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28 Jun 2025, 12:37 pm

babybird wrote:
Someone who I always imagined was about my age or even a bit older has turned out to be almost 20 years younger than me

It all makes sense now


Is that someone an online contact?



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28 Jun 2025, 1:04 pm

Yeah mate

It's nothing to do with their age
I was struggling with the attitude towards things that's all and I couldn't understand it

Then I realised the age and it just made sense to me

It's not actually a problem now I understand it


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28 Jun 2025, 2:50 pm

Bugler's Dream was first used for the Olympics in 1964, not 1968.


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29 Jun 2025, 3:24 pm

The only thing that a crocodile is scared of is a hippopotamus

I don't like hippos either


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30 Jun 2025, 4:46 am

Today I learned that the same molecule that makes chicken taste like chicken can also be found in ground up oyster shells, is a false fact.



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30 Jun 2025, 2:29 pm

I have just learned from a Reddit post that Oxtail soup is impossible to find in Cyprus.


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30 Jun 2025, 4:05 pm

Some people have mistaken flags from European countries as lgbt pride flags. Such as Italy.



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30 Jun 2025, 5:09 pm

I'm learning more about the Matrix client called "Fluffychat". I have one long-lost acquaintance in there, who I'm chatting with.

BTW: there are 21 users there (on matrix.org) who have "autism" in their usernames. But is there an Autism chat room (either a "public room", or "public space")? Apparently not.


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01 Jul 2025, 6:06 pm

Today is not only Canada Day, but also the day that Americans raided a British Settlement in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

As someone who lives in Nova Scotia, that hits, quite literally, close to home.



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01 Jul 2025, 8:44 pm

When I get out, good things happen.


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01 Jul 2025, 9:32 pm

Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics of fan death are impossible given how electric fans operate, belief in fan death persisted to the mid-2000s in South Korea, and also to a lesser extent in Japan.

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02 Jul 2025, 1:04 pm

I did not know there was a "Manchester headline news" show on television


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Yesterday, 4:49 pm

Retrograde wrote:
Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics of fan death are impossible given how electric fans operate, belief in fan death persisted to the mid-2000s in South Korea, and also to a lesser extent in Japan.

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If fan death was a real thing, I'd have died every single night since I was a teenager. :lol:


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Yesterday, 5:02 pm

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So we're all agreed then, fans are unlikely to kill people?