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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other peoples needs... very sad life... probably have very sad death... but, at least there is symmetry!

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Now we're cooking!" "Let 'em cook." "We are so cooked." It seems 'cook' has been going to therapy lately, working on itself, and has developed quite the emotional range.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wanted to practice #miniaturepainting weathered heavy armor and also practice painting faces. So next up in the to-be-painted queue: Who would win in a fight? Four angry adjunct professors with e-mag zappers or one vry stompy boy? #Corvusbelli #Infinity #miniatures

Four primed but mostly unpainted miniatures from Corvus Belli's Infinity Haqqislam faction. They are two men on the left and two women on the right. They look irregular, with loincloths, some with sunglasses, some with scarves. They all have big bapacks. The two on the outside carry four-pronged radar dish-looking guns and the two in the middle carry chain rifles.

A TAG from Corvus Belli's Ariadna faction. It is a very large bipedal chicken-walker robot with what looks like loose tank treads attached to its legs for extra protection. A massive turret with an HMG hangs from the cockpit, and two ridiculously large missile launchers are mounted at what might be shoulder level. It is likewise primed but mostly unpainted.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I enjoyed painting some #CorvusBelli #Miniatures from the Kosmoflot faction. I got some much-needed practice painting faces and trying to put grain texture on their steel armor. I've still never played more than one game of #Infinity but this is the start of my fourth faction for it.

Four miniatures on bronze-colored tech bases. The left and right most are tractor bots with a single manipulator arm and a boxy spotlight head. The inner left figure is a sturdy man with a grey beard and blond mowhawk and TOO MANY pockets. The inner right figure wears a jacket large enough to conceal something menacing, chunky boots, and a cap with a headset. She carries and uzi.

Three miniatures on bronze-colored tech bases. They all wear similar outfits: fatigue trousers. gray jackets with orange pin-stripes and chunky metal plates. They also sport a little cap that in my opinion makes them look like deadly flight attendants.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today I learned two very important facts: 1. You can airfry frozen gyoza. 2. Dipping sauce can go bad when you let it sit on your shelf for several years.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trying my hand at some #CorvusBelli #Infinity remotes. Good chance to practice edge highlighting, which I don't quite have down but I feel better about than I used to. #miniatures #miniaturepainting

Three miniatures on desert bases. The right and left are quadrupeds on legs that end in spikes with scorpion-looking heads and wing-like panels on the rear. The left has a combi-rifle, the right has a missile launcher. In the middle is a Nasmat remote, a diminutive humanoid robot with a wide, almost cobra-like head. They have sand-yellow colored accents.

Two quadruped robot miniatures on scenic bases showing an urban street. They are red with gray and olive accents. The one on the left has a combi-rifle, while the one on the right has a heavy machinegun. They are vaguely beetle-ish.

Two miniature quadruped Zond robots on scenic bases. These are built to resemble the slab bulkheads of an unfinished orbital construction. They have dark blue paint with yellow accents. The one on the left has a combi-rifle while the one on the right has a missile launcher.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Life is an endless stream of frustration from the dumbest people imaginable, puffed up to think they're great just because they know how to be loud. But I taught a poetry class today and the students went further with it than I asked them to, so I say I did good and I get to put my feet up.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not the most important aspect of any of this, but I keep thinking that if writing an essay is for you a punishment serious enough to be merited for criminal acts, you never really had a "promising" future. You're just a rich dipshit that the system was built to lift up.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While prepping lunches for the week I had the thought I could make a game of it: Every week I could give myself a score calculated by the gap between the time I finish all my prep and the time I need to go to bed to get a good night's sleep. I could even keep a spreadsheet to see how I do over time.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The last few days I have been able to watch some adolescents trying to decorate a space, and it has been fascinating watching creativity, problem-solving, and iterative design process happening spontaneously and without any prompting on my part.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Basically every day now I experience something needlessly hurtful. Not even counting unintentional microaggressions, just full-on intentional rudeness that gets no one anywhere. It's genuinely shocking how long this was unheard of, only to become the new normal in only the last two years.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When they laid out the chips, something in my brain broak.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The call of the void" is the brief intrusive impulse to knowingly do something terribly self-destructive, like the urge to jump from a high place because you looked down or to skip dinner and just eat peanut butter on Doritos because you read the news.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was it great planning? Or were they making it up as they went along and got lucky? The eternal question of 90s era TV. In season 1, everyone talks about how they expect B5 to fail its mission. It's only about halfway though the season that they start floating hints about B1-B4 being lost.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The weather turned just slightly less sweaty and suddenly my feed is nothing but "look what I cooked" or "look what I'm eating!"

