DialMforMara @DialMforMara@octodon.social
Freelance linguist, knitter, MtG and Pokemon Go enthusiast. Introvert with good PR. Loves a good book. She/her.
Main account is dialmformara@wandering.shop
The best student protest I probably took part in went like this: Show more
a non-human entity trying to deduce the internet's creator species purely from research papers juuust might get the wrong idea...
I am out of clean tee shirts and have no idea what's for dinner and I'm absolutely an adult.
@Richard_ermen Thank you. I'll pass your sentiments on to the author :)
@jdb I think I have. Thank you :)
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/why-no-longer-watch-the-vlogbrothers
Earlier this year my sister and I felt the need to distance ourselves from a community that had been a big part of our identities. She's just written a great piece about what happened.
First of May, first stab at the #DailySketchChallenge. This is my library. https://octodon.social/media/KvwOuoFiftcdndra_fU
@WritingPrompts didn't Jack Chick already do that one? No offense.
mentalhealth latenight deepthoughts Show more
Happy #mayday, Mastodon.
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My girlfriend ( @DialMforMara ) is VERY happy that the save icon here is a 'Florrpy Disk" @chr
@tetron is Reddit a better comparison? Not being an IRC denizen, it was what my brain first compared federation to.
@shel I know the feeling. I've got a D&D character in reserve for whenever is the next time I get to play.
@stylus I also recommend the Chanur saga by C. J. Cherryh, and the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold (especially the ones about Elli Quin and Ekaterin). I would hesitate to recommend Anne McCaffrey unless you love dragons more than you love LGBT representation.
@stylus @vernepator_cur Besides The Story of Your Life, and other stories from the collection I found it in, another good Ted Chiang piece is his essay for the New Yorker on uninventing Chinese characters.
@vernepator_cur @stylus Nnedi Okorafor is amazing. Liu Cixin (what I've read) is depressing. @ann_leckie liks all the breds. (That's a compliment.)
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Going to be streaming Deus Ex: Human Revolution, lore and discussion of transhumanism shortly at twitch.tv/canageek #Transhumanism #Streaming
