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Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

@ Erika3sis @hexbear.net

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"I am reckoned a horrid brute because I had not been cowardly enough to lie down for them under such trying circumstances, and insults to my people." - Ned Kelly

Any pronouns but he/they, unless you buy me dinner first.

  • BBC: Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say

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  • BBC: Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say

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  • Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number 19. It is a silvery white metal that is soft enough to easily cut with a knife.[10] Potassium metal reacts rapidly with atmospheric oxygen to form flaky white potassium peroxide in only seconds of exposure. It was first isolated from potash, the ashes of plants, from which its name derives. In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals, all of which have a single valence electron in the outer electron shell, which is easily removed to create an ion with a positive charge (which combines with anions to form salts). In nature, potassium occurs only in ionic salts. Elemental potassium reacts vigorously with water, generating sufficient heat to ignite hydrogen emitted in the reaction, and burning with a lilac-colored flame. It is found dissolved in seawater (which is 0.04% potassium by weight),[11][12] and occurs in many minerals such as orthoclase, a common constituent of granites and other igneous rocks.[13]

  • BBC: Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say

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  • Hahah, imagine if it was. People are all saying it was a grenade and then it ends up just being a firework. That'd be something.

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    BBC: Explosion at US embassy in Oslo may have been terrorism, Norway police say

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c5yjegg892lo

  • Reddit keeps recommending me subreddits for minor indian cities. I am not indian. I have never been to India. I do not speak any indian dialect. I hate the algorithm

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  • Phugginnnnn Carnaticization or something?

  • Pete Hegseth says "I only speak American" but unironically

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  • I could find a decent number of attestations of australsk to mean Australian English and britisk to mean British English in major news publications, but I found no attestations for kanadisk, ny/newzealandsk, or sørafrikansk to refer to Canadian, New Zealand, and South African English respectively. So it seems to be very case-by-case, maybe related to the prominence of Quebecois French, Maori, and Afrikaans in those countries? And irsk already refers to the Irish language, so that doesn't work; indisk refers to any language of India but English; and I don't think I'll get any relevant results for anything else.

    In my own experience, amerikansk in the sense of American English is far more common than australsk and britisk in the senses of those varieties of English. Indeed, amerikansk is the only one of these three words where "variety of English" is listed in NAOB as a sense. "Snakker britisk" -engelsk -reddit got 616 Google results; "Snakker australsk" -engelsk -reddit got 62 results; and "snakker amerikansk" -engelsk -reddit got 1,030 results, for whatever that's worth.

  • Reddit keeps recommending me subreddits for minor indian cities. I am not indian. I have never been to India. I do not speak any indian dialect. I hate the algorithm

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  • "Hmm! This person sure seems to care a whole lot about feminism and the welfare of trans people and Palestinian children, and spends a significantly above average amount of time talking about 19th century German political philosophers. I think I know why!!!"

  • Pete Hegseth says "I only speak American" but unironically

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  • In Norwegian it's much more accepted to say amerikansk to mean American English, you'll even find this in respected newspapers. In English, though… the vibes are less "know-nothing" and more "Know-Nothing".

  • Reddit keeps recommending me subreddits for minor indian cities. I am not indian. I have never been to India. I do not speak any indian dialect. I hate the algorithm

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  • Deny it all you want, but this is a calling. You will become Indian; there's nothing you can do to stop it.

  • As an American I'm pretty sure y'all just have to nuke us. I won't even be mad.

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  • Nukus? Isn't that a city in Karakalpakstan?

  • Last night I dreamed about a short-lived country in the early '90s called the United Autistic Socialist Arab Republic of Yemen, Egypt and Northern Cyprus (UASAR, 1990-1993)

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  • The thing is that the dream itself wasn't necessarily "that" detailed as I experienced it: My dreams will often be vague and inconsistent and really a bit psychedelic as I'm experiencing them, but the act of writing down the imagery after the fact pretty much forces me to pick one interpretation of what I actually saw, and forces me to fit everything into some sort of coherent narrative. Arguably that makes this description disingenuous, but what am I supposed to say? The most "honest" recollection would be practically unreadable. It's better to present the details as honestly as possible but in a way that actually makes sense and is entertaining to read.

  • Last night I dreamed about a short-lived country in the early '90s called the United Autistic Socialist Arab Republic of Yemen, Egypt and Northern Cyprus (UASAR, 1990-1993)

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  • By the way, when I say that Mr. President was a fan of EarthBound, what I mean is that his presidential sash was just an incredibly detailed embroidery of Giygas. He was "really into" uncannily contorted faces of unbearable anguish, as said.

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    Last night I dreamed about a short-lived country in the early '90s called the United Autistic Socialist Arab Republic of Yemen, Egypt and Northern Cyprus (UASAR, 1990-1993)

  • :boots-on-the-ground: or :araghchi-smirk:

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  • If you put "emoji" after the image URL it will make it emoji sized.

    ?!??!?!?! I've gotta try this.

    Well I'll be damned. They should put that in the sidebar of this comm.