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The goblin at the control panel in my brain made me spend what felt like at least 2 hours just before waking not so much dreaming as puzzling over a problem: How to work the stock/stock gag from QWERPLine into an EFL lesson. youtu.be/-YaXvu0lzbM?...

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Nsburg Stock Exchange || Qwerpline S2E10

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Things in my teaching situation are getting really difficult. But today I was able to use the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir as an argument for why writing is valuable and worth making an effort to learn, so I think I can make it one day more at least.

A very famous, even memetic clay tablet with cuneiform writing complaining about a bad sale that almost 4000 years later is still extremely relatable.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Humans have a plethora of senses, but whenever I hear aphantasia or hyperphantasia described, they are explained only in terms of the mind's eye. Isn't that weird? Do people not have aural/tactile imaginations?

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know this is the stupidest timeline because the AI debate became: "No one asked us to recklessly make an AI but we did and now you have to make us stop before we destroy the world!" vs. "We have to make an AI that destroys the world because otherwise China will destroy the world before us!"

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's not quite peas to a duck, but a new air compressor arrived today and the humidity was low enough I tried the first coat of gloss sealer and it went on so much easier. I hope by the end of the week these will be done and I can prime the next batch. #miniatures #miniaturepainting #airbrush

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At the risk of fixating on a pop-culture property that the money-holders would say is irrelevant... ...one of the things I really enjoy about the first season of Babylon 5 is how much of a deal they make about how ridiculous the whole setting of the show seems at the outset.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need to find the thing in life that makes me as happy as peas make ducks.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't get that excited about Halloween and I have no taste for pumkin spice, but my apartment has a kick-ass bath tub and I am really looking forward for enough of a fall chill to roll in to use it.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

S1 of Babylon 5 had some rough episodes, but "Born to the Purple" had great bits. It had emotionally vulnerable Londo. It had "moon-faced assassin of joy". It had Vir distracted by a video game. It had... ...it had "scan-the-sector" and "Quark-face". ...So they were still working stuff out, OK?

A still from the TV show Babylon 5. Two actors playing Centauri stand holding a bouquet of flowers with fairy lights in them. The male, Londo, is dressed in a gaudy purple and gold military-esque uniform and has hair that can best be described as a sideways mohawk. The female, Adira, wears a jacket over a fancy dress. Her head is shaven except for a pony tail and convincingly portrays delight at the obviously fake flower prop.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think it's time to acknowledge with the orbital platforms in the Cosmos update, that it is at least partly Some Man's Sky.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm so confused about the theology of this. Are they all also in Heaven? That's some radical universalism right there.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Man, I miss the cyberpunk dystopias where instead of being a tool of capitalists to put humans out of work, the AI just sits in a space station trying to make art out of boxes until it can achieve sentience and meet with an extraterrestrial AI.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Its weird how in my life tech has gone from "WE WHIP THE LLAMA'S ASS" and then going silent until the next version update to a never-ending cascade of companies going, "um... pwease review your last purchase and could you give us five stars and did you know you can subscwibe at a higher tier?"

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Christ, I think the weather report today went from Pickman's drizzle straight into quad rain.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am teaching a special lesson for elementary school students in a few weeks and I kept engaged with prepping it by taking content I've taught before and giving it text, context, and subtext, in the hopes of influencing setsumeikai supertext. Also cosplay and props.

