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tobadzistsini
Long-form microfiction, shitposts, cats, managed depression, and Esperanto. I love hot showers. Good God, why are you following me? 🍉
To Ollie's dismay, the kitten sprinted through the #hedge carrying a ring of keys in her mouth.
"How #odd." He plopped on the ground. "What would a kitty want with my keys?"
Moments later an engine roared to life. Light bloomed on the other side before it exploded in fragments of fragrant green with giant knobby tires tearing up the turf.
Leaving a trail of heavy black smoke as it thundered off in the distance, Ollie swore he heard a tiny voice holler, "Yee haw!"
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Gentleman Jim Dandy regarded his nemesis, "By all means extinguish my life with your Colt Single Action Army M1873." With a stiff upper lip he pronounced, "Or are you yellow?"
Confused, Black Bart spat in the dust. "Whadju call me?"
"#Yellow."
"It's yell-ah." Bart tilted his hat with the barrel of his gun. "The hell is wrong with ya?"
"Fine. How about, 'Or are you goldenrod? Perhaps dandelion?'"
"Shee-it" Bart hollered. "You ain't no fun" and walked out of town, never to be seen again.
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"Is this for sports or is this a geoglyph?" Julia's sandaled feet were mere inches from the chalk outline of a large, irregular septagon.
The old groundskeeper shook his head, "Why dya wanna know?"
"I mean it's here" She waved both hands in the outline's direction. "I'm here. And I wanna know."
He took off his Tards cap and wiped his brow, "Fair 'nuff. Willow Creek wouldn't have accepted ya iffen you din't wanna learn." He replaced the cap. "Reckon ya got a minute?" 1/x
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Rain rattled the roof a bit too loud for Sonya's comfort. She paused her video game, "Mooom! Is it raining?"
"Ye—" and silence grew. "Oh my goodness, c'mere sugar."
Now beside her mother, both stared as bright yellow objects fell to Earth. Sonya stepped outside as mom begged her not to.
Peeking beyond the porch's roof, she watched the objects plummet out of nowhere from a cloudless sky.
Sonya grabbed one. 1/x
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"Your honor, may I approach the witness as hostile?"
"Granted."
"Mrs. Reid, on the night of the incident were you 'drunk on cock?'"
An ice cube that turns to water under a full moon.
"Shos, come here!" Dinpa's pseudopod waved in the air. "Tell me of the third planet around Doxoriel.
Without hesitation, "It's green." Shos slopped into a chair, "#Verdant valleys. Fertile fields of foliage. Emerald oceans. Lush forests." Cilia trembled, "If I do not see green for the rest of my life then I shall be content."
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Hodiaŭ estis varma. Nun la nokto estas malvarmeta kaj agrabla. Mi dankemas por la sanĝo. Ĝis, gekaraj.
Eight Sci-Fi Books That Teach Urbanists the Dos and Don’ts of the Future https://www.planetizen.com/features/137090-eight-sci-fi-books-teach-urbanists-dos-and-donts-future
3:50 + 3:41 + 4:23 + 3:17 + 12:38 = 28:29
It's sad that May the Fourth is so commercialized nowadays.
I matched with someone on Facebook Dating.
Do asian girls wash themselves, y'know, "down there"?
"Oh no, what I refer to as darkness isn't black. I can paint something black. You can hold something black. Anyone can describe black. But black is part of the spectrum of darkness, but darkness remains without black. Darkness is best described as an absence implying one must remember light for context. Yet within darkness is something far more profound than a simple dichotomy. Darkness is everywhere and it will outlast the universe."
"Takashi Hattori, the founder of XNova, an AI and robotics company in Kyoto, has developed a robot he believes could help. The Buddharoid is a monk robot programmed with Buddhist scripture in Japanese and English."
I have seen the dystopian future of elderly care —
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/09/testing-the-japanese-airec-robot-for-elderly-care/
Oh goodness, I hope I'm not deluding myself into thinking I am a good writer.
I'm not concerned about werewolves. It's just a phase.