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new mychart message! aw damn....doc says my reality and existence lab work was wayyy off so she's referring me to an Ontologist

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thinking about the time I was helping organize a small community center lecture on the history of electric guitars, and after the speaker explained where they come from, what parts they have and the basic physics behind how they work (and then demoed a couple of sick riffs), it was time for audience questions. and one girl raised her hand and asked, pointing at the strap peg, 'is this where the OIL goes? to tank it up?'

and you know what. yes, the question was really dumb. however, I still admire her for going so far out of her comfort zone to learn about a subject she clearly has no idea about, and being open and curious and brave enough to ask her question. you are always a lecturer's favorite if you ask a question, whatever it is. it is a huge compliment, meaning that the lecture sparked enough curiosity for you to care. nothing hurts quite like a disinterested silence after 'do you guys have any questions?'

so she learned something new and also made the lecturer feel heard. truly inspirational all around. snaps for the community center girl

#btw really recommend preparing a public lecture on your favorite topic for your community center #if circumstances permit #grade A free time activity #my posts #study motivation #studyblr #education

reallyreallyreallytrying

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

o-craven-canto

Happy Friday the 17th to everyone!

mcbitchtits

this is fucking incredible

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

mcbitchtits

i hope the original author sees this thread go by (or y'all are leaving comments on ao3), there is a A LOT of love in the tags and they absolutely deserve it

thomasmomwell

hey, I'm isaac chotiner I wrote this! I thought a small handful of people might enjoy it and instead it is by some margin the most popular thing I've ever posted on ao3. two key takeaways: 1) the people crave affectionate fidelity to the new yorker style guide, and 2) yuletide rules

thomasmomwell

Matt Levine linked to my fic in Money Stuff and described it as "Isaac Chotiner/Shirley Jackson fan fiction," I feel like I'm on drugs and/or hallucinating

ruffboi-mags

what the actual fuck did I just read (positive)

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creature-adjacent

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

questionablepastries

tragicburnout

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

#Dictionary of the Khazars coded

oddarette

Windex Xenomorph

Windex Xenomorph 💦

so I, as one does, have a fave sample audio speaker on the dictionary website I use for German. well, today it occurred to me to look up their handle to see if they've done any voice acting work, perhaps. which I found none of. instead, I discovered this reddit thread:

https://www.dict.cc/?s=duct+tape

not judging why that user would look that particular phrase up. nor complaining, far from it.

naturally, I read through the whole thread, and would love to share my findings. like this gem:

https://www.dict.cc/?s=reim

another user suggested looking up boo, baa and woof.

https://www.dict.cc/?s=boo https://www.dict.cc/?s=baa https://www.dict.cc/?s=woof

Halmafelix seemingly had a blast recording all sorts of interjections, from basic Hurra and Mist to Donnerwetter and Leck mich, which I encourage you to discover by yourself (Oh! gets weirdly freaky and 'Es ist zum speien' is really expressive)

thank you user Halmafelix for the enrichment! big fan of your work <3

#blorbo from my dictionary #german #german stuff #learning german #linguistics

michaelnordeman

Knocked out by too much nectar? It can happen to the best of us.

Buff-tailed bumblebee/Bombus terrestris/mörk jordhumla. Värmland, Sweden (12 July 2026).

Actually, she was doing more than fine. She was busy collecting pollen and packing it into the specialised "pollen baskets" (corbiculae) on her hind legs. She was soon on her way again, as you can see in the final picture:

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thepenguinpress

Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.

lonesomedovepdf

“[March 21 1951]

Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (’Ulysses’ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.”

eugenieroe

can we all agree that pressing foreheads together is an underrated act of affection??

blanchebees

Gothic vampire knight

Tip jar

romanceyourdemons

an interesting thing about clothing in late medieval and early modern europe is that, while lower class people generally did wear brightly colored clothing instead of muddy brown clothes, there were very distinct differences in the color of clothing people of different classes wore. clothing was done with all natural dyes, of course, but they were either dyed locally with cheap and easily accessible ingredients, or they were dyed in holland, italy, the ottoman empire, or even further afield using a jealously guarded secret combination of difficult-to-access ingredients, including (crucially) better-quality fixatives. this means that not only did expensive imported fabrics maintain a dark, rich tone much longer than a locally dyed one, which would get a washed out look after a couple of years, but there were also certain colors that a working class farmer literally couldn’t afford to wear, and even though the difference between a cheap local lincoln green and an expensive imported popingay green might seem subtle to us people then seem to have been very sensitive to those differences. that’s also why the colors puritans tended to wear seem uncharacteristically bright to our modern eye—black was such a rich and expensive color that it would be inappropriate to wear to anything other than a portrait sitting, but the colors orange and kendall green were deeply humble in their origins

eclecticopposition

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

carby

Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.

whyamiherewhosummonedme

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

(for science.)

violetthunderstorm

You have a fitting blog title

nico-the-overlord

this post is getting 50k easy

marlinspirkhall

o-craven-canto

Following in the footsteps of Barry Marshall, I see

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technofeudalism

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

speerfisch

the beauty of potatos growing⋆˚࿔

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