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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 13h

Alternately, they say yes and are confused when sandwiches are placed before them

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if it'd help me sleep on flights though

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 1d

In other "nah, I'm good" news:

Screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail for an eleven-hour long video entitled "The Complete Wheel of Time Plot Explained on a Whiteboard."

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished Silksong! The endgame thing said 83% completion, but I looked at the cheevos I don't have yet and, uh, yeah, I'm good.

Is this the largest Metroidvania world out there? It's been years since I played Dread and I remember that being pretty big, but man, Silksong is DENSE too.

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized that vampires, werewolves, and zombies all operate on MLM rules

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 4d

sure, "everyone should give money to me" is a popular sentiment, but you're not supposed to, like, say it out LOUD

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 4d

I generally approach my life choices by whether or not someone watching me from a movie theater would shout "Don't do *that*, you idiot!" at the screen

Squint @squint.bsky.social · 4d

*investigators find me, now a pile of organs and marrowless bones*

Look here sarge, guy had almost a whole mag of silver bullets but didn't use 'em.

*Sarge shakes his head*

Tryna skate by just using one, eh? Seen it a dozen times. Death by cheapass.

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 4d

*I shoot a werewolf*

Hmm, maybe I don't NEED to double-tap this werewolf. I mean, silver is trading at all-time highs and besides these things are really time-consuming to m—

*I am mauled to death in my moment of cheapass-induced hesitation*

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 7d

Going to my first hockey game ever on Halloween night in DC! Capitals vs. Islanders. Looking forward to it!

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 8d

Hmm time to go see what kinds of hard drive enclosures are out there nowad—excuse me?

Screenshot of a product demonstration image on Amazon. The product is a multi-bay hard drive enclosure, and it is sat atop a computer desk next to a mug which reads "Don't Fucking Procrastinate."

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nina milkwalkermoto 🎃 @spacecoyote.com · 13d

halloween mode activated

Space coyote version of The Milkwalker to go with my "Nina Milkwalkermoto" Halloween name

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nina milkwalkermoto 🎃 @spacecoyote.com · 15d

re: the Simpsons Movie 2 poster, anyone else notice this? (my drawover on the right)

Left image: the Simpsons Movie 2 poster, featuring Homer's hand grabbing a donut revealing a grease stain. Right image: I drew Homer using the donut and grease stain as eyes

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 17d

Current POV: British Royal Navy Harrier at my local aerodrome

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Cybershell @cybershell.bsky.social · 18d

Underrated benefit of being an OG youtuber is you constantly get "Holy shit, you're old" comments.

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 18d

In Silksong, Hornet has a slapping animation, used occasionally during NPC dialogue

Someone mod in a "Slap Mode" which replaces all non-special needle attacks with Hornet's slap plz

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 19d

They know where their bread is buttered

it's buttered on the ham & cheese and pepperoni pizza

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 19d

At least they're available. In the US the only meat pie you can readily get is chicken pot pie. While that is indeed tasty, if you want a pie that uses any other kind of meat, you have to go find an English or Irish-themed pub.

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 22d

"we have Bathdoom at home"

Squint @squint.bsky.social · 24d

[persistent chainsaw noise]

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 24d

I'm in the non-school art exhibits, organized by age group, and this was apparently done by either a 4th- or 5th-grader. Wow.

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 24d

Honey, and bees of the honey persuasion

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 24d

1,050lb. (476kg.) punkin

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Squint @squint.bsky.social · 24d

Tobacco, Maryland's cash crop for three hundred years. I'm old enough to remember tobacco barns along many of our county's roads, but nearly all of them have either been torn down or converted to some other use.

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