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quidcumque

@quidcumque@rheinhessen.social

autistic parent (K1 11/18, K2 11/20, * 10/22, K3 10/23).
agender (and white).
writes (textbooks and book reviews).
teaches math (to engineering students).
likes science fiction (especially worldbuilding).

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Zahlenzauberin, to random German
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Ich schlage übrigens einen verpflichtenden sozialen Dienst für Männer im Alter von 45 Jahren vor. Es tut immer gut mal was anderes zu sehen und die Gesellschaft braucht eure Hilfe 😚

quidcumque,
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@Zahlenzauberin eigentlich ist das eine total gute Idee: in mittlerem Alter noch mal eine Auszeit. Vielleicht danach in den Beruf zurückkehren, vielleicht auch was ganz anderes machen; raus aus dem gemütlich eingerichteten, vielleicht auch festgefahrenen Leben. Würde ich sofort machen.

vicgrinberg, to random
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The Lidl Wiesbaden does not have wild garlic. This seems to be totally a Southern German thing (yes, if they had it I would have brought it all the way from Wiesbaden to Leiden, I even had an extra bag packed to transport it safely) 😭😭😭😭

Noch ein Jahr ohne Bärlauch 💔

quidcumque,
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@vicgrinberg oh no! Bad Wiesbadeners not having any!

(I'm just on the other side of the Rhine and there's a lot to be had here. So not really a Southern German only thing)

vicgrinberg, (edited ) to random
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Want to come with me to the museum of East-Asian art in Cologne?

Just look at this wine vessel! Bronze, Chinese, 12-13 century BC - but also, how cute is it? 🦉

1/6

quidcumque,
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@vicgrinberg oh yes, this is lovely. Thank you for taking us with you!

quidcumque, to random
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We've been talking about kids playing with toy weapons recently, right? How lots of parents don't like them and how to deal with that?

K1 is currently carving a piece of wood they want to use to build a crossbow 🫣

hannah, to random
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Fifth Third Bank 🤝 Pope Sixtus IV

I don’t really know what to call this

quidcumque,
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@KAOS Nordostwestfalen! (= north-eastern Westphalia)

@hannah

noneuclideandreamer, to crochet German
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My 10yo crocheted these for my 4yo.

#crochet #siblings

quidcumque,
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@noneuclideandreamer awww 😍

AmiW, to art German
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❇️ Artist: in City: USA 🇺🇸 04/2024 - Title:
🔴 "Sasha is having a bad tail day."
🟡 "Sasha hat einen BadHair... Ähm...
Bad-Schwanz-Tag." 🐿️

quidcumque,
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@AmiW nee, aber er ist halt toll.

quidcumque, to random
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Long time, no reading notes from me. I did read, but it was test-reading a mutual's novel, so no notes here.

But now! I'm starting Alice Degan's "From All False Doctrine", recommended by @irina.

Ancient manuscripts, cults, and academia in the 1920s.

quidcumque,
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Starts with a promisingly astute observation: “It would be so tedious for you, wouldn’t it, to have your research interrupted every so often by cultists wanting to worship the thing you were studying? In my department, now, we don’t have such problems.” “Good heavens, Harriet—you study money! All sorts of people worship that.”

(In STEM, we get crackpots, but our cultists are usually violently denying our findings instead of worshipping them.)

quidcumque, to random
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You know what - if there was a community in my city, I'd probably just give up and become an Old Catholic*. FFS.

(Yeah, I'm subtooting the Catholic church here.)

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church

quidcumque, to random
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Because I wrote it to someone today: I think "have a good time, and may there be a quiet place if you get overwhelmed" is nice autistic well-wishing.

Let's make it a thing!

"May you find everything at Ikea, and may headphones and sunglasses suffice"

"Good luck for your exam, may there be no fluorescent lighting"

sundogplanets, to random
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I started reading Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower," and it's really good, but it's also a very possible post-apocalyptic USA set in 2024, and it's actually giving me nightmares. I might have to stop...she's an amazing author. Maybe a bit too good.

quidcumque,
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@sundogplanets I read it last year, and yes, it feels so much like a possible, no, probable future! It's still very much on my mind, and has led to some very real preparation.

