LoftyWords
@loftywords.bsky.social
marxist ragamuffin | erstwhile philosophy student | current philosophy degree have-er | she/they | 🇳🇱 🇹🇷
roomfie came down with some kind of plague so we've been in all day and she's coaching me on how to do a cork accent
![STOP DOING "PROPER" ENUNCIATION
- PRONUNCIATION IS NOT MEANT TO BE RECEIVED
- YEARS OF SAYING WORDS yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for DISTINCT CONSONANTS
- Want something to go beyond vowels anyways? There's a tool for that: it's called "GLOTTAL STOPS"
- "Can I fill my /ˌhɒt ˈwɔːtə bɒtl/ please?" "Sorry the store was out of /ˈbʌtə(r)/" - Statements made up by people who listen to BBC 4
LOOK what English teachers have been demanding your Respect for all this time (This is REAL Language, done by Real Linguists)
[picture of IPA chart] | [soundwave spoken sentence] | BBC Radio 4 In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg
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"Hello I would like a cup of /ˌhɒt ˈtʃɒklət/ please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wh6xssqrag4sqko26tfu4idx/bafkreiescvooc7okurneqdu3su5pjr5m3z4t3jjdqfznjfp363nye5gyby@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
roomfie came down with some kind of plague so we've been in all day and she's coaching me on how to do a cork accent
leonardo da vinci themed monster
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
leonardo da vinci themed monster
few movies brave enough to ask: what if the fruit themed samurai was a car, and what if the car themed samurai was an orange
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
few movies brave enough to ask: what if the fruit themed samurai was a car, and what if the car themed samurai was an orange
explaining to my friend how i learnt to use an FTP client to transfer ISOs to my ps3
December 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
explaining to my friend how i learnt to use an FTP client to transfer ISOs to my ps3
great new argument for climate justice just dropped:
"we should have countries pay for the costs of addressing climate change proportionate to how much CO2 they emitted, much like all of us would divide up the plumber's bill by the proportion of hair each housemate has gotten stuck in the drain"
"we should have countries pay for the costs of addressing climate change proportionate to how much CO2 they emitted, much like all of us would divide up the plumber's bill by the proportion of hair each housemate has gotten stuck in the drain"
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
great new argument for climate justice just dropped:
"we should have countries pay for the costs of addressing climate change proportionate to how much CO2 they emitted, much like all of us would divide up the plumber's bill by the proportion of hair each housemate has gotten stuck in the drain"
"we should have countries pay for the costs of addressing climate change proportionate to how much CO2 they emitted, much like all of us would divide up the plumber's bill by the proportion of hair each housemate has gotten stuck in the drain"
scenes like this are why i keep watching kamen rider movies
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
scenes like this are why i keep watching kamen rider movies
upon hearing that the orbital weapons platform has consciousness, Kisaragi Gentarou has decided that the next course of action should be to befriend it
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
upon hearing that the orbital weapons platform has consciousness, Kisaragi Gentarou has decided that the next course of action should be to befriend it
Every time you read about the history of AI:
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Every time you read about the history of AI:
putting my clothes for the week in the washing machine
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
putting my clothes for the week in the washing machine
"imagine a hypothetical impenetrable barrier along a state border" is one of these tell-me-you're-a-philosopher-without-telling-me-you're-a-philosopher type sentences. apparently this kind of nonsense is what passes for conceptual clarification these days
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"imagine a hypothetical impenetrable barrier along a state border" is one of these tell-me-you're-a-philosopher-without-telling-me-you're-a-philosopher type sentences. apparently this kind of nonsense is what passes for conceptual clarification these days
I'm a big fan of "The kantharos [van Stevensweert] is a cup of around half a kilo that wrote legal history" as a sentence
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanthar...
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanthar...
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm a big fan of "The kantharos [van Stevensweert] is a cup of around half a kilo that wrote legal history" as a sentence
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanthar...
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanthar...
cool birthday gift from @nabnabs.plus.dog
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
cool birthday gift from @nabnabs.plus.dog
It's my birthday today :)
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It's my birthday today :)
it would be a bit of contrarianism on my part but i'm not exactly lying. i just don't like shin kamen rider very much and watching this made me happy :)
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
it would be a bit of contrarianism on my part but i'm not exactly lying. i just don't like shin kamen rider very much and watching this made me happy :)
and the titular King Dark
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
and the titular King Dark
Five Riders vs. King Dark (1974)
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Five Riders vs. King Dark (1974)
i'm willing to argue that the 2005 reboot movie is better than shin kamen rider because instead of giving us long exposition about hongo's cyborg modifications it just does this
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
i'm willing to argue that the 2005 reboot movie is better than shin kamen rider because instead of giving us long exposition about hongo's cyborg modifications it just does this
anime is fun bc it can simultaneously by about a hetero love triangle while also being very gay
October 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
anime is fun bc it can simultaneously by about a hetero love triangle while also being very gay
why fix something that isn't broken
October 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
why fix something that isn't broken
it's so funny how gay kamen rider is on average
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
it's so funny how gay kamen rider is on average
fun dutch election graph: how many election promises violate dutch constitutional law, broken down by party. I'm sure this doesn't portent anything bad for our democracy
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
fun dutch election graph: how many election promises violate dutch constitutional law, broken down by party. I'm sure this doesn't portent anything bad for our democracy