If we've ever met in person and you've wondered "Gee, how did he get this way," I finally have a solid answer.

(source: https://www.tumblr.com/ejlandsman/135780556301/i-dont-feel-like-this-is-done-but-im-posting-it)

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This is blowing up! I’ve made a new version with proper credit: If you shared or reblogged this when I first posted it, will you do me the favor of sharing this new version with proper credit to me…

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@mwl It me.

I need this on a sticker as a warning label.

@mwl I'm a fan of the old despair.com poster: "That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable."
@djfiander @mwl “That which does not kill me leaves me in a pool of my own bodily fluids looking for one last bullet to finish the job with.” What? Why are y’all looking at me like that?

@sng @djfiander

no, no, we're admiring your elegant phrasing.

@mwl That which does not kill me better have a fast getaway car, because I have knives.
ej landsman

This is blowing up! I’ve made a new version with proper credit: If you shared or reblogged this when I first posted it, will you do me the favor of sharing this new version with proper credit to me…

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@hazelnot oooh, thanks! I'll update mine.

Credit wasn't necessarily removed: the original had no credit, but it's certainly worth crediting.

@mwl yeah I saw the one with the credit was posted later and edited my reply, maybe the edit didn't federate in time 😅

@hazelnot

ah, the joys of federation!

Best worst social network ever. 

@mwl
I usually state it as:

That which does not kill me makes me stranger.

[said after six decades of things not killing me, so I've become very strange indeed]

@mwl I'm hoping this effect is diminishes asymptotically rather than increasing linearly or geometrically the longer it goes on.

At some point the "Ew" will change to "meh".

@mwl Alive in Wonderland has left a map somewhere.
@mwl Around the Defcon crowd, you come off as a normie... No offense intended. ;)
@mwl I don't find you weird at all.

@Dianora Awww!  

Apparently I'm your kind of weird.