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Access Counts @accesscounts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

First post! This is a site I made that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries. Take a look! I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people and companies with more wealth than the annual output of nations. Let’s fix it.

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Exploring Global Wealth

Compare GDP, net worth, and market cap of countries, billionaires, and companies on a unified scale

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Access Counts @accesscounts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is an interactive I put together of the board and executive overlap between DOW30 companies. It’s incredibly incestuous. And Chevron is its heart I was going to wait to share this because I just shared the global wealth one, but most of these are in freefall today

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Corporate Overlap in the DOW

Shared board members and officers within the DOW 30

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

While we’re at it, other QOL: • change your comment visibility threshold to 0 from 2 • turn on all the in app media players (if you want them) • @graysky.app is a mobile client w keyword mute • 📌 saves the parent comment to this feed (unique to each user) ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/unde... What else?

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

I just learned this; maybe everyone else already knew, but you can use from:me in search and then whatever terms to find things in your own post feed 🤩 lifesaver

A screenshot from the Bluesky social media app displays a user's post, with a search query "from:me infographic" in the search bar. The user, identified as "me," points out an infographic about the moon, mentioning its high resolution and ability to zoom into named areas with full topographic detail.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Hey folks! With new people joining, I want to highlight the Bipolar community here. It's been fantastic to have these convos and very helpful to me. This infographic was made with input from the community - just one example! Meanwhile, I'm going to post feeds and call some folks out in comments!

An educational poster titled 'Stages of Mania in Bipolar I-II' by One Impossible Thing, featuring a detailed breakdown of five distinct stages: Euthymia, Hypomania, Mania (Manic Episode), Mania (Mixed Episode), and Psychosis (Psychotic Episode). Each stage is accompanied by descriptive text and symbolic illustrations, such as a balanced scale for Euthymia and a crown for Mania, to represent the varying symptoms and behaviors experienced during each phase. The poster uses a color scheme of blue, yellow, and white, and includes contact information for Luke Steuber at the top.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Also! I'm going to launch the paid/nifty bits of the Patreon in the next few days If Patreusers (?) are willing I'd sure appreciate a free follow on it to make me look popular and intelligent and in demand 😆 FR tho, thanks if you can. This layoff culture is murdering me, gotta try something new

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*at a time

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Matt Gaetz this week

A four panel comic; a man is being awarded for being the world’s whiniest little shit. He says no I don’t wanna be the whiniest little shit, and then they have to give him two awards.

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

I don’t think any of us want to be Americans right now, so here’s Canada! It has (or, sadly, had) an enormous variety of first peoples’ languages.

A map of Canada with the names of each territory explained

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Ever seen a chart of Morse code? It’s really cool! There are some very creative keyboard designs based on this (and other schema) to help people with disabilities communicate more quickly via switch or eye gaze

A chart of how to encode letters in Morse

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Survey! What do y’all call it when you stick out your tongue and go like ”thbbbb” at someone? When I was growing up we called that ”blowing a raspberry” but I can’t imagine that’s universal.

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

This is a very interesting chart of the origins of the word “two,” but whoever made it … well, I don’t know what they were going for really. Fireworks? Enjoy

A chart of evolution of the word “two” visualized as this weird sunflower thing

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Probably my favorite book that I own is this one signed by Helen Keller. Since I was posting about orthography last week … check out her handwriting! She was a rad person

An inscription reading “to Lila Howard with loving greetings, helen Keller”

The jacket cover of the book:

THE STORY OF MY LIFE by Helen Keller
This famous story of a courageous woman's battle against overwhelming disabilities was first published in 1902.
It has become, in its way, a classic of inspirational writing and a lighthouse of hope for the afflicted. Since 1902 a great deal has happened in the life of Helen Keller. But the great struggle which liberated her from the dark and soundless world in which she lived had been won, and that is the story which is told in this book.
This new edition of The Story of my Life contains Miss Keller's original auto-biography, plus her letters from 1887 to 1901, and an account of her education.
Helen Keller has seen light in dark-ness, has heard through the barrier of deafness, and has broken the silence with her voice. She tells with disarming simplicity how she overcame, with Anne Sullivan's help and understanding, the tremendous difficulties of learning to live without either sight or hearing.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

one day after Elon Musk said he would start charging all users for X, Bluesky is seeing its biggest single-day in new user signups mashable.com/article/blue...

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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only

The day isn't even over yet Bluesky has already seen its biggest influx of new users in a single-day

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I’m grumpy this morning so we’re going with the origins of the names of candy. Mmmm candy

An infographic of 20 candy bars with considerable additional text

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

India is incredibly linguistically diverse! Here’s some cool maps to illustrate

A map of the most commonly spoken native languages in India. There are 40+

A map of grammatical gender differences across languages in India. To have a difference that fundamental implies a long period of separate evolution

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Fun etymological fact: “gif” was actually an old English word pronounced as /jɪf/ (it later became just “if”). So every time people debate the pronunciation of gif, all I can think of is “yiff” img dot yiff

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Speaking of cool alphabets - technically orthography - check out these amazing scripts from West Africa. The area is historically so resource rich that people didn’t have to travel to hunt or trade, so languages evolved in isolation

A sample of scripts for which there are no Unicode equivalents - apologies

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

On the topic of invented languages: the most famous one, Esperanto, has been used for several entire films. One of them is 1966’s “Incubus” starring William Shatner, and I highly recommended it after a few drinks with friends

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Incubus (1966 film) - Wikipedia

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Last language meme for the weekend… get killing, kids!

