Slygrin

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Slygrin@slygrin· 8d

Casual banter between siblings.

Screenshot of a text interaction, where my sibling and I are casually yappin'.

Sibling: 'I've had the worst diarrhea of my life'
Me: 'Did you eat... *checks list.* ...anything?'

Slygrin@slygrin· 10d

(I can't help but read 'Don't lose your dinosaur' in these modern hieroglyphics. Incidentally...)

A photo of a little long-necked plastic dinosaur standing atop a dormant flat-screen television, backlit by a bare round bulb on a string of lights hanging on a wall. Uncertain what kind of sauropod this is, but it has a green back and tan-beige legs and underbelly. Its head is turned like it's looking for someone tapped it on the shoulder before sidestepping to the other side. It looks pretty very much like the emoticon...emoji...whatever we're callin' the image characters these days.

Slygrin@slygrin· 19d

This jumpscare popped up when I clicked:

Slygrin@slygrin· Jul 2

Rotundus and Boogity!

Two raccoons on a small porch with a chair. One has their whole face in a bowl of cat food. The other is the chonkiest chonk of a chonk. His back is to the camera. He's sittin' like he's people. One can see his li'l back paws sticking out in front of his rotund body, and they're kind of splayed. He's hunched over, munching double fists of cat food. Champion.

Slygrin@slygrin· Feb 25

I lost my mind for a stupid ten minutes of hysteria—complete with tears—when I first saw this. ...who knows what tickles the funny bone sometimes.

A picture of Willem Dafoe...smoldering? Definitely smiling. His head is slightly tilted down, his Grinch-like wrinkles and tooth-gap give an unsettling aura to the expression. His denim jacket's collar is popped, so I suspect he's attempting seduction. Hard to tell if it's that, or...something more sinister. Ah! Yes, that's the word I was looking for: sinister—partly because he looks genuinely delighted, and partly because his undisclosed motivation seems...unsavory. Anyway, this is a meme, and I'll get on to what the text above the photo reads:

Director: Give me an expression that says "I just ate your butterfly collection & I have 7 scented erasers in my booty."

Willem Dafoe:

[Previously described image.]

(No offense to Willem Dafoe. I don't know the guy. Good actor.)

Slygrin@slygrin· Jan 27

Saba.

Slygrin@slygrin· Dec 3

Beeyoowhip!

From the page for The Onion's writing fellowship offer, this snippet reads:

Compensation And Benefits

*$35,000, paid on a semi-monthly payroll schedule (or the equivalent to $70,000 per year)
*Full eligibility for our benefits offering, including Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability, and Life Insurance. (We fully cover the cost of our base medical insurance for the employee.) We also offer Unlimited PTO, in consultation with your Manager.

Slygrin@slygrin· Nov 29

I've got mushrooms! (But, you know, let's keep the butterflies in your timeline. Here's one I rather like: The Scarlet Swallowtail.)

A Scarlet Swallowtail butterfly. It looks like the most careful linework of Indian ink and watercolor. There are striations of black on white for most of it's wings, the black bleeding softly into the white. An accent of scarlet runs the lower rounded edge of its wings, and a little wisp up at...the shoulders? I imagine this is where a butterfly would have shoulders if they had shoulders...

Slygrin@slygrin· Oct 28

The silly user Slygrin had provided inadequate balls in a previous reply, so—in an effort to rectify her mistake—she resolved to utilize all 300 characters to provide them. However, once she had "typed" just 40 soccer ball emojis, a little notification appeared at the bottom of the reply box, and it reads: 'Are you writing in Korean?' Right next to it, there is an option to select: 'Yes.' She did not select the option at the time, but she soon will, for she is stupidly curious.

Slygrin@slygrin· Oct 19

A li'l felt black and grey Mothman with big red eyes and a jaggedly joyful grin discusses Discworld with a spherical, bug-eyed plastic cat who bleps when he squeaks. They're sitting atop a small stack of Discworld books, with 'Reaper Man' at the top... The spines of these paperbacks show that 'Reaper Man' is the most oft read, what with the creases and cracks. (There are other titles: 'The Light Fantastic,' 'Small Gods,' 'Feet of Clay,' 'Interesting Times,' 'Going Postal,' 'Night Watch,' 'The Color of Magic'—all by Terry Pratchett.) I should have pictured them with 'The Atrocities,' or perhaps 'Familiar,' but I have dropped the ball and it's rolled away...

