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[–] 129 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Looks like someone poked you with an AT keyboard connector hot enough to burn you

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    No, those pins are positioned as if a "full circle" would be 8 pins. The bumps in OP's pic are more like if a "full circle" were 6 points.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'm just makin old man jokes over here. Save your pedantry for something that matters 😉

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ah so when you do it it's just a joke but when I do it it's pedantry, got it

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When anybody does it it's pedantic every time. It's weird that it happens at least once every major thread.

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  • [+] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 134 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Looks like your Windows 11 update is almost complete. Or it could be fleas, bed bugs, or lice. I'm not a bugologist.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    So many bites next to each other could be a bed bug. My understanding is that they'll leave little black dots around the bites as well. Did you see any before? Otherwise, any of mosquitoes, or fleas.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Bed bugs are usually in a straight line (they follow your veins). Could this be something other than an insect bite?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I had what i suspected were bed bug bites and a few times they would bite in a cluster somewhat similar to this. I moved out of that apartment and haven't noticed any bites since but never actually confirmed i had bed bugs.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As I understand it you don’t move away from bed bugs. They come with you.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It depends where they are, how well you cleaned, and what you got rid of, probably some luck too. In my case bites were not frequent at all. There are methods to kill them without chemicals by subjecting them to certain temperatures as well.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can also just sprinkle diatomaceous earth around. That shit kills ‘em dead by piercing their exoskeleton and dehydrating them.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Yeah that'll work slowly and is better for making perimeters or when the infestation is mild. Once it's settled in you need heat treatment and everything that can't be heated needs frozen for two weeks or rinsed in alcohol. If you act sane about this they'll come back until you stop.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The Five Fanged Flying Purple Pimple Monster, Obviously...

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago

    Real talk, check your shit for bed bugs. THEY WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE IF NOT DEALT WITH.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I am sorry but you have MIDI

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago*

    Bed bugs. The internet will tell you they only bite in a straight line, but that's horse shit. Look up bed bug bites and you'll see clusters like this, too.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What about one mosquito with six guns?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    whatever it was, it was going for the hexagon, which are the bestagones

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Bed bugs for sure. Took 2 years to get rid of the bastards as they ate us alive.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    The PlayStation 2 menu spinning orbs

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just chiming in to agree that you're gonna need to burn your house down

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Don't worry, they aren't bites. Just spider eggs.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    This brought back Bedbug based paranoia I thought I had laid to rest nearly a decade ago so thanks for that.

    I hope you have a speedy and painless solution to our problem, but I'm really glad I'm not you OP. My god, if I never see these bastards again it will be too soon.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    fun fact if you have bats in your area, they also carry bat bugs, which are relative to bed bugs and they can also infest your house too. there is a theory that bed bugs evolved from bat bugs, also they look alike.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is the opposite of a fun fact. I'm going to sneak into your house and steal your fingers for typing it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Wait what. It's illegal here to move bats once they've picked a home. How do you prevent bat bug infestation

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've often wondered about what a person can legally do if bats have moved into their home. My initial crazy thought was to get some new "pets" that are bat predators. Who wouldn't want a house filled with racoons, snakes, and venomous spiders?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    i mean they're a protected species here. any action you take that it can be proven was intentional to get rid of the bats could technically land you in hot water. if it weren't for the bat bugs that i just heard about i wouldn't mind so much because they eat mosquitos and i like anything that eats those fuckers. our neighbor has fake shutters on their backyard windows. bats moved in there. it was fun watching them take off every night. their solution? have some construction in their backyard and oops it needs a jackhammer for 3 godsdamned bullshit months with no fucking days off.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I had a coworker that had bats take up residence in his attic and he wasn't allow to remove them. That was all fine and well (not really because of the horrific noises) until they gnawed through the drywall and started pouring into his house. I can't get the image out of my head of him swinging a tennis racket at them as they flew around his living room. It was right out of an 80s comedy except he had to live with the results. In the end, he just moved because he couldn't do anything else. From that point forward, I decided that I would tell no one about bats if they wormed into my home and would make sure they wanted to leave.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Right there with you. I had to fully encapsulate my mattress (which was a brand new memory foam), spray poison all over everything, then heat treat the entire room until my blinds melted.....TWICE!

