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so closeI didn’t see it until I’d been anonymized 
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You’re the 100th like in my heart. And if it doesn’t actually get over the hump that’s ok, it’s more of a nice to have than anything 
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not that it matters, but my “amorous jellyfish” emoji was number 111.
i like the symmetry, like 11:11, make a wish.
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Anonymization request sent. Damn, that hits way harder than i thought it would. Damn…
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Can you imagine my surprise when I got an email from Boing Boing this afternoon? I thought they might be so desperate they were offering me a free subscription to the SS site.
Well I did my part and gave some well-deserved likes. I honestly feel a little sad now.
I’ll briefly tell my story.
I started visiting the BB website in the late 2000s at work. I liked it as an unusual source of stories. Eventually I started reading and enjoying the insightful comments. I held off joining until 2016. It was a bit intimidating, like stepping onto a moving carrousel. My first comment was on an article about the Pulse Nightclub shooting. So it must have been in mid June. I soon learned it was a somewhat unstable environment. It was in that milieu that I was invited here in 2017. I don’t think I was aware of discussion boards until I was invited here — I only commented on their stories. I like it better here.
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This is the last thing I just posted on the old BB as “The Great Paris.” Seem appropriate.
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(gunna imagine it was Kii somehow)
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Sigh. This shit is sad. Being here helps, will say it again… Thanks for good times past and thanks for letting me be here now. Hope i can be a positive influence in the future.
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All needed healing to us all, Sugarplum.
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Well… shit.
I started reading BoingBoing in like 2004 (maybe 2003?) when a webcomic artist I was reading at the time had an experimental comic linked from BoingBoing. After the strip came back from the inadvertent DDoS he linked to the cause of his problems and I’ve been a reader ever since.
But the community that formed in the comments… yeah, that’s what kept me around the last many years. Kept me sane during the dark years. And made me a better person.
And we really made it all the way to ten thousand.
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My visits started as a result of a link in a Typophile thread to an article by Xeni Jardin (I have found out that this is now a deadname, I use it only for context), I read articles and stuff and gradually drifted away around the same time as the Violet Blue malarkey (not connected to that just coincidental).
Gap of years
(Re) Joined in 2017, etc., etc.
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The highest honor I have ever been afforded.
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That’s a unique award
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Oh, now that is just thoroughly delightful!
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Let me try this again. (I was trying to delete an obnoxious clapping gif.)
First, thank you. Also, you would’ve had more likes if people weren’t scrambling around and jumping ship.
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