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Seemingly rare spots I had last month, that low-key piss me off, each one is imperfect in its own way, but I need to lower my bar a bit.

Officially part of the weight loss trope.

I feel like I’m approaching the endgame of this hobby. You’ve collected so many Pokémon cards that the common ones don’t give you the wow factor anymore. You can still be surprised, but the odds are getting thinner every day.

The past few days have proven to me that one of the very early yet very difficult decisions I consciously made - not to pursue opportunities abroad - turned out to be the right judgment. In retrospect, I might have missed out on many things, but I didn’t lose other things that, until very recently, I didn’t realize had so much value.

وَلَا يَحْزُنكَ قَوْلُهُمْ ۘ إِنَّ الْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًا ۚ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ

@xsweetclouddx that would be nice :)

I needed a tripod for night photography. I didn't want to spend the money so I ended up building one from Lego :)

someone forgot to convert from UTC :)

I spotted an Antonov today :) very lovely aircraft.

@_Adawy_ Season 2's finale (No Reason) is up there for me as well

Best 3 episodes in House MD in order S06.E01/E02 - Broken S04.E16 - Wilson’s heart S04.E15 - House’s head

@itsAmoour technically :) she's my cousin's daughter, the age gap is not that much so I'm inclined to use the 'cousin' status directly

@_alikoptan she is your cousin?????

Seeing your (sort of distant) upcoming-actress cousin getting publicly blasted for an ad brings mixed feelings.

I'm starting to get the hang of the whole 'sell a stock, it goes up' thing. Fun.

@AhmedHossvm Nice read! I like the way you self-reflect. I’m happy for you for figuring this out :)

انا كتبت مقالة عن ليه أنا قررت ابطل Competitive programming بعد اكتر من سنة وليه كانت bad experience بالنسبالي. أنا هنا بحاول أوصل رسالة انك تقضي وقتك في حاجة انت فعلا حاببها, مش لمجرد ان ناس كتير بتستمتع بيها يبقي انت كمان لازم تشترك معاهم.

there are very few things in life more rewarding than winning at chess against a 12-year-old

@ahmadalfy They were the first (afaik) to make a money-printing machine out of this, a multimillion economy was even built on top of it: youtu.be/RHC-uGDbu7s?si…

@_alikoptan Didn't know TF2 had cosmetics I never played it

Remember when games used to ship with actual content? Then Fortnite dropped, battle passes became a thing, and now everyone’s chasing fast cash on cosmetics instead of gameplay.

What did you just call me?

@shehabirl حقهم الصراحة... تخيل قاعد في أمان الله تلاقي واحدة tech-on-call@ شوفولي الإسم ماله

I've ordered a new debit card, and the engraved name was "Ali Ahmed" instead of "Ali Koptan". I understand that I need to tone down my perfectionism, but for some reason this is really stressing me out. Support was so nice though, they tried their hardest not to tell me "kys".

@Osheshtawy اوحش حاجة إنك سألته و مردش عليك بردو 😔 قمة عدم الإحترام

@_alikoptan السؤال اللي شاغلني دلوقتي هو ليه grok وقف رد؟

dead internet theory in action 😢