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Matea

@mmtea.bsky.social
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she/her, ona linguistics student and math/compsci fan stop arming israel🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Study Association TWIST @studieverenigingtwist.nl · 1h
meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow
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Lizstar @lizstar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A ferret, a mink, a stoat, and a weasel are starting up a new band called Weezel
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 05/10/2026
This is so cool and I understand the diaphragm better now!
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
An edit of the “all marriage is gay marriage” comic.

The figure on the right, holding a game controller, asks: “What’s your opinion on sign language?”
An edited-in image of Ferdinand de Saussure, on the left, replies: “As far as I’m concerned, all language is “sign” language.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-…
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(Bluesky's character limit for ALT text is *just slightly* too short to accommodate a full page of text, which continues to be a tremendous annoyance. If they'd just kick it up from 2000 to 2500 it would fit every time!)
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tanze bravopueblo / w.s. healed @tattletale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
more sports stories should be about losing. most people watching any sporting event are fans of one of the teams that loses. most people love a team that loses. why is so much sports media about the winners?
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(the situation in question being explaining english stress minimal pairs with very questionable pairs of words)
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think it's very funny to see former classmates texting about a situation happening in class back in leiden only for the same thing to happen in my class in leeuwarden a couple hours later
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The Journal of Immaterial Science @immaterialscience.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An article examining under what conditions you could do NMR spectroscopy on a human. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/humannmr
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spontaneous symmetry breakdance @t8erboi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Maybe "πολύτροπος" should just be translated as "polytropic". Odysseus's density is related to his pressure by a power law.
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
and variants for each with up and down arrows... unicode 18.0 really is a treat
A screenshot of some of the new unicode characters added in 18.0, highlighted in yellow.
Stein zimmerman quarter-tone accidentals
1D1EB MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF SHARP = quarter tone sharp
1D1EC MUSICAL SYMBOL ONE AND A HALF SHARP = three-quarter tone sharp
1D1ED MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT = quarter tone flat
1D1EE MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT AND FLAT = three-quarter tone flat
1D1EF MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF SHARP UP
1D1F0 MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF SHARP DOWN
1D1F1 MUSICAL SYMBOL ONE AND A HALF SHARP UP
1D1F2 MUSICAL SYMBOL ONE AND A HALF SHARP DOWN
1D1F3 MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT UP
1D1F4 MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT DOWN
1D1F5 MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT AND FLAT UP
1D1F6 MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT AND FLAT DOWN
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
happy U+1D1EB MUSICAL SYMBOL HALF SHARP U+1D1EC MUSICAL SYMBOL ONE AND A HALF SHARP U+1D1ED MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT U+1D1EE MUSICAL SYMBOL REVERSED FLAT AND FLAT to those who celebrate
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
by the way
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(sorry the t of t͡ʃ is indeed supported of course. i guess it still fails if you consider it a single character/digraph)
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i will definitely keep this in mind because it does hit most of my criteria but it does unfortunately not pass the stress test for even the most common of ipa characters
a selection of IPA characters in Vollkorn typeface: the text reads "eaɜŋɴɻʁʊt͡ʃʜɪ̈ɟj".

