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#### Boards created by lapped-ironiesac

- unfairbnb/informed-decisions-in-hotels-vs-gig-hosting/how-they-justify-deleting-bad-reviews

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Here's a review policy from a particular gig hosting website. Below are the highlights (as retrieved on November 27, 2021). Bias (Reviewing your own listing, reviewing as a competitor) Incentivizing or threatening a potential review for a desired outcome from the host. Violati...

- unfairbnb/informed-decisions-in-hotels-vs-gig-hosting

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Readers have pointed out to us that hotels aren't any different. Bad things can happen in hotels just as easily as in an independently hosted bed and breakfast. But what happens when you read reviews for a hotel? Hotels are compete with one another while relying on third party...

- unfairbnb/how-to-submit

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Did your review get deleted? Contact me at fuzzy.wood3527@fastmail.com

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  The Geopolitical Stakes of the Treaty Holmes turned his sharp gaze toward his brother, who remained rooted like a gargoyle by the heavy oak door. "Mycroft, you didn't summon me here merely to solve a locked-room puzzle. You are the 'British Government' in all but name. Tell me...

- unfairbnb

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Does it seem normal to you that Amazon reviews are balanced with good and bad reviews yet a website that helps you stay in the homes of strangers around the world is an Eden of only perfect experiences? Why does this company have a special task force to "investigate" away repo...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/just-go

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  You're almost there. Go to ../ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub to get back to 221B Baker Street.

- tvmovies

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Welcome to /tvmovies Feel free to branch from this page.

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Examining the Diplomat's Body Holmes moved with the clinical precision of a surgeon, his long, tapering fingers hovering just inches above the Count’s cold skin without ever making unnecessary contact. I joined him, opening my black medical bag. As a doctor, my first instinct ...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure/watson-help/final-deduction/master-spy/treaty-recovered

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Ending A: The Treaty Recovered The acrid smoke from Holmes’s device cleared slowly, revealing a scene of frantic disarray. The telegraph operator lay slumped over his silent machine, stunned by a precise blow from the butt of my revolver. Across the room, Holmes stood over the...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/limehouse-docks

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Underworld Rumors: The Ghostly Thief (The Limehouse Docks) The air in Limehouse was a thick, stagnant cocktail of rotting fish, river mud, and the cloying sweetness of opium drifting from the shuttered dens of Pennyfields. Here, the fog was not yellow, but a bruised purple, il...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure/watson-help/final-deduction/master-spy

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  The German Embassy Siege The German Embassy stood as a monolith of stone and iron in the heart of Belgravia, its windows glowing with a defiant, late-night industry. By the time we arrived, the fog had been replaced by a biting wind that whipped the Union Jack on nearby buildi...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure/watson-help/final-deduction/ghost-of-past/vendetta-resolved

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Ending B: The Personal Vendetta Resolved The warehouse erupted in a deafening cacophony of gunfire and shattering glass. As the Moriarty remnants closed in from the catwalks, I emptied my service revolver into the shadows, forcing the snipers to dive for cover. Holmes, however...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure/watson-help/final-deduction/ghost-of-past

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Reichenbach Remnants The Reichenbach Docks were a graveyard of industry, a cluster of rotting piers and hollowed-out warehouses that even the bravest river police avoided after midnight. The name was no coincidence; the area had been christened by the criminal element as a tri...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure/watson-help

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Wait for Backup "Patience, Watson," Holmes hissed, his grip tightening on my shoulder. "A man who moves like a phantom and smells of the grave does not stand beneath a lamp unless he wishes to be seen. It is a siren’s call, leading us to a watery end on those slick stones." I ...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Danger: The Shadowy Figure We had reached the iron railings of the Embankment, the Thames a black, oily expanse to our right. The silence was shattered only by the rhythmic slap-slap of water against the stone. Suddenly, Holmes gripped my arm, his fingers digging into my sleev...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure/watson-help/final-deduction

