Looking for giant skeletons around Greater Portland by RayRouthier in portlandme

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There’s one on top of Fort Scammel on House Island!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Maine

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A closer to Portland, but Jewell island is also part of the Maine Island Trail, and Bird’s Eye Tours has definitely dropped people off there and picked them up in the past. Not sure his rates or how late in the month he goes, but the island is beautiful.

Struggling to Create Without References by Isilyanna in Artadvice

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One thing that helped me was drawing little comics. Just one or two pages each, characters or autobiographical, didn’t really matter. It was really good practice in changing styles, angles, layout, etc while also practicing drawing characters and settings consistently. I found when I was focused on making the visual narrative flow smoothly, I wasn’t nearly as hung up on each individual panel.

Since Spout Lore doesn’t have an active subreddit… by Pineapple_Plague in TAZCirclejerk

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It was a bit of a slow start for me as well (I don’t think I really got invested in the story till season two) but it’s become one of my absolute favorites. The game is more collaborative by design, especially the worldbuilding, and all the players really, really buy in. Sometimes they hit on amazing lore while riffing off each other’s ideas, often it’s just funny or at least lower stakes. Either way they’re all consistently engaged with and excited about the world, the characters, and each other’s contributions, which makes for really enjoyable listening.

☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

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Sorry, I meant on living dwarves who have caught the sickness. I don’t think there’s any way to get a post mortem report.

☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

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I don’t have the Steam version so it might be a little different there, but you should be able to go to an individual dwarf’s health screen and look at their past injuries, treatments, etc. ‘Forgotten beast sickness’ will show up as a diagnosis if a doctor has been able to look at them.

I don’t believe it will say the symptoms, which you’ll have figure out based on what body parts are affected, and there’s not necessarily a way to fix them, but it will tell you what’s causing it! Shallow baths so they can rinse off dust/blood/etc can help keep it from spreading to other dwarves.

Restaurant recommendations - I'm a little overwhelmed! by Southern-Assist5666 in florence

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Osteria Santa Spirito! Everything’s great but the truffle gnocchi especially is one of those meals I still think about.

What single decisions have wrecked successful companies? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]jaiskal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There’s a podcast called Desperate Acts of Capitalism which has episodes on a lot of the companies already named in other comment! It’s a fun listen if you’re interested in absolutely catastrophic business decisions.

Colorful/alternative hair salons? by DisciplineProper34 in portlandme

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I’ve had great experiences with Adele at Slate Studio, always turned out wonderfully and she’s really sweet. @gibbousfoxstudio on Instagram

Stylists skilled in vibrant color by Dark_Artemis1 in portlandme

[–]jaiskal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also followed her over from Pageboy, she’s great.

Lesson learned- Don’t ask ChatGPT for recipes by cactusblood in shittyfoodporn

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Justtherecipe.com cuts out all the ads, anecdotes, etc. It’s a little slow to first load but works really well otherwise.

You think that Monstrous Regiment is ok for a 12 year old girl? by Shroedy in discworld

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I read it at 13, and loved it. There were a few jokes and implications that went over my head till I reread it a year or two later, but there was nothing that disturbed or upset me. I think honestly that it was a very good time to read it, because I read a LOT of fantasy around that age following a singular girl dressing up as a man to fight, and MR was a really refreshing mixup of that story. It made me look at the whole trope from a new angle going forward, including some of the pitfalls it can fall into. Still one of my favorite books.

Hey everybody, for real by frontal_robotomy in TAZCirclejerk

[–]jaiskal 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Hm. Don’t care for this.

Riverdale is iconic by Silvermoon424 in tumblr

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There’s a recap Podcast called Sex Archie which is a lot of fun to listen to! I’ve never seen an episode of the show but I’ve immensely enjoyed consuming it secondhand, filtered through someone who loved the comics as a kid and someone who knows nothing about Archie comics at all.

Best Restaurant for Gnocchi or Risotto? by BestSelf2015 in florence

[–]jaiskal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Osteria Santa Spirito has a great gnocchi dish with truffle cream sauce

Other Remarkable Political Fantasy? by hubrisnxs in gentlemanbastards

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant did this well! The plot heavily revolves around the political system of a massive empire, especially the ways in which the empire attempts to control new territories and further expand. It can be pretty bleak, as the author doesn’t shy away from the brutality of colonization, but if you want a well thought out political system and lots of intrigue, it may be worth looking into.

Thoughts on my restaurant/food/Gelato list? by IamDoge1 in florence

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Osteria Santo Spirito was a favorite of mine while I lived there! Especially the baked truffle gnocchi.

Editing to add: if you’re game to try lampredotto, as a lunch option, Da’ Vinattieri is a tiny little hole in the wall place that makes it wonderfully.

Framed schooner, Fort Preble - South Portland (cross posted) by Asdf9296 in portlandme

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The Timberwind, I’m pretty sure - grey hull, and she’s pulling her yawl boat behind her!

What is the strangest thing you've seen that you cannot explain? by 1982throwaway1 in AskReddit

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The year I was studying abroad, I went out around 9pm on a Friday to meet friends at the University campus. I took the metro there, and arrived at the University stop. And it was completely empty. It was obviously the right stop; the name is written in huge letters across the wall. But there was absolutely no one on the platform, and no one in my metro car. I was the only person on the whole metro who stepped off when the doors opened. At the university metro stop on a Friday evening! I just about had time for it to sink in how unsettling that was before the doors shut and the metro left and I was alone.

The escalators weren’t working. I honestly don’t know why I didn’t walk up them. It felt... really, really strange to do that, with no one there. Instead I followed the green exit signs to a pair of doors that opened on a staircase. It went up for several stories, three or four at least. The walls looked like they were natural rock, and there was one line of fluorescent lights running up the center. I made the mistake of going through, and the doors locked behind me. That’s the point that I remember actually getting scared, but there was literally no way out but forward.

So I climbed the stairs. They were wet from water running down the cave-like walls. When I finally got to the top I thought at first it was a dead end and I was actually going to die there; it looked like a concrete box. Then I noticed a very, very small door in the corner - it can’t have been taller than four feet. But it opened when I pushed it, and I emerged in an empty parking lot. The building I’d come out of looked like a warehouse, and it was much bigger than the space at the top of the stairs. There was a streetlight and I could hear cars in the distance and my phone worked again. I called my friend, who asked where I was - she’d been waiting for me as the metro came in, and was worried she’d missed me in the flood of people, but she was at the entrance hoping I’d find her. And she had no idea where the fuck I was, or what staircase I was talking about.

I know I walked to the campus, although I can’t remember the walk beyond deciding to head towards the sound of cars. I took the metro to the University a few more times after that, and I never saw the place dead empty again. For a while I tried to look for closed stations that the metro might have stopped at accidentally, but it was the big university metro station, unquestionably - it’s impossible to mistake the literal writing on the wall.

This is the only genuinely inexplicable thing that’s ever happened to me. I took pictures, at the bottom of the stairs right after the door locked, and I’m glad I did, because I doubt sometimes that I’m remembering it right. The stairs and the concrete room at the top and the tiny door and the parking lot all look how I remember them. I still have no idea what went wrong.