toynbee

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

This isn't the most respectful summary of a marriage, but is the person named someone famously criminal or something? I searched for the name, but the only relevant-seeming result wouldn't load, so I couldn't even see if he did anything particularly egregious.

I'm not trying to diminish the language or anything the individual might have done, I just can't find any information.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, it was pretty unlikely back then and much more so now. I guess I should have included a sarcasm mark - I wasn't offering it as a serious suggestion. I do wish them luck meeting someone to love.

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

Yeesh. Walking though a web housing just one spider is bad enough ... And that's when there's light for me to see what happened.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I met someone in the official XKCD channel. That person referenced a private server. Later I went to a LAN party where another attendee happened to be on that same private server. I figured that had to be significant and joined the server myself. Some months later, a fluke caused my face to be displayed on a webcam feed I had linked there. My now-wife saw it and proclaimed me cute.

Really that was all it took, but she's never since done anything that caused me to regret falling for her.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I met my wife on IRC. Try that!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks! I was never in a coma - AFAIK - but I did hurt my back and get stuck in bed for eleven days, which is why this is relevant.

So far my doctor hasn't fixed the issue, so I can't comment on his clues, but he seems pretty confident so I'm hopeful.

He also complimented me on my back maze, so I would likely feel positively about him in any case!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

True! I never really thought it was her real name, even after learning she exists, but I could have expressed that better.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Your comment is more applicable than you might know.

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

I dislike you for this post, but at least your username checks out.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's how I feel about my statement about sandwiches using mayo.

edit: See?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

TIL that Doja Cat is a real name for an artist. (I'm not mocking - I just thought the name was a meme.)

 

Nothing to add here.

 
 

Now it's a genre.

 

I'm not really sure why.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.

 

A while ago, Maze hurt her ear. Since then we've been giving her all kinds of medication. Obviously things aren't pristine, but she's doing way better and her wheezing has nearly disappeared!

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