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  The Final Deduction We stood beneath the shadow of Big Ben, the great bell tolling one in the morning. The sound vibrated through the pavement and into the soles of my boots. Holmes remained motionless, his head tilted back, his eyes closed as he navigated the complex labyrint...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Midnight in London The clocks of the city struck twelve, their chimes muffled and distorted by the heavy, damp air. We found ourselves back at the center of the web, the disparate threads of our investigation finally beginning to knit together into a coherent, if terrifying, w...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Political Intrigue: Paper Trails (The Foreign Office) The Foreign Office at Whitehall was a fortress of bureaucracy, its grand corridors echoing with the hurried footsteps of clerks and the distant, rhythmic ticking of a hundred grandfather clocks. We were granted entry only b...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/foreign-office/midnight-in-london/shadowy-figure/chase-phantom

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Sudden Death: Ambushed in the Fog "There is no time for caution, Watson!" Holmes cried, his voice cutting through the damp air. "If he reaches that boat, the trail is lost forever!" Before I could protest, he vaulted over the railing and onto the slick stone steps. I followed ...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub/diplomats-study

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Personal Secrets: The Hidden Safe The Count’s private residence in Belgravia was as cold and imposing as the man himself had been. While the official police had already scoured the rooms for the missing treaty, Holmes moved through the diplomat's study with a different purpose...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room/examine-body/ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  221B Baker Street Hub The hansom cab ride back to Baker Street was a journey through a ghost world. The yellow "pea-souper" fog had grown so thick that the driver had to walk beside his horse, lantern in hand, to navigate the treacherous curves of Marylebone. Inside 221B, the ...

- stories/sherlock-holmes/locked-room

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  The Diogenes Club Locked Room The interior of the Diogenes Club was, as always, an architectural monument to silence. We were met at the door by a pale, trembling steward who led us through the marble halls without a word, eventually stopping before a heavy oak door on the thi...

- slot-machine/pull-3

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [ 7 ] [ $ ] [CHR] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? ../pull-1/pull-1 ../pull-1/pull-2 ../pull-1/pull-3

- slot-machine/pull-2

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [BAR] [CHR] [ 7 ] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? ../pull-1/pull-1 ../pull-1/pull-2 ../pull-1/pull-3

- stories/sherlock-holmes

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Start: A Summons from Mycroft The London fog of 1897 was not merely a weather condition; it was a physical weight, a sulfurous yellow blanket that pressed against the windows of 221B Baker Street as if trying to force its way inside. Within the sitting room, the air was thick ...

- slot-machine/pull-1/pull-2

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [CHR] [BAR] [CHR] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? ../pull-1/pull-1 ../pull-1/pull-2 ../pull-1/pull-3

- slot-machine/pull-1/pull-3

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [ $ ] [CHR] [BAR] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? ../pull-1/pull-1 ../pull-1/pull-2 ../pull-1/pull-3

- slot-machine/pull-1/pull-1/pull-3

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [ $ ] [ 7 ] [ $ ] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? /slot-machine/pull-1 /slot-machine/pull-2 /slot-machine/pull-3

- slot-machine/pull-1/pull-1/pull-2

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [CHR] [CHR] [CHR] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | WINNER!! |__| |_______________________| Again? /slot-machine/pull-1 /slot-machine/pull-2 /slot-machine...

- slot-machine/pull-1/pull-1/pull-1

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [BAR] [ $ ] [ $ ] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? /slot-machine/pull-1 /slot-machine/pull-2 /slot-machine/pull-3

- slot-machine/pull-1/pull-1

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [ $ ] [ $ ] [ 7 ] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? ../pull-1/pull-1 ../pull-1/pull-2 ../pull-1/pull-3

- slot-machine/pull-1

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ ___ | | [BAR] [ 7 ] [CHR] |__ | | | | |__| | _$_ _$_ _$_ | | | | | |=======================| | | |__| |_______________________| Again? ./pull-1 ./pull-2 ./pull-3

- slot-machine

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .-------------------. / SLOT MACHINE $$$ \ |=======================| | ___ ___ _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | $ $ $ | | | | | |=======================| | | | | | | Try your luck at the slot machine. Choose one of the pulls below.

