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Every morning at work I go through the reports from our spam filters and add new subject lines to the lists of 'things that count as spam'. Generally I keep this to phrases, so as not to inadvertently catch innocent emails without meaning to, but every so often there are words I just want to add all by themselves because the damn spammers have used them so many times that I never want to see them again, ever.

Quality.
Tablets.
Survey.
Giftcard.
Pharmacy.
Christian.

On that last front, I have nothing against Christians. However, we keep getting email after email after email claiming that "Christian mortgages" or "Christian loans" or "Christian debt assistance" or "Christian cash" is available for people here- that, or "Christian singles" are looking for mates and would we be interested.

I'm thiiiiis close to declaring 'Christian' in an email subject line to be a spam banword. I don't care if it's in the text of the email, that's fine, but in the subject line it's two angstroms away from getting nuked. 'Quality' and 'Tablets' are next on the list. (Pharmaceutical spam.)

The Emperor is so going to break these people's fingers. All of them. Individually. One bone at a time. And then move on to the rest of the bones in their hands.

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Weee! Not only do I have a hundred user icon slots now instead of just fifty, but I finally fixed the video card problem I'd been having for a few weeks and can properly enjoy them!

(Short version: The card sustained some kind of physical damage. None of the troubleshooting steps helped. I bought a new card. That fixed it.)

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Just a teensy weensy bit of an AU premise. Spoilers for the first chapter of HBP.

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