Mataki

Intrusion by BeckyCascane (CW: Implied macro/growth, implied peril, paranoia, brief moment of deadnaming/misgendering). . Seven users join a hidden IRC chat to ta ...

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The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Block letter print on notebook paper, pinned to wall YOU LOOK GREAT. YOUR TEETH ARE SHARP. YOUR EYES ARE LUMINOUS. THE TOWN FOLK WHISPER YOUR NAME IN HUSHED TONES

#MondayMotivation

Stressed?

Yikes. At least this was during actual work hours.

And it wasn't that bad.

mrw the agenda for the day at work involves going to a separate facility for "team building activities" (and it's not a bar)

And so, congratulations to Roxanna on her first tournament win! Jaymee gets the runner-up silver medal, while Saleena and Arianna share the bronze at third!

So it'll be Roxanna vs. Jaymee in the championship! It's the first time in the final game for each of these contestants, and it's the first time the points winner has survived to the last round! Can Roxanna make more history with a win, or will Jaymee become the first feline to win it all?

Tom Lehrer released all his work into the public domain a few years ago, and a good deal of it is available for download at tomlehrersongs.com/songs/

If you're a fan of his music, or if even you've never heard it before, you owe it to yourself to give it a visit!

Mataki got her start testing out size-changing technology and got rather infatuated with the idea of growth, eventually learning how to do it on her own!

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

And we have our first sweep as Mataki (8) defeats Becky (25), 2-0! The big brown wolf gets her first tournament win of the open era with two similar victories over the mighty musclevixen!

It's bracket time! Check out the July tournament seedings and make your own predictions at challonge.com/90co64h6 !

(a reminder that you can enter a fake e-mail address at the end, no problem!)

Megamatch - July 2025

And that does it for the regular season for July! Tournament seeds will be announced a bit later today.

A reminder that season stats can be viewed at docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

So sorry for the loss of your grandfather. My thoughts are with you.

multiple streams and sites of people doing wonderful art and stories and all sorts of other entertainment 24/7. Thanks to all the people I met along the way who made it awesome, and here's hoping for 30 more years! (2/2)

This summer marks my 30th anniversary of really discovering what the fandom was all about and beginning to lurk within. It's been a long journey from paying $5 an hour (over $10 today, yikes) for internet out in the sticks and having to carefully plan what pictures to download to having... (1/2)

Day 10 results!

Mataki returns to the podium today, getting her third top finish of the season with 35 wins! Brawna comes close to matching her, but remains in second with 34, and Portia gets the bronze today with 33 wins!

Anxiety Wolf

Woo, two in one season!

LRT: Explorers is still one of my favorite 80s movies. I also really dig the soundtrack, and the fact that it's 40 years old now makes me do an old-person laugh.

July 12, 1985: 40 years ago, the film Explorers was released in theaters. #80s Film debuts of both Ethan Hawke & River Phoenix

About time I won this thing, huh?

A six panel comic, three rows of two panels each. Poppy the dog walks along a path of mario blocks, including one question block. In the second panel, she is knocked over by the sudden appearance of a giant poppy, who has grown out of the sixth panel and now spans through panels 2, 4 and 6. In the third panel, poppy falls back and hits the question block, which drops a mushroom into the fifth panel. In the fourth panel, poppy stares at the back of the giant poppy that is crossing through the panel. In the fifth panel, the mushroom from the fourth panel lands on Poppy. In the sixth panel, Poppy becomes giant, growing all the way up to the second panel and knocking the second panel poppy over.

Grow up

Reposting for the daytime crowd!

Yeah, whenever I pop on, it's not long before I'm reminded why I really don't enjoy hanging out there regularly. It's a lot of people's thing(s), and that's great, but it's just not mine.

I guess I just miss the days when most of us were in just a few places that were publicly discoverable, and you could just explore and find your space. That seems harder to do now.

I guess this is where things are going now, but I'm not sure I like the compartmentalization. It feels like a thousand different fandoms out there that you have to know someone inside them already to know about, but as everyone stays in their servers, that becomes more difficult over time.

I find myself limited on how many Discord servers I can be a part of at once due to my obsessive need to read everything in every channel. That number is currently three. They're all macro-themed, and there's like...ZERO overlap (other than me) in the people on each one.