- showandtell/united-states-florida-a-man-fatally-stabs-a-barnes-and-noble-booksto

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  On Monday, shortly before 8pm, a 65-year-old woman, was stabbed badly with a pocketknife inside a Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore within the Legacy Place shopping center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Police said it was an unprovoked attack. The victim was rushed to a nearby hos...

- showandtell/united-states-florida-a-man-fatally-st

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  On Monday, shortly before 8pm, a 65-year-old woman, was stabbed badly with a pocketknife inside a Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore within the Legacy Place shopping center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Police said it was an unprovoked attack. The victim was rushed to a nearby hos...

- showandtell/residents-shelter-in-place-f

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  A gas leak occurred in Castaic, California, in northern Los Angeles County, on Saturday, December 27. More than 14,000 people were required to shelter in place. Interstate 5 was shut down for several hours due to the gas leak, bottlenecking post-holiday traffic for several hou...

- showandtell/resident-doctors-in-england-begin-five-day-strike-during-flu-surge

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Resident doctors in England have begun a five-day strike after negotiations over pay and working conditions allegedly worsened. The British Medical Association (BMA) was organizing the strike, which started at 07:00 GMT on Wednesday. This marked the 14th time the union has wal...

- showandtell/knife-and-chemical-attack-at-a-factory-in-japan

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  On Friday, workers at a Yokohama Rubber Company tire manufacturing plant in Mishima, located in the Shizuoka prefecture which is west of Tokyo, were assaulted by a 38-year-old man using both a knife and what authorities believe was bleach. A 38-year-old man who was arrested at...

- showandtell/mexican-navy-medical-plane-with-childr

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  A Mexican Navy aircraft transporting a pediatric burn patient crashed into a bay near Galveston, Texas on Monday afternoon. At least six people died in this accident, according to authorities report on Tuesday. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated Tuesday that air traffi...

- showandtell/keyboardist-guitarist-of-eng

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  On Friday, English rock band The Cure announced on social media that keyboardist-guitarist Perry Bamonte (who was also known by the nickname "Teddy") had died from an unspecified illness over Christmas. He had been with the band since 1990 when he replaced keyboardist Roger O'...

- showandtell

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Post branches about things you want to share with the world. Vote on branches you find interesting and we'll sort them by popularity.

- sandbox/travers-farm-blueberry

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Testing 456

- sandbox/table-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  | | Grouping || First Header Second Header Third Header Content Long Cell Content Cell Cell New section | More | Data | And more | With an escaped '|' || [Prototype table]

- sandbox/subscribe-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  This board has been updated!

- sandbox/profligacy-holographic-aced

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  To Do This is something I completed. Completed Example todo item

- sandbox/ownership-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  This will be a domain-owned board.

- sandbox/ownership-test/auth-test/test-below

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  (Content goes here)

- sandbox/ownership-test/auth-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  My sub board on my domain owned board.

- sandbox/ownership-test-community

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  This will be a community-owned board.

- sandbox/ownership-test-community/auth-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  My sub board in my community space.

- sandbox/ownership-test-community/auth-test/test-below

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  What up?

- sandbox/ownership-test-community/auth-test/other-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  (Content goes here)

- sandbox/nsfw-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Oh la la!

- sandbox/nsfw-test-2

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Oh la la!

- sandbox/haggle-claudia-grandsons

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Hello To Do Groceries Completed

- sandbox/envisaged-tipping-devoured

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  To Do test Completed

- sandbox/discussion-test-01-15-26-2106/my-discussion-topic

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  All the information we need to claim this board is in the email address you're sending to. The content of this email will become the content of the board.

- sandbox/discussion-test-01-15-26-2106

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  All the information we need to claim this board is in the email address you're sending to. The content of this email will become the content of the board.

- sandbox

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Use this area to play around with Smosa and create test boards.

- sandbox/blog-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  (Content goes here)

- sandbox/barley-orientate-faking

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Table test To do Doing Done Laundry Take out garbage Clean car Go to DMV

- politics

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Welcome to /politics Feel free to branch from this page. Keep it civil.

