Month: January 2016

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justice-turtle:

useless-swedenfacts:

my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina

in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag

but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:

“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????

“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking eat someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullshit language 

oh my god that would be so useful for slash porn, why have not english-speaking fanfic writers borrowed this yet

get on that ^_^

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#language

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sinesalvatorem:

brin-bellway:

sinesalvatorem:

I am amused to see a bunch of posts saying “tag 12 followers…” in my social sphere, because

Like,

The 12 is a lie. The OP that I got the meme from said “20”. It just so happens that, when I wrote my entry, I only thought of 12 people to tag off the top of my head.

Then I thought “Should I look at my follower list? Why? Because a meme told me to? HA! I am an independent black woman and I don’t need no meme tellin me what to do.” And I snapped my fingers three times to level up my inner goddess.

And now there are a bunch of people using something that I pulled out of my arse as if it had been declared by G-d Himself. I’m no long sure whether my name is ‘Alexander Hamilton’ or ‘Moses’.

…are you okay? The level of superiority oozing off this post is really out of character for you.

I’m not sure whether the problem is with the sender or the receiver, but clearly at least one of us is fucked up right now.

Oh nooooo. I’m not sure whether this means I should have just avoided the joke to begin with, or been more ridiculously over-the-top to make sure it would be interpreted as a joke. It’s very distressing to learn that I landed in the uncanny valley of unironic superiority. Should I just delete this?

“I’m not sure whether this means I should have just avoided the joke to begin with, or been more ridiculously over-the-top to make sure it would be interpreted as a joke.”

Hmm. Assessing it from that viewpoint, I think the main problem is that you didn’t use your “not serious” tag. I mean, if we start from the assumption that it’s not going to have that tag, you could maybe have compensated by adding more over-the-top-ness, but as I understand it “making sure it’s 100% clear a jokingly mean post was not genuinely mean, in case it turns out to be insufficiently over-the-top on its own” is that tag’s main purpose (or one of its main purposes, anyway).

“Should I just delete this?”

I’m not sure how much that would accomplish? I think if I were you, I would edit the post’s tags to add the “not serious” tag and a commentary tag explaining that the “not serious” tag was originally missing. That would probably minimise both distress and confusion among people catching up later.

(I just remembered that in the tags of your reply, you referred to confusion as one of the reactions people might have to the OP. When I say “and confusion”, I’m referring to the possibility of latecomers finding taken-seriously reblogs of an OP that either A: doesn’t exist, or B: said explicitly in its tags that it was joking, depending on which of those you did.)

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#reply via reblog

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sinesalvatorem:

I am amused to see a bunch of posts saying “tag 12 followers…” in my social sphere, because

Like,

The 12 is a lie. The OP that I got the meme from said “20”. It just so happens that, when I wrote my entry, I only thought of 12 people to tag off the top of my head.

Then I thought “Should I look at my follower list? Why? Because a meme told me to? HA! I am an independent black woman and I don’t need no meme tellin me what to do.” And I snapped my fingers three times to level up my inner goddess.

And now there are a bunch of people using something that I pulled out of my arse as if it had been declared by G-d Himself. I’m no long sure whether my name is ‘Alexander Hamilton’ or ‘Moses’.

…are you okay? The level of superiority oozing off this post is really out of character for you.

I’m not sure whether the problem is with the sender or the receiver, but clearly at least one of us is fucked up right now.

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#or ‘was fucked up at the start’ I guess #I mean definitely I’m fucked up *now* #because *damn* does this hit my ‘following rules is against the rules’ buttons #eventually I managed to come up with a reasonably polite phrasing for this post #the original had a lot more swearing and italics #reply via reblog

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ilzolende:

Name: Ilzolende “Ilzo” Kiefer

Tagged by: @sinesalvatorem, @arbitrarilychosen, @ozymandias271

Sign: I think the last time I had to make up a name for myself in ASL it was the computer symbol, but with my first initial instead of the letter “c”. So, for your purposes, IIRC, my right hand forming the letter “I” and bouncing along my left arm. Alternately, the image in my sidebar.

Height: 4’11”, 5’ if I puff up my hair and wear bulky shoes and smile at the measurer.

Average hours of sleep: No comment.

Lucky number: Sm0lzolende liked reciting powers of two.

Last thing Googled: “metal laf”

Number of blankets I sleep with: 1 blanket and 1 duvet.

Favourite fictional character: The Bell template from @luminousalicorn

Favourite book: Off Armageddon Reef?

What are you wearing right now: Jeans, button-down blouse (I think I wore this one to Solstice), bathrobe.

When did I start this blog: 2015-01

Amount of followers: 302

What do I post mostly: School stuff, morally iffy speciesism, website aesthetics, generic somewhat angry transhumanism.