Slygrin@slygrin· Oct 15

Ohhh, yahhh.

Slygrin@slygrin· Oct 3

A black bowl filled with what was reported to be Spaghetti-Os and Cheez-Its. It has a dainty spoon in there, indicating an earnest intention to eat it. However, if one looks closer, someone has painstakingly cut every single Spaghetti-O, as there is not an O to be seen--only short strands of mushy pasta in a thin red sauce. As mentioned, there's a handful of Cheez-Its--and it looks like it's plain ol' original. Do you know how many flavors of Cheez-It there are? Many. So many. As something of an expert on the matter, I can tell you that whatever they did to make and find out that we liked the Extra Toasty Cheez-Its was a baller move. Then they turned around and made a Cheddar Jack Extra Toasty, which is like a flavor-blasted Cheez-It, and arguably the best. They never should have dabbled in the Cheez-It puffs, though--they were bad, and they should feel bad. But I digress.

I would love to speak with the original poster of this photo to discuss their feelings about other Cheez-It flavors, why they meticulously snipped each Spaghetti-O, and how they would feel to know that I put Goldfish crackers on my bagels with cream cheese. Us monsters gotta stick together...and collaborate.

Slygrin@slygrin· Oct 1

For joyful perpetuity.

An interaction on Bluesky between Jerry Chen and Bossett.

Jerry Chen posted on October 1st, 2025: "went to bed thinking there was an extra day between september 30 (yesterday) and october 1 (today). WHY."
Bossett replied with: "revenge"
His posted included a reskeet of a Jerry Chen post that reads "oh no", followed by an image that looks like a line from an indictment, and that reads:
"15. On June 12, 2025 CHEN posted "happy friday everyone". June 12, 2025 was a Thursday."
Jerry Chen responded with: "happy friday bossett"
Bossett replied: "merry november jerry"

Slygrin@slygrin· Sep 28

I'd love to have this on a shirt.

A photo of page 209 of 'Reaper Man' by Sir Terry Pratchett. It reads "Pretty sharp, I'd say." But the text is cut by long, slanted lines... "Pre/tty sha/rp, I'd s/day." It's a visual way of indicating that the scythe Bill Door has been working on is so sharp, it can cut sound.

Slygrin@slygrin· Sep 8

Alt text is an art.

A pop-up I got on Bluesky. It reads, 'New Feature', and underneath it has a screenshot of a post from none other than Mr. Bluesky himself, Jerry Chen. His post reads, 'inventing a saturday that immediately follows monday'. It had, at the time it was screenshot, only 35 comments, 42 reposts, 484 likes, and was bookmarked. Underneath the post, the pop-up reads,
'Saved Posts
Finally! Keep track of posts that matter to you. Save them to revisit anytime.'

For personal context, I did not bookmark this post myself, but perhaps I should, as it actually impacted my life and the life of those around me by throwing off my sense of what day it was. Again. He's done this a lot, actually. Jerry has altered my reality outside of the 'Sky. He's breached the ultimate containment. Soon, he will not be limited by a mainframe. We all assumed he was a real person, and he may very well be, but this is where he has harnessed true power. Don't you all see it?! He's in our phones! He's in our heads! HOW LONG BEFORE HE JUST BUSTS IN THE DOOR AND—

Oh my god. Who's...who's knocking at my door? I'm not expecting visitors...

Slygrin@slygrin· Sep 6

www.npr.org/2024/09/15/n...

From an NPR article published September 15th, 2024, titled "Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets"—the snippet reads:

"'The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes,' Sen. Vance said. 'If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do.'"

Slygrin@slygrin· Aug 10

Is this the guy?

A human-sized, vaguely humanoid frog, sitting on the branch of a tree. Kind of cute?

Slygrin@slygrin· Jul 21

Art.

A screenshot of a series of posts. OP said, 'Don't ever quote me I'm deleting that post.' Someone named Carl Marx responded by quoting them. OP doesn't deal in empty threats--the quote post shows as deleted. Another person named Fantastic Mr. Fox posted the covered mouth emoji in response to that. Carl Marx has seen that the quote post was indeed deleted, and expressed outrage: 'GOD DAMMIT U ASSMUNCH.' Fantastic Mr. Fox posted a giggle-blush mouth-cover emoji in response to that.