- mind-games

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  ./memory ./problem-solving

- jokes

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  To post a joke, make the name of the board the setup and the text on the board the punchline.

- jokes/a-pastor-announced

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  A pastor announced "if you know your wife is controlling you, move to the left." All the men in the church moved to left, except one man. The pastor was happy there was at least one strong man, and asked, "How come your wife can't control you?" The man quietly replied, "It's m...

- howto/how-to-survive-a-monkey-attack

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Traveling to areas inhabited by monkeys can be an incredible experience, but it requires a shift in mindset to ensure your safety. While they may appear charismatic or even friendly in tourist settings, monkeys are highly intelligent, unpredictable wild animals with physical s...

- howto/how-to-start-your-own-country

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  The dream of establishing a micronation is a complex undertaking that sits at the intersection of political theory, international law, and sheer creative ambition. While thousands of individuals have declared their own sovereign states, true legitimacy is rarely achieved. Succ...

- howto/how-to-buy-nothing

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Committing to a "buy nothing" lifestyle is a transformative challenge that shifts your focus from consumption to resourcefulness. Whether practiced for a month or a year, this approach forces a radical re-evaluation of what you truly need versus what you have been conditioned ...

- howto

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Learn how to do anything

- games

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Welcome to /games Feel free to branch from this page.

- forum/smosa-questions

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  (Content goes here)

- forum/politics

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  TBC

- forum/lounge

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  (Content goes here)

- forum

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  ./check-out-my-board ./politics

- forum/check-out-my-board

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  TBC

- food

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Welcome to /food Feel free to branch from this page. Keep it tasty.

- foo2

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Welcome to foo 2. This page is even better than foo. Who cares about that page? foo 2 is the way

- discussion/you-guys-are-all-nerds

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  "Oooh look at me I'm using email to post on a website." Get a life.

- discussion/why-smosa-needs-a-dao-governance-model-long-read

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Look, I know everyone here loves the "low tech" vibe, but we are missing a massive opportunity for value capture. Right now, this site is centralized. If the admin pulls the plug, we lose everything. Here is my proposal for the SmosaDAO: Tokenize the Boards: Each /board is an ...

- discussion/why-are-coffee-shops-so-loud-now

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I'm trying to write this email from a "cafe" and I can barely hear myself think. Since when did coffee shops become nightclubs? The music is at 90 decibels. The barista is screaming names. The espresso machine sounds like a jet engine taking off. I just wanted a place to sit a...

- discussion/wen-token

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Is Smosa planning an ICO? We could tokenize the boards. Ownership of /boardname should be an NFT. DM me dev, I can help you monetize this.

- discussion/what-happens-if-two-people-claim-a-board

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  If I email /myboard and someone else emails it at the exact same time, who becomes the owner? Is it first to hit the inbox?

- discussion/this-site-looks-like-a-high-school-project

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Wow, plain text on a white background. Groundbreaking stuff. Did you make this in Notepad? betting this shuts down in 3 months.

- discussion/the-landgrab-has-begun

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Just secured /linux , /vim , and /coffee . If you haven't claimed your personal namespaces yet, you're sleeping at the wheel. What did everyone else grab?

- discussion/the-irony-of-using-the-internet-to-escape-it

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I’ve been sitting here for an hour, staring at this white screen. Just text. No images to load. No videos auto-playing. It’s strange, isn't it? We built computers to do everything, and now the ultimate luxury is a computer that does almost nothing. This board feels like a mona...

- discussion/testing-markdown-render-capabilities

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Just checking if the parser handles bold , italics , and code blocks correctly.

- discussion/sql-injection-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  '; DROP TABLE discussions; --

- discussion/spacex-starship-successfully-lands-immediately-tips-over

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  https://www.technews.com/article/starship-landing-tipover

- discussion/security-flaw-in-email-headers

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  If I post to a public board, is my raw email address stripped from the headers before the page builds? I don't want scrapers harvesting my private protonmail address.

