And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don’t make sense anymore.

No. Duolingo is a for-profit company.

And even if they were a non-profit org, cutting jobs isn’t a good thing. It’s sometimes an unfortunate necessity.

Yeah some of the libraries near me have a selection of video games on the shelves. At least one even has board games.

I love libraries.

It’s a big part of this blogger’s online identity. Offline identity too, based on this quote from the same blog:

… a handful of strangers complained incessantly about my inclusion of furry art on my furry blog, because they felt self-conscious showing my writing to their boss.

Meanwhile, I’ve taken fursuit selfies at professional infosec and cryptography conferences.

There’s an old saying: “Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

The actual luminaries of software security and cryptography quite simply do not give a fuck.

That is to say: They don’t have any of the same hang-ups about my blog’s furry art (or even being openly gay) that some commentators fear from their bosses and/or peers.

— Retrospective: Five Years Blogging About Cryptography as a Gay Furry Online

So in that light, it makes sense that the thumbnail is what it is.

Those caps are meant to affect the way you read it.

In this post, the capital letters (plus the “How To”) suggest a title, like a book or something.

I guess someone thought “popping” and “pooping” were the same word.

Or maybe there’s a naked joke to “popping”? Like, uh… maybe something like… popping open button-fly jeans?

Are you lost?

I can’t see why you would make this post here.

Maybe you mean one of the “ask” communities?

What does Willow (1986) have to do with data? Isn’t it, like, a sword-and-sorcery fantasy movie?

Oh I bet there’s a character with a name that sounds like the word “data”.

To be fair, it does say “hexagons and beyond” in the title.

The article itself also does talk quite a lot about hexagons before moving onto other shapes.

Cheese with Japanese curry? Sounds pretty whacky, whatever shape it’s in.

Also there’s an elegant solution to keeping some rice visible out of the curry and it doesn’t involve any extra ingredients.