Decided to see if I could remember the old conlanged alphabets I made back in high school, respectively named Uldanya and Fibbonacci. As the name would suggest, Fibonnacci combines each letter or number with the letter in front of it, i.e. a+b, b+c, etc. It doesn’t really have any rules aside from that, being a simple reskin of the existing English alphabet (although I never bothered to make capital letter versions, so I guess everything is just lowercase now.)
Uldanya, on the other hand, does have some rules. You can play sort of fast and loose with this, but in general any superfluous letters (thick, ending, and so on) are left off if possible, and things tend to be spelled phonetically, especially if it helps make the first rule possible. Also, letters are never left by themselves unless it’s a proper noun or something, so “I” becomes “ai” and “a” is spelt “ay”. In cases where the “u” or “n” symbols above the letters would denote 3 of the same letter (as in unusual) the third would be left off entirely, and any following that (if that ever happens) would recycle the process. I’d really love to find some way of making Uldanya into a working typefont but I have no clue how it could be done.
It’s New Year’s Eve…. My friend Huck just told me to look at the Date and wrow… Everyone… Its 123.. and 123… Those are numbers that go in order… TWICE!!!
Stygiomedusa gigantea, commonly known as the giant phantom jelly is a part of the monotypic genus of deep sea jellyfish, Stygiomedusa. This is in the Ulmaridae family. It can’t actually sting you as its—30-foot-long—”mouth arms” are just there to trap prey rather than sting them.
This ghostly giant is a rare sight.
MBARI’s ROVs have logged thousands of dives, yet we have only seen this spectacular species nine times. The first specimen of the giant phantom jelly was collected in 1899, but it was not until 60 years later that scientists recognized this as a new species.
Worst part of living with animals is the night time sloppy licking cleaning noises I’m sorry but I cannot sleep . Please fhcking stop please please olease
some of you are miserable because you’re mean. like you’re just mean to people and things
“why don’t i have any friends” because you are mean
this can be fixed at least in part very easily though! just stop being mean. i believe in all of you 👍
‘but i’m not mean’ ok, cool! do you:
point out people’s mistakes and failures to them? in front of others?
belittle their accomplishments and successes? in front of others?
make fun of people and laugh at them? in front of others?
do all this secretly to your ‘friends’ because friendship means being able to ‘joke around with’ each other, or ‘be brutally honest’ with each other?
bring up past grievances with people over and over until they’ve apologized ‘enough’, or just to shut down arguments with them, or get out of conversations you don’t want to have?
refuse to do favors for people? like when you feel they haven’t ‘earned’ your time or effort? or at all because you don’t want to be ‘taken advantage’ of?
try to get out of paying your share of bills, doing your share of chores? spend time figuring out exactly how little you can contribute to groups in terms of time, effort, and money, without anyone noticing or getting too mad at you?
get angry and jealous when people are happy about things that don’t concern you? get angry and jealous when people pay attention to each other and not you?
spend any amount of time ‘getting even’ with people?
THIS BEHAVIOR IS MEAN.
you might feel like you’re a perfectly nice person who cares a lot about people but also speak your mind and take no shit! but if you do any of this stuff, people won’t like you anymore, because it fucking sucks to be around you. you suck to interact with. no one fucking likes being mocked, criticized, picked on, upstaged, pushed around, mooched off, or revenged upon. they will, if they have any self-respect at all, avoid you.
the worst case scenario actually isn’t that you end up alone. it’s that you end up with other people who are just as mean as you are, and you all mutually tear each other to pieces on your way to drug addictions, losing all your money and property and kids, and jail time. this happens a lot, i have seen it go down, and it’s not fun even for bystanders. please consider putting the time and effort in to be nice, instead.
The way Israelis keep painting palestinians as “Jew haters” and “Jew killers” is soooo delusional like… firstly you’re the one serving in the army of the so-called Jewish state, secondly wtf were you doing on Palestinian land in the first place!!
“Jew killing” is apparently when you kill the soldier of an occupying, foreign ethnostate built on the bodies of your cousins, during illegal ‘military’ activities on your land.
Because if you dilute the definition of antisemitism and jew-hate on a SYSTEMIC LEVEL to include instances where people absolutely deserved to be killed for war crimes by the people they were trying to kill or imprison or segregate, then that definitely won’t be damaging to Jewish communities who actually could experience hate crimes and are no longer believed because the language and vocabulary they use to describe it has been appropriated and fucked to hell by the zionist occupation and its lobbies.
fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism
disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die
Seeing a lot of people comparing insulin to food and saying “what, should we just make food completely free too then?”
Yeah?? We should??? That’s the logical conclusion, not a gotcha. People in general should not have to pay money to just stay alive
You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?
You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????
You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?
If your thing is talking about fandom but you don’t talk about race it’s like talking about society without talking about race: hideously incomplete in racist ways.
