Apr

26th

2024

Excuse Me While I Vent To Release The Pressure · 12:29am Yesterday

This might just be the result of an exceptionally bad ~~day~~ ~~week~~ ~~month~~ decade, but:

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Apr

18th

2024

The Undesirous Virus: COVID-19, Four Years Later · 4:39pm April 18th

Yeah, remember when COVID-19 was a thing? I'm fine if we don't get a sequel, of course.

Alternatively, what's the real-world version of Cutie Pox?

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Apr

16th

2024

Friendship and the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole · 10:27am April 16th

Because I am That Kind Of Person, I typed "Friendship" into the search bar on Wikipedia and immediately looked at the dropdown menu of suggestions. And I see this:

Friendship Games

There's some weird random stuff here.

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Apr

14th

2024

Going Bad, Babs Seed, and the Hostile Attribution Bias · 4:13pm April 14th

Because writers feed on flaws and conflict, and because a great way to make some is to have a character go in cockeyed, I was looking up cognitive biases. This one caught my eye:

Hostile Attribution Bias

Bad Seed! Now in 3D!

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Apr

1st

2024

Followup: Image Issue Seems to Be Fixed Now · 9:58pm April 1st

Just checked. Embedded images seem to be working again.

Seriously, though, what was that?

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Apr

1st

2024

Check Your Images: Possible Site Issue · 9:06pm April 1st

I've only just noticed, but is anyone else having random loading failure problems with inserted images/gifs on various pages? Blogs and user pages I've chiefly been noticing it on. I could've sworn they were fine yesterday, but today? Nope.

Fic embeds and videos seem to be working fine. I just wondered if anyone else had noticed the image issue.

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Mar

28th

2024

The S4 Slice: Breezies, Rocktorates, and Placebo Tonics · 9:31pm March 28th

Blog Number 252: Production Codes 416-420 Edition

Ten years ago (2014), in the month of March, we were in the third quarter of Season Four, specifically the run from "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies" to "Leap of Faith". I find it very... nostalgic.

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Mar

24th

2024

Friendship and the Danger of Attrition · 8:31pm March 24th

If the show's to be believed, then friendship's biggest threats come from external forces: hatred, fear, etc. Friendship's purpose is to hold fast and let natural strength repel these attacks.

You ever consider that friendship's greatest threat comes from within? From much more banal forces: erosion, decline, and fading away?