A friend in Budapest sent my sister a video of a huge crowd singing " We are the Champions" tonight. That was the biggest happiest crowd. I haven't seen that many Happy People in a long, long, time. Wow, did that display of joy feel good to see.
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Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese
My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal.
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Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 06, 2026
Lastly, and this will be totally controversial: A Classic Sideways Smiley Emoji was found in a 1648 printed poem, To Fortune, by Robert Herrick.
I mean, the modern brain goes straight there. But most people think it is a typographical error. Did they use colons back then?
I mean, the modern brain goes straight there. But most people think it is a typographical error. Did they use colons back then?
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B Thoreau 🛸
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Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 06, 2026
In 1635, in a village nearby Slovakia’s Strazov Mountains, lawyer Jan Ladislaides marked his stamp of approval on municipal account documents with a small blotched drawing of two dots and a line inside a circle. The first bureaucratic abuse of a Smiley Face or was the guy just trying to have fun at work?
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 06, 2026
Okay, lets go further down the Smiley Face Rabbit Hole.
So check this mediavel bad boy out, found in a 13th century text, drawn by the reader. Check out his glasses and is that a mustache? Thank Historian Erik Kwakkel for finding it.
So check this mediavel bad boy out, found in a 13th century text, drawn by the reader. Check out his glasses and is that a mustache? Thank Historian Erik Kwakkel for finding it.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 05, 2026
@jackemled Smiley faces feel modern, don't they? They became a big thing in the 70's and then we made emojis out of them, so they are still everywhere. The Hittite Smiley Face gives a modern person some kind of uncanny valley feeling, but like a modern uncanny feeling. How can somebody so long ago emote the same way we do?
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 05, 2026
@lowtech I think it looks more like an Oh No Face. Which would make so much sense given its age! 😯
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B Thoreau 🛸
@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 05, 2026
@lowtech hmm. It might be a face, but is it a smiley face?
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 05, 2026
@RichSPK Good history find!
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 05, 2026
@chumblyface I thought the answer might be something like the 1960's, which just shows you how much I know about the history of smiley faces. ***literally nothing***
So yeah, apparently The Smiley Face has ancestral DNA. Who knew?
So yeah, apparently The Smiley Face has ancestral DNA. Who knew?
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 05, 2026
Just so you know about my intensely scholarly efforts this evening: I wondered what the earliest known smiley face in the world is.
It is found on a 3, 700 year Hittite pot found in Turkey, with the classic two dots and curved line.
You are welcome! 🙂
It is found on a 3, 700 year Hittite pot found in Turkey, with the classic two dots and curved line.
You are welcome! 🙂
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 04, 2026
@yaelwrites Maybe we just do Dunge and Drag or just Eons and Ons in * this* economy.
The dice alone will set you back a pretty penny any more. What am I even saying? They don't even make pennies now. ***sigh**
The dice alone will set you back a pretty penny any more. What am I even saying? They don't even make pennies now. ***sigh**
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B Thoreau 🛸
@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Apr 03, 2026
@jon I just keep thinking about how we are chucking a thirty story building into the air so hard it leaves the planet.
We.Do.That.
We.Do.That.
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Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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Mar 14, 2026
@Bwee How about an appreciationpost for the apt term " giant bappers!" Giant bappers! ❤️
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B Thoreau 🛸
@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@Thoreau@mas.to
Writing my way out of an interplanetary space battle. Interested in books, science fiction, strategic planning and leadership. #scifi #books #Pekingese My avatar is Yevgeny Mikoyan, aka Genghis Khan, gamer, and Captain of the Candy Cabal. Struggling writer. Like, struggling in at least three universes right now.
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@adamghill No wonder you married her! That's amazing on so many levels!
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