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Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

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assad photographed by cody litke for wonderland magazine

Interview

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A loanword is a word taken from another language, such as ‘angst’ or ‘tsunami’ or ‘calque’. A calque is a literal translation of a word from another language, such as rhinestone (from French caillou du Rhine) or blueblood (from Spanish sangre azul) or loanword (from German lehnwort).

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For me!?

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I would be the first person to sit down with holden caulfield and really listen

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btw the secret to life is saying "good job" to yourself for everything big and small

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I've started quilting my quilt and I thought it would be fun to approximately quilt in the shape of major roads (thanks yarrow for suggesting this in april) but now I want to quilt it more densely and feel locked into the road thing as 1) it is a sin to lie 2) as i am learning, Boston has an infinite number of roads

I will actually probably do leafs or vines or so on but wanted to share my road conundrum

Additional planning materials:

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My life is just me falling in love with watercolour over and over again. Japanese watercolour on rice paper

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‘Le Spectacle du Monde Jester Brooch’ (1900s)

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anyway. onto better things

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After watching how booktok is making people fall for overconsumerism with book hauls and such, it was nice to go to my local library. They even put how much I'm saving, and I wonder if other libraries do that too! Please let me know!

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sleepy sunday mornings w/ love of my life

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Matilda (1996) dir. Danny DeVito

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I always dreamed I would have a home open to happening: weekend coffee with everyone gathering in the kitchen, dinner parties which leave laughter ringing in empty rooms for days afterwards, our bed a shore and us a wave crashing down in the early hours. In the morning, I get up and see our sofa made up with an array of pilows, knowing our home is full of our friends makes my heart hurt with the bursting joy of it all

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reading le morte d’arthur is like experiencing the opposite of chekhov’s gun. here is a beautiful mysterious damsel who offers you a sword and you will never see her again or know why she did it. here is a quest chasing a pack of beasts running through the court and the knight chasing them will die in a page and is unimportant. arthur has a horrific dream about serpents and it means something but we never learn what and arthur forgets it entirely. nothing means anything and now back to gawain

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the pope’s silence on lesbianism among nuns is deafening