  • thumbs up : yay or nay?

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  • My honest opinion is that most of the cultures where the thumbs up has a history as an offensive gesture have enough Facebook and YouTube users and enough exposure to Hollywood that they understand you aren't telling them to go fuck themselves.

    But if you really do need a new gesture... I dunno, the thumbs up is polysemous so there's no real one size fits all replacement. But at least in some senses you may be able to replace it with something like the international fingerspelling of O-K.

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  • In slop "never do these hand gestures in these countries!!" articles, the names that come up most often are Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria (or West Africa more broadly), LatAm, Russia, Italy (specifically the south and Sardinia), Greece, and Australia (?? I wonder if they're referring to Aboriginal cultures or something, or maybe they actually meant Austria)

    I frankly find it hard to believe in any case. Some netizens from some of these regions when asked about the supposedly offensive nature of the gesture say that they have never heard of it meaning anything other than like/good/OK; and in other regions, even if the thumbs up was offensive in the past, that meaning has largely faded away in recent decades due to internationalization. I get the impression that Iran is where "thumbs up means sit on my dick" is most prevalent today, but this is just an impression.

    Edit: Tangentially relevant: in Japanese Sign Language, flipping the bird means BROTHER, and a thumbs up is how you fingerspell the syllable "ta". Most of the "a" syllables in JSL fingerspelling came from the ASL manual alphabet, but ASL T looked like an obscene gesture (fig gesture) to the Japanese, so evidently they replaced it with an obscene gesture to Iranians.

  • Hexbear's politics in one image

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  • Stalin (studied Esperanto in prison)

    Khomeini (promoted Esperanto through a state-published Quran translation)

    Kim Jong-il (also here)

  • Another moment in european propaganda excellence

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  • music @hexbear.net
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    Forum - "Ostrovok" ("Islet") | Soviet synthpop banger from 1985, translation in post body

  • I use hexbear too much: last night I had a dream I was a yuri author and I pissed off all my fans because I drew one of the women the wrong way.

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  • How did you draw the woman the wrong way?

  • The Principality of Outer Baldonia, a micronation for fishermen that declared war on the Soviet Union

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  • Micronationalism seems like it could be a fun hobby, but it also seems to attract some number of unsavory types, doesn't it.

  • X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix”

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  • What really sets me off is that 20 people apparently agreed with the sentiment that these people should be laughed at. Are people on this site really so unempathetic, or do these 20 people just never think about anything?

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    Catcher Rye Champloo

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    Guess the country/continent/colony/polity by its name in my conlang: names beginning with B

  • Main, home of the dope ass bear. @hexbear.net
    Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @hexbear.net

    Guess the country/continent/colony/polity by its name in my conlang: names beginning with A

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
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    Giddy up! We're watching My Little Pony Tales E13 + Owl House S1E912 on Blorptube @ 11 PM CET / 5 PM EST

  • badposting @hexbear.net
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    A parallel dimension where everything's the same except the Kingdom of Clow has been inexplicably replaced with Pine Ridge, call that Siouxbasa Reservation Chronicle

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
    Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @hexbear.net

    TV☆3SIS presents Nigerien musical drama "Rain the Color of Blue with A Little Red In It" (2015), starring the "Jimi Hendrix of the Sahara" Mdou Moctar as himself, on Blorptube @ 12 AM CET / 6 PM EST

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    Last night I dreamed that Crime and Punishment was originally a Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction

  • music @hexbear.net
    Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @hexbear.net

    Vitas - "Opera #2" | if you can't handle me at my blblblblblblblahaha you don't deserve me at my ooooooooooAAAAAooooAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaAAaAaAAAaAaAA-A-OH-OHHHHHHHH-OH

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
    Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @hexbear.net

    Giddy up! We're watching My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) + Owl House S1E7+8 on Blorptube @ 11 PM CET / 5 PM EST

  • languagelearning @hexbear.net
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    Wikipedia Language Redirector browser script by Edie and Enjoyer_of_Games, to force you to read Wikipedia in your target language

  • music @hexbear.net
    Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @hexbear.net

    Vasily Kuduxty - "Čysangom" ("Ksani Ravine") | Ossetian folk pop song about a ravine that forms part of the Georgia–South Ossetia border

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    Technology I Wish Existed, part 3: Wikipedia Language Redirector browser extension

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
    Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @hexbear.net

    TV☆3SIS presents the Soviet-Romanian-French musical "Rock'n'Roll Wolf" (1976) on Blorptube @ midnight CET / 6 PM EST

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
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    Giddy up! My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Better Together season 2 + Owl House S1E4~6 on Blorptube @ 11 PM CET / 5 PM EST

  • chat @hexbear.net
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    Last night I dreamed that due to Marchetti's constant and the development of an ultra-high-speed vactrain network in Europe, the city of Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenetsia, Siberia…

  • music @hexbear.net
    Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem] @hexbear.net

    Valery Sokurov - "Ait-Ait, Lapputa!" ("Give It Your All, Boys!") | Ossetian folk song, no relation to Castle in the Sky