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elilla, 3 hours ago to random

just spend some time with a couple of Polish people trying to remember what was the "vegan dumplings" or "spinach rectangles" that I got from Rewe and they enjoyed. the answer wasn't what I expected xD

Germans: which packaged vegan product do you think the spinach rectangles turned out to be?

elilla, 1 day ago to random

everybody's hyped for the new 1FAE9 FACE WITH BAGS UNDER EYES, which I mean, :big_mood:, but for you appreciators of text-presentation glyphs, might I draw your attention to the new range "Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement" (1CC00–1CEBF) that includes several gaming sprites from retrocomputer codesets including Pac-Man, a full set of Space Invaders, 1CC96 FLAPPING BIRD and so on—as well as a full set of box characters for #teletext emulators?

#unicode

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.pdf

Another section showing some old terminal drawing elements ("white lower left pointer", "two rings aligned horizontally", "inverse black diamond" etc.) and more game sprites (such as tanks and racing cars and fish in various positions).

elilla, 2 days ago to random

if you're prone to infodumping, that just means you're the exposition characters. the writers rely on you a lot

elilla, 3 days ago to random

still thinking of how all normal proprietary software of today would have been flagged spyware ten years ago

elilla, 4 days ago to random

for me, story written by a woman > female protagonist

elilla, 4 days ago to random Portuguese

não sabia que El Chavo del 8 não está passando mais não só no Brasil mas na América inteira. de fato o apocalipse chega mais cedo em alguns lugares do que outros

elilla, 8 months ago to random

hello everyone! I'm elilla the federated glamtifa influencer :sparkles_trans: you might know me from trans mom dot love and other places!

as many of you know, we run our living space as kind of a communal refuge kind of deal, where we often host queer people & immigrants in need of a safe place to stay. for variously sensitive reasons our living expenses are going up a notch indefinitely, so I'm here to ask mutual aid from people who can contribute financially. boosts also help! :boosts_ok_gay:​

recurrent patronage on Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/transmom/

one-off donations on ko-fi:
https://ko-fi.com/transmom

people in my area who want to contribute in non-financial ways, too, come up for a visit, all help is most welcome!

elilla, 6 days ago to random

Linux has top(1), bottom(1), and powertop(1). we're missing one

elilla, 6 days ago to random

young people laughing and talking loudly and blasting music in the train, such a rare sight in this country

elilla, 9 days ago to random

do you think somewhere there's a guy who works in literary publishing and his name is Ed, and his business card reads, "Ed is the standard text editor"

elilla, 15 days ago to emacs

taking a break from my social media diet to note that I finally took the time to export my #emacs styling like many of you asked. I present you: girly-notebook-theme.el
https://github.com/melissaboiko/girly-notebook-theme

you have to install the fonts for it to work properly, see the README.

FAQ: no there's no dark bg version.

elilla, 12 days ago to random

I didn't post this photo of my NixOS having some sort of existential ontology breakdown

elilla, 11 days ago to random

surely one of the German words

elilla, 11 days ago to random

back when I was doing my masters' I found it very hard to begin or to put anything on the page. but it's also very easy for me to infodump on my topics, for hours if allowed.

so a girlfriend from college helped me in this way: she offered herself as an attentive listener, and I recorded myself explaining the whole concept, proposal, literature I had read etc. to her. Then the contract was, I would transcribe the entire audio as-is onto the text, no editing. only then I was allowed to format, reorganise, add references etc.

less than a hour of talking gave me the whole skeleton for my thesis, breaking the blank page paralysis and letting me concentrate on the experiment itself.

elilla, 13 days ago to random

Jesus holidays in Germany.

• Jesus born day
• Jesus born day plus one
• Jesus born day with error bars
• Jesus gets gifts day*
• Jesus gets tortured by cops day
• Jesus respawns day*
• Jesus respawns day plus one
• Jesus possession day*
• Jesus possession day plus one
• Jesus cannibalism day*
• Jesus flies day
• Jesus' mom flies day*
• Jesus' classroom day*

(days marked with an asterisk are public holidays only in certain areas of Germany)

elilla, 14 days ago to random

elilla, 14 days ago to random

is anyone in my audience into amateur radio. especially located in Germany or Europe

elilla, 25 days ago to random

spraying the Tillandsia usneoides until the colour changes to green is satisfying in a "powerwash simulator" kind of way

Me spraying T. usneoides (an air plant that looks like a tangle of whiteish-green strands) until they gradually change to moist green, kinda like orchid roots.

elilla, 21 days ago to random

huh I have slept a reasonable number of hours, had no trouble getting off the bed, and finished watering my plants and making coffee well before work time. who am I and what have I done with the real me

elilla, 21 days ago to random

> A new national survey conducted by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center finds a broad majority of parents experience isolation, loneliness and burnout from the demands of parenthood, with many feeling a lack of support in fulfilling that role.

> The survey of parents conducted this month found:

> * About two-thirds (66%) felt the demands of parenthood sometimes or frequently feel isolating and lonely.

• About 62% feel burned out by their responsibilities as a parent.
• Nearly 2 in 5 (38%) feel they have no one to support them in their parenting role.
• Nearly 4 in 5 (79%) would value a way to connect with other parents outside of work and home.

https://nursing.osu.edu/news/2024/05/01/new-survey-finds-loneliness-epidemic-runs-deep-among-parents