cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 5hFonts. There's pretty distinctive fonts in use for various periods of the 17th and 18th century, and they just use something that looks kinda old. Also, have British cemeteries around old churches and there's no graves older than 1800. 15th and 16th century graves are stupidly common. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I mean, Blender and GIMP, maybe. Possibly MuseScore if you're not trying to use it for synthesized playback 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In particular, I think that the archives of the Paris Opera listed on Gallica are very useful. Oh. Though there is a trick for downloading from Gallica. Here's a page on it. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons... For example, consider Philippe Chaperon's work, gallica.bnf.fr/services/eng...commons.wikimedia.orgCommons:Gallica - Wikimedia Commons 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ad... is me.en.wikipedia.orgUser:Adam Cuerden - Wikipedia 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have a few additions to suggest. the Library of Congress (loc.gov) , Gallica (gallica.bnf.fr), the national library of Norway (nb.no), dp.la, The New Zealand Museum Te Papa www.tepapa.govt.nz Trove (Australian museums and libraries, trove.nla.gov.au ) and a few others.dp.laDigital Public Library of AmericaThe Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. 120
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If it helps, I did a restoration of that image for Wikipedia a bit ago. Convenient for reuse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ma...en.wikipedia.org 0100
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I mean, in simplest terms. what if they're blind, or lack the same sort of pattern recognition that lets us identify a badly-handwritten word? 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I really hope that you have better success in the next fundraising for this. It looks amazing. 110
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I feel like the increasing population and the teaching of Shakespeare, but less so Greek works, to teenagers probably makes a difference if we include shitty school essays in the mix. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That might beat out my answer of Shakespeare. 010
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If we're going by volume, not percentage, then probably the works of Shakespeare: Centuries of academic interest, combined with two centuries of children and teenagers being assigned essays on them; mix in a few popular conspiracy theories (like authorship challenges) and it's hard to beat. 2200
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think I'm either third or fourth comment, so either pirate or friendly muttonchops. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As someone who has eticardia for years: Take the allergy pill first. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm not sure I get your art process, but it's looking great 010
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Since I believe one should tell people why they appreciate them every so often: There's something charming and wonderful in how jerk characters become lovable as we get to know them. Diane, Rich and Larry, Pandora/Hope, starting to see it with Bishop. You have a good heart. 140
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm not a lawyer, but is there a tortious interference case here? 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Heh. I mean, arguably useful for surreal situations. "Bring dessert to the potluck or else."; "I have sent you my sexting. Please read and review."; "Do what I say and his arse gets it." 100
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Note: I am not a special genius destined to save the world. I do write music that I think is pretty good. 010
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You know, I got an 800 on the Math SAT at 14, and like a 650 English with that? ...Got a 1590 in my senior year. I don't think I'm anything that special. I just test well. I'm decent with those stupid analogy things they like, and my father taught me maths really young. I'll answer any questions. 100
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have four letters in my first name, so it's just "Fuck". 010
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There's a lot of rumours about him apparently wearing nappies. 001
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ah, when "intersectionality" means "straight intersecting with white intersecting with male". Probably a bunch of males, a bunch of straight people, and a bunch of white people, but how dare that one intersection not predominate? 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I mean, there's a lot of lost comics out there, unfortunately. Sometimes I'll stumble onto an old news article with samples of an amazing-looking webcomic... that's basically completely lost. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I've known I should for a while. But now that Widdershins ended, I could really use a webcomic.... 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I mean, be fair: The point being made is not that everyone fencesat then, it's that you could get away with it back then but in these unstable times... 010
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026And that's a fairly simple equation. There's ways to make equivalencies not look like equivalencies unless you know the trick. For example, 1/(sqr(2)-1) is the same as sqr(2) + 1 unless I screwed that up. Which I did the first time I tried to do it in my head. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's also one of the things where, in mathematics, there's a lot of equivalences. For example, x^2-2x+1 and (x-1)^2 are the same thing. So's (1-x)^2, or 1+x^2 -2x. or 4(x/2 - 1/2)^2 100
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Do you need the text at the bottom removed? I do that a lot. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026How is this not going to be an utter trainwreck? How is this going to last beyond maybe two seasons? Rowling isn't really that good of a writer, she just hit a need that publishers weren't filling. And then burned any good will and nostalgia she had by being a fucking TERF. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Even if you ignore... her: On a television budget, they're starting with the book where basically the only thing it has going for it at all is grand whimsical spectacle. Like, the plot's little more than a series of short scenes in dozens and dozens of places, each of which will need its own set. 100
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Very annoyed that someone stuck a pipe up their arse. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Creon is Oedipus' uncle and Jocasta's brother, so Antigone is both his niece and great niece, and Haemon is both Antigone's fiance and Creon's son. 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The play Antigone implies the existance of the play "Gone", where Creon helps his niece deal with her conflicting feelings about the death of her brothers during a rebellion, helps her mourn them, and everything ends as happily as possible. And Haemon and the niece have really inbred children. 100
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm guessing the weirdness comes from effectively being the little pin end of the component cable shrunk down. Took something unwieldy and made it unwieldy *but in a different way*. 001
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026How the fuck did Chuds both learn about Lysistrata and miss the message? I mean, the last part is typical, but the rest... 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ah, so that's an Ursarang on your hat. Got it. 020
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026...Why AI, though? Like, wouldn't just... actual data make for a better study? Like, presumably (never can tell with these fuckers) you're collecting information on air movement or methane sensed or SOMETHING and feeding that to an AI to screw up; why not just analyse it? 000
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You are giving real Pokémon trainer energy. What KIND of gym? 120
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Which maybe I shouldn't say, but those first couple books are genuinely bad. Like, you need to be a child or highly motivated to get through them. And they're going to stretch them out over a year each?! 010
cuerden.bsky.social @cuerden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026And, let's be honest: a full series on each of the first two books in the series? The tiny ones where very little happens for most of them? It sounds so unwatchable. Sure, you can SAY there's a ten year plan, but if they get beyond book 3 I'll be shocked. 110