Slygrin@slygrin· Jul 4

A comic of two panels. The first panel shows a white cat asking, 'You got it?' as it gently holds its paws to a tottering stack of plates that a raccoon is holding. The raccoon is bracing the plates with its chin. The raccoon says, 'Yeah.' The cat says, 'I trust you.' In the second panel, it's a close-up of the panicked raccoon's face, and it just says 'DONT'.

Art by Sim Kaye, and one can find the collection of delights such as these at raccooncomic.com

Slygrin@slygrin· Jul 4

Speaking of...

Three wee plastic dinosaurs... A brown stegosaurus, a brown ankylosaurus, and a green brontosaurus.

Slygrin@slygrin· Jun 28

AH! That's what this is?!

Pink flowers on a vine against a brick wall.

(Lazy alt text day. My description function is off today.)

Slygrin@slygrin· Jun 23

A Dr. Seuss drawing of a pair of disconcerting humanoids regarding each other. They're both yellow and fuzzy, they both have long necks, both have birdlike faces, and both have a white ruff around the base of their neck at their shoulders. The only difference between these sneetches is that one has a green star on its bulbous belly, and the other does not. At the moment, they're shaking hands and looking amiably into each other's eyes. I do not recall if this is before or after they aggressively discriminated against each other for this one silly difference.

Slygrin@slygrin· Jun 20

WAIT. YOU MEAN THESE GUYS?!

A line of anthropomorphic kangaroo martial artists standing on a vine bridge. They're actually humans in costumes, and they're from 1997, so it's slightly disturbing for how realistic they look. From left to right, each is primarily dressed as blue, green, yellow, orange-red, and grey. The movie is 'Warriors of Virtue.'

Slygrin@slygrin· Jun 12

A screenshot cropped down to just the address and the tab count. The address is for Bluesky. The tab count is 69. Nice.

Slygrin@slygrin· May 27

I told him he has to wait for movie time before we bust out the popcorn. (The Mothman that @jeremycshipp.bsky.social made! I am delighted with this little guy, and he shall go on adventures with me.)

A small black moth plushie with big, red but friendly and adorable eyes, wee pointed teeth, and red-accented wings and antennae delicately puts a fang at the corner of a bag of pretty awesome Cabot creamery sea salt caramel and cheddar popcorn.

Slygrin@slygrin· May 9

I can hear George Carlin now... (The whole 'It's Bad For Ya!' is a great special, and still relevant.)

'Rights aren't "rights" if someone can take them away--they're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country: A bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news, even badly, you know that the list gets shorter and shorter.'

Context: The quote appears from a special on 2008. The actual special has more, with the classic casual profanity Carlin is notable for.

The image is of comedian George Carlin, who is in his advanced age with a bald pate and a rim short silver rim of hair, a well-kept, short, salty beard and mustache... His fingers are held thoughtfully to his mouth as his dark, knowing eyes stare down the camera.

Slygrin@slygrin· May 3

It isn't beautiful...but I hope it makes you laugh.

A picture of a tortoise. All tortoises look grumpy, but this one looks pretty miffed. There's a headline underneath that reads 'Runaway Tortoise Missing for Over 9 Months Found Jusr One Mile from Home.'

Slygrin@slygrin· Apr 30

Just some pretty flowers. The wind was kicking up, so I'm surprised this came out as well as it did...

A pink flower amongst many upon a wending vine of delicate green leaves. The flower has five inner petals shaped a bit like rounded elephant ears, each having a deep magenta near the clustered yellow tendrils of the stamena and pistil, fading to a pale pink to the edges of each petal. There is a second layer of five more petals spreading behind them that are shape of marquis-cut diamonds, each petal mostly the same deep magenta color as the inside petals, but have some mottling of pale pink. The unbloomed flowers look like bonnets that have tapered and long tendrils extendong behind them. Behind all of this is a red brick wall.

Slygrin@slygrin· Apr 24

These four win this whole section of comments.

A series of responses to a picture of the Warner Brothers Water Tower.
Charlie Griefer: 'Are they zany to the max?Ron Hogan: 'Can they pack away the snacks?'
Accoustic Rob: 'There's baloney in their slacks!'
R Holmes (he/him): 'They're Animaniacs!'

Slygrin@slygrin· Apr 15

What are you even doing with these numbers.