    My wife still freaks out if she sees a spot of dirt on the sheets, and that all happened 7 years ago.

    You never quite get over a bed bug infestation.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My situation was a dorm room situation I couldn't get out for a WHOLE FUCKING YEAR. The caretaker didn't give a shit, all my dorm mates slept with a lighter close by, lighter fluid was traded around like cigarettes and blowies in a jail yard.

    We got our revenge on the asshole caretaker though, the bugs managed to infest that guys room too. Unlike us he couldn't just get up and leave at the end of the year. Fuck that guy.

    If I have to travel, I keep my luggage out the door and check the entire fucking room like I'm Brezhnev's Soviet security detail in the 1973 Washington summit visit. No stone unturned, no corner or edge left unchecked.

    Fuck Bedbugs.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can’t have bedbugs if you don’t have a bed. knock on the head

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I WISH those little fuckers worked like that. Bed bug PTSD is real.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Seriously, I've had it once before when I stayed at a place in New York almost 20 years back at this point.

    I was like, oh ... why are these bumps and why are they in a row? so weird!

    Although, worse was when I got a bed in London UK at Swiss Cottage to just stay one night. It was like a dorm room bed. I think I estimated that I got like 200 bed bug bites in total. I had to estimate but it was crazy. What's funny is that when you're entire body is covered in bites, the itchiness bothers you a bit less because if it's just one area you keep scratching it. However when it's your whole body, you're like ... everywhere equally hurts so I don't need to bother scratching. At least that's what it was like for me.

    Sorry, just releasing out the trauma :P

    Now whenever I get any bites ... I just freak out and wonder if it's bed bugs. I woke up last night and noticed an itchy bump and just freaked myself out.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's been 10 years since my bedbug nightmare. The bugs are long gone, but I'm still inspecting the mattress and box spring cover weekly with a magnifying glass, and blasting my laundry with hot water, high heat in the dryer, and sprinkling diatomaceous earth all the fuck over.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Bedbugs as someone else said. If this was at home clean the fuck out your house. Like, deep clean. Twice. Check the seams on your mattress and pillows. If you have a clothes dryer throw in everything that is safe to put in a dryer. Leave it in there for at least an hour. You can't imagine the psychological terror of having a potential infestation. You need to fight back hard.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are you sure this is bug bites and not a rash or infection, like ringworm for example?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Sorry. It was me.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's dumb, you can't weigh something with a banana.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Smallest UFO landing ever.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I touched poision ivy once and it looked like this. If it doesn't go away like a normal mosquito bite, might need to get it checked out so you can get the prescription cream.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Found hundreds of these on my entire body once. Never happened again, never found out what it was

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I think windows 10 bit you, and the actual bite is loading

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Pray you don't get bit again before it finishes loading

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Probably 5pin GX16. Might be fatal.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can't really tell scale there but several bites in a row like that might indicate bed bugs, check the corner of your mattress, and any clothes near where you sleep

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you've had chicken pox before and have had mysterious pain/tingling on an arm/leg on the same side of the body as those for the past few days it could be shingles

    I just had it at 33 last week and it looked very similar to that when it first popped up

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    My vote is bed bug. I’ve had a few encounters while traveling. It’s happened to me in a C shape before, once. Although not as tight of a C shape as yours.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    You allergic to cats? Look like one walked on you.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Bedbugs. If you can, get your house above 120° F and keep it there for at least two hours. If not, CONSTANT VIGILANCE, and constant deep cleaning of everything is the only way I have seen them beaten without poisons.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Sorry, that was me. Your flesh just looked delicious, and I thought "Well, I COULD go for some tasty drinking of the blood of the innocent...."

    You just wouldn't be as tasty if you had murdered someone and were guilty.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    a bug from fediverse trying to create the 'Fedibite'

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