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bluesky fucked up the link so here it is again:
www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-clong

מיר שרײַבן אויף יידיש 3 טאָג לאַנג אין אַ ביכל. ס׳איז גוט ביז איצט. ס׳דאַכט זיך אַז מיר האָבן איצט אַ טאָגבוך.

just remembered we haven't posted here in a bit
we've been making some updates on our latest conlang on our tumblr www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... if anyone wants to see

the tl;dr is just it's a lot of work and it's going very slowly

#conlang #conlanging

it wasn't abt Biblaridion, no

these are some fun words/affixes

The best places to learn about Tolkien’s conlangs are scrungly websites with bad formatting created in 2004 and never updated since.

Good god, definitely read that whole thread

Never figured I'd see the day I gotta jump ship from *all of Google* (or at least not in this decade) but if this clepto AI bullshit ain't undone real quick it might finally be time to look around for less invasive alternatives to all of it

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

"wow you blocked me just cuz I disagreed with you???" yes. Yes, exactly. This is a social media site. I come here to look at pictures of birds and shit post with my friends. This is not a town hall merging; I am not your elected official. I do not owe you my energy, my space, or my time. You and I are strangers that use the same website. I can block you for literally any reasons and that's okay. Take a deep breath. Block me too. You'll feel better.

Resurfacing this old wisdom imparted by a sage internet denizen of yore, as we embark on this new Bluesky journey together:

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

before anyone asks based on the 2nd person singular: it's not Germanic

haven't posted in a while, but we've been working on an indo-european #conlang
it's going hellishly (positive and negative)

as a preview: here's the 1st and 2nd person pronouns

Είμαστε οι Ούροι.

also sidenote: i think it's really funny that everyone who tries making our system name into a nickname uses some variant of "Ouro" or "the Ouros"

sometimes the autism helps lol, sometimes

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

This is why when I check in with friends, I apologetically say something like, “You okay? I don’t know where anything is.”

the texture's bad [autism moment]

Remain eternally angry that AT LEAST six years ago I started pitching multiple editors about a looming insurance crisis in California and was told it wasn't a real story, or if it was it would affect a small number of people, and even if then, it would be a negligible policy issue.

a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

Zero percent containment Reporting from a city, torched

Not what I thought I'd be writing about when I picked the name Torched.

Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now

www.torched.la/zero-percent...

For-profit "health" insurance companies are evil at their core, don't deserve to be around, and have no right to exist.

United Healthcare made a doctor scrub out of surgery, to confirm that a patient with breast cancer actually needed the treatment (that they already got "prior authorization" for).

Yesterday I posted about the Romance words for "to want".

Spanish and Portuguese use 'querer' instead of a descendant of Latin *volēre.

What would *volēre have become if it had undergone the sound changes that occurred in these two languages?

Listen to its hypothetical modern outcomes:

yeah it makes you waste away if you drink it too late :\

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.

For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD.

The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.

When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.

you can have our portion, we don't like mac n' cheese

But are they gracious enough to share 👉👈