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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 3d

Notable entries being "I am not a person (I'm three possums in a coat)" and "Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat".

Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 3d

I really love the extremely tiny sub-genre of modern folk music that involves non-human things pretending to be people.

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 4d

It suddenly occurs to me that this would be an excellent justification for "just trying to communicate with the eldritch abomination leads to madness and death". They weren't trying to hurt you, it's just that their natural communication system triggers seizures in a significant number of humans....

Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 4d

!!EPILEPSY WARNING!!
youtu.be/iQKuozwaSsM
I managed to synthesize the complete 2-segment word list for Fyrefly A. So if I can get the translation done, I might actually manage to submit something for the Cursed #Conlang Circus on time!

Fyrefly A - 2-segment word list

YouTube video by Logan Kearsley

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 4d

If you think "ew, that's a really disgusting shade of yellow", take heart in the fact that standard digital color displays made for humans are actually incapable of producing the correct spectral distribution, and it would probably look better in real life.

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 4d

!!EPILEPSY WARNING!!
youtu.be/iQKuozwaSsM
I managed to synthesize the complete 2-segment word list for Fyrefly A. So if I can get the translation done, I might actually manage to submit something for the Cursed #Conlang Circus on time!

Fyrefly A - 2-segment word list

YouTube video by Logan Kearsley

youtu.be

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 9d

Just popped in to my head. Wasn't even dreaming about Dune...

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 9d

The sleeper has awakened! Earlier than he wanted to...

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 11d

Ah, but black hole stars can only form in near-zero metallicity environments, so they cannot in fact be suns!

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Reposted by Logan R. Kearsley

Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 11d

one of the darkest pieces of spec fic I've ever read:

97-Year-Old Dies Unaware Of Being Violin Prodigy

ROCKFORD, IL—Retired post office branch manager Nancy Hollander, 97, died at her home of natural causes Tuesday, after spending her life completely unaware that she was one of the most talented musici...

theonion.com

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Reposted by Logan R. Kearsley

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 11d

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 12d

After spending a long time designing digital radio protocols, working on ethernet interfaces is making me anxious about profligate network protocols are with bits. 14 whole bytes for an ethernet header!? Duplicating MAC addresses ARP messages? What decadence!

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 12d

I first read this as referring to autism, and was about to be really mad. But it's actually about literal masks on your face.

Olivia- COVID resources in bio @o-bel.bsky.social · 13d

Shoutout to my fellow maskers!

colorful star motifs surround black text reading “if you’re still masking, you’re making the world a better and safer place for everyone. Oliviabelknaptherapy”

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 13d

Today I Learned: If you attach an Android device to an ethernet connection, it will repeatedly perform ARP scans of your entire subnet range.

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 13d

It's going to be very difficult to convince future generations that the phrase "trumped-up charges" did not, in fact, originate as a reference to Donald. #linguistics #etymology