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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

מיר שרײַבן אויף יידיש 3 טאָג לאַנג אין אַ ביכל. ס׳איז גוט ביז איצט. ס׳דאַכט זיך אַז מיר האָבן איצט אַ טאָגבוך.

Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

just remembered we haven't posted here in a bit we've been making some updates on our latest conlang on our tumblr www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... if anyone wants to see the tl;dr is just it's a lot of work and it's going very slowly #conlang #conlanging

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 18/01/2025

The best places to learn about Tolkien’s conlangs are scrungly websites with bad formatting created in 2004 and never updated since.

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Dillon D. W. J. Hartwig @biskyriznu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Good god, definitely read that whole thread Never figured I'd see the day I gotta jump ship from *all of Google* (or at least not in this decade) but if this clepto AI bullshit ain't undone real quick it might finally be time to look around for less invasive alternatives to all of it

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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Elyse Willems @elysewillems.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Resurfacing this old wisdom imparted by a sage internet denizen of yore, as we embark on this new Bluesky journey together:

"wow you blocked me just cuz I disagreed with you???"

yes. Yes, exactly. This is a social media site. I come here to look at pictures of birds and shit post with my friends. This is not a town hall merging; I am not your elected official. I do not owe you my energy, my space, or my time. You and I are strangers that use the same website. I can block you for literally any reasons and that's okay. Take a deep breath. Block me too. You'll feel better.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/01/2025

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

haven't posted in a while, but we've been working on an indo-european #conlang it's going hellishly (positive and negative) as a preview: here's the 1st and 2nd person pronouns

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This is why when I check in with friends, I apologetically say something like, “You okay? I don’t know where anything is.”

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 09/01/2025

Remain eternally angry that AT LEAST six years ago I started pitching multiple editors about a looming insurance crisis in California and was told it wasn't a real story, or if it was it would affect a small number of people, and even if then, it would be a negligible policy issue.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not what I thought I'd be writing about when I picked the name Torched. Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now www.torched.la/zero-percent...

torched.la

Zero percent containment

Reporting from a city, torched

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

For-profit "health" insurance companies are evil at their core, don't deserve to be around, and have no right to exist. United Healthcare made a doctor scrub out of surgery, to confirm that a patient with breast cancer actually needed the treatment (that they already got "prior authorization" for).

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Yesterday I posted about the Romance words for "to want". Spanish and Portuguese use 'querer' instead of a descendant of Latin *volēre. What would *volēre have become if it had undergone the sound changes that occurred in these two languages? Listen to its hypothetical modern outcomes:

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD. The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget. When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.

Screenshot of LA budget pie chart 2025 with fire at 15.2% and police 43%

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🐕 @aea850856790187.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

But are they gracious enough to share 👉👈

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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

i love going outside and smelling & tasting ash just Los Angeles things apparently

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 08/01/2025

The United States is Too Big. My hometown is going days at a time with no temps above freezing while Los Angeles is actively on fire

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Lizz Porter @lizzporter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We tried telling everyone that it isn't just about trans kids, or just about trans people. They are coming for ALL LGBTQIA people, cis or trans. Far too many pretended the right is mostly targeting gender. That was never the case.

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976-EVIL @phaius.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

These are the kinds of assholes who put up signs along highways bordering their orchards that say "No water = No Food, support farmers!" as if they're a mom and pop farmstand in Modesto.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 08/01/2025

online gambling might be the latest Worst Thing Ever to become widely normalized

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

How it started. How it’s going

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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

our translation of the Tower of Babel story into Werat is complete www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... (sorry for the bad formatting for the gloss on the post, i waffled a lot in how to do it well and just gave up) #conlang #conlanging

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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The fun part of being plural and into linguistics is sometimes you get front-triggered at 2 am by a Syntax paper. Help me.

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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

so we decided to try to translate the Tower of Babel story into Werat because we could progress has been posted on our tumblr www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... #conlang #conlanging

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Camby @cambiae.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Kittygirl, but in a massive wild feline, or big bitch swamp gator kind of way.

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is only possible if a) people actually buy enough books to support authors between books and b) publishers actually pay authors enough for each book that they don't have to immediately shit out the next one So BUY BOOKS and YELL AT CORPORATE PUBLISHING HOUSES

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976-EVIL @phaius.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Whenever I see proposals for "group conlangs", I think:

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Jamin @bpnjohnson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#Lexember is over, but here’s some more Valthungian for you.

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Arcadia "Arcie" Lastname @arcie-lastname.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

fun language fact: you can translate any French word into English and vice versa by applying a few simple substitutions: - vowel with circumflex ↔ vowel + s - word-initial gu ↔ w - word-initial é ↔ s ex: sûr, Guyane, égyptien → susr, Wyane, sgyptien ex: mouse, write, smart → moûe, gurite, émart

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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

truly a #conlang moment when Werat borrows one of our other conlang's /razy/ as /rady~radi/ lmao

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spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

my favorite new fact I've learned recently is that Grand Teton (the mountain) is most likely named after the French phrase "grand téton," meaning something like "big tiddy"

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norn noszka @nornnoszka.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You gotta make art that sucks in order to make art that fucks

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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is a belief I strongly have: I can't trust a critic who hates everything.

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Best parts of being sick: 1. 2. 3. And last but not least: 4.

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 05/01/2025

קײנער: ק ײ נ ע ר: איך, שושקענדיק: שטערנשיף ענטערפּרײַז

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rowan @schachar.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

‪saw this comment on a video of someone giving a rat a bath. #conlang

Who up washing they rat? Written in Vichspecan.

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 28/04/2024

D&D: We based our elves on Tolkien, they like nature and shit. Tolkien:

Never Ask A Woman
Her Age
A Man, His Salary
The Noldor, What happened on the shores of Alqualonde in the Year of the Trees 1495

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

As ever, the loss of something good and useful for Americans is framed as a loss for Democrats — in the mass media, everything becomes just a political football to be kicked back and forth instead of examined for its impact on everyday citizens regardless of political party.

Text:
Help Desk
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In blow to Democrats, federal appeals court strikes down net neutrality
The Biden administration's FCC had considered its reinstatement of the rules on internet service providers a signature accomplishment.
Updated today at 3:46 p.m. EST
5 min →
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C. Buck (supposed to be writing) @tlacamazatl.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

#conlang @dedalvs.bsky.social "it's an older meme, sir, but it checks out"

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Ouroboros System @ouroborosys.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

מיר דאַרפֿן רעדן אױפֿן ייִדיש מער, אָבער עס איז שװער צו דענקען װעגן זאַכן.

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