Do I run any more blogs? [soon-to-be-deleted failed sideblog], ilzolende.neocities.org (which has much of the content of the failed sideblog), my Diaspora*.

Most active follower: @sinesalvatorem talks to me the most, @brin-bellway likes lots of my stuff.

What made me get a Tumblr: Wanting to interact with cool rationalists.

Why did I get this URL: Picking a name from my list of Rinkworks-generated PC names for tabletop gaming that had no other associations in Google.

Tagging: @theicalife, @blastfarmer, @thetransintransgenic, @jaiwithani, anyone else tagged in this post, anyone else interested.

You’re at least the fourth person to say that about me. Apparently I must be rather more free with likes for people I follow than most people are.

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#reply via reblog

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lucassfilm:

 

sdhs-rationalist:

scientiststhesis:

4lung:

brotoro:

niamhrhymeswithleave:

Help me what is an apple Luke trousers

honey

FUC

someone explain this to the non-native-English-speaker?

native english speaker, just as lost as you are

I tried using the XKit TagViewer on this post and got several people saying the punchline was “Apple Bottom Jeans”.

I still don’t get it. I mean, I’m guessing it’s some kind of joke about Luke Skywalker’s sexual inclinations, but what the hell are “apple bottom jeans”? Is that like a bell bottom?

Apparently it’s a brand. *shrug*

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#reply via reblog #explaining the joke #in which the joke turns out to have multiple layers of incomprehensibility

Tag 12 followers you’d like to get to know better…

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(12 is kind of a lot, let’s halve it. (Has anyone ever made a meme where the number of followers you were supposed to tag scales with the number of followers you have?))

Tagged by: @sinesalvatorem (who is still the very first option in the drop-down list Tumblr provides when I press the at key, for reasons I’m not clear on)

Name: Brin

Sign: I was removed under Scorpio. If I had been born, I would have almost certainly been a Sagittarius. (Watching all the astrology posts that go around Tumblr, Sagittarius is a less awful fit than Scorpio, but they are both remarkably terrible for something that’s supposed to be carefully generic.)

Height: 5′3″ (unless you ask my brain’s internal body map, which never updated after my final growth spurt and insists I’m somewhere around 5′1″)

Average hours of sleep: ~9

Lucky number: *shrug*

Last thing I googled: I’m not sure which one was the most recent. It might have been “for what he thought was h2o was h2so4″, because I was trying to remember how the rhyme goes. (Turns out there’s a bunch of different versions. This one seems closest to what I was thinking of, only without the cat.)

Number of blankets I sleep with: On my bed, I keep a light blanket, a medium blanket, a weighted blanket, and a duvet, which I mix and match depending on the temperature and location in my circadian cycle. (People tend to be coldest a couple hours before awakening for the day, and I sometimes wake up then, pull another blanket over me, and go back to sleep.) Last night, I used the weighted blanket and the medium blanket, and didn’t add another one during the night.

Favorite fictional characters: Well, I do own a Constable Odo T-shirt.

Favorite book: Not sure

What are you wearing right now: Black sweatpants, a baggy black sweatshirt my uncle gave me with “United States Army” written on it (I never wear it in public, but it makes for good house clothes), and I was wearing a dark blue hoodie with “Guides Canada” on it (as shown here), but I’ve warmed up enough that I think I’ll take it off now.

When did I start this blog: August 29th, 2011.

Amount of followers: 137, though that’s including the spambots.

What do I post mostly: Things that amused me, neat facts, replies to other people’s stuff.

Do I run any more blogs: I used to run ds9rewatch, but I haven’t been active there lately.

Most active follower: @justice-turtle, who is good at reassuring me that someone is paying attention. *hugs*

What made me get a Tumblr: Following my fourth Tumblr via RSS. RSS Tumblr feeds (at least at that time) didn’t work very well: there was a delay of sometimes multiple days, and often the posts would arrive in scrambled order. I decided I would probably be better off with a proper dashboard.

(I’ve since unfollowed two of those Tumblrs and one was deleted, making @doctorwho the only Tumblr I have followed continuously for my entire time here.)

Why did I get this URL: It was a pre-established username.

I tag: @justice-turtle, @ellaenchanting, @arbitrarilychosen, @cosmic-llin, @cakehorse, and it’s not letting me tag @depizan for some reason. [insert standard disclaimers about lack of pressure for those I tagged and ability to use me as an excuse for those I didn’t]

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#yes I am very fond of that hoodie #I’m a little worried about what will happen when it wears out #it seems to have been discontinued and I can’t find any evidence on the Internet that it ever even existed #let alone where to find a secondhand one #depizan #meme #oh look an original post