BTW, check merriam-webster's bluesky. Its really good.
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A tweet saying "It took me 19 years to figure out NEWS stands for "notable events, weather and sports" ๐ค". It has a reply from Merriam-Webster saying "No."
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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... butter up my noods already, would ya?
It's getting steamy in this kitchen, oh my...
(lolololol)
could i maybe double-fork your noods? that would be soo hot
... yes... but... be gentle...
(ok dear god this has to stop NO ERP ON MAIN)
there's even a line with puns. i'm not judging, i'm just saying that's probably the line lol
I am glad we can mutually agree on approaching the line, hitting the line, and then stopping.
I have seen too much, toooo muuuch weird shit on too many discord servers, dear god.
i just spent a long time crafting a question and then deleted it when i realized i don't really want to know the answer to some questions.
This may not be the question you were asking, but it is the one I want to answer:
Let me just put it this way:
... You ever heard of the game, 'The Isle'?
You ever heard of the handle 'ParadymShift'?
... Yeah. I knew that guy 20 years ago, and a good deal of other people connected to him, some of whom would later also be connected to, or literally members of, the Isle dev team.
I actually met him in person once, almost two decades ago now.
I know his real name. Know what he looks like.
I made a pitstop at his fucking house for 30 minutes on a longdistance roadtrip down the whole Pacific US coast... I know where he at least used to live.
Fell out of contact with him years before all the shit went down at the Isle... because he was a perma power tripping, manipulative bastard.
Then one day... I happened across all the... news about him.
... And the people I knew who were mutual friends with Paradym still... all gaslit the fuck out of me and told me all that shit was fake news.
Paradym himself?
... He should be in a fucking jail cell, kinda really hugely took ERP way, waaay too far, as in, pressured minors into sending him nudes too far, as in, sent unsolicited nudes of himself to multiple minors, too fucking far, as in, manipulated a whole community of mostly minors, while he was an adult, by forcing people to do and say things on pain of him releasing revenge porn of them... too fucking far.
So far, he seems to have wiped himself off of the internet, doesn't appear he was ever actually prosecuted.
... If I ever meet that piece of shit in person again, by some unhappy coincidence, I'll put him in the grave.