the characters ɜ and ɴɻʁʊt͡ʃʜɪ̈ɟ are highlighted in red; red handwritten text underneath says "noto serif"
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
so unfortunately i have to update the post: what do you mean there's no open-source serif typeface that has full IPA support and also looks good *and also has support for polytonic greek (and ideally cyrillic as well)*
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i posted this five months ago and since then i have found out about fonts.google.com/specimen/Anc...
fonts.google.com
UNAL Ancizar Serif - Google Fonts
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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i feel this in my bones
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i should start posting on here again while i'm busy taking classes on things i've done before
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
i'm suffering so much what do you mean there's no open source serif typeface that has full ipa support and also looks good.
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
well after three plasma donations of which one one was successful i'm back on blood
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
shoutouts studentenov for allowing me to justify a 6 hour return trip to leiden to have tea with my former classmates every friday
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/07/2026
Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/
Comic. [Latitude and longitude lines squeezing Earth.] [caption: Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth’s latitude and longitude lines in the wash.]
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 17/06/2026
New on the blog: How not to use "AI" (workshop) ideophone.org/how-not-to-u... > In a time when it seems impossible to escape talk of the endless “opportunities” and “possibilities” of using “AI”, in this workshop we take a step back and think about how NOT to use it.
ideophone.org
How not to use “AI” (workshop)
The mirage of "AI" reaches us through a narrative centered on inevitability, productivity, and efficiency. It is therefore at loggerheads…
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
ok who says that last one
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
also also for the record i barely ever see elevators (and people) calling the ground floor the zeroth floor. you generally just call it the equivalent of ground floor and denote it with a letter instead of a number.
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
for slovak it's the first afterstairplace, second afterstairplace and so on. the ground floor is the neargroundplace.
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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Pretty (and) dramatic skies 🌩️ over Leiden
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 12/06/2026
hey everyone! i just came up with a neat new tone tag for when something you say is up to journalistic standards and would hold up to any kind of rigor it's /j for journalism! i hope this helps someone today 🥰
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
so excited for some of these changes!!
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GB Hajim @gbhajim.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Does the dance of this Goldrim Flatworm (Pseudoceros paralaticlavus) help ease your worried mind?
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
switching because i have been there three times and three times i have been turned away.
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
submitted my request to switch from donating blood to plasma. or should i say. attempting to donate blood.
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
eda typing on two laptops on top of each other
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
laptop squared? more like cirlce
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
hi @minimalpear.bsky.social
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
make your own post
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
dnf
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
this is great. i'm going to get a good grade from gravity bong school, which is both reasonable to want and possible to achieve,
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
this is great. i'm going to get a good grade from analysis and synthesis of speech, which is both reasonable to want and possible to achieve,
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
why would she say this chat
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
when is it my turn on the cig
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
bingo
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
would you rather have a tanyao son or a thirteen orphans daughter
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Vinny ★ @vinqou.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
happy mar10 :] I drawd my boygirlfriend
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Matea @mmtea.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
clearly i only lost because my forearm is like 10cm long
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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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courtesy.bsky.social @courtesy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Portal comic. Currently Wheatley is on the mainframe and GLaDOS is a potato.
Wheatley: Look, for the record, I'm just saying that I THINK that within the next 2 years. AI will have replaced most major pollinators.
GLaDOS: ...Just keep pretending to ignore him, he'll probably...
The text on Chell's shirt: Agreed. We should ignore him.
GLaDOS: Are... you? Doing that? On purpose? With your shirt?
The shirt: No, I am the shirt. Please don't let the person wearing me know I can do this.GLaDOS (to Chell): Hey, I need you to lift me up so I can get a good view of your upper torso. For... normal reasons.
Chell complies.
GLaDOS: Thanks.
The shirt: You really know how to talk to the ladies!
GLaDOS: Come on.
The shirt: Anyways. Want to know my deal? I'm the ghost of Cave Johnson. Told the lab boys to make me immortal. Didn't say how.
GLaDOS (shorting out in surprise): WHAT???
The shirt: Hahahaha. No I'm fucking with you.GLaDOS (to Wheatley): Hey, you up there!
Wheatley: Hah, are you finally gonna admit I'm right?
GLaDOS: No, I need you to look at the human's shirt. And tell me what it says.
Wheatley: ...That's a trick question innit.
GLaDOS: No, I actually want to know.
Wheatley: You're trying to make me stare at a woman's chest so I look sexist.
GLaDOS: I'm asking you an actual question.
Wheatley: I've never done it, ever. Don't even know what they have there. Never will, because I'm not sexist. Or maybe this is an advanced ploy to make it look like I can't read. I can, I mean I do, so much. Love books. Been reading the Odyssey. Not sure if you know that one, but I'm already on the part with his son...
GLaDOS: That's the start of the book.
Wheatley: SHUT UP!!!!! SHUT!!!! UP!!!!
Chell looks down at her shirt to see the text says "get ketchup on me for twenty extra points".
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Adult Human Puppygirl @k-effective.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
hop on frozen mixed berries
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