job interviews is to not do morgan freeman's parole hearing speech from shawshank redemption

09.03.2026 10:21 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

face daunting choices such as "a mysterious man offers you one of two items, which one do you take" and "you see two doors in front of you, which one do you go through"

09.03.2026 09:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
06.03.2026 13:46 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Things like what

09.03.2026 08:52 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

08.03.2026 22:55 — 👍 1901    🔁 299    💬 13    📌 0

mr. dink: douglas. can you put a price on the future.

mr. dink: whether you say yes or no, a price is being put on it anyway.

mr. dink: it's easy for me to go along with it. too much so.

doug, having a power fantasy that will eventually sour into being killed in revolutionary war france: uh-huh

09.03.2026 01:07 — 👍 142    🔁 45    💬 2    📌 0

For Americans struggling with high gas prices, remember that you can save money by taking little sips from the gas pump instead of big gulps

09.03.2026 03:17 — 👍 1287    🔁 117    💬 30    📌 11
jill of the jungle "MEGA NOISE" screenshot, with "PRESS THE QWERTY KEYS TO MAKE TERRIBLE NOISES"

jill of the jungle "MEGA NOISE" screenshot, with "PRESS THE QWERTY KEYS TO MAKE TERRIBLE NOISES"

video games used to be good

09.03.2026 04:28 — 👍 52    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 0

Everyone is always mad that daylight savings time "steals an hour" but no one ever questions if the hour had bad vibes or would have simply been unpleasant to live through

09.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 53    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

The entirety of Wikipedia can famously fit on one website

08.03.2026 23:43 — 👍 269    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 0
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I self-published the first 3 chapters of my webcomic, Fairmeadow, for bringing to conventions. Then I got the flu and couldn’t go to ECCC so they are for sale online for the first time!
You can grab a copy on my site for 15% off with the code BOOFLU until March 15
kendrap.com/shop

08.03.2026 22:40 — 👍 141    🔁 57    💬 2    📌 3

and another one 🌈👄🌈

08.03.2026 22:39 — 👍 34    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

08.03.2026 15:23 — 👍 11122    🔁 3191    💬 5    📌 21

notably he seems convinced that iran has the capacity to completely wreck the middle east economy and therefore the US economy, which I'm doubtful of

08.03.2026 22:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

note that Jiang Xueqin *sounds* very assured and it's great to have a dissenting voice, but he's not a history teacher of any kind (he has a degree in english literature) and is a straight-up holocaust skeptic www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq...

08.03.2026 22:17 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

weellll there was a whole series of international accords explicitely designed to reduce this sort of dirty play and it's a shame that SOME governments decided that that sort of norm-setting was for little girls

08.03.2026 22:10 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

the basic zelda plot is like the basic metroid plot except instead of minibosses there's shitposts

08.03.2026 22:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0