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learning through the medium of geoguessr that my left-right confusion does extend to east and west
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wayfinder
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and now it has me wondering whether it has something to do with my inclination toward left-right symmetry in art...

i sometimes worry that i've made the wrong parts of my memory searchable

cleaning hummus off my glasses 😡

auto-antonym: wie man in berlin auf dem fahrrad überholt wird, ist gleichzeitig ganz dicht und nicht ganz dicht

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where does this apparently omnipresent desire to put a comma after the subject in a sentence come from? i see it in english and german
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wayfinder
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sounds like a match!

(dt.) Heiratsschwindler = (spa.) mariposa
(dt.) Telefonhörer = (ital.) amore
(engl.) teetotaler = (dt.) Kanone
(dt.) Imker = (ital.) carabinieri

Urmel? Aus *dem* Eis?

peace of mind only arrives when you have blocked enough users in a discord that you don't know who the 10 blocked messages are from

our demo PARADISE won 1st place at evoke! i am beyond stoked!

watch it here: mfx.drastic.net/view/paradise/

paradise

webgl demo 'paradise'
mfx.drastic.net
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Anders Stenberg
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Watched it now, cool stuff! Photosensitivity warning wasn't a joke :D

I'm at evoke, having a blast!
a watercolor painting of a graffiti style EVK 25 logo done in a three layer style: sky, flesh and grass, with fire on top and a thick black outline on wall-brown

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who called it incest porn and not pumpkin spice

wieso heißt es verifizierter account bei x und nicht kreuzhaken

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i am a bit annyoed that the paris olympics graphics do not correctly display letters outside the english alphabet

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i really wish the map at whentaken.com would work, but it's so broken that i can't play. why even use apple maps in the first place?! anyway, i can't do anything about it, so no more whentaken for me :(

Von Waschen und Trommeln
Ein Gedicht

Die WaMa war schon immer schlecht,
Doch wird es immer schlimmer, echt.
Drum hab ich für Verband gesorgt,
Drei neue beim Versand geborgt.

Die Shirts, die ich beim Testen wasche,
Kenn' ich wie meine Westentasche.
So weiß ich welches Modell gut war
Und bei welchem ich vor Wut gar'.

Auch wenn's Maschinchen leise schaut,
Sind die Dinger scheise laut!
Was sie aus meinen Stücken rein'jen,
Lässt Nachbarn meinen Rücken stein'jen.

Doch das entlockt mir massig Lachen,
Das bin nicht ich, das lass' ich machen!
Ergebnis in Kartei gepackt,
Auf and're Mietpartei gekackt.

when people draw using their right hand, it always just looks wrong

Ziesars Palas

You're telling me the Commodore's name is Seasick Steve, or..?

update done
people of the abraum, just to let you know, friendica has been updated to the latest version!

"noice" comes from whiskey jargon and just means "neat"!

Gehörgang, Naselaufen und Seepromenade sind auch nur Spezialfälle von Sinneswandel

wieso heißt es tetris und nicht kompass
wieso heißt es pornhub-abo und nicht kompass
wieso heißt es pc-spezialist und nicht kompass

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🎶 everything mounts in large accounts 🎵

ich habe gerade erfahren, dass "MTB" die abkürzung für "mountainbike" ist, und frage mich seitdem mal wieder, wofür das T steht (ähnlich wie beim RTW schon mal - da war es eingefügt, weil "RW" schon vergeben war.)

wenn es das t in "mountain" sein soll, dann müsste es doch eigentlich "MtB" geschrieben werden, oder?

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as a large fashion model,
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Mt. Ainbike, das ist der Berg auf dem die ersten Downhill-Rennen veranstaltet wurden
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Matthias Warkus
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Ich denke, hier spielt die Assonanz zu »ATB« (all-terrain bike) und »ATV« (all-terrain vehicle) eine Rolle

nie, nie wieder hermes
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Scott Hühnerkrisp
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das tut mir leid. Ich hatte mal einen Twitteraccount mit Fotos von Hermes-Paketshops, da sind mir manchmal Beschwerden in die DMs geslidet.
Screenshot einer Twitter-DM mit folgendem Text: Hallo, ich würde sehr gerne wissen ob es der @Hermes Fahrer auch mal schafft ein Packet auszuliefern? An zwei Tagen hintereinander wurde das Packet nicht ausgeliefert!!! Ich war an beiden Tagen zuhause..... 1. Tag kein Zettel mit dem Hinweis wo das Packet war. 2. Tag wenigstens ein Zettel im Briefkasten, sind die Fahrer so sehr unter Druck oder sind die einfach nicht fähig ihre Arbeit zu erledigen?!
Screenshot einer Twitter-DM mit folgendem Text: Hallo ich habe ein Paket bei Amazon bestellt und wurde über Hermes Paket Dienst geliefert und zugestellt, habe aber kein Paket bekommen möchte wissen bei wem mein Paket abgeben wurde habe auch kein Zettel im Briefkasten gehabt. Hier die Nummer: [unkenntlich gemacht]
Screenshot einer Twitter-DM mit folgendem Text: Hallo, Wieso dauert es so lange füt ein kleines paket von Hamburg nach Rotterdam? Es ist seit 5 december noch immer "sortiert"
Screenshot einer Twitter-DM mit folgendem Text: Das tausendste Mal haben Sie MEINE Pakete anstatt zu mir in die Praxis, an den Paketshop unten im Haus geliefert, mir KEINE Nachricht davon gegeben Und die Ware ging zurück nach CHINA. Das habe ich jetzt TAUSEND Mal reklamiert. Wann wollen SIE DAS ÄNDERN???

