Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

Wie viele Versionen eines Stücklistenpunkts, die sich nur durch Interpunktion unterscheiden, kann 1 Firma zur Übersetzung schicken

[converting minutes to decimal time] and yet, at the same time, 5 = 8 🤔

[converting decimal time to hours/minutes] ah yes! 5 = 3! finally I understand maths!

holy shit stereo sound in my earbuds

Do y'all even know how loud a mouse click is

CN: gross guess who just got two enormous wads of gunk pulled from their ears GUESS WHO CAN HEAR AGAIN

and verily all the women of the city beseeched them crying “be normal” but the men would not be normal and they brought sorrow upon the land

Goodbye sweet Durchzug Goodbye sweet drops of rain The sun is out The window's closed again

Wichtige Arbeitsausstattung: - Eimer Wasser unter dem Schreibtisch für die Füße - Mütze aus einer Stofftüte mit einer im Kühlfach gefroren Wasserflasche drin - Lange Socken, durchnässt, um die Handgelenke gewickelt

Gut wenn die Autobahnen jetzt schon selbst durch Aufplatzen ein Tempolimit erbetteln dann sollte man ihnen diesen Wunsch nicht verwehren 😌

In light of the current situation I would like to once again recommend play.half.earth

I think we can solve this by sequestering it all into the carbonated drinks I will personally need to make it through a few more decades with summers like this

from "ewww sunscreen is icky" to "wow this makes it so I can go outside for 10 minutes without feeling like I'm getting fifteen thousand hypodermic injections of death acid/second" in one simple climate catastrophe

Am I the only person in the world who checks what the last email from a contact says before sending that contact a new email

Autistic Translator: this formulation in the source text produces a logic flaw. Can I use [reformulated version without logic flaw] instead? Client: Shut up and translate AT: Not possible because "shut up" requires stopping making statements and in fact statements are necessary for translation,

Ohr: verstopft ✅ Nacken: steif ✅ Wetter: tödlich ✅

Just based on the output I'm getting, I think someone put "act more like a classic bilingual corpus trained translation engine" or even "act more like a classic statistical translation engine" into the system prompt for this LLM-based translation engine, meaning: (1/2)

my skin is doing an excellent job regrowing over this ink, if i do say so myself

hey @magietheorie.bsky.social look at this guy

Sometimes it's less "carefully transport the various nuances of the source" and more "squeeze a kernel of meaning from whatever bullshit someone in the best case carelessly copy-pasted together, in the worst case told a machine to carelessly copy-paste together, and make something with that"

Today in old man* yells at cloud: why does everything have to be an app. whatever became of programs

If I search a thing in one language, particularly in quotes, I really really really do not want auto-translated results showing up. I'm trying to see how this particular phrase, