Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

osdu svnalei
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/os.du sə̃.na.le.i/
Good morning!

goodnight, soft friends

look after yourselves, ok?

Today I wrote a program that takes a tsalagi transcription and puts it in the actual writing system

(there's some weird edge cases, but wikipedia notes that any software that tries to do this will have this issue)

why isn't there a way to block or hide accounts on youtube?

The episode is midnight, which involves an alien who takes over someone's body and starts repeating back everyone's lines.

(If you haven't seen it, the behind the scenes won't make much sense)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mV3BBnl32Y

it's really impressive how these actors dealt with the complexities of filming it

The next story: The Evil of the Daleks.

This story was supposed to be the last Dalek story ever – Terry Nation wanted to pitch a Dalek spinoff show to American TV statiosn, so this was written to get rid of them.

The daleks would return, of course, but not for 5 years. (prior to this point, there had been at least 1 dalek story every year).

(Side note: I don't care what you write in messages to friends, this is for like.... things you are actually publishing.)

It frustrates me when I see people doing something that requires MORE effort, but looks worse.

If you want to refer to a range of dates, you write it like 1927–1933, using an en dash with no spaces around it.

But yesterday I saw someone write it as 1927 — 1933. It looks wrong. It uses an em dash (which is too long), and there are spaces on either side. This is harder to read, because the years are closer to the words around them than to the other year.

choosing a rating for The Faceless Ones is so difficult...

I really really want to give it a "Highly Recommended" rating, but it's partially a reconstruction. It's still incredibly tense and incredibly creepy, and really really really good, but it still.... isn't as good as it would have been.

Some of the missing stories I don't mind being missing - The Myth Makers, for example, is not very good.

But The Faceless Ones is such a good story and so so creepy...

(transcribing tsaligi into ipa is a bit weird, because whether or not a particular consonant is voiced depends on the dialect - luckily, the official transcription is pretty close to the ipa)

otahitsu [ ᎣᏔᎯᏧ ] /o.ta.hi.t͡su/ (How are you?)