It finally happened - my Opus 88 Omar #fountainpen (well, eyedropper) ran out of ink after using it for my whole #hex24 this year. It is a big pen and the body is almost all ink reservoir, apparently holding 4ml, plus I was using an EF nib. I have never before used all of the ink before getting bored and changing inks. Noodlers Black in this one hence it looking a bit filthy.
Luckily I have my Kaweco Sport piston filler as backup. A lot smaller of course.
I feel conflicted about this because I know journalism is in a rough spot, but I also hate the online ads so much. Usually I’d say this would be a nudge to force them to change course, but given the media’s in such dire straits, I’m not so sure this time.
Why is it that there are regional dialects of Human languages ( #DnD Tethyrian, Shou, Chultan, #Pathfinder Shoanti, Minkaian, Varisian, etc), but there is only one Elven language for all elves everywhere? Why is there a single unified Orcish across their diaspora?
@thricebedamned yes - some games do also have all humans speaking the same language to be fair, but eg Pathfinder has no excuse. I can understand mystical languages being common across disparate groups but elves and orcs are not mystical creatures in PF.
@thricebedamned actually I could imagine elves having a very fixed language passed down over generations and a culture that places great value on speaking/writing it unchanged, but not for orcs
That is the second time I've taken my new duck food out to the park and there was already someone there feeding them (the duck feeding access point is quite small unless you just want pigeons to get it all) 😠
I thought I would be safe at 10am on a Sunday but no. In fact two different families with small children today.
@timnitGebru unfortunately I don't consider this any sign of realism or having thought anything through by the UKG - I suspect they just want to try to support AI booster nutjobs. It's nutjobs all the way apparently. Anything apart from "we are going to build God!" or "we are going to build Satan!" doesn't get a look-in.
@grammargirl Assuming that "a computer that can run voice chat" counts as #3 - otherwise no. Well potentially #1 but I don't know if it works any more.
@motomatters@ianbetteridge yeah I used to have a hobby of searching twitter for, say, "jew media" and reporting accounts. Even in the old days they used to get banned. Now they don't even if they are literally called @JewMedia.
@davidallengreen The robots.txt/no crawling part is interesting because, as far as I am aware, there is nothing unlawful about doing so (indeed lots of crawlers ignore robots.txt files). It is apparently against Twitter's ToS but that's it.
Of course Twitter recently locked down the site to anyone not logged in (and thus having agreed to the ToS) which might be connected to this.
@skyfaller@PurpleCar For my personal site I simply don't care who sees what, and it's meant to be super minimalist anyway, so I never thought of adding analytics. Bonus: no cookie warnings, because no cookies (why would a site that just has things to read need cookies?)
I've seen "solution" verbed quite a bit, as in "Let's solution that", but until today I don't remember seeing its complement, the nouning of "solve": "What are the solves?"
Rule 1 of verbing and nouning: It's nearly always older than you think. OED's first citation for "solve" as a noun? 1780.
@mansr@stancarey I think in this instance it may feel worse because there was a corporate fashion for calling everything a "solution". You weren't a refuse disposal company, you offered "refuse disposal solutions". Private Eye had a regular column of them.
@paul@ianbetteridge It's become way less useful even without this. As a protest photographer, Twitter used to be a go-to site for finding details about what might happen - there's almost nothing there now apart from organised spam groups, nothing grass-roots.