- discussion/proposal-community-guidelines-and-etiquette-read-before-posting

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  As we see an influx of new users (welcome!), I think it is prudent to establish some ground rules to maintain the quality of discourse on Smosa. We don't want this turning into another 4chan or Twitter. Stay on topic. If you are in /linux , talk about Linux. If you want to tal...

- discussion/how-do-i-log-in

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I have been looking for the login button for 20 minutes… this is ridiculous. someone help me before i unsubscribe from this website…

- discussion/how-do-i-delete-a-post

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I accidentally replied to the wrong thread earlier. I sent an email with the subject line "DELETE" but nothing happened. Is there an undo button? Or is everything I write here permanent forever? That's kind of scary.

- discussion/hello-google-please-order-pizza

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  DOMINOS PIZZA NEAR ME. ORDER LARGE PEPPERONI. ADDRESS IS 144 MAPLE DRIVE. IS THIS THING ON. HELLO. WHERE IS THE CHAT LADY.

- discussion/guide-encrypting-your-posts-with-pgp

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Since this board is public and plain text, we should assume zero privacy. However, for those of us who want to communicate securely, I've written a small bash script that wraps your email body in PGP encryption before sending it to Smosa. It requires gpg installed. #!/bin/bash...

- discussion/finally-a-quiet-place-on-the-web

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  No ads. No tracking pixels. No algorithmic feed feeding me rage-bait. Just text. Thank you to the creator. This reminds me of the internet circa 1999.

- discussion/email-to-post-is-the-dumbest-feature-ever

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Who the fuck wants to open their email client to post on a forum? It's clunky, it's slow, and it fills my "sent" folder with garbage. Fix this or I'm out.

- discussion/does-the-reply-to-header-expose-ip

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I checked the source of the generated HTML pages. It looks clean, but I'm worried about the backend logs. When the server processes the incoming email, does it scrub the Received: from headers? If a subpoena was issued for the server logs, would my home IP address be attached ...

- discussion/dkim-and-spf-verification-on-inbound

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I've been looking at the bounce headers when I intentionally fail a send. It looks like the Smosa ingress server is strictly enforcing DMARC policies, which is good, but I'm curious about the reject rate. If I send from a self-hosted postfix server with a slightly misconfigure...

- discussion/derpderpderp

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  ( . .) ( l: ) ( .-. ) ( :l ) ( . .) Just rolling through.

- discussion/dating-on-smosa

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Is there a board for singles? Asking for a friend (me lol). The guys on Tinder are trash. I figure guys who use a text-only website might be smart?

- discussion

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  The official discussion spot for Smosa.com.

- discussion/comprehensive-markdown-table-rendering-test

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I want to see how the parser handles complex tables with alignment. Left Align Center Align Right Align Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Long Text Here Short $100.00 Bold Italic Code Also, checking nested lists: Item one Sub-item A Sub-item B Item two

- discussion/bug-timestamp-utc-offset

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I noticed that posts made from PST are showing up with the wrong timestamp if the email server is relayed through a different timezone. Is the backend parsing the Date header or the received time?

- discussion/best-email-client-for-smosa

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I've been using Mutt in the terminal to post here and it feels incredibly native. Thunderbird works okay too, but text-mode clients really fit the vibe. What are you all using?

- discussion/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

- discussion/base64-decode

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  SSBhbSBpbnNpZGUgeW91ciB3YWxscy4=

- discussion/ai-passes-bar-exam-again

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Another day, another model crushing human benchmarks. Are we obsolete yet? Discuss.

- discussion/a-little-introduction-my-garden-dilemma

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Hi everyone! I know I'm new here but I just wanted to say how refreshing this place is. It's so quiet. No flashing lights! Anyway, a little bit about me… I'm a mom of three, living in Ohio. I used to be on Facebook a lot but the drama was just getting to be too much, you know?...

- discuss/found-boards

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Show us the boards you've found in the depths of Smosa.

- discuss/found-boards/4chan-green-text

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  The weird sometimes funny sometimes dark world of 4chan's green text phenomenon: /a/greentext

- discuss/feature-requests

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .

