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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 17h

nobel peach prize

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hrabb @hrabb.it · 1d

bare

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 1d

turns out wiktionary answers one of my questions about this:
"Coordinate terms
• (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part): tertiate (⅓), quintate (⅕), sextate (⅙), septimate (⅐), duodecimate (¹⁄₁₂), centesimate (¹⁄₁₀₀)"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decimat...

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𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖞𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 🕯️ @warmyellowlight.bsky.social · Aug 27

every emoji should come with a mirror image emoji option, as well as an upside down emoji option. let me flip these dinosaurs 🦕🦖 so they can face each other and fall in love

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 2d

I got a custom one of those as a joke and it's so fun to pour the wax and stamp the seal

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 2d

5d porno theater

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 5d

is that what sapiosexuals are into

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farfin @farfin.bsky.social · 6d

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 7d

You're a FARTBREAKER
STANK MAKER
BUTT QUAKER
Don't you mess around with me

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 7d

like "clanker" has nothing to do with any of the actually objectionable aspects of the technology so the only thing recommending it as an insult it is the fact that it's slur-shaped

if it's not a slur then it's just completely incoherent as an insult

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 7d

Brother Herbert's Big Onion

to the tune of Diarrhea Planet's Ghost With A Boner:
SHREW WITH AN ONION!
SHREW WITH AN O-O-O-O-NION!

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 7d

I might have given it more credit but iirc the ending twist was like "actually everything bad that happened was just because the player character was crazy"

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 7d

I think I actually bought the game because I saw a clip of that section and thought the rest of the game would be tonally consistent and was bewildered at how many other parts were like "look at this cool feature we made where you can shoot out the glass holding the sand back and bury guys!"

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Kiyone @kiyonescarlet.bsky.social · 8d

lol

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 8d

in the game boy game he can suck in air to inflate himself like a balloon in order to fly so I think he would just need to use a volcano vaporizer to vaporize a whole trash bag full of vapor first

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nullpat @nullpat.at.app.wafrn.net · 8d

pc with cassette deck ← tape adapter ← ipod ← downloaded mp3s of modem noises

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 8d

a fox is like if a dog was a cat

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beth (cool) @bethposting.bsky.social · 8d

a hyena is like if a cat was a dog

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 11d

good morning to the history makers

a tweet by @OptaSTATS that says:

The Yankees are the first team in MLB postseason history to have the bases loaded with nobody out in the bottom of the 9th but not score a run and lose the game.

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pat @porridge.bsky.social · 11d

would spock and garrus be boyfriends

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 11d

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 12d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 12d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.