"shudder" is just a shorter way to say "calm your tits"

don't like these always-attached bottle caps. when i pour, the cap slides down and the liquid starts to pour into the cap instead of where i am aiming; when i drink, the cap gets me in the chin or in the nose. and as a final fuck you, it takes a lot longer to find the right position to screw it back on than one that you had in your hand in the correct orientation while you were drinking or pouring
a sketch of the drinking issue
a sketch of the pouring problem

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wayfinder
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the ones i was fighting with when I wrote the post were these:

an opened bottle with a cap hanging on by visibly distressed, flimsy strands of plastic that look about ready to tear under any amount of stress

i'm holding up a different bottle and cap, one where the cap attachments have broken off at the cap end

with this type, most commonly, one or both of the connections will break the first time you tilt the cap into its "open" position.

and even if they don't break, they'll be flimsy enough and deformed enough that the ring slides around

cw: a funny butt


 nsfw

lately, most videos on youtube from creators with more than like a thousand subscribers will have the first couple of comments be from spambots that say something like "your channel is so wholesome! this content is giving live 👏 i am excited to see what you'll talk about next!" and then it has just a full frame of butt as its profile picture.

but you know what, i don't mind! i just think of them as dorothy in one of my favorite pictures of all time:

a mural in some sort of wizard of oz theme park, with cutouts for people to put their heads in and get their photo taken as the gang, with three smiling wholesome family vacationers as the lion, the tin man, and the scarecrow, and then the dorothy face is just two ass cheeks

baby are you classic video game company taito, cause you make me argh! annoyed

resilienter fußfetischist, der immer wieder auf die beine kommt

moin
screenshot von google translate: (dt.) Mond = (türk.) ay

so this serial ponzi-like thing where people build hype but tank a company, create a new one and hype that to pay off the previous failure's refunds, debts, etc., then tank it, move on to the next, ... does that have a name that actually gets to the predatory nature of the pattern and doesn't glorify it as entrepreneurship?

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cathos
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I've been wondering this too. I hear 'pump & dump' and 'leveraged buyout' a lot, but those feel... incomplete and imperfect in these situations.
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cathos
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i suppose the leveraged buyout is kindof the opposite side of the tech startup thing where they build a company fast on loads of debt, hoping to be bought out and liquidated.
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honey, i'm home!
Map of a place in Mongolia called Mörön

Willkommen bei @Gabriel Yoran
Schild mit der Aufschrift "expressive Osmose"
@Gabriel Yoran

i just had the stupidest idea for impractical footwear, and i'm wondering if anything like that already exists:

the floatshoe

basically, a ring for your calf to sit in, possibly with a sort of funnel or straps to more evenly spread the weight, mounted on struts that connect to a "sole", so that your feet hang in the air freely as you walk

a very rough sketch of a person walking in these contraptions, and more detailed front and side views. none of the drawings make it look any more comfortable or practical than the description in the post, i'm afraid.

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Lambdacore
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Hm. Problem I see with this is the lack of forward stabilization that feet provide. Plus you introduce an additional pivot point. I would imagine that walking in these devices will prove to be quite difficult.
I'm curious - what's the use case?
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khm
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chell wears an early version of this in portal
the player model of Chell from the Portal games

(dt.) Jachthafen = (engl.) DisplayPort

hochqualitative berichterstattung bei der funke mediengruppe

👻

screenshot eines videos mit branding der funke mediengruppe, in dem ein tweet über einen wal zu sehen ist, der gerade einen taucher in den mund genommen hat. darunter ein untertitel, in dem "spuckt ihn dann wieder aus" als "spukt in dann wieder aus" geschrieben wird
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wayfinder
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sorry, funke medien gruppe - zeit fürs deppenleerzeichen muss sein

trying to keep track of my emerging pet peeves:

- the "you ask" pattern

i've noticed a huge increase in this over the past few years; people in tv shows, on youtube, sometimes in movies, will pronounce questions as if they were going to add "..., you ask?" to them. i hate it

- the "name in commas" pattern

this is becoming an absolute epidemic in social media; here are a few examples:

"Occultist, Aleister Crowley, was an accomplished mountain climber."
"Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger, reports that the company will not only deliver ..."
"Iran sentences renowned director, Mohammad Rasoulof, to 8 years in prison and flogging"

the thing that's perhaps noteworthy about both of these is the vehemence with which they will be defended as supposedly correct. my fear, of course, is that they actually are.

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Kilian Evang
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I wonder what the "you ask" pattern is, exactly. Pitch rising higher at the end than normal question intonation?
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wayfinder
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yeah, basically.

rhetorical questions in particular fall victim to it a lot of the time.

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Kilian Evang
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Interesting, I'd never noticed the "name in commas" pattern. Using the terminology of Schneider and Zeldes (2021), I would describe it as name descriptors (more specifically: embellishments) treated incorrectly as appositives in orthography.

aclanthology.org/2021.udw-1.14…

Das Kasperlenspiel

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every time someone posts a link to an article on yahoo, this is the full extent of the preview:

"Yahooist Teil der Yahoo Markenfamilie www.yahoo.com"

Not even mentioning the two errors in just five words of headline, there's no actual preview of the content of the article...

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