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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 51m

I am not the biggest fan of Amazon tablets, but an 8" Fire HD kids tablet for 53% off with additional 20% off for trading in an old e-waste model?

With 1 years subscription to Amazon Kids+?

That's a pretty good deal: £56. The subscription alone is £5 pm

The 8th gen model is painfully slow

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1h

"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will send you out to fish for people"

Peter elbowed Andrew in the ribs and pointed towards Jesus, "Do you know that guy?"

"Yeah, he's been following us"

"So he follows us, now he wants us to follow him?"

"I guess so," Andrew shrugged.

"seems a bit much"

Sichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 3h

how do we feel about polite requests for following, following back/ i rarely do this to be honest and i have no strict criteria for following other than whimsical fancy or a good interaction but whining at me is not the way to get me to do it?

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 2h

Good joke, really strung me along there

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 2h

Bit of a jump between stage 4 and stage 5

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 2h

Behold the epic tale of Beowulf and his word hoard

Drēam wæs on sprǣce,
cynd weaxende, hwǣr wordhord hwearf eft on hine selfne.
Nalles ūte brǣdende, ac innan bebugende,
cyrrende tō ieldran sprǣce.
Swā nū-tīma Englisc bīgð eft tō eald Englisc,
ond se hring worda wendeð āwa.

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Translated

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Drēamende be ʘan āclūsod sprǣcra weaxunge.

Næs hit āwa ūte brǣdende, ac hwearf eft on hine selfne, cyrrende tō ieldran sprǣce; swā þæt nū-tīma Englisc bīgð eft tō Eald Englisc, and se hring ānfealdlīce onginð nīwe be ǣfre.

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Dreaming of a closèd-loop of speeche’s growth.

In steede of ever spreadyng forth, it turneth back upon itself, returning to a more auncient tongue; so that our moderne Englishe boweth once more toward the elder Englishe, and the circle reneweth itself.

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Dreaming of closed-loop language evolution

Instead of ever branching outward, it slowly turns back upon itself, returning to an earlier tongue; so that modern English bends again toward Old English, and the cycle repeats.

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Dreaming of a closèd-loop of speeche’s growth.

In steede of ever spreadyng forth, it turneth back upon itself, returning to a more auncient tongue; so that our moderne Englishe boweth once more toward the elder Englishe, and the circle reneweth itself.

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Dreaming of closed-loop language evolution

Instead of ever branching outward, it slowly turns back upon itself, returning to an earlier tongue; so that modern English bends again toward Old English, and the cycle repeats.

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

Dreaming of closed loop language evolution

instead of continuous branching out it gradually returns to a previous version, so modern english trending back to Old English and the cycle repeating

Old works in vogue again, neologisms rediscovered, a continuous corpus

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Dreaming of closed-loop language evolution

Instead of ever branching outward, it slowly turns back upon itself, returning to an earlier tongue; so that modern English bends again toward Old English, and the cycle repeats.

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 1d

Dreaming of closed loop language evolution

instead of continuous branching out it gradually returns to a previous version, so modern english trending back to Old English and the cycle repeating

Old works in vogue again, neologisms rediscovered, a continuous corpus

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 3h

Fabricius is an unfortunate name for a journalist

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 10h

Not hopping here but you can see where the name comes from

They hop from rock to rock in rivers wagging their tails all the while

youtube.com/shorts/MjujW...

Mountain wagtail #shorts #birds

YouTube video by Capturing the World with P-J and Ash

youtube.com

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 11h

Have you seen wagtails though?

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 13h

yeah...

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 13h

The impressive bit in retrospect was how I as an 8-ish year old was able to order chemicals over the phone and have them delivered to my door and run multiple unsupervised experiments with it (my parents did supervise the first few I'm sure)

Plus, I didn't have a fume cupboard

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 13h

Super fun reaction. It burn and creates a green volcano of its own. Took some to school, ran the experiment. No explosion if that's what you're hoping for, but I (unjustly) didn't win first place. Every other volcano was some vinegar and bicarb or other mediocre reaction. Mine had real pizazz

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 13h

Went through the yellow pages to find a chemical supplies shop. Phoned them and found out if they stocked this. They gave me a price and I asked my parents. Can't recall how it was paid for in those days but they delivered it to our door in a nice big jar

Ran multiple "dry runs" at home

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 13h

reddit post about a 10yo who created a volcano using gunpowder - 17 injured

reminded me tho when I as a 7/8yo had read about Ammonium Dichromate in a reference book and filed the fact away. We were then tasked to build a volcano and I thought "I know just the stuff!"

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 14h

voici

philarchive.org/rec/SINPG

Neil Sinhababu, Possible girls - PhilArchive

I argue that if David Lewis’ modal realism is true, modal realists from different possible worlds can fall in love with each other. I offer a method for uniquely picking out ...

philarchive.org

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 14h

thebe stalks

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 14h

so new pair of shoes every month or what?

Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 14h

The lack of XOR strikes again

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 17h

No, you may not have quotation marks

Here's a second helping of Spanish for asking

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 17h

Related: novels that just threw in another language like everyone would be familiar. Older novels did this with French

Cormac did it more recently with Spanish. Reading it with my phone camera perched above and google lens auto translating the way he intended it to be read

norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 18h

remember how novels used to just have random song lyrics inserted in them as regular text

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 17h

Anthropic? The AI company?

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 20h

In Afrikaans, the word for "potato" is "aardappel" lit. "earth apple". And of course, French "pomme de terre", "apple of the earth"

So. Jot that down.

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