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[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

[ploobytumbls]

I would like to share the story of a very understandable but unfortunate mistake i made at work recently

So I'm weeding our ancient and terrible collection of children's books for the first time in possibly ever, and I'm making a decision about a book about migrant workers by Sandra Weiner, called Small Hands, Big Hands. And I'm not 100% sure and I go to just see if there's anything out there about this book's being notable in any way so I do an open web search for

"small hands big hands weiner"

And then I look at my results for a moment

and then at last I somberly add to the end of my search, "BOOK"

[chaostheorietblr]

I have one like that:

In mathematics, you often consider the two-dimensional plane - you know, the idealised flat two-dimensional object that extends infinitely - which can be real or complex (doesn't matter what that means)

On this, you can perform a mathematical operation called a "blow-up" (resulting in a more complicated geometry)

I needed to look up a formula related to this, so I confidently typed into the search bar:

"Blow up real plane"

The results were not what I wanted and I am not sure if I'm on a terror watchlist now.

[bruzum]

[letterful]

[phaeton-flier]

Not enough people know about wireless-fireless

[phaeton-flier]

Not enough of you were reading ComicJK, a minor webcomic from the late 2000s whose last update was during the 2012 election

[localpubliclibrary]

It's literally crazy luck that I've only ever come across nails ever since I got my hands on my awesome hammer

[hikikomoricomplex]

I see we’ve reached the “blame your failures on communist subterfuge” phase of the AI business plan

[transgenderer]

mathematicians are kind of like if wizards didnt do anything

[stazher]

@krasnoarmeyets

[phaeton-flier]

Squidward's whole deal is that he was a scion of Old Money who got really into Marxism in college and decided he couldn't live with himself as a beneficiary of the Bourgeoisie. He cut ties with his parents and went to live as a proletariat for a few years to better his music.

Of course, what was supposed to be a short term service industry job before he lived for his art has bloomed into just being his life, and life as a poor artist is never as romantic as one imagines. While the cost of living of Bikini Bottom is low enough that even a frycook can be a homeowner, it's not quite so low that he can afford the luxuries he was used to growing up.

His view of the Working Class as the downtrodden masses were rather tattered by years of living between SpongeBob and Patrick, who were not so much temporarily oppressed intellectuals as they were, well, SpongeBob and Patrick.

Still, through thick and thin he's never gone back on his decision to leave the money behind. The great irony is that he is ignorant of his greatest achievement—his superiority to Squilliam isn't turning a bunch of randos into a functioning Marching Band or turning a burger joint into a fine dining establishment, it's having the strength of character to look at all the advantages Squilliam had and choose to leave it behind.

He will never be a master Clarinet player, but he will always have that

[shubidubisweets]

[fartnitegaming]

non-Euclidian being used to say something is lovecraftian and beyond human understanding is hilarious to me. Bro we live on a sphere.

[secretgarden]

[weaselknievel]

*introducing myself to the guards who caught me* seized to meet you

[janmisali]

oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this

what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)

0, 1, or 2

3

4 or 5

6

7, 8, or 9

Voting ended onJun 13

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Honestly feeling more uncertain about whether I should be an algebraic geometer or algebraic topologist. I've wanted to do algebraic geometry for a long time, but I am really enjoying how quickly stuff starts happening in these algebraic topology resources I'm studying. I feel like the same number of pages of algebraic geometry would just get me some basic setup.

[kata4a]

orpheus and eurydice really does go so hard. like yeah what if checking to see if your lover was still with you really was exactly the thing which drove them away...

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”