Sudrien @sudrien@mastodon.social

Thank god

A PROGRAMMER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A PROGRAMMER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

Power's back! Now you get to see this in all its silly glory 😁 #MastoArt #Calligraphy

21st century sisyphus

"Discord" is an ancient word for "I can't configure Prosody"

@izaya
did you know: You can connect to twitch chat using any Internet Relay Chat client. This is a good complement to watching the stream with mpv using its automatic youtube-dl integration.

what if frog was one of us

pronouncing the P in JPEG 'ph' as in "photographic"

I feel like people often use "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" to criticize things which are more accurately "when you have a nail gun, you're gonna use a lot more nails than screws"

title text: I know it seems overwhelming, but don't worry; I'm sure most of them have only a few stars, and probably no planets.

(https://xkcd.com/2596)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2596
)

title text: Now, you may argue that the varying hour lengths and feedback effects would cause chaos. To which I say, yeah, and I'm also curious to see how the weekday cycle interacts with it! So, you in?

(https://xkcd.com/2594)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2594
)

The microwave here seems baffling, but badass

cool beans

@maya I love this kind of thing.

You may also enjoy the French word for "unicorn", "licorne", which exists because French speakers did this sort of thing *twice* with one word:

Greek "monokeros" ("one horn")

-> Latin "unicornis" (also "one horn", just cut the word apart, translate the parts, and glue them back together)

-> Old French "unicorne" (same word but make it French; Middle English branched off around this point)

-> French speakers: 'un' is that word we stick in front of things to refer to one of them, clearly this is 'un icorne' (n.b. 'un' is masculine)

-> well, we can also put le/la/l' in front of words to say '*the* thing' instead of '*a* thing'

-> okay now we have l'icorne, let's forget etymology *again* and word-smash it into one word, "licorne"

-> okay now we have this one word, we need articles in front of it, unicorns are feminine so "une licorne", "la licorne"

pangolin
pangola (extinct)
pangocello (extinct)
bass pangol (extinct)

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(yes i did this gag on twitter a few years back but it feels like time to revive it, with an illustration this time!)

People from the next village over think they're soooo cool 'cause their intramural basketball team usually takes nationals and also because they don't have an ancient evil in their farmland, pinned in place with a slowly degrading rune-marked plinth. Sure, it keeps getting struck by lightning, the plinth, and yes, it's been attacked by mad-eyed mask-wearing strangers with picks and axes, but you know... we have a nice cucumber festival. We have some nice things.