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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 10/09/2026

Morrowind concept art by Clyde Caldwell

concept art from Morrowind: vivec fecal canals

Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 27/08/2026

Was having a bad day but then received a blessed omen: "Don't share your code with anyone" (obviously referring to AI) Unexpected solidarity from Google

Google login verification code text screenshot. Code: 420069.

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 22/06/2026

We lost the technology to make game manuals in 1995

One page of the alchemy manual from Tower of Souls. The author writes about eating a mushroom then trails off dead style with their pen making a line off the edge of the page

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 05/06/2026

you cant just type in and use da code that you see on stack over flow. you won't learn anything

photo of open pages of the book "the magnetic ghost of shadow island". it seems to be instructions for typing in a large block of BASIC code involving PEEKs and POKEs before turning to another page of story, choose-your-own-adventure style.

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 13/04/2026

he's doing so bad at president that he accidentally did the only thing that can damage his standing with his base: yelling "i am the anti christ actually" directly into their old timey ear trumpet

photo of a lady using an ear trumpet (looks like a tobacco pipe stuck in ear)

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 13/04/2026

Just a little thing I noticed. Have a nice day #kde

News article screenshot:
"The Wayland session restore protocol has finally been merged after six years in development, and KWin already has a draft implementation. What this means for KDE users is apps will be able to restore their windows to their last known positions and sizes, right down to the correct monitor and virtual desktop.

This will eventually provide benefits for users of tiling window managers. Before the completion of the protocol, KDE used a workaround that simply kept a list of all the apps that are running and relaunched them at the next login. The result was often a mess, with all your windows losing their placement and getting dumped onto one desktop."

Screenshot from https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8985 showing that the change to implement xdg-session-management-v1 was merged to kwin, the kde plasma window manager, an hour ago

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 26/03/2026

leon trotsky the only man with resting polygon mapped face

picutre of leon looking nice and angular

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 26/03/2026

going through elaborate routines trying to concentrate like

rorschach from watchmen saying "none of you seem to understand I'm not locked in" but only that part

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 02/03/2026

this but an unpublished short story collection called like "Unowned"

front cover of Changing Planes by Ursula. a woman seen from behind is some sort of corn centaur, her lower body a cob of corn. she is growing with other corn in a field.

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 27/01/2026

been getting into LitRPG lately

a paperback copy of The System of the World by Neal Stephenson clocking in at 775g on a kitchen scale

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 24/11/2025

babe it's 1886. time for your don straightening

photo of a survey plan for appropriating lands to straighten the course of the don river in toronto in 1886, courtesy of city of toronto archives

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 24/11/2025

gen z thinks they invented aura farming, but this is inside the cover of my old copy of Hamlet.

black and white portrait photo of Sir John Gielgud in stage costume looking pensive and sad. he is staring into the distance.

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 24/11/2025

but I'm afraid it is too late for you - for I have already cast myself as Wiz Biz 2 Cursed and Consulted - Rick Cook - Clyde Caldwell 2000.jpg, and yourself as Sympathy for the Devil - Holly Lisle - Clyde Caldwell 1995.jpg

the jacket art of Wiz Biz 2, clearly some sort of fantasy novel, sans text. a well dressed magician type sits at an ornate desk with a keyboard, mouse and some sort of bigass hovering golden display of glowing magic lookin' runes. he's typing nobly and looking at the runes. a well dressed lady magician type with a very expensive staff stands behind the other magician with her hand on his shoulder. she is looking at the runes. by his knee sits an orange dragon the size of a dog. it is looking at the computer mouse. fantasy castle spires are visible through an arched stone window in the background, behind heavy drapes.

a front-on view of a huge winged and horned devil sitting at a desk with a stunned expression on their face and their mouth hanging open as if in shock. there is a computer with a large CRT monitor in front of them on the desk, and the devil is staring at the screen. the talons of one of its hands are on a computer mouse. towering flames are visible in the background.

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 23/05/2025

FTC Introduces Heavy Restrictions on Imported Fisher-Price Telecommunications Equipment

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 26/04/2025

IBM vs. Tandy. Not drawing any conclusions, but IBM is still around.

Famous IBM quote:
A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

Tandy Executive Decision Maker, an electronic novelty toy from the 1980s. It has a glass panel on a wooden box with indicators reading DEFINITELY, ASK AGAIN, NEVER, FORGET IT, WHY NOT, and POSSIBLY. There is an on/off switch and an "ASK" button.

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 15/04/2025

oshki-ziigwan - it is early in the spring minikwe - s/he drinks minwaagamipidan - like the taste of it (liquid)

a painted turtle, dry and dusty from hatching, enters the water for the first time

anishinaabemowin

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 06/04/2025

Their Mystical Euphemisms/Our Stately Administrative Errors

In a court filing earlier this week, the Trump administration conceded that Abrego Garcia, a Maryland father of three, was deported “because of an administrative error.” That filing appeared to be the first time the administration has admitted an error related to its recent deportation flights to El Salvador, which are now at the center of a fraught legal battle.

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 06/04/2025

@cnn.com I am BEGGING you to apply the same level of analysis to America that you are attempting on China here 😭

The only other uniformed CMC member who did not show up was Adm. Miao Hua, who was suspended under investigation in November for “serious violations of discipline” – a common euphemism for corruption and disloyalty.

CNN top headline #9: DOJ attorney placed on leave after expressing frustration in court with government over mistakenly deported man

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Unpopular With Friends @orb.nexus · 06/04/2025

the way CNN writes about China is so unintentionally hilarious. you could write the same last sentence about the white house press correspondents dinner. they want to say inscrutable SO BADLY the veins on their temples are standing out.