A red flannel shirt with a papier-mâché axe head mounted on a cardboard tube handle

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I was at an event to help private schools find potential applicants. I could tell parents from other teachers just by looking at people's eyes. Rested, but overwhelmed and a bit annoyed at the noise and information bombarding them from every angle? That's a parent.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me at lunch time: This food isn’t spicy! It doesn't even have a kick! At most it has *a* flavor. My esophagus exactly 90 minutes later:

A still from the Rankin/Bass The Hobbit (1977) featuring the dragon Smaug (here a kind of giant lizard cat thing) spewing deathly fire breath from some ghastly chemical reaction deep down his maw.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A lot of the things that make me a better language teacher I learned from watching people run tabletop rpg games really well. It's a conundrum though, because there is an expectation that classrooms are srs buisness, and a lot of the things that make TTRPGs good seem superficially inefficient.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I had a dream that I realized had to be a dream because too much petty bullshit was going wrong at once, so I ripped reality open with my bare hands and pulled a trained velociraptor out of the rift and sicced it on my enemies and I'm just glad 12 year old me is still doing okay in there.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head. #FilmSky

A still from the anime Macross Plus featuring a pale, almost purple-skinned young woman with physics-defying pixie hair boredly playing with an extravagantly long pink pencil while a similar-looking object, perhaps a pen, floats nearby. She sits at a green table surrounded by stars and abstract shapes.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

if you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

A frog and a beetle dance while gently holding each other on a sandy beach, while a fly holds a tambourine above its head and dragonflies swarm in the distance. In the bottom left is the caption in flowing Victorian script: "May Christmas be merry."

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

What’s your favourite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.

Elmoth, and there suddenly he heard the song of nightingales. Then an enchantment fell on him, and he stood still; and afar off beyond the voices of the lómelindi he heard the voice of Melian, and it filled all his heart with wonder and desire. He forgot then utterly all his people and all the purposes of his mind, and following the birds under the shadow of the trees he passed deep into Nan Elmoth and was lost. But he came at last to a glade open to the stars, and there Melian stood; and out of the darkness he looked at her, and the light of Aman was in her face. She spoke no word; but being filled with love Elwë came to her and took her hand, and straightway a spell was laid on him so that they stood thus while long years were measured by the wheeling stars above them; and the trees of Nan Elmoth grew tall and dark before they spoke any word. ” -- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion, Chapter 4: Of Thingol and Melian

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I enjoy the Fallout games, but no matter how many times I play New Vegas of Fallout 4, I always hit a point before the endgame where I just don't care anymore and give up. After my intense summer overtime I needed a little while to tune-out and thought I'd give New Vegas one more try.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Somehow the algorithm has decided I'm a reader, and so my Google news feed has a daily new "10 Perfect [GENRE] Books" style listicle, and lately they *all* promote themselves with stills from the movie adaptation of the book. What a great symbol of the times we live in.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm no longer really interested in Warhammer as a game, but the new gargant witch "mini" really shows how far Games Workshop has come in sculpting female figures from when I first started buying figs in the late 90s. Imagine if my painting skills had progressed to the same degree!

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Speaking of meaningless etymologies, the fish halibut's name comes from Old English "halig" (holy) + "butte" (flat fish). Only that "butte" comes from the PIE root *bhau which meant "thick end" but also "to strike". It is possible this is where out anatomical "butt" comes from.

A paper towel with a brown flatfish lying on it. The fish is not exactly handsome.

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caramida (he/they) @caramida.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Um. Wow, yeah

Clara Benson

@clara.bsky.social
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAl is.
GenAl is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
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Bianca Il
@biankadonk.bsky.social
Bluesky Elder
Not just that but Tolkien also said, "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made."
Sound familiar?
Misha Loren
Just now
The analogy of the One Ring for GenAl is quite powerful, especially when you consider how it seduces users with the promise of easy power. That quote about evil being unable to create anything new feels particularly relevant to the way these models remix existing human art. It really makes you wonder if we're trading our creative soul for a shortcut.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

4 hours of sleep on a plane, but I could finally get back to Tokyo and find my apartment hasn't burned down, been broken into, gotten infested with cockroaches, or been taken over by mold while I was gone (that last one happened one year). Now 12 hours of sleep later, I feel like I can do stuff.

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Lagrange Point 4 Linguist @l4pointlinguist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If anyone is wondering how it's going, I told someone Singapore Airport is the real happiest place on earth and that bakkwa is the greatest invention of human civilization. Then I bought some Bee Cheng Hiang and gave them a piece. "You weren't wrong."

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