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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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we're not kids anymore.
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"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"
"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."
And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.
Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?
anyone else relate
Daði Freyr has created an anthem for those of us afflicted with this condition.
Welcome to Matthew's corner for joke pedantry. Today, we'll be talking about the UX of visual wordplay. I saw this bit floating around, complete with the attached commentary framing it as a joke (a funny one, they assure) and encouraging you to keep trying if you don't get it immediately.
And at first, I didn't get it, but not because I'm unfamiliar with the reference; I think the original joke was poorly designed.
For reasons I don't understand, the numerator in the third fraction uses a different character form than the others. The 1 lacks the descending bar at the top.
Whether you regard that line as a serif or integral to the character is immaterial to my point. When the number isn't just another color but is shaped differently, that's another property on which the joke could turn.
In this case, it is misleading. Maintaining the shape, the joke is clearer.
A small, referential joke like this should be a briefly uplifting moment in the day. It isn't worth being pored over to find the funny because it was poorly assembled.
Please consider this when crafting your own jokes, remembering this example, where a malformed fraction/fish pun was a red herring.
I understand that mass producing food is complicated and labeling guidelines are complicated and marketing is complicated, but "Naturally flavored with other natural flavors" simply does not inspire confidence that the people involved know what "natural" implies in the common tongue.
Today’s bird is this sulphur-crested cockatoo being swooped by an Australian magpie
This is a wizard battle
Feeling like watching Dragonslayer again...
we cannot live in chains
live openly and live free
uncertain abt where i will be sleeping tonight. ive tucked a smallish dog into my bed. i guess i will curl up in the corner..as an action of love
Same feeling the night we brought Ian home.
There was a young man from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line two
There once was a man from Verdun
There once was a man from the sticks Whose limericks stopped at line six. They were fine till line five Then they took quite a dive — But the problem is easy to fix If you just ignore the last line, it doesn't even follow the rhyme scheme oh god I've really lost control of this thing I'm so sorry...
There once was a man
From Cork who got limericks
And haiku confused.
There once was a man from the sticks
Who liked to compose limericks
But he failed at the sport
Because he wrote them too short
@limerickshere
There once was a fellow named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan. When told this was so, He replied, "Yes, I know-- It's because I try to squeeze as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."
On Tumblr did lasses and lads Their way with fail poetry had. You're having your fun But you're fooling no one - It takes skill to do something this bad.
There is an odd synod of vicars
Whose dialogues soon become bickers
If subverted norms
Scar poetry forms
They come across, tickling their knickers
I applaud the effort that went into this seconds-long bit.
(THE LAMP IS STICKING STRAIGHT OUT FROM THE WALL!)
For anyone who wants a side-by-side comparison to appreciate everything that moved, here you go:
My favourite detail is the plants on the windowsill getting rotated up sideways
When Microsoft announced they were killing Publisher in 2026, I was like, "But it's the only layout program you make."
Over the years, I've used it to make fliers, zines, and even card game prototypes (through a mail merge from Excel). I would never in Word. NEVER. Because I don't want to live in the world of this video.
Poob has it for you
i'm going to become the joker
to be perfectly honest. i don't care if it is cheesy or cliched or idealistic. i like stories where the core of it is about kindness, the warmth we can offer others and the gentleness we receive in return. maybe the moral of the story IS love triumphs. it better fucking be
The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. Also the Moon and Robot series by Becky Chambers.
Y'all better read some Becky Chambers.
UBI needs to happen. via antiwork
I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.
To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.
The counter-argument: Not having UBI is in the interests of those in power who want to do anything to the people they are in power over in order to remain in power.
If the greed of the few should come before the need of the many.
Having UBI would make capitalism much more tolerable and allow people the time to think about what we can do next to make the world better. That means the US will never have UBI.
A big part of the reason I want UBI is to chip away at objections to permanently removing bad actors from positions of power.
No, I don't want the cop who sexually assaulted people to die; I don't want to remove their ability to afford shelter, just their ability to ever again be in a role with that kind of power over others. No, I don't want the banker who stole people's retirement savings to die; I don't want to remove their ability to feed themselves, just their ability to ever again control anyone else's assets.
UBI is a potentially incredible tool for ensuring the survivability of justice under a capitalist system where otherwise job = life.
The best way to fight climate change is to destroy capitalism.
Don’t believe that you are responsible for this. They just want to pass the buck.
spiders have got to figure out contracting I need to be able to call my local spiders union and be like "hey can you send a guy out for a few days the fruit flies are back" and then pay it in spider currency. I'll learn the conversion rates. I'll be generous with my rounding. please.
I would do this if spiders ate ants. I will befriend any insect willing to eat the ants around my house.
It should 100% be illegal for companies to make you give them your payment information when you sign up for a free trial version of their product. It is not necessary and there is no good fucking reason for them to do it. It’s blatantly just so they can steal forgetful customers’ money.
oh hey, thanks for reminding me to cancel a free trial i had going on.
Reblog to save an unnecessary charge cause it also reminded me to cancel a trial lol
Lawmakers want to make laws? Law against this, thanks.
From the US but i spell grey with an e because e just feels like a much greyer letter than a
grey with an E is dusty neutral but gray with an A is bluish and darker
it really is, huh
Omg I’ve found my people
It's because GRAY is a West Saxon word for the quality of light, while GREY is an Anglian word for everyday objects. And everyday objects are typically earthy, warmer, or more neutral.
To explain: West Saxon and Anglian are both dialects of Old English. West Saxon was the politically dominant dialect, but Anglian was the more popular spoken dialect. So a lot of Old English texts are written in West Saxon, but what we know as Middle English and Modern English descended more from Anglian because it was spoken by more people.
So grey (the Anglian word) shows up when authors are describing everyday stuff. Like in this sentence describing a grey beard from Holy Boke Gratia Dei: "The hed of Petir is a brood face with mech her on his berd and that is of grey colour be twix whit and blak."
Any Middle English text you read, you'll find Anglian grey is the word the author prefers to describe everyday things. Grey wool, grey feathers, grey stones, grey horses.
By contrast, gray (the West Saxon word) shows up when authors are describing the qualities of light.
A gleaming gray sword, a deep gray lake, a misty gray morning, cold gray marble, sad gray eyes. Like in this sentence from The Siege of Jerusalem: "They glowes of graie steel that were with gold hemmyd." More often than not, gray describes an impermanent or glimmering quality of light.
There's even an instance where a Middle English author uses both, and you can see how one spelling is more about the quality of light while the other is more about the color of the animal: "The cerkyl or the roundel off the eye ys sumtyme graye lyke the ey off a catte, sumtyme blak grey lyke the eyn off doggys."
("The circle or round of the eye is sometimes gray like the eye of a cat, sometimes black-grey like the eyes of dogs.")
The reason Americans use gray and not grey is because Noah Webster hated the English. :)
so freakin cool
I have a grey cat. He is definitely not a gray cat. I can't really tell you why.
