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5 votes
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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (February 2026)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
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Steven Spielberg in thirty shots
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Scheme-rs, an embedded Scheme for the Rust ecosystem, gets its first release
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Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.
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Popcorn lung: how vaping could scar your lungs for life
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RiffTrax crowdfunding new episodes of MST3K
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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itch.io: No ICE in Minnesota Bundle
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Voyager Technologies CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved
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I made a word game
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‘Avatar’s’ costly sequels are getting harder to justify. Will James Cameron make two more?
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Finland's poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in two cultures and two countries
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers
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Internet of Bugs / Spec Again creator, Carl, is planning a course for developers who want to go solo - looking for feedback from potential participants
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
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AI doesn’t reduce work—it intensifies it
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Spotify will soon sell hardcover and paperback books through its app, in partnership with Bookshop.org
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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Can Ozempic cure addiction?
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Guttural Slug – Ulcers In The Flesh Of Thought (2025)
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Non-Logitech replacement for G502 mouse?
My G502s are starting to exhibit the dreaded double-click problem. Now they're old -- I think one is around 10yrs old, the other 6-7yrs old -- so I've gotten solid use out of both. And G502s are...
My G502s are starting to exhibit the dreaded double-click problem. Now they're old -- I think one is around 10yrs old, the other 6-7yrs old -- so I've gotten solid use out of both. And G502s are cheap enough these days (like US$35 on Amazon) that it'd be inexpensive to replace them with new G502s.
But I'm still annoyed that this is happening. Plus, this isn't my first time having problems with Logitech gaming peripherals. I've had issues with my G305 wireless mouse (dongle stopped working), and I will never buy Logitech gaming keyboards again since replacement keycaps can't be purchased; gotta buy a whole new keyboard. So yeah, trying to avoid Logitech if possible.
Anyway, I like the G502 because it has multiple buttons, particularly the main thumb button (G6), which I use for PTT on Discord/Teamspeak. I then use the other two thumb buttons (G4/G5) as forward/back in browsers or game bindings (along with G7/G8).
Any good alternatives? Let's say ≤US$80. Preference is wired, but non-BT wireless is fine, too. If wireless, ideally it'd AA/AAA batteries so I can quickly swap rechargeable batteries. Lastly, I'm right-handed.
TIA!
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Olivia Colman: “I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man”
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What's good in modern flashlights/headlamps?
So I've been out of the loop on camping and, more generally, outdoorsy stuff beyond day hikes for a good couple of years now. In my absence, it seems like a large chunk of the manufacturers I used...
So I've been out of the loop on camping and, more generally, outdoorsy stuff beyond day hikes for a good couple of years now. In my absence, it seems like a large chunk of the manufacturers I used to rely on for flashlights and headlamps (Black Diamond, Petzl, Fenix, etc.) have switched over to lithium batteries, many to USB chargeable internal batteries.
That feels weird to me, coming from the era of "carry a couple of spare double and triple A's with you", since you only needed a few of one or the other to keep all your lights going, even on a longer trip. Given that everyone's doing it now, though, I'm assuming it works out fine.
Anyone have recs on what brands are good these days, what models, and how to buy to maximize the "keep all your lights going with the least backup energy sources" factor?
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The malignant degradation of trust in scientific work
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What About Bob? — The most tense film production of the '90s
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Loreen – Feels Like Heaven (2026)
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American rock climber Alex Honnold reaches top of Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes
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Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production
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Electric Hydra – It's All Just Dirt (2026)
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Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
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The hidden cost of AI art: Brandon Sanderson's keynote
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Is anyone here in or familiar with Tokyo? Going on a trip and have zero idea what to do as a non-tourist...
A new entry to go with my previous two posts in the same vein NYC and Denver, but this time in... TOKYO! The "Going on a trip and have zero idea what to do as a non-tourist..." isn't entirely true...
A new entry to go with my previous two posts in the same vein NYC and Denver, but this time in...
TOKYO!
The "Going on a trip and have zero idea what to do as a non-tourist..." isn't entirely true like it was in my post about NYC as anyone that has seen me talk about sumo can imagine, but everyone was extremely helpful and threw out suggestions I wouldn't have even thought about looking for in previous posts. So here I am again to bug you wonderful people for Tildes Travel Guide III: Tokyo Trilogy Part Minus One
The overarching details:
- 7 days in Tokyo from Friday, January 9th to Friday, January 16th.
- Except for Jan 9, I am completely solo for the entire trip.
- There are two specific events I will be attending, one is Friday the 9th, the other is TBD but can be nearly any day during the trip.
- I don't know where I'm staying yet. Where is kinda dependent on what I decide to do/be regularly near, am open for accommodation recommendations. I would prefer to stay in one place the entire trip, not real interested in packing up all of my things to move to another part of Tokyo (or another city) unless I can be convinced to do so.
- I'm not the sightseeing tourist-y type so there's little interest in the things that are on every "Tokyo Top 10" list.
And so I beseech you fellow Tilderinos, as someone that doesn't care about being a tourist and doesn't have a social media presence to feed I'm-here-and-you're-not selfies to, what should someone with nearly a week entirely alone with nothing but free time in Tokyo actually do?
If you're reading this and thinking there's not much to go on interest-wise...
...that's the point.
I know what I like.
I know what I don't like.
I don't know what I don't know about and experimenting and trying new things is paramount to life.30 votes -
SpaceX gives $1M prize to literal Nazi who has brags about his profound racism
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I tried making homemade Whoppers | Claire Recreates
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On ancient migrations
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What do dreams mean?
I don't mean this in the sense of "if I have a sex dream that involves my mother, does that mean I am attracted to my mother?", I know that dreams aren't a literal representation of our desires in...
I don't mean this in the sense of "if I have a sex dream that involves my mother, does that mean I am attracted to my mother?", I know that dreams aren't a literal representation of our desires in that sense.
What I mean more is, is there any study or anything that has been done to see if a dream's content indicates anything about what problem the brain is trying to work out?
Like does a dream about sex indicate that a certain lobe in the brain is particularly active at that moment?
Or like I have had negative dreams that cause me to feel anxiety when I wake up that involve my family or where I was in the middle of an ICE raid recently, does that indicate anything in particular about what my brain was doing while I was asleep that caused me to feel anxiety and that happened to manifest as ICE raids?
not sure if this was the right sub for this question.
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Jessica Williams - Portrait of Picasso II (jazz, solo prepared piano - 1986)
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Dschinghis Khan - Moskau (1979)
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Maddie Ashman - Behind Closed Eyes (2026)
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EU says TikTok faces large fine over "addictive design"
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TSMC to make advanced AI computer chips in Japan
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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The Adventures of Cliff Booth | Official teaser
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D&D campaign recomendation for solo/two people
I'm really tired of finding groups of people to play D&D (in person), is there any solo/two people campaign that me and I friend can play with? Please something simple, I have a little more...
I'm really tired of finding groups of people to play D&D (in person), is there any solo/two people campaign that me and I friend can play with?
Please something simple, I have a little more experience playing it but have never DM'd before, but we're both very creative, so I can think we both can still have fun
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Tim Curry breaks down his most iconic roles
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