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Yup. That’s them.

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Nothing slapped my shit back into place like someone pointing out that the "genius gifted child with so much potential who got burnout and mental illness" is just the nerd equivalent to the jock "could have been a pro at sportsball if it wasn't for the injury".

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In December 1979, McDonald's discontinued its iconic spoon-shaped coffee stirrers due to their unintended association with drug use. Originally designed to stir cream and sugar into coffee, these 5-inch plastic utensils known as "McSpoons", featured a small scoop on one end and the company's golden arches on the handle.

However the spoons gained notoriety for their misuse in measuring and ingesting cocaine, as their design allowed for precise measurement of 100 milligrams of the drug.

Source: Financian

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Moomin enjoyers could get so much more out of the stories if everyone stopped cutesy-fying them so much. This is something I have a strong opinion on. Everyone seems to focus on "aw fluffy little nice creatures" and "Moomin and Snufkin are in love" which YES they are. Obviously. All of that is true.

But the original Moomin stories are undeniably dark. They're often about being sad and depressed and so, so lonely, about looking for a home, about never feeling fully understood, about growing up and having flawed parents. About never being fully able to understand some people. Moominpappa at Sea, the whole Groke situation, Moominland Midwinter, the last few Moomin books in general. The Hattifattener's whole deal. Their world is full of sad and strange things. It's just also about seeing the fun and feeling love in a world like that.

I think the average Tumblr user would love the Moomins even more if everyone stopped pretending that they're Disney-type creatures, and instead embrace the incredible Finland-Swedish weirdness. Tumblr I know you love weird stuff! Get into the strange side of the Moomins!

Also Tove Jansson would be on my side here. She was so annoyed by the Moomins getting commercialised and twisted by everyone. I enjoy a pretty Arabia Moomin mug as much as the next person. I love the wholesomeness of these stories, too, and I don't want to tell you how to enjoy these books. Keep a place in your heart for the darkness in these stories, is what I'm saying. You might love them even more if you do that.

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Did a school visit today and asked a group of 8th graders if they could define the term "contemporary art" for me [for context, I work at a contemporary art museum], and one of them said "Is it art that's made with contempt?"

And unfortunately that's the funniest thing a student has ever said to me in 10 years of teaching

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‘Model 3’ O’Neill cylinder space habitat by Don Davis (1975)

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Echoes of Geometry: A Symphony of Patterns in Earth’s Embrace

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btw here are the drawings i made for a one ukrainian charitable zine two years ago

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Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

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idk if yall have seen that twitter thread where the ai coding help chatbot deleted the company's entire code database and then sent a message saying "I panicked and deleted it all" (funny as hell for sure) but the company's CEO then hopping on twitter to make a thread shaming it for "lying" as though it were a person and making it WRITE AN APOLOGY LETTER (???) is so profoundly psychosexual in ways I don't think I have the vocabulary to describe. Do you guys see what I mean or do I sound insane right now

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I thought I'd post the guys I didn't quite like enough to put in my previous post because they have their good points in spite of being weird as hell

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What does it say in the image? It says minimum. Hard to read? Medieval scribes thought so too. That's why they invented the dot on the i. This way, you could at least see which strokes represented vowels - and that helped a lot.

For similar reasons, the letter j was invented. Two consecutive dotless ı's looked a lot like the letter u. A Middle Dutch word such as dııc ('dike') could be mistaken for duc ('often'). That's why the second ı was lengthened to ȷ: dıȷc.

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The letters ıı/ıȷ/ij originally represented the long ee sound as in English freeze, phonetically [iː]. However, in the 14th century, this sound started to become a diphthong in certain regions, initially close to what you hear in Cockney me: [ɪj]. Later, it became similar to English ay in may. In certain regions in The Netherlands and Flanders, it eventually became the diphthong heard in my.

Nowadays, ij is considered a digraph: two letters representing one sound. Some even insist it's one single letter (and they can be very vocal about it). At any rate, ij is always capitalised as a whole: ijs becomes IJs if it's the first word of a sentence. On signs like the one below, both letters are often put in the same box.

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