Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

Catholic. Language Autist specializing in semantics. Technically not a meteorologist. here Joined September 2012

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Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

3 days ago

@heroesahead This happened once in legends and The Executor’s shields tanked a collision of 5 light speed ISDs

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Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

3 days ago

@wylfcen Why does g keep turning into y?

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West Coast Kenny @kenthecowboy_

3 days ago

Every argument ive against unions makes sense from a fairness perspective, and then every once in a while i hear a story like this

The Teamsters Union demands that Disney end its “communal underwear” practices. Currently, costumed Disney Parks employees have to wear shared underwear because it is feared that their own underwear might be visible under the costume. This has led to many pubic lice outbreaks.

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Electra @Electrarythm

4 days ago

Most people don't know this, but Salvador Dalí built his entire career on tapping into his unconscious mind on purpose. Dalí's most famous trick was a micro-nap he called "slumber with a key." He'd sit in a heavy Spanish-style armchair, head tilted back against the leather, both arms hanging completely limp off the armrests, and in his left hand he'd hold a heavy metal key pinched lightly between his thumb and forefinger. Directly under that hand, on the floor, he'd place an upside-down plate. He'd then let himself drift into sleep. The instant he actually fell asleep, his muscles would go slack, the key would slip out of his fingers, hit the upside-down plate, and the clang would jolt him awake. The whole nap was meant to last less than a quarter of a second. He called that half-second window the "taut and invisible wire which separates sleeping from waking," and he'd immediately sketch the hallucinations he saw in that flash. The melting clocks, the elephants on stilts, the burning giraffes, a lot of that came straight out of those quarter-second naps. He picked the trick up from Capuchin monks and wrote it down as one of his "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship."

Electra @Electrarythm

a week ago

Salvador Dali was a great example of this

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Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

3 days ago

@scenicresorts @kojimaicmatters I don’t want money I want to read my books and play games.

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PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller

5 days ago

Burrowing Owls photographed by Peter G. Arnold

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Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

5 days ago

@Babygravy9 This is the Chinese!

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Todd of Mischief @AndToddsaid

5 days ago

I would continue reading this book if I knew what it was.

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Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

a week ago

@womandibles @kojimaicmatters @Jacksukku using AI to prove your point 😂😂 found the moron

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Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

a week ago

@nuodaispalis @ChristianityOn How do I remember all that? Is this where the framing of “I’m a spy on an infiltration mission” comes in? Is that the mnemonic?

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Zoso 🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic

2 weeks ago

I am very proud to announce that Wasaburo Oishi's 1926 report has been fully published for the first time on the open Internet, in its original Esperanto and in a translation I wrote into English! The earliest documentation of the jet stream is now avaliable publicly!

Zoso 🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic

a month ago

There's a Japanese scientist who discovered jet streams much earlier before anyone else did, his name was Wasaburo Ooishi. No one read his work, because he *only* published in Esperanto.

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Olive Garten @makebelieveleaf

2 weeks ago

This is actually a massive problem with basically anything in the DSM. It's a perverse inversion of the euphemism treadmill. The meaning becomes so diluted that people lose the ability to describe their experiences, because a different cohort has essentially stolen their words.

Brandon Warmke @BrandonWarmke

2 weeks ago

Philosophers discover new form of hermeneutical crime. "Hermeneutic hijacking occurs when a term’s literal meaning is eclipsed by a nonliteral usage in a way that prevents the original term from functioning as it should."

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Wylfċen @wylfcen

2 weeks ago

Every word of the Roman saying “Homō hominī lupus est,” or “Man is a wolf to man,” was ancient even then. So you could render it into Proto-Indo-European as “Ǵʰm̥mṓ ǵʰm̥néy wĺ̥kʷos h₁ésti,” or Proto-Germanic as “Gumô gumini wulfaz isti.”

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Bird Brand @Machine_Baron

2 weeks ago

@eva_funnies Police brutality!

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Paul's Psychic Artilleryman 🟡🟡🟡🟡🛰️🟡 @ironcrakka

2 weeks ago

really funny linguistic feature here is non-rhoticity causing brits to hallucinate Rs jn phonetic spelling

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2 weeks ago

This may be hard for you so be brave.. WE SAY THE ITALIAN WORD THE WAY THE ITALIANS SAY IT. We don’t say ‘Parrsta’ like Americans… because a) it sounds horrible and b) THAT ISN’T HOW YOU PRONOUNCE IT 🤣 🍝