One time I had a weird skin thing and was trying to look up whether I should be worried about it, and stumbled onto a bunch of shit about Morgellons Disease, in which people think they have fibers or parasites growing out of their skin.

I just had a weird ingrown hair.

I simultaneously miss AmITheAsshole and think that it’s almost all either made up for karma farming or people shitposting to make some marginalized group look bad.

Or weird sex stuff. Definitely a lot of it is some person’s weird sex thing.

My issue is even if that’s true it kind of doesn’t matter because it’s making the people who are ACTUALLY racist/homophobic/name your bigotry flavor feel comfortable enough to be genuinely horrendous. Fucking with the Overton window like that ain’t cool.

Oxford comma or gtfo.

Absolutely. Not using adblock is just asking to get malware, on top of ads being wildly obnoxious. And most sites are CRAMMED with ads to the point that they’re basically ureadable.

I also subscribe to a lot of patreons and such because I want to support creators. But I’d stop consuming someone’s content before I turned off my ad blocker, if they decided that was the hill they wanted to die on.

If “robots smashing each other up” doesn’t inherently thrill you, I cannot explain why I love Battlebots. Some people just get it and some do not.

Sneakers was my favorite movie when I was like 12. Which is a weird age for that and yet. (my other fav was The Hunt for Red October, so I was kind of a weird tween…)

Dog stuff. I haven’t found any dog communities and I weirdly miss reading about dog grooming.

I’m from the US and went to Germany on a work trip for a few weeks and spent time in Cologne, Hamburg, and Berlin. The German people I worked with were horrified that I drank the tap water! It was fine though, especially the tap water at our workplace where they had fancy filtration.

Honestly I usually ride my bicycle someplace but unless you have a stationary bike that doesn’t sound workable (and I’m not sure a stationary bike would work anyway, I think actually leaving the building is a necessary part of the equation).

I have, however, gotten a lot of mileage out of smashing ice with one of those wooden cocktail ice smashing mallets. When you make crushed ice for fancy cocktails you put the ice in a little canvas bag and beat it with a wooden mallet. It’s destructive, but in a harmless way.

Just don’t do like I did the other week and go to slam the bathroom door, underestimate the degree to which your home’s doors are made of paper mache, and accidentally knock a hole in the door. :( I can confirm this does not make you less mad.