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feels like the cta alert text should win an award for being incredibly badly written, the part about the pink line is whacky:

Pink Line trains connect to Blue Line-Racine station for connecting service to downtown:

Pink line trains will make all stops between 54th/Cermak and Polk stations and then connect to Racine Station where riders will transfer to Blue Line trains for continuing service downtown.
Pink Line riders going to/from Ashland, Morgan, Clinton stations or West Loop transfer to #9/#X9 Ashland buses near either Polk or Racine stations or other north-south bus routes (free transfer when you tap).
For more info about this and related work, visit transitchicago.com/lakebridge

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 16h

i'm curious what instagram knows about me and what changed because suddenly it started showing me extremely gay content when it didn't bother before, and didn't bother literally for years

shirtless man is changing a wheel in the middle of a field and it looks like he has a massive boner in his bike shorts

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 07/10/2026

if you substitute it with kim crawford wine do you turn into this woman?

kelly mantle on the set of her podcast smiling behind the microphone and snapping a finger

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 07/10/2026

he doesn't know he has to go to the vet tomorrow (check-up)

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 07/10/2026

lake forever problems for now

photo of lake michigan around/after sunset from the concrete beach

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 04/10/2026

why is that cyclist swerving and hogging the road the road:

photo of a 3.5 foot diameter pothole that is probably 2" deep

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 03/10/2026

vampire hunter d energy in West Town (except it's daytime)

photo of a church with many domes, various crosses, and made of brick, and the moon visible in the background to the side of the highest dome/cross

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 02/10/2026

The rendering is bad but even when it's good you can see they need to #BuildTheTunnel in Portland too

google earth view looking down the river toward rose quarter, oold town, centered on steel bridge showing train lines having to make multiple turns, and go up and down a fairly substantial bridge all to get in and out of downtown Portland

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 02/10/2026

i deleted a mastodon server, freeing up infrastructure which will float around the saṃsāra and be soon released as a draft internet website demoing the tocharian font i have been working on. it will come with a bonus web 1.0 themed light mode

screenshot from a website showing the working title "how to write tocharian" with some ornate font and navigation bar bedecked with an embroidered pattern, there is also a theme switcher with text in tocharian B reading "lyukemñe" to switch to light mode

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 01/10/2026

Erzya also does this thing where multiple cases can stack on the same noun which functions as a definite noun, occasionally without any additional derivation marker. Some examples from Marianne Bakró-Nagy's (editor) Uralic Languages chapter on Mordvinic languages

screenshot of examples in erzya showing fully glossed sentences:

Кияк эзь сакшно, зярс араселинь? – кевкстнян
кудосотнень
'Nobody came by while I was away, did they? -- I ask those who are at home.'

Ды эрьва чокшне яксинек театрав. Сестэ оперансесь ды
драмансесь ульнесть ве кудосо.
'And every night we went to the theatre. At the time the opera and the drama [theatre] were in the same house.'

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 01/10/2026

I have a few other Uralic language books in Finnish, the cover of this Erzya textbook is super cute. One cool thing about Erzya (but that's not all!), it has a fairly full paradigm of object inflection on verbs, which also agree with the subject.

photo of M.V. Mosin and N.S. Bajuškin's Ersämordvan Oppikirja ("Erzya Textbook"), features a little border with stylized flowers

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 30/09/2026

one of my favorite finds in undergrad was a hungarian textbook written in finnish, learned a good amount of hungarian grammar and it was nice to have a structurally similar language describing it.

Photo of cover: Márta Csepregi's Unkarin Kielioppi

page describing possessive suffixes and case suffix ordering, which differ between Finnish and Hungarian. The page gives examples in both languages and does a little comparative description of Finnish having the structurally original ordering (stem+case+possessive), and Hungarian having multiple orderings (stem+possessive+case, stem+case+possessive) due to newly developed cases coming from postpositions; noting that the original ordering is still present in some places in Hungarian.

The topic would take more effort to explain for a grammar not aimed at Finnish speakers.

