Foul Unknown Mentality

Long live the Violet Menace

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[brinnanza]

one person does not cure cancer. teams of scientists who rely on funding from the government cure cancer. one person's singular novel ingenuity is not what is stopping us from curing cancer; fucking CAPITALISM IS.

[liminalbeauty]

Literally.

Kseniia Petrova - Wikipedia

[skodasforge]

*Valley Girl voice*: I must, like, not fear. Fear is literally the mind-killer. Like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will totally face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? When it’s gone? I’m gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! Where the fear has gone there will be literally nothing. Only I will remain.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

constantly making airy offhand comments to my preferred younger son about how he’s next in line for the throne after his brother but he still hasn’t killed my detested firstborn for me. kids these days have no fucking initiative.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I keep sending them off on “boar hunts” together and wouldn’t you know? they keep coming back after with big smiles and boar heads and the unmistakable stench of brotherly camaraderie. what sick sad days are these!

[byjove]

It’s easy to forget JRR Tolkien was a fairly prolific academic translator with an interest in early medieval literature and philology. It’s so inspiring that he found time to write The Hobbit while fighting for his life over Beowulf.

[byjove]

JRR Tolkiens introductory notes for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are like “This is a superb little poem. I really enjoy the author’s ability to weave existing narratives within folklore into one cohesive tale.” and his lectures and notes on Beowulf are lowkey like “Translating and analyzing this was my Waterloo. I have been looking at it for 40 years. I am Sisyphus and this poem is my burden. All of you are misinterpreting it. Me too probably. God help us all.”

[mikkeneko]

#coincidentally beowulf contains a group of thirteen comrades journeying to their homeland for vengeance against the dragon that exiled them

I apparently have much less of an idea of what goes on in Beowulf than I thought I did

[omtai]

Hate how lighting a candle does wonders to my mood. Like wowwww. Grug like fire? Grug not sad anymore because Fire in Cave? Wow. Real predictable of Grug.

[lodgeofthecat]

good night

[scrabbleknight]

[wealldraw]

do you ever just

[triflesandparsnips]

happy 10 year anniversary to this game changer thank u @joscribbles for your services

[jobeeart]

can’t believe it’s been 10 years since i learned to always put my name on my art, even if it’s just a shitpost, bc u never know what’s going to blow up

anyway here’s a signed version if you wanna use it to shut up people who are trying to tell you their Opinions

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[mundaneamerica]

Mundane America. Broken pole with rope and an American Flag. Cincinnati, Ohio.

[gaslampsglow]

Wait.  Wait.

Wait.

I know that telephone pole.

I know that telephone pole intimately because I’m the one who broke it.

Thats the pole next to Sycamore Jr. High, in between the jr high school and Pipkins, where I had my second car accident.  A woman t-boned my car and drove me into that pole in 2008 and it took them years to actually take it down.

That black metal pole you see just beyond the broken phone pole is a “Now Leaving/Welcome To Blue Ash, Ohio” sign, visible at 5520 Cooper Road on google maps.

(the flag is there, btw, because its the starting point for the Blue Ash/Montgomery July 4th parade.)

[nehirose]

The internet is so staggeringly immense that I can’t help but be disproportionately delighted when things like this happen.

[ad-wills]

[cyberxbattalion]

[memesandmylife]

[compiler-specific]

every software is like. your mission-critical app requires you to use the scrimble protocol to squeeb some snorble files for sprongle expressions. do you use:

libsnorble-2-dev, a C library that the author only distributes as source code and therefore must be compiled from source using CMake

Squeeb.js, which sort of has most of the features you want, but requires about a gigabyte of Node dependencies and has only been in development for eight months and has 4.7k open issues on Github

Squeeh.js, a typosquatting trojan that uses your GPU to mine crypto if you install it by mistake

Sprongloxide, a Rust crate beloved by its fanatical userbase, which has been in version 0.9.* for about four years, and is actually just a thin wrapper for libsnorble-2-dev

GNU Scrimble, a GPLv3-licensed command-line tool maintained by the Free Software Foundation, which has over a hundred different flags, and also comes with an integrated Lisp interpreter for scripting, and also a TUI-based Pong implementation as an "easter egg", and also supports CSV, XML, JSON, PDF, XLSX, and even HTML files, but does not actually come with support for squeebing snorble files for ideological reasons. it does have a boomeresque drawing of a grinning meerkat as its logo, though

