@natecull @theruran CADT

i absolutely did not expect this post to go viral. (28 boosts is the most i have ever gotten)

hey check out my soundcloud: giving money to black trans people

@clacke what’s inkscape? is that like sodipodi?

the english words for “north”, “south” “east” “west” actually come from the ancient nordic names for dwarves who were thought to live in those directions, and hold the sky up like pallbearers of the heavens.

Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri

@notclacke @evelyn as much as I agree, experience has shown me that very often it’s overestimating.

nevertheless you know me, wherever this is the case the blame is squarely on software which is supposed to be helping humans, not the other way around

@tfb @seachaint @GI_Jack @vortex_egg i saw it in theatres, near as i can tell it is literally historically revisionism to praise an actual monster

@tfb @seachaint @GI_Jack @vortex_egg but then, disney employed Von Braun as a science advisor so Miyazaki in one sense is living up to being the japanese disney

@tfb @seachaint @GI_Jack @vortex_egg like, it’s really weird in the contexts of other ghibli films

@seachaint @GI_Jack @vortex_egg @tfb weren’t they the ones that made the movie that was the love letter to the kamikaze bombers?

@seachaint @GI_Jack @vortex_egg @tfb there aren’t a lot of hopeful apirational futures in fiction and writers claim it is hard because no conflict. hmm

@seachaint @GI_Jack @vortex_egg @tfb star trek?

@clacke @neauoire @euhmeuh it could be that prefix notation has its analogue in the “carry” beads along the top of abacii- also limited to only up to 2.

@euhmeuh @clacke @neauoire so for e.g. on a babylonian table you’d have black and white stones, labeled I, V, X, etc, and black stones could be used for subtraction. you’d gather the amount you want to subtract, pair the black stones up with white stones to “cancel” them out. if you had black stones left over, the result was a negative value (a debt).

conceptually the prefix notation is like sticking black stones in

@euhmeuh @clacke @neauoire
romans had portable ones like this, made of copper. i can’t find one with two, but they had counting tables upon which you could put as many stones as you wanted, based on older babylonian ones that simply had ten beads in each column. everything here was on the silk road so it’s a common tradition, with the japanese 1:4 configuration just being the final evolution

Y'all ever think about the "Necronomicon" being greek for "Book of deadnames" like Lovecraft thought the darkest magic possible was outing trans people

Star Trek show pitch: fury road Kes teams up with Tuvix and the salamander babies to seek justice for the many war crimes of the Voyager crew

mood
@alexandra @Jo

@sean it was just announced that Sam Esmail (creator of Mr. Robot) is working on one

Old old pixel art I did of Metropolis, reanimated in honour of the upcoming Metropolis TV series.

@alexandra this is no longer a supported use case