A picture of a goat in a children’s book with the words “get killing”

The Swedish word for 'Goat' is 'Get' and the word for 'Kid' is 'Killing' hence this spread from a children's book:

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Some more weekend fun. My field is augmentative communication so this hits home

A four panel comic, a man and his dog with this dialog:

Alright girl! I got these dog talk buttons! So you can say stuff like walk or park or-
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WALK
TREAT
the
OUTSIDE
VE
RIP
SORP
@UDE
DONG
Dude. You. Have. Got. To. Get.
Laid. You. Are. Bumming. Me. Out.
So. Hard.
So after that I just stopped making an effort...
You're. A. Good. Guy Hank. You. Just. Need." To. Open. Up. More.
eldercactus

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Weekend etymology memes: late night edition (M for Mature)

"Zero fucks given" in other languages
6. It's sausage to me (German)
5. I care a cucumber (Spanish)
4. It can oxidize on my anus
(Dutch)
3. I slap my balls on it (French)
2. It interests me as much as a kilogram of shit (Finnish)
1. Flowers on my dick and bees all around (Greek)

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Weekends are for language memes

A chocolate monkey melting in a pot while trying to explain Basque

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

This is my all time favorite piece of short writing. Just beautiful

“I was trying to describe you to someone” from Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan. I’m sorry that it’s too long to transcribe

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

For a Friday evening, I recommend some words that aren’t real; the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows does a great job nailing down emotions that are hard to describe. Mimomea hits me, but there are plenty of great ones!

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“Creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have.” — John Green, author of The Fault in...

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

For something slightly different: here’s an evolutionary tree of all the major large language models from Word2Vec through GPT-4. Cool! As a computational linguist I’ve worked a few places on that tree …

A family tree of language models; it’s very large but OCR may work to read

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Honestly “qu” could be one letter

Q is too high up in the alphabet. I respect it but it has no place between P and
R. Should be at the end with the weirdo/goth letters

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

You don't have to say a word to be my friend 🥹

One kid : hey do you want to play with me? what's your name? can you hear me?
his mother: His name is Boston. He doesn't talk much but he loves to play.
Same kid: That's okay! My mom says I can talk enough for two kids!

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Good morning! I’m thinking about karaoke tonight

A graphic showing how karaoke is actually a combination of Japanese and English, which is unusual

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Let’s do some maps! Here’s one I like with meanings and geography for a (small) portion of Native American languages Over 40 are known to have been spoken in the Pacific Northwest. The biological diversity allowed tribes to live in isolation; there are more isolates there than anywhere in the world

A map of Native American languages and their meanings

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Unfortunately your friendly neighborhood word nerd here is colorblind. I’m convinced y’all made up most ot these colors. Purple in particular

A very large poster of word origins for the names of colors - I’m sorry I can’t transcribe it all here

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

This apple environmental impact presentation feels like I should be in that ride with the gene mascot at the beginning of Jurassic Park. Satire level corporate cheese

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Someone commented about this last week - “chai if by land, tea if by sea.” I think it tells a fascinating story about humans in that era and raises a lot of questions. For example: did the British take so long around the born of Africa that they actually evolved the word? 😂

A map historic trade routes showing that the leaves traveling by boat tend to be called the English name for name tea

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Someone just sent this to me on another site and I’m compelled to share because I’m hoping the curse it gave me will leap from me to you. I’m so sorry

Sonic the hedgehog saying things that are technically true, which I find even more infuriating

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Some may have seen this defense of trans rights and terminology from Merriam-Webster but it’s worth sharing again. “Oh no! More people to love and more words to learn!” … don’t threaten me with a good time

MW:

1) saying they don't know what 'genderqueer' means
then
2) asking why we added it to the dictionary

Douche: @MerriamWebster better get ready to add the 12,000 other sexualities to the list too then

MW: We were born ready.

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

In honor of poor X, let’s take a moment to recognize some other letters that English has done dirty over the years 🎶 in the arms of the angels

A list of various orthographs and symbols and stuff we’ve used as letters. I want them all back

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Final funny etymology for the weekend! I like how they went for the concept of this infographic but wouldn’t go all in on “fart” and outright ignored “fellatio”

A bunch of words that derive from the same Latin root

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Everyone please if I could have your attention for a moment, this is important

An illustration showing how the German words for shield and toad make turtle

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

It you trace the phrase “black lives matter” back to each word’s earliest known root it means approx “to shine, to stick, to mother” 👌🏻 Happy Sunday!

A chart of each of the words in the phrase Black Lives Matter evolving through German, French, Italian, more French, and prob the French again

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Shhh everyone’s asleep, here’s another language meme

Noah looking at all the animals of the ark and pointing at a weird hybrid and saying “what the hell is this.” It’s good but I’m really over family guy

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Lest anyone not know the Vedic calendar. I make zero attempt at etymology. Back to pure linguistics tomorrow!

The Vedic calendar, which looks like the eye of Cthulu and I need to go lie down

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Meanwhile the Vedic calendar is like 🤷

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Alright you smartypantses. Riddle me this: where would “curate” go?

A wheel of words derived from the PIE root “run”

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

And now for something completely different: Worldwide phonetics! Many sounds that aren’t in English are used everywhere else. Here’s the full chart - let’s transcribe some words! I’m open to challenge!

A chart of every sound the human mouth can make. No really

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Well since this morning’s map was controversial, let’s talk about nothing

A map of the origins of the word nothing in different areas of Europe

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Etymologist @etymology.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Here’s a bit of a silly one for what I hope is a silly Friday!

A map of the history of the word porcupine … this is why we need OCR. There’s simply too much to fit in the alt text

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