Like it’s INEVITABLY racist to not acknowledge the profound ways in which racism shapes every element of our society. It is just a way to brush aside the experiences of people of color, ESPECIALLY Black and Indigenous people of color, as not mattering. Not the “real” fannish experience. Oh, the REAL fannish experience is the one me and my friends had, not the one you and your friends had, because there are more of me and my friends and we have more societal power for reasons which don’t need exploring at this juncture.
Fucking suck it. Get used to the idea that fandom is a part of a society and therefore needs to address the same demons, and stop acting like you live in some kind of magical perfect Karenland where there are no Black people and there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Whole lotta people think they’re virtuous for resisting a meaningful reckoning with the racist history and present of fandom. Great mental contortions there. Go sit in the Asshole Corner with Mitch McConnell.
“Actually the REAL bullies are the—“ it’s the racists. It’s always the racists. Shut your fucking face. If you ever feel compelled to suggest that there is meaningful reverse racism, go slam your hand in a refrigerator door a few dozen times.
Crushing on a fictional character specifically in an “I want to suck their dick” way is inconvenient as hell. Like, at least an aesthetic attraction for a fictional character is actionable: the aesthetic qualities that draw you to them exist and can be engaged with. What are you going to do about a fictitious penis? At least half the time there isn’t any textual evidence that they even have one, and if they do, so what? You’re not gonna suck that dick – it’s ephemeral, my dude. The dick is a lie.
My shit idiot brain: I want their dick in my mouth right now.
The idea of “western civilisation” as some sort of a homogenous monolith is definitely just a white supremacist dogwhistle, but the way these people talk about it makes it sound downright funny. This Unified White Culture that started in Ancient Greece and practices a religion that was born in the Southern Levant when a small doomsday cult escaped containment, and then there were vikings and shit and these are all just one unified People and Culture, despite of me having more mutual DNA with a neanderthal than a spaniard. Probably more mutual culture, too.
And then this spectacular glorious monolith empire is as fragile as a victorian orphan dying of tuberculosis. Must be protected from the slightest draft from any direction, at all costs, because unlike the cultures of countless diasporic peoples, the mighty Western Civilisation willdie if it is not at least a 90% majority at all times. Every three minutes there’s something new that is the harbinger of societal collapse, the beginning of the end, some sort of a slow-motion apocalypse caused by people saying stuff and doing things, and wearing clothes you don’t like.
“Sure you’re laughing now but where will you be when the barbarians are at the gates?” I’ll be at the gates, obviously. The faggots are coming and we have a trebuchet.
Jorts and Jean: Jorts and Jean first captured the internet’s hearts December 2021 when their coworker Pam buttered the less than intellectual Jorts. Since then, the pair have been vocal supporters of unions, workers rights, and Hot Union Summer 2023.
Jellie: She is a cute, attention seeking cat during scar’s videos and streams
I need everyone to know that Jellie isn’t some random cat who happens to belong to a youtuber. She’s actually in minecraft
Also her dad is one of the best builders the game has seen and is overall a super cool person and you should watch his videos
Ugh I can’t believe I spent another year making friends and memories and growing as a person instead of making a million dollars and beating every world record while simultaneously solving every problem on the planet that has or will ever exist. Another year wasted.
You’re joking, but it actually is a popular theory in chess that a complete noob potentially can beat a master by confusing them - as the noob doesn’t know what they’re doing the master is unable to recognize which of valid strategies they’re pursuing and cannot deploy proper counterstrategy.
Chessmasters when their opponent doesn’t make one of the five approved optimal opening moves:
I’m currently a fencing coach for a high school club and my least disciplined fencer routinely beats kids who have been fencing for 5-6 years because he’s just so unpredictable and messy that his opponents have no idea what to do.
I know what a master is doing, I just may not be faster than them. I know I’m faster than a newbie but hey what the fuck is happening?
I have, on rare occasions, won pokemon battles like this. I have no idea what the meta is, and just slap things together that sound cool. It’s fun when you win by taking someone completely off guard because “Who would run that?!” Idk man, the noob that just kicked your ass. I’m not smart enough for all these mind games that go into serious competitive pokemon, but I do know big laser go pew.
The Newbie Flail™ is the most terrifying attack imaginable.
“The best swordsman on the planet doesn’t fear the second-best swordsman. He fears the new swordsman, because he has no idea what the lunatic will do.”
One of the main reasons fencing against a total beginner can be difficult is that they have no self-preservation. They either don’t know or don’t care to defend themselves the way someone with more experience does, and have no issue leaving themselves vulnerable to make attacks, which breaks down the usual tempo of a fight and puts you on the defensive (because you value your safety), and you don’t want to be on the defensive.
If I had a nickel every time I recieved fencing advise from a trans girl on tumblr with the term catgirl in her url I’d have two nickels! Which you know it’s not a lot but it’s funny it happened twice.