Microsoft Scrimble Framework Core, a .NET library that has all the features you need and more, but costs $399 anually and comes with a proprietary licensing agreement that grants Microsoft the right to tattoo advertisements on the inside of your eyelids

snorblite, a full-featured Perl module which is entirely developed and maintained by a single guy who is completely insane and constantly makes blog posts about how much he hates the ATF and the "woke mind-virus", but everyone uses it because it has all the features you need and is distributed under the MIT license

Google Squeebular (deprecated since 2017)

[odgw]

pysqueeb, does 70% of what you want - if you squint, you could imagine extending it for your needs? - but it's been dormant since 2017 and the most recent issue on GitHub is "running 2to3 on this library sucked my computer into a cosmic vortex"

squeebpy, a fork of pysqueeb that popped up 3 weeks ago, maintained by one person who commented on every open pysqueeb issue and clearly decided to take matters into their own hands, and it looks like it does what you need. you cannot easily verify this because the readme, every commit, and every new code comment are written in a human language you do not speak.

sprongle.c, originally written in one afternoon in 1995 by an academic and modified by everyone and their mother since then. just drop this one file into your project and you're good to go. runs on every operating system, holds up large parts of Internet infrastructure. a little-known secret is that nobody actually maintains it, and it will have the worst CVE since Heartbleed within the next 18 months.

WinSprongle, a fork of sprongle.c by another academic, which actually is maintained, but only for Windows NT on Alpha. no source code available.

awslabs/scrimble-java - wait, what, since when is Amazon in the scrimble business? should you contact your local antitrust authorities?

you find a surprisingly capable implementation in a Ghidra plugin for parsing snorble files, but even though it's technically an open license, you feel weird about extracting the code for your own use because, well, NSA.

After a week of studying a dozen different options, you start to think that it wouldn't be so hard to just write the code yourself, so you do, and it avoids the pain points and compromises from every library you found. It will never be publicly released to benefit the scrimble, snorble, and sprongle communities, because your company has no open-source policy.

[wetchickenbreast]

life tip: you can listen to a song on loop

[bsideheart]

but watch out

[grargll]

[only-tiktoks]

[cryptotheism]

I really enjoy the concept of "mech combat as metaphor for the unfathomable material waste of utopian space capitalism."

[ragebaitingmyfatdogpt20]

Massachusetts is an SCP now and honestly they’re right

[kewltunecue]

god i fucking love the scp foundation

[llatimeria]

oh and for those not in the know about SCP object classing:

Thaumiel is not a typical object class. Most SCPs are either Safe, Euclid, or Keter. A common misconception is that these describe how dangerous an object is, but that’s not it; object class is based on how easy they are to contain.

For example, a Safe object might be capable of causing apocalyptic damage, but if you put it in a box, it will stay in the box. (Though there are a lot of Safe SCPs that are genuinely harmless as well) 

Put a Euclid object in a box and it will usually sit in the box and not make active attempts to escape, but might escape incidentally, due to inherent unpredictability (for example, many sapient SCPs are classified as Euclid even if they’re normally friendly, just because they have free will) or just because the Foundation doesn’t understand it well enough to give it a true safe containment.

Keter objects will actively try to leave the box, and are typically malicious about it as well. Alternatively, they require so much time and energy to contain that it’s nigh-impossible to effectively contain, or are extremely poorly understood.

Thaumiel is special, because.. it is the box. It’s the object class that the Foundation uses for SCPs that are used to contain other SCPs. 

That being said: What the FUCK is Massachusetts protecting us from?

[the-haiku-bot]

That being said: What

the FUCK is Massachusetts

protecting us from?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[cubistemoji]

thinking abt that time in one of my art classes when the prof put up a silhouette of L from death note and said “this is not an effective design bc you can’t tell who this character is from this shape” 

and everyone in the class went like “yes we can that’s L from death note”

[the-haiku-bot]

and everyone in

the class went like “yes we can

that’s L from death note”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[cryptotheism]

All fucking is monster fucking.

[cryptotheism]

You have a body? Perverse and deviant behavior.