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Cake day: August 16th, 2025

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  • I’m my city in the mid-late 90s it was popular for girls to have long daisy chains of keychains hanging out of their back pockets, longer the better. The clatter between classes was maddening.

    It was like a right of passage to steal your first fistful of sassy keychains from Spencer’s or Claire’s. So dumb.

    I’d say the boys were more rational, but guys would compete to have the longest wallet chain (I had a degreased bike chain) if you were punk/alternative, or the widest Lane wallet (probably fake) sticking inches out of your back pocket.

    Oh yeah, and way too long braided leather belts that hung down past your knee.

    Edit: Maybe they were wide non folding zip around Coach wallets. I just remember they were super easy to steal.





  • As someone that spent the better part of their youth making other people money at a grocery store, I’m bummed that I never had to build a comically oversized pyramid of bean cans that:

    A: A neurotic but lovable protagonist that is just trying to get through shopping day would make the whole stack implode by taking a single can.

    Or

    B: A random cat in a panic would scurry up and around it as I frantically keep the pyramid from collapsing. Once the cat has fled the scene I would utter a sigh of relief just before a dog who was after the cat would crash through the stack just in time for the manager to appear and scold me for the mess.









  • Don’t know if I would trust a camera from AliExpress to not directly pipe all of my footage to some mystery server in China.

    On the other hand, most name brand cameras are made in China anyway.

    Asides from cobbling your own device together, is there any such secure solution/brand that actually respects privacy?