toynbee

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

What kind of lunatic is going to covertly monitor someone else's shits?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Good for you for body positivity!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was a kid, I don't think I knew what MSG was, so this reasoning would have been lost on me.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

When I was a kid, I heard two unsubstantiated rumors about McDonald's food:

  1. It used kangaroo meat (not sure why this was a claim)
  2. It mixed in nicotine (to make the food more addictive)

I doubt that either are true, but if the latter were maybe it would answer your question.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Good for you! And good luck to you.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I am very fat. My moobs are absolutely my least favorite part of that (visually anyway). A decade or so ago, I read on Reddit that one can get fluid drained to reduce the size of man boobs, regardless of physical fitness.

I want to get this done but feel stupid asking to be put under for a purely vanity matter.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, I can guess from context; however, thank you for the warning.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Very tempted ...

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My condolences to you. A VPN might help, though I think those are a lot of what they block. My phone (which is my primary method of accessing lemmy) has an always on VPN; some endpoints work for catbox, some don't.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/grok.html

I read it in my early twenties, almost twenty years ago. I am not a developer but am in the same area. I always wear some form of shoes when I leave my house unless I enter someone else's house. I don't think I have trouble with personal space but I don't really see anyone other than my wife and kid.

I remember liking some of the themes of the book but, reflecting on it now, yes, Heinlein can be problematic.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone to whom I mention lemmy - even some of those to whom I have before - responds by asking about a musician of whom I'd never heard before I started having these conversations.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Perhaps they're so cute that I can't handle it in whole.

 

There were a lot of good things that happened, but a lot of things I wouldn't mind having have skipped.

 

Nothing to add here.

 
 

Now it's a genre.

 

I'm not really sure why.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by toynbee@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 

Yesterday I hurt myself sufficiently that I wasn't really able to leave my bed. As such, I did three things: work, sleep and read. I did technically eat, but I couldn't sit up long enough to finish my meal. I did not shower, sadly.

Anyway, because that's not the first time this has happened, I keep a cache of books in my bed to read when I'm immobilized. Most recently it was these two. The one on the right is the one I started last night and the one on the left is the sequel.

Out of the corner of my eye, I keep thinking they're the same book. They're both from 2019, so it's not impossible AI was involved, but it's not terribly likely.

edit: Visuals aside, it's a pretty good series. The books pictured are numbers eleven and twelve and I like the characters enough to have made it this far into the series.

 

But there's something about them I find distracting.

 

I didn't think my cats would care, but since my dog died, Maze has been ... Aggressively affectionate. To the point that I need to shoo her away if I need any alone time. She wasn't this loving any time over her past fifteen years or so of life and didn't seem like she cared about the dog, but she's been completely transformed since then.

 

I mean, just look at it.

edit: For anyone wondering, it's from the first few seconds of HARDY - Sold Out.

 

They almost blend together.

 
 

Newbie was a rescue from a dog fighting house. According to the shelter from which we got her, they couldn't get her to fight, so they used her for breeding. For her entire life with us, she had scars from where they tied her down for breeding... But despite coming from the most abusive background imaginable, she was the absolute sweetest dog. She was in my life for about a decade and, other than in her sleep, I never once heard her make an aggressive sound.

Unfortunately, she died a few years ago from a failing pancreas. She's the only dog I ever had to choose to let die. I wish she were still here.

edit: She was really stinky, though.

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