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Cake day: February 20th, 2024

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  • Depends on the format, and what kind of troll.

    If its, say, over voice chat, they’re usually losers, and laughing at them with absolute amusement usually just hushes them up.
    People typically just bail if you start hysterically laughing and say “Are you for real?Oh my god, say it again, I gotta record this so I can show my friends someone actually said that cheezy internet line for real!”

    I don’t usually like shaming people, but tit for tat, and all that.

    But when its just real nasty, mean digs, I sometimes will throw people a bone, if I’m feeling charitable. Sometimes asking people “What happened to you to make you act that way” breaks the floodgates to some fascinating, but deeply hurt hearts.

    And then there’s the kinda old school chaos gremlin trolls who the whole thing, and are actually kinda funny, in which case, its called, We do a little trollin


  • This is the case of an article misconstruing the meaning of a scientific paper… again.

    From what I gather, this is meant to mean the specific context of a gesture having the explicit, consistent purpose- that when it flutters, it means that its partner is supposed to do a specific activity with their nest.

    So its not just the context sensitive “I’m letting you go first” like with a cat, or with many other creatures, its more akin to someone texting their spouse “Can you put the kettle on?”

    The bizarre thing with this really is that its a visual cue, because we see this all the time with sounds, in all kinds of critters.


  • Offered an ear to a stranger who got a cancer diagnosis. Enabled a notification override for that discord convo so if they ever take me up on that, I’ll get it.
    It sounds like its something treatable, as they were talking about working while dealing with it, but still, that’s stressful AF. Cancer is scary.

    This isn’t much, but its the latest. Kinda feels nice to realize I did a nice thing even though I’m broke and physically struggling with stuff right now, so thanks.

    I think that’ll help me get back to sleep here, actually.