Page introing the possessive suffixes of Hungarian, starts out: "In Hungarian, the same as in Finnish..." There is also a tiny note at the top of the page explaining the possessive construction with barely any words

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 30/09/2026

why do at least 80% of left local office candidates look like a WWDITS character

photo of what we do in the shadows tv series cast in costume from the last season

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 30/09/2026

loooootts of people out at da lake still

photo taken from the lakeshore trail of people out running and biking

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 28/09/2026

oh god i forgot these mac netscape icons. this is awakening some deep core memory of the Computer Lab

screenshot of the mac netscape 4.x toolbar from reframe showing the original icons, and apparently i have hamsterdance on my bookmarks-- this also emulates early 00s millennial culture

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 28/09/2026

this is where i post from now

screenshot of retromac faking system 7, I also have netscape gold 3.1 open with a screenshot of bluesky where i am drafting this post

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 28/09/2026

planning to soak up as much mental health sunlight as i possibly can while it's still with us

screenshot from weatherunderground's 10 day forecast showing a lot of sun, daytime highs hovering around 70°F, and only a couple days of rain

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 27/09/2026

my trip is apparently faster even though i have to go very slow

photo taken from the middle of meet me on Milwaukee avenue, the street is closed to cars

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 27/09/2026

these fanmade kanji are great www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JC4...

character for walking while on your smartphone, looks like the character for "to look" but the part that represents the eye is bent down toward the ground

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 26/09/2026

business signs conspicuously not in papyrus

photo of a corner of a building with a sign for "Papyrus Press"

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 26/09/2026

I'm holding stuff for a runner at the bloomingdale 5k (american units: 54 statues of liberty) which is just starting

photo of a bunch of people on a street outside of a colorful building

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 25/09/2026

sorry i was slow to post this but i found your missing red pepper earlier today

photo of the sidewalk with some spray paint on it and a small red obiect

zooming in closer on the small red object

closest zoom reveals a very small red pepper laying on its own on the sidewalk

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 24/09/2026

closing my gofundmes, my throne, my kofi: 'I will not accept any alms as long as I do not drive off false conception and affliction.'

screenshot of a glossed tocharian text from a thing i'm working on showing the sentence: 'mā tot ñiś pintwāt warpalle nesau kossa wāsaṃ kleśanma mā wikäskau.' with grammatical information and translations

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 20/09/2026

no one talks about Chicago's tree frog population ever

photo of a gummy frog stuck to a protective grate at a loop CTA station

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 19/09/2026

improved character spacing is coming along... and filling in the blanks on the website i'm making for this...... the porridge is almost cooked

screenshot of tocharian text in the opentype font i've been working on, from the one about Nandā and Nandabalā and the porridge: https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?m-tht107

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 19/09/2026

found a neat subreddit with a higher level of quality posts. Bonus: learning something of dravidian history www.reddit.com/r/Dravidiolo...

Photo titled "one word for ship, three coasts", showing the word in Tamil for ship /kappal/ connected to Malay /kapal/ and finally Yolŋu Matha in northern Australia with /gabala/. Longer text description and references available at the Reddit link

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 17/09/2026

if you needed that one trailing gloss that was cropped out, it's where things really get grammatically fun

screenshot of the gloss of lkoyentär, läkā- v prs 3pl impf mid 'to see, look'

middle verbs mama

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 16/09/2026

the dimensional gateway at bartelme park is functioning again, the buttons didn't seem to work most of summer

photo of a sculpture that is a series of square metal frames, each is emitting some fine mist and fogging up the area

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 16/09/2026

sample trip far from Helsinki, giving recommendations for public transport + private bus companies

screenshot from matka.fi showing a few travel options

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 16/09/2026

watching someone try to fix their web of lies like

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 16/09/2026

in honor of the tocharian King of the Hill fandub www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNe6...

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 14/09/2026

should be legal to build everywhere

photo of some buildings on a street, one in the center is a tall and thin 4 storey building made of brick with a pointed roof

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 14/09/2026

making a little demo website for the font so i created a tocharian riff on the astro logo for the favicon because why not, and the flame is totally giving inverted candrabindu type of diacritic <ँ>

large and light colored tocharian /a/ vowel with a little pink flame at the bottom

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 12/09/2026

they're really trying to get the gays with this branding, the way i did a doubletake in the freezer aisle

photo of some plant based protein product in bags called TRUVANI

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Ryan 🦇 @pyry.lutefisk.online · 11/09/2026

can't wait to shut down this mastodon server because obviously i haven't given a fuck about maintenance 🤪

screenshot from htop showing in a quirky uncial monospace font:

Tasks: 123, 401 thr; 2 running
Load average: 6.80 4.40 3.37
Uptime: 850 days(!), 09:16:40

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