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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 9h

What will you buy from Temu? Shoes, perhaps? Maybe several insectoid larvae fashioned into earrings?

On closer inspection, they could instead be isopods.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 10h

Writing "an important film" on the poster like a typesetter for snake oil bottles.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 11h

Apropos of nothing, he looks like the love child of Dale Earnhardt and Doctor Robotnik.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 11h

The latch on the washing machine door has broken.

Just think! Had I not retained my old debit card to use as a shim, my laundry would be imprisoned indefinitely. Banks Hate This One Trick.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 11h

Someone could, in principle, drink both a Cheerwine and a Vernors (or even a Faygo) over the course of the same day.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 15h

From limited personal experience, "thee", sometimes abbreviated to "the" or even a vowelless "th", has proven quite resilient in northern counties.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 15h

Red October.

Or russet, for those more exacting on matters of pigmented foliage.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 1d

In a world wherein railway shareholders exist, I can assure you the waste is comparatively minimal.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 1d

After they collect their ransom, the hackers will be the first people to profit from Starmer's policies without having to pay him beforehand.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 1d

Rail tickets collected! Saturday marks my journey to the Four Voids.

Issued in several coupons per void, to account for seat reservations.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 1d

The Long John Silver's subreddit is clearly no place for landlubberly folk.

"Anyone else experience severe bloodlust after eating at Long John Silver's?"

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 2d

Purple? How can tropical soda be purple? It is a universal principle that tropical drinks must be orange, or possibly red if melons are involved.

I make it a matter of principle to use the German pronunciation of the "W" in "Schweppes".

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 2d

hands up if you are a true bug and suck sap from plants

Shivaphis celti, the Asian woolly hackberry aphid, also known as Shivaphis (Shivaphis) celti, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.

Pictured is schivapis celti, a small white bug that looks like a speck of lint, sitting on a leaf

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 2d

Sega failed to heed the warning: never use the subtitle "Episode 1" in a work that is not the first of its franchise.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 2d

"Just because the law recognises your gender, it doesn't mean I have to", says the person who insists we all recognise a state of israel for the same reason.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween is still weeks away, yet candied apples are already being discounted.

Those white nodules on the surface were marshmallows, I later learned.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 3d

"Take a picture, it'll last longer!", they scold, revealing the morbid expectation to be outlived by a smartphone photograph.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 3d

New shoes, at last! Pro tem, I am a quarter-inch taller.

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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 3d

The woodland floor is still amply lively.