Right on, it took some doing but I’m glad I quit nicotine. It’s worth it!

Damn, glad I quit drinking.

(Hits vape pen.)

(/s, just in case it wasn’t clear.)

It’s a dark joke that I would normally have deleted upon further reflection, but there’s been talk that deleting comments (even lousy ones) is bad for Lemmy, so I’m hesitating to get rid of it. Really not sure what the move is here.

On the other hand, so does partner violence. Win some, lose some, right?

sharper images of our body’s tiniest proteins

Ah! Don’t look at my tiny proteins! 🫢 😳

(via Poorly Drawn Lines)

I often used to have intrusive violent or sexual thoughts about strangers I’d see out in the world. They were unwanted and I found them horrifying, and of course would never do anything like that to anyone. Medication eventually helped.

Niii–no, wait that’s awful.

We’re sure this isn’t some alien’s brain, right?

Really makes you feel huge and significant, doesn’t it?

I’m here for a cozy time, not a long time.

I don’t know if it’s still effective for moon exploration, but I bet I would feel very safe inside that thing.

To reduce the number of non-working poor people. Or “useless eaters” as the psychotic, billionaire class calls them.

“You cover your mouth with the inner part of your elbow—it’s called the vampire cough!”

“Oh-no!”

“No, it’s all right—there’s no real vampires!”

(From The Office, I forget which episode.)

Yeah, I’m still pretty happy with my set up. My workplace is locked down, apart from the regular web. So if I want to access my self-hosted Code Server or FreshRSS or Calibre Web instance I have to do it through standard port 443. I run everything through Cloud Flare tunnels so scrapers and bots aren’t constantly hammering my home broadband connection. (Edit: fixed a word.)

You might want a “lapdock”; basically a keyboard, monitor, and trackpad in a laptop form factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapdock

You know the magic words to summon an Incubus, don’t you?

🎶 I wish you were here, Iaeeaaah, I wish you were here 🎶

I mean, might as well be nice. They’re only worth 10 XP anyway.

“Gronk laugh at puny armor, real warrior wear furry jock strap!”

Now I’m trying to imagine what a Tabaxi twink would look like 🤔 .