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technically yes

the sinuses are swelling more than they are filled with goop you either gotta relieve the swelling or relieve the pressure of the swelling by embiggening its boney prison

idk I was reading things like Jurassic Park and LotR in elementary and middle school, and they were good and fun and people thought I was reading ahead of the curve at the time. But the moment something was required in class it became a chore, and then when it escalated that the broccoli wasn't even being disguised in kid shit, I guess that was it for me.

It was probably a combination of (a) being forced to read it in the summer, (b) the heavy handed allegory, and (c) just not being emotionally ready for that kind of literature. I just remember how the English teacher was making such a huge deal out of the fact that the doctor was constantly described as fat to draw a connection to greed, and in my head I remember thinking that characterization seems mean to fat people. I think I liked Old Man and the Sea, or at least it was impactful enough that I would dwell on parts of it after the fact. But I was uninterested in English/Lit as a kid, I remember when we started reading To Kill a Mockingbird in 10th grade and that as an adult I'd definitely categorize as super important literature but I just remember the first chapter or prologue being about the mystery of the Boo Radley House and being intrigued about that like haunted house setup, then feeling like there was a huge bait and switch where the book immediately sidetracked into "grownup things" and didn't circle back to the fun mystery until the end. Maybe I was a textbook case as to why English class was important, I had zero intellectual curiosity.

I never read that book in school I do remember how much I hated The Pearl by John Steinbeck, which was required summer reading (possibly why I hated it) before 9th grade.

hbd to muttley and all his birthday twins

I'm just sitting here and thinking to myself, not sure how you would draw anything but a fairly conservative line on how to legally distinguish it. To the extend that it's a "I know it when I see it" that entails a lot of subjectivity, I feel like the only reasonable line is probably similar to defamation where you have to litigate the absolute truth and the intended harm etc. which is a high bar and an even higher bar when you're talking about the enhanced speech rights that media and politicians have (in the context of defamation).

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-nintendo-switch-00006655

the frequency and size of mandatory game updates are killing me. I have to clear space on my shitty moto G7 every time and it's getting to the point where I don't have unused or unnecessary apps to sacrifice when clearing every cache isn't enough.

Is digital content exempt from Trump tariffs? The question came up at work, don't actually know the answer.

I watched today's Nintendo direct. Idk, maybe I'm at a point in life where I can't keep up anymore. I feel like the switch 1 could have five more years of life in it. I was real intrigued that their way to prevent scalpers is to open up pre-orders first to Nintendo online subscribers with a certain threshold of game activity. Probably more intrigued about that than having to start over a whole console.

hmmm screen cap if it happens again, and anyone else corroborate if it happens to you too

I'm not sure? The font is showing up to me as default, quoted your post to make sure, and to the best of my ability that screencap looks default to me. The blue highlight just looks like it was manually highlighted? I'm confused.

good luck we're all counting on you

happy birthday @OwlChemist81 I hope it is owlright

happy birthday @UncomfortableGoatee and @thee2tonfist

Shouldn't time travel have to account for the rotational position of the earth as it orbits the sun and as the sun orbits the milky way, and as the galaxy careens through space?

happy birthday sight !

happy birthday @KH868

appy birthday doomer

that update did allow bsky embeds