Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt@mastodon.social

so ['fɔɪ.bɫ] (phoible) has a list of phonetic segments (sounds) used in all the world's languages. There's approximately 2,160 segments.

1,800 of them are in less than 1% of the world's languages.

Only 19 of them are in more than 50% of languages.

https://phoible.org/parameters

Any movie with Alan Rickman is a Christmas movie

the MCU is absolutely doofy enough that they could-a got away with Thanos fancying a sexy skeleton too much

Ich habe 99 Probleme und sie sind alle Luftbalonnen.

I had to draw a little fanart of @jk's childhood drawing of God (https://mastodon.social/@jk/100820632340559214) because God as an orb covered in eyes is honestly an amazing concept.

Fyi: A Wrinkle in Time is on Netflix.

The spikes you see on stars in some astronomical images are diffraction spikes caused by the supports that hold the secondary mirror.

Felis Lepidoptera, digital art by Katie Hofgard
Source: https://www.deviantart.com/katiehofgard/art/Felis-Lepidoptera-Pellucid-Hawk-Moth-734940895
#art #fantasyArt #moths #cats #fantasyCreatures #cute

When you're browsing on Firefox and you accident open in a new window instead of a new tab.

300 Ruined Cinematography forever. Now every action film needs to have normal motion to slow motion shot. Videogames too. damn.

i just saw a comic panel where a character was reflected in a piece of metal, and their speech bubble was reflected too

i'm not sure why, but i think that's like the coolest thing i've seen? idk why i've never seen it before!

I'm sure someone must have figured out how to make the profile metadata boxes not cut off the text, but rather become higher and have the text wrap and be lorge but pretty. So my question is… would you be willing to share that knowledge.

(on the instance/@name profile page, I'm fine with cut off text in the …/web/accounts/… profile thingie)

(I tried for the last few hours, but nothing seems to change for the better.)

Happy 25th to this game

Crested tit, protographed by Jamie MacArthur
Source: https://www.deviantart.com/jamie-macarthur/art/The-new-look-Crested-Tit-358182804
#animals #birds #cute #photography

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard and they're like "wow this is delicious and affordable" and I'm like "thank you for supporting my small independent business"

I meant think about it.

Cats lay on piles of laundry because they smell like you, their precious human.

Dragons lay on piles of shiny things because they're precious.

Cats are a distant evolutionary cousin to dragons, thanks for coming to my ted talk.