We have a long and treasured warrior history. Google “warrior cats” to find out more
An international group of qualified mushroom identifiers who do worldwide identification in emergency cases have identified the Shroomers App as a potentially very dangerous system that could kill you if you try to use it to identify edible mushrooms. They use AI to generate almost all of their content, including their identification profiles on their app as well as their books and other materials. Not only is this unethical from a content creation standpoint, it is also extremely dangerous.
DO NOT USE APPS FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES BEYOND SIMPLE CURIOSITY. A MISTAKE WHEN IDENTIFYING AN EDIBLE COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE. DO NOT EAT ANY FORAGED MUSHROOM YOU CANNOT IDENTIFY YOURSELF BY SIGHT OR HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED IN PERSON BY SOMEONE WHO CAN.
ONLY BUY BOOKS FROM REPUTABLE SOURCES AND AT THIS POINT THAT MEANS ASKING EXPERIENCED PEOPLE WHAT BOOKS THEY USE.
Mushrooms are fun, amazing organisms. Enjoy safely.
Y'know I’m not sure that those “I love the way men love” posts are really much different than someone admiring a goldfish struggling to survive even 5% of its expected lifetime in a tiny glass bowl.
Sounds like some juicy discourse. Elaborate.
I did a bit already in the notes but I guess I can probably find more to say than
We taught this thing that it’s not allowed to show emotion without punishment, so it has to tangle itself into subtle contradictions to give love and receive affection!
Basically I see a lot of these posts where some taciturn father or uncle or grandfather who never shares much with his family is revealed to be secretly listening to all of his daughter’s soccer games on the radio, or making sure his grandkids’ cars are functioning, or keeping some heirloom or love letters from a long-lost lover who died tragically before he married the woman he had kids with, or something like that.
And this is always presented as something endearing, but I think it’s actually rather upsetting! It’s a bit like those news stories about how, e.g. “This whole town pitched in to make sure this fifth-grader could afford the surgery he needed to live” where the real tragedy is that the problem existed in the first place. Children (and adults) should be able to access the medical care they need without a whole town coming together to pity them, and men should have ways to show the love that they have for others that doesn’t have to be discovered by whoever goes through their estate after the funeral.
I think this is a form of trauma, where men are “socialized” in a way that punishes them for showing genuine emotion, and so they learn not to do that, but they still feel those emotions and want to express them, and so they struggle to find an outlet for them that won’t result in them being ostracized or dehumanized by the very people that they feel those emotions for. Which results in doing things that no one else ever really notices unless they look very closely.
And I’m saying this all as someone on the outside looking in, I never felt personally felt this way growing up because I didn’t care about these punishments, who cares if people don’t see me as a man (I didn’t want them to) or if they think I’m a faggot (I am, after all…). But there’s no reason that showing emotion needs to be tied to either of these things, and it plainly looks like other people are suffering as a result, so we should figure out how to make this not be the case.
I feel somewhat obligated after venting this much to tie this up with some nice conclusion about what people should do about this, but unfortunately I don’t really have one. I think a lot of this sort of damage is hard to undo, and probably at a certain point it starts to be more self-inflicted. Maybe I just wish people would approach the matter with a little more gravity than “Isn’t this cute”? idk.
if you’re a human adult you physically need to eat actual vegetables, read real books, work, exercise, be outdoors, have sex, and have other real adult humans to talk to all on at LEAST a weekly basis or else you go will literally go completely insane and the problem is too many people choose to skip all those basic needs on purpose
“I’m depressed and always tired and my body is in mysterious pain all the time for no reason” yeah you’ve spent a whole month isolated except for talking to online people and coworkers and eating convenience store snacks for half your meals with 0 physical activity like that isn’t passive self harm. of course your body doesn’t like that, it’s exhausting
you lost me at sex I eat my vitamins but get 0 hoes am I gonna die
Every time I see that G–gle phone photoshop commercial my heart is filled with infinite sadness, like, yeah it’s cool you can have a good family photo, it’s cool you can do that, but god, there is something to be said for the honesty of a family photo where you’re blinking, or crying, or have ugly wrinkles.
What is too unsightly for you? Would you swipe-click-replace out the image of my cousin crying on our Florida trip family reunion photo? Would you remove the plastic snake I have clenched in my grip, which I still have to this day? Would you scoff at the wrinkles around our eyes and the strands of hair on our faces as we squint into the wind, the day before the massive storm? Would I remember it if I didn’t have these reminders, if the picture was perfect and clean, all children in a row with perfect gleaming white tombstone tooth smiles? No tears. No plastic snake.
i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i’ve seen people saying things like “well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it” and it’s like, that’s not the point. it’s that companies /shouldn’t/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i’m still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn’t have to begin with though?
adding this to the post because, 100%, just there’s a fire doesn’t mean you should pour gasoline on it
I have like ten different ad and/or tracking blockers on my PC and phone… just out of pure spite
Is there any benefit to using multiple ad blockers at once? I honestly don’t know, but I haven’t seen a single ad on the internet in ages and I get to use this image:
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