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nev, 1 month ago to random

Y'all I am so happy to have my own copy of the Odyssey which I can dog-ear as I wish. Perhaps even underline. Like I woke up happier than usual because of it.

Just raced through the boring bit (the Telemachy, books 1-4) and am now upon Ogygia, Calypso's island.

mcc, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

So I somehow had the impression that Witchcraft was illegal in Canada, but I looked it up, and it turns out no, it is only pretending to do witchcraft which is illegal in Canada. So it appears witchcraft is legal but only as long as it's real, though you might have a difficult time in court if charged with fraudulent claims of witchcraft with proving magic is real

EDIT: See correction below

nev, 1 month ago to random

real fucking body horror implications here

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

My daughter just had the best the doctor experience while getting her brain tumor removed in Roblox (game). Whoever the random kid was playing the surgeon really knew their stuff and aced bedside manner.

nev, 1 month ago to random

just thinking about the Panopticam again (the webcam mounted above the preserved skeleton of Jeremy Bentham [the English philosopher who came up with the Panopticon], at University College London from 2015-16, which tweeted out hourly captures)

https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/panopticam/

nev, 1 month ago to random

Happy New Year! It's the anniversary of the destruction of the One Ring and the fall of Sauron, and thenceforth is celebrated as the New Year in western Middle-earth.

Relive the day in my real-time LotR thread: https://bananachips.club/@nev/105951061412685611 (note: you'll have to put it in your mastodon client's search bar, just clicking on it won't work)

In real life, it's Lady Day, the anniversary of the Annunciation; in England this was New Year's Day from the Middle Ages until well into the eighteenth century. (More here: https://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/celebrating-the-new-year-medieval-style/)

nev, 1 month ago to random

as someone who came up as a dyke i am BEGGING fanfiction writers to stop using the word "fisting" to mean "holding something in/with one's fist"

please know that when you write something like "his hands fisting the sheets" this is how i am visualizing it

nev, 1 month ago to animals

Happy #Caturday from Wasabi

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

nev, 2 months ago to random

Dream journal: spider-sitting for my cousins (they do not have pet spiders in real life). A female Phidippus regius and one of the Phidippus with red-orange backs, e.g. P. cardinalis or P. johnsoni, but even in a dream I'm not gonna try to narrow down such similar-looking species.

ernie, 2 months ago to random

Check out this thing. A $400 RISC-V laptop. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806148905030.html

mcc, 2 months ago to random

An overview of Minecraft ports for the TI-83 graphing calculator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwtGUDGilX4

Confession: I didn't watch this video, because I don't care, but thought I'd post it here in case it is of interest to you

nev, 2 months ago to random

I'll be honest guise, not sure if I have the strength to get through this whole movie. Not even because it's bad, just because I'm tired

#Monsterdon

nev, 2 months ago to random

Want to walk around listening to The Mountain Goats but it's cold and flurrying ;_;

I mean I still will, it's not THAT cold, I'm just gonna whine about it

#dlws

nev, 2 months ago to animals

sleepy kitty

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

A moment later, yawning.

mcc, 2 months ago to random

Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

nev, 2 months ago to random

racing to finish the day's required work before the Benadryl kicks in again sighs itchily

nev, 2 months ago to animals

Wasabi is lying on my foot curling up into increasingly comfortable and adorable positions. Guess I'm stuck here for now

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #cats

Wasabi with one eye open, paw curled around her chin
Wasabi snuggling with her paw over an eye
Wasabi beginning to curl onto her back, one eye slightly open and pupil all the way to the inside

nev, 2 months ago to random

it's a great afternoon to curl up under a blanket with the cat on your feet and read fanfiction, so I'm doing that even though I also did that yesterday

nev, 3 months ago to random

Quick, look at the sky #dlws

nev, 3 months ago to random

oh god i have so much cleaning to do after like a week of being sick

only one thing for it really, throw on the doom eternal soundtrack and just go ham

nev, 3 months ago to random

just had a HARROWING experience with merging conflicting git branches. HARROWING i tell you.

seachanger, 3 months ago to random

good to not let relatively small technical questions become emotional proxies for all that frustrates us about life and the internet