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cowloom wrote

Reply to Picmixen by voxpoplar

whoa, what a nostalgia blast. I remember these types of gifs being everywhere on DeviantArt back in the day. now I know what tool they used to make them!

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cowloom wrote

Reply to Black Bean Tacos by Ruby

beans make for a good breakfast food, and I will die on this hill

currently also eating what would've been bean tacos, but my cat got to the tortillas first, so now it's a bean/corn/onion/bell pepper bowl

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cowloom wrote

Reply to Why Did Everyone Suddenly Start Saying "Welcome In"? by neku

Can't say I've heard this one, but the one grammatically incorrect phrase I hear all the time is people asking questions like "How to ___?" instead of "How do you ___?" I can only assume it started with people typing "How to ___" into search engines, since the titles of whatever article they're looking for would start that way, but somewhere along the way people started phrasing their questions on forums or occasionally IRL that way. It's not a huge deal, but it makes my eyebrow twitch whenever I see it.

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twovests wrote

Reply to graduated today by neku

🪅🪅🥳🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎈🎉🎈🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉🍾🍾👯🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾

congratulations! :D

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emma wrote

Reply to Does anyone here use NextDNS? What are your thoughts? by twovests

if it saves you a bunch of tedious setup, and you aren't concerned about snooping, then surely it's worth the price? personally i just use wireguard to access services on my home network, but this may not be an option in some circumstances (e.g. isp puts you behind cgnat)

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by voxpoplar in Picmixen by voxpoplar

Oh rad :D I love that. Thank you for sharing.

I was surprised learn that the person who made the ring of fire is 60 years old. I really associated these gifs with the youngest of internet youth, so I kind of went down a rabbit hole.

Chris-26, born in 1957, has a PicMix of the new pope which is admittedly quite endearing. That's only ~68, so not so old this is surprising.

Clicking around recent, it seems older people dominate the site, albeit one user being 111 years old makes me wonder how true these ages are.

But peoples profiles are full of comments like this:

💙Hi!💙 Beautiful image💙 Thanks for visiting and appreciating!💙 💙Kisses!💙

This whole feed feels painfully nostalgic-- like I'm looking back into what Facebook was ~15 years ago.

About a year ago I made a really dismissive post about how there was "no great AI art"... But it feels hard to say this isn't an earnest piece of art incorporating AI. Like, I wouldn't call this "great", but I can at least recognize that was a really satisfying thing for that person to make.

There is a whole and fascinating culture here. Prior to this, I would have categorized "AI art" as either (1) bad porn or (2) communities making AI art for the sake of AI. But this seems wholly earnest.

I don't know what to say except that I am fascinated. This feels like a holdout from some of the last vestiges of the old internet. And most importantly, these aren't .webms or .gifvs or .mp4s-- these are honest-to-soft-g-god .gifs Thank you for sharing

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