It is a so very good book, but a so very hard one too.

(I still have nightmares about the opening chapters of "The Ministry for the Future")

quidcumque, to random
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I did not think this* boost would be prophetic 😬

*https://mas.to/@alesssia/112158067611546918

(K1, 2 pm: completely normal
K1, 4 pm: tired, 38.4 °C
K1: 5 pm: sleeps, wimpers, 39.1 °C
K1, 7 pm: a bit tired, 37. 3°C)

vicgrinberg, to random
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I love passing by wind turbines. They are such an essential solarpunk element to me. Seeing one feels like a sign of hope: a different future is possible.

quidcumque,
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@vicgrinberg Me too! Extra good at night, because I've worked on development of LED obstruction lights for them ☺️

quidcumque, to random
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Friend has a new position in academia.

Friend: the bad news is it's still not a permanent position according to the online system

Me: 🧐

Friend: but the good news is, the end date in it is December 31st, 9999

vicgrinberg, to random
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I made it to Restaurant Ernst in Berlin today - folks, everything I heard about it got topped by the real experience.

I will not call it best because there is no way to compare Vermeer to Van Gogh or El Greco to Mucha, they are too different - but it's definitely among my absolute recommendations.

I had the full menu (their only option) + the non-alcoholic pairing. Wanna come along?

(P.S. Folks, remember, I block ruthlessly if you poop on my party.)

quidcumque,
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@vicgrinberg I can kind of imagine pear with radishes - but radishes with hazelnuts??? That really is an unusual combination!

(Thank you for this thread, I really like imagining the flavors and combinations!)

quidcumque, to random
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finishes chapter well, that escalated quickly

finished next chapter well wasn't THAT a whole 'nother level of escalation

akareilly, to random
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Disasters are averted, roughly, like this:

Clueless bossman says "YOLO, let's do it live! Just launch now!"

Engineers say "Dude, you can get wrecked, but this ship isn't getting wrecked today"

Clueless bossman's pet engineers chime in with "It'll be fine! This bad thing you're whining about never happens! MAN UP WEAKLINGS!

The engineers with a clue refuse and build redundancy and failsafes, addressing edge cases.

The bad thing that never happens, happens, but nobody dies.

quidcumque,
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@akareilly and everyone goes "see? Wasn't that bad after all"

quidcumque, to random
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Playground. Two people are trying (somewhat frantically) to get their babies in strollers to sleep.

K2 (helpfully): we also have a baby. They get put in the carrying wrap and then they sleep.

quidcumque, to random
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Still not in the mood for "Exordia" and heavy ethics, so I'll read Pleiti and Mossa's new adventures next, as @older's sequel to "The Mimicking of Known Successes" is just out!

Welp, these long titles don't make good hashtags, do they.

quidcumque,
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What an epigraph: "There are other ways to live."

Yes. There are. And we all need to hear that and think about what it might mean.

(Also very apt for Lent, if you're so inclined)

quidcumque, to random
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Partner, apropos of nothing: "a Dutch James Bond parody would be so great. Chases by bike and through tulip fields, jumping off a movable bridge, fighting on a big RV's roof while driving 120 kilometers per hour,..."

😝

Zahlenzauberin, to random German
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Ich sitze seit ein paar Stunden in eine Decke gewickelt auf dem Sofa und mir ist immer noch kalt. Können wir nicht einmal bei schönem Wetter demonstrieren

quidcumque,
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@Zahlenzauberin
mit Schal und Schirm und Mütze da
Die Allwetter-Antifa

quidcumque,
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@Zahlenzauberin ich finde das auch durch das Rumstehen irgendwie immer schlimmer als sonst 😔

Minimus, to random
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fabula murina (mouse story) LXIII
Silvius stridet, "tata! tata! sursum!" (Silvius squeaks, "Daddy! Daddy! Up!") Minimus filiolum tollit (Minimus lifts up his little son). Silvius laete primulas olfacit (Silvius happily sniffs the primroses).

quidcumque,
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@Minimus

"Iam ver egelidos refert tepores,
iam caeli furor aequinoctialis
iucundis Zephyri silescit aureis..."

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