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aka @amancalledprak - I like tabletop RPGs, housing law and overthinking genre fiction. #MeFite
@joshmillard My guess is it's (for me) something to do with memory function. I used to get very strong déjà vu and a sort of jamais vu like dissociative experience where I couldn't experience the connections between moments in time (while still understanding them conceptually). Synaesthetic impressions have the same quality to them: a sense of "snagging" the same part of my mind. I wonder if dyspraxia (with poor working but excellent long-term memory) makes me more prone to it.
@jalefkowit As someone with both depression and dyspraxia, I find this particularly hilarious. :D
Everybody! I have solved the "Chicken or Egg" paradox!
Allow me to crudely sketch out this historic proof on my phone.
@Angle @infini That seems right. It reminds me of how much of my news and current affairs understanding and awareness is derived from Metafilter. For non-MeFites, a good first step might just be if someone curates a list of the good Metafilter current affairs posts and comments (they're not all equally enlightening, by any means) as they appear on the site. It would only be a small step, but it could be a positive one.
@joshmillard I think it's the orange against the red, in context regularity of the lines, primarily, that makes it satisfying to me. I get a hint of synaesthesia with some visual things. This gives me a sense of the crunch of celery. Doubt that makes any sense but thanks for inducing it!
@mykola Absolutely. The circumscription of that universe isn't, to me, any sort of bug, it's pretty much the killer feature.
I'll say this: choosing an instance is not just about the domain name, it's about do you trust the admin and what is this instance culture and _how does this instance enact that culture_, and circumscribing a non-toxic universe is a perfectly valid way to define a culture.
@joshmillard I'm really enjoying looking at that red. It's a very satisfying shade.
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Interlacing Menger sponges in oils. Penciled two sponges on, laid down stripes of drafting tape, painted this first layer with one sponge and background (all in cadmiums), peeled. Now to let it dry for a week or so and then tape the painted bits and do the other sponge in blues in the gaps.
@ljpg Splish, splash and/or splosh!
It's that time of year in the West Country when you get lulled into thinking that summer has come and will last for months, forgetting that Glastonbury festival happens in June and that the gods won't pass up the chance to soak a student just because you like barbecues.
@bgm Lies! You're *terrible* at Twitter. </hamburger>
I've just started reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It's been a very long time since I've read a novel. A few pages in, it's nice! What are you reading? #readinglist
I refuse to get over the fact that you could be lucky enough to live at this intersection in Manhattan in a beautiful, historic neighborhood that looks like the set of the Great Gatsby.
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the wonderful witches of witches.town have introduced me to the glyph ꙮ
it is "multiocular O", a variant of Cyrillic O that is used in certain religious texts in a phrase that translates to "many-eyed seraphim" and basically nowhere else
I honestly am having a hard time thinking of a single witchier Unicode character unless the Leviathan cross is hidden somewhere in the codeplanes
@koos I suppose a large enough poncho might be an option. But I don't know what the cultural semiotics of wearing a poncho and nothing else are, beyond communicating a bracingly determined rejection of societal norms.
Folks who are missing a "translate" feature on mastodon. Install the Google Translate app on your phones or extension on your browsers.
It's not great, but better than nothing!
In the browser (google chrome): https://octodon.social/media/MYBuSgPqmHO6PHXlQJ8
@infini I think there is a cognitive bias towards overestimating our control over events on national and global scales. It's easy to focus lots of energy on distant abstractions rather than where we make a substantial positive difference.
National and global events aren't unimportant, obviously, but I reckon we make the biggest difference to them via the specific issues where we have direct influence. So gathering lots of information that isn't very relevant to that is probably inefficient.
@infini Yes. I think for the majority of us, current levels of news consumption are probably a net negative. Most people who are active in contributing to positive goals are consuming as much as we need to as a direct result of that activity. Trying to suck down everything else out of some sense of responsibility is an emotionally draining timesink.