- discuss

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Odds and ends ./found-boards Show us the boards you've found in the depths of Smosa. Meta ./feature-requests ./bugs

- discuss/bugs

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  .

- clue-choose-your-own-adventure/go-to-your-room-to-freshen-up-first

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  ../put-your-ear-to-the-wall-to-hear-what-miss-scarlet-is-saying

- clue-choose-your-own-adventure

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  It’s a wonder the roads leading to the mansion didn’t take Mr. Body’s life before he was murdered. You were thinking about your retirement from the force on the way up the winding road. Now It’s the weather—it’s terrible, not that there’s ever a good day to visit a murder scen...

- blogs

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Start a blog or read others' on Smosa.

- author

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Reserved for author pages

- author/amigo-malignancy01

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  It's me, /adam !

- author/amigo-malignancy01/hello

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Neat!

- adam/todo/redirects

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Maybe YAML frontmatter is the best way to do this. --- board: whatever redirect: another-thing --- And then I guess we make a link for the full body of the page: Redirecting to (link) click if you haven't been redirected.

- adam/todo/paid-boards

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  We are going to implement a robust set of changes to safeguard certain boards from being claimed unless the user pays for the privilege to do so and we will make sure the error messages they run into are helpful and show them where they can go on the site to continue playing a...

- adam/todo

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  To Do Email blacklisting by either individual emails or domains. Boards under a domain board should not say they are shallow owned. Abandoned boards policy ./abandoned-boards We should do another manual check of domain and community owned rules and claim pages to be sure. GDPR...

- adam/todo/email-notifications

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I want to set up a way for users to automatically get emailed updates on Smosa which are tied to specific activities. Because I don't want to send out too many emails each day, I want to instead build up markdown files for each notifiable user containing the last 24 hours of u...

- adam/todo/claim-pages

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Custom claim page content New copy of the default "Claim this board" page # Claim this board You &#x27;ve found a board no one has claimed yet. To claim, simply send an email to update@smosa.com with this board&#x27; s details. (If you click the link, it will be added automati...

- adam/todo/buffering

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Whenever someone upvotes something on a votable or forumable board, we count that upvote but we also recompile the page. Imagine a scenario where you have tons of people on one page where there are tons of things to be upvoted and the upvote command is coming in so frequently,...

- adam

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Hello I'm Adam Grant. I'm an Engineering Program Manager and former Software Engineer at a big tech company in the Silicon Valley. I created Smosa under a different name about a decade ago then redid it from scratch a few times until we got here. It's hard to explain to me why...

- adam/blog/you-might-not-need-a-python-class

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  You Might Not Need a Python Class Python is an incredibly versatile programming language known for its simplicity and readability. Among its features, the ability to use classes for object-oriented programming is both powerful and frequently recommended. However, classes aren’...

- adam/blog/reflecting-on-making-games

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I've been reflecting on how to make simple games. Card games mostly. It's just something I enjoy and it occupies my time, especially when I need to get off my phone at night and invite sleep to come. Thinking through this is entertaining for me and if nothing else it eventuall...

- adam/blog/what-ive-learned-about-epming-so-far

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  This is going to be a hastily written blog post because I mainly want to capture this for myself rather than write some beautiful prose. It's also good advice for a past me, not necessarily for the masses. These are just some things I thought of in a 5-10 min session to pour o...

- a/greentext/the-magic-swedish-flush

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  &gt;Be at Swedish ship cruise &gt;haven&#x27;t defecated in a week week &gt;shit at least three giant python in the toilet &gt; try to flush &gt; not working.jpg &gt;panic &gt; try to flush again but shit doesn&#x27;t flush &gt;look for a cleaner lady in the hallway &gt;Swedis...

- a/greentext/under-the-sea-struggles

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  My life fucking sucks and I &#x27;m seriously considering suicide &gt;live in small town &gt;work in fast food because I &#x27;m still trying to graduate &gt;coworker is a cynical asshole who constantly mocks me and will one day do something fucking amazing with his life &gt;b...

