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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m from Australia, that looks like a huntsman.

    When I first moved here and saw one I freaked out and begged my husband to catch it. He laughed and said they are good spiders, and very fast so hard to catch anyway.

    That spider lived above the window blinds, and I realised I would have to sweep the dead bugs off the windowsill every few days.

    He definitely became an honoured guest!







  • I have traveled to very conservative countries and have never found the sort of puritanical hand wringing that comes from a certain subset of Americans.

    I say this as an American expat who has lived everywhere from Hawaii to the bible belt, to New York.

    Can you imagine the pain and anxiety you would cause a biological woman who does not look feminine enough for your line of reasoning here?

    You see her in the restroom and act like she doesn’t belong there - maybe you say something, maybe you keep your “discomfort in your vulnerable place” to yourself, but your stupid ideas about what a woman is and how one should look in order to be accepted into a bathroom are hurtful.

    I was in an art class last month with a lovely young woman who has pcos. She is a Sikh woman, and therefore does not remove her facial hair.

    She had a beard that would put a young man to shame, and now it occurs to me that had she been unfortunate enough to be born in America, she would have had to choose between honouring the basic tenets of her religion, or conforming so she is not shunned - or worse, assaulted for using the womens room.

    https://www.learnreligions.com/some-sikh-women-have-facial-hair-2993341












  • I bought Red Dead Redemption for myself and three friends, super excited about the game, the lore. I had never spent that much money on a game.

    We all played through the single player tutorial, and finally into the open world. We meet up and begin exploring and trying to complete quests when suddenly one of us just … drops dead.

    Then another is hit by a meteor and caught on fire?

    I am thrown up into the sky.

    An alien ship?! Appears and messes with us for a while. I try begging in pub chat for the hacker to please leave us so we can play, which seems to goad them further. This continued for an hour.

    A quick look around the internet told us that this was par for the course for RDR and GTA and Rockstar couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything about it.

    We ended up refunding all the games through steam. Sad times.