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Arturo Lei
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Sometimes A Web Dev Guy, Italianist, and Trivia Aficionado
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Just missing Karl Space:
Karl Urban as Doctor “Bones” McCoy from JJ Abrams era Star Trek
October 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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As someone who has some things set in Italian, I had to try this out.

I asked in Italian how many b's are in the Italian word for "blueberry" ("mirtillo"), and it correctly said zero.

However, I asked in Italian how many b's are in the English word for "blueberry", and it said 3.
ChatGPT Output for two questions asked - The first question asked in Italian is "How many b's are in the word blueberry?" but the question concerns Italian word for blueberry - The second question also asked in Italian is the same but for the English word for blueberry
August 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Continuing my grilled cheese experiments, I made a hash browns grilled cheese. Not half bad.
Two patty-style hash browns stacked vertically on one another; in between the hash brown layers is a layer of melted cheese product (Velveeta). The “sandwich” is on a white plate.
March 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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I saw other posts confirming the ridiculous change made to Google Maps, and I was curious since although US-based I use a lot of stuff in Italian, and it's "Golfo d'America" instead of "Golfo del Messico":
A screenshot of google maps in Italian showing what had been labeled Gulf of Mexico in Italian is now Gulf of America equivalent. The screenshot includes bits of Messico or Mexico.
February 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Yesterday, I committed a possible food crime; I made a grilled cheese sandwich, but the bread is halloumi:
A grilled cheese sandwich but instead of conventional bread we have two pieces of halloumi; it sits on a white plate.
December 25, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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I’ve been making my way slowly through a box of Perugina Baci chocolates; each chocolate comes wrapped in a paper with some quotation in Italian and English. Recently found this one where the English and Italian text seems a bit different:
A wrinkled wrapper for a Baci chocolate with some literary quote on it. The Italian text on the wrapper reads (roughly translated in English) “The kiss is a secret told/said to the mouth” whereas the English text on the wrapper says “A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear”
December 4, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Earlier this year, my workplace had an “Edible Books” contest where participants made food inspired by books. I made a cake inspired by the Sherlock Holmes story, “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.” The cake features a coded message.
A copy of Leslie Klinger’s Annotated Sherlock Holmes opened to the short story “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”; the book is above a cake that features a message coded using the code found in the story. Cake is still raw here. There are lego minifigures of Holmes and Watson on the book. A copy of Leslie Klinger’s Annotated Sherlock Holmes opened to the short story “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”; the book is above a cake that features a message coded using the code found in the story. Cake is baked here.
November 16, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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The lengthy guides in question:
Thick voter info guides
October 26, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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I did the thing. I took a bit longer as I wanted to read as much of the lengthy voter guides as I could
Ballot entering ballot dropbox
October 26, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Today’s Dylan Dog: 151. “Il lago nel cielo”
The cover of Dylan Dog no. 151 “Il lago nel cielo” or the “Lake in the Sky” which shows Dylan reach out with his left hand to a shiny silver version of himself descending from the sky as if emerging from a lake
October 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Today’s Dylan Dog (no. 150 “Il bacio della vipera”)
Cover of Dylan Dog No. 150 which shows Dylan facing off with only a pistol against a plethora of snakes while the face of a ghostly snake with long hair looks on in the background
October 26, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Today’s Dylan Dog (no. 149 “L’alieno”):
The cover of Dylan Dog no. 149: “The Alien” which shows Dylan trapped in an electric storm and whirlwind of flying paper projected from the mind of a nerdy schoolboy
October 25, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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This one was okay, and the introduction featured a description of a public awareness poster about AIDS, a snapshot of the 90s:
A black and white picture of a poster which says AIDS at the top; a ghostly skull is beneath the word “AIDS”; next to the skull is Dylan who says “Protect your love” in Italian.
October 24, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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Today’s Dylan Dog (no. 148 “Abissi di follia”):
Cover of Dylan Dog No. 148 “Abissi di follia” or “Abysses of Madness” which shows Dylan looking at a pale hand emerging from the ground while a mysterious figure in a coat is about to swing a shovel at Dylan’s head
October 24, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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Yesterday’s Dylan Dog (no. 147 “Polvere di stelle”)—basically Sunset Boulevard but what if Norma Desmond were a vampire
Cover of the Dylan Dog story “Polvere di stelle” which features a dramatic vampire woman in black gesticulating wildly while Dylan with a vampire bite on his neck sits on a couch
October 23, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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This issue also deals with deep fakes and designer DNA not bad for the late 90s
Comics panels that show Dylan learning about image manipulation in the films Forrest Gump and the Crow
October 20, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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Today’s Dylan Dog (no. 145 “Il cane infernale”):
Cover of Dylan Dog No. 145: “The Infernal Dog” which shows a demonic dog emerging from a hell portal as Dylan looks forward and down in horror at something unseen
October 20, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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Today’s Dylan Dog (no. 144 “Drop Dead Gorgeous” or “To Die For”):
Cover page of Dylan Dog no. 144 “Belli da morire” which shows various variants of Dylan Dog (e.g. an obese Dylan Dog and a super skinny Dylan Dog)
October 20, 2024 at 4:30 AM
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Today’s Dylan Dog (no. 143 “Apocalypse”):
Cover of Dylan Dog no. 143: Dylan Dog is being held by a giant horned demon
October 19, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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Like this clown with four arms serenading an unconscious man:
Clown with four arms carrying an unconscious man in a gray suit
October 17, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Today’s Dylan Dog (no 142 “Black Soul”):
The cover of issue no. 142 of Dylan Dog. On the cover, Dylan Dog is backing away from a gnome in a giant lizard. In the background, there are other terrifying fantasy creatures.
October 17, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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This issue also featured a letter from the writers in which one of the writers reported that Umberto Eco had not only actually read a previous story which had an ersatz Umberto Eco (a semiologist named “Humbert Coe”) but wrote in to say he enjoyed the story:
Letter from writer of comic describing a positive fax from writer Umberto Eco
October 16, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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For the past month or so I’ve been reading through a pile of Dylan Dog comics (90s Rupert Everett look-alike investigates paranormal stuff with Groucho Marx look-alike). Today’s issue is no. 141 (“The Exterminating Angel”):
October 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #477,968!
September 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Thanks, past me! This was very clear and helpful labeling:
Shoebox with helpful and specific all-caps label of “Misc Tech Stuff”
September 2, 2024 at 5:56 PM