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cw: a funny butt
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:
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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
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I'm curious - what's the use case?
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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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.
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every time someone posts a link to an article on yahoo, this is the full extent of the preview:
Not even mentioning the two errors in just five words of headline, there's no actual preview of the content of the article...
when people using the false plural "octopi", do they also do it for other words ending in -us for which -i is not the correct plural form?
i propose to name this field of study "autobi"-ography
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i've seen that screenshot from the fox news show about libraries* roll through my feed a few times now, and i keep wondering what they thought the comma was for in "drug-infested, sex dens"
*not reproducing it again because meh
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it's monday, and I just posted my weekly overview on patreon and ko-fi. time to finally do some #self_promotion again! follow these links please and be part of the avalanche of moneys that will surely happen soon.
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I made music for a thing: mfx.drastic.net/view/asura/
Best enjoyed at 1080p with a nice-ish GPU!
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in reply to wayfinder • • •(never mind it wasn't a problem to begin with. remember those parks littered with bottle caps? yeah, me neither.)
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in reply to Abílio Costa • •the ones i was fighting with when I wrote the post were these:
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
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