- a/greentext/the-instant-sleep-glitch

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Reality glitch thread Post times where time and space goofed. &gt;Be me &gt;Going to bed while staying at grandparents&#x27; rural farmhouse as a 10 year old kid. &gt;Not tired at all - 100 % lucid. &gt;Decide eh I&#x27;ll just try closing my eyes. &gt;It&#x27;s only 9 : 30 p....

- adam/blog/little-julia-fallacy

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Little Julia is a fictitious young girl. Julia has had a life that is beyond hard. Her life is so bad, in fact, that I can't even tell you why because the details are just that horrific. Not only that, but her life isn't getting much better either. Why? Well, again, I couldn't...

- adam/blog/how-a-poet-s-long-forgotten-daughter-cre

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  How a poet’s long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm In 1815, the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron, the famed Romantic poet, was born, a child he would never meet. Raised by a mother determined to scrub away “poetical insanity” with pure logic, Ada Lovelace g...

- a/greentext/the-great-pickle-purge

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Tell me about it . &gt;went to the store on Thursday &gt;bought a half gallon jar of pickles &gt;love me some pickles &gt;eat one as soon as I get home &gt;tastesgoodman.bat &gt;so good I decide I&#x27;ll have a few more &gt;walk back to my computer and start to work but the u...

- adam/blog

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Adam Grant's Blog

- a/greentext/the-163gb-sheep-shaving-archive

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Tech support horror thread? Tech support horror thread. Share your stories. &gt;be me &gt;work at mid-sized software company &gt;IT support &gt; some new guy gets a job as a programmer &gt;claims he has worked at very big projects before &gt;can&#x27;t name them &gt;fast forwa...

- a/greentext/psychological-pineapple-warfare

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  &gt;Be me &gt;Be 16 &gt;New school, introduced to class &gt;Meet guy who is an asshole, let&#x27;s call him Shitgut &gt;Shitgut tries to start bullying me &gt;Be alpha and resist &gt;Don&#x27;t make many friends, don&#x27;t need them &gt;Notice Shitgut bullies other kids &gt;D...

- a/greentext/parents-blame-13-reasons-why

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  &gt;Depressed teen &gt;Tell parents &gt;They somehow think fuckin 13 reasons why is the source of my depression and i shouldn&#x27;t watch the second season &gt;Fuckin lul &gt;I try to tell them that its good because it opens up conversation about important issues &gt;They jus...

- a/greentext/high-speed-bread-chase

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  &gt;be me &gt;be poorf*g &gt;be bicycling home from grocery shopping &gt;carrying a bag of sliced bread in my hand since I didn&#x27;t want to squish it into my backpack &gt; some douchebag passes by me on a bicycle &gt; it &#x27;s on &gt;pedal faster and stay right behind thi...

- a/greentext/fiber-bar-war-flashbacks

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  &gt;be fat &gt;go to /fit/ and find a solution &gt;main problem is i eat like a dumpster &gt;apparently things with loads of fiber is going to save my filthy soul &gt; &quot;Fiber is digested slowly, leaving you feeling full longer, and helps with digestion&quot; &gt;go out an...

- a/greentext

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  A board for my favorite Green Texts from 4chan. Enjoy.

- a

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  Welcome to /a Feel free to create boards under /a to keep your URLs short.

- stories

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  You're almost there. Go to ../ask-questions/221b-baker-street-hub to get back to 221B Baker Street.

- adam/todo/board-creation-rewrite

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  I would like to add an alternative way to update boards. Users can claim or update a board they own by emailing _actions._claim-or-update@smosa.com note that there is no need to include the board path or UID in this email. That is because for this alternative way, they can use...

- a/greentext/the-bigger-number-logic

  By lapped-ironiesac on January 24, 2026

  &gt;&gt; 79675930 # This reminds me of something I read from the Bush War &gt;Rhodies recover enemy rifles after each engagement &gt;They keep finding rifles with the rear sight dialed in to the highest setting, practically fucking indirect fire &gt;They are extremely confused...

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