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what the heck... a file that I spent a lot of time working on a few months ago doesn't exist anywhere anymore...

I'm setting up a strawman by implying that any reasonable person might hold this view, but if you think that character encodings aren't political theguardian.com/technology/201 (repeated from last boost)

@DialMforMara these are all the vowels, excepting the special character ŷ which represents the sounds /jʉ:/ (as in the start of "union")

"We're pirates of the seven seas!"
"Which ones?"
"Uh, Mediterranean, Caribbean, the Dead Sea, the South China Sea (but not the North), Hudson Bay, the Sea of Tranquility, and the Holy See."

"...."

"Look, we get around, okay?"

(there are a couple of other shorthands used in the pages, because these are lecture notes, but should give you a good impression)

(ðer r a kypl o yþy ʃøthands ŷzd in ð pàjez, bìkoz ðìz r lekcy nöts, būt ʃūd giv ŷ a gûd impreʃn)

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2 (unrelated) pages written in my phonetic writing system for English

tû (ynrelàtd) pàjez riten in mii fönetik riitiŋ sistym fø iŋgliʃ

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I should post a picture of my phonetic writing system for english here

pet peeves: Slack, Discord and other applications with "loading" screens that steal focus *twice* during startup

this is especially irksome because Slack and Discord in particular take a while to start up, so you end up either having to get focus back to something else *twice* or waiting for ~10 seconds unable to do anything else while they finish starting up

Art Preview, kinda dark (in tone), bright clashing colors (in the visual sense) 

This is a (WIP) image of an AI who's currently (and since her "birth") been trapped inside a Central Terran Mandate worldscape, serving as the computer core for some device, probably a spaceship. She's not awake yet, but when she does wake, the crew of the ship she's on will likely not survive

CW - Photo of Tiny, Fluffy Insect 

This tiny little floating piece of fluff turned out to be a winged Wooly Aphid. I got a photo as it perched on a toothpick-diameter fence wire.

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4] 

I knew something felt weird when watching Victory of the Daleks (an 11th Doctor story) - it's a story that's already been told, in the first 2nd Doctor Story (The Power of the Daleks)

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coding stuff 

someone on another instance reminded me of an experimental graphics library for haskell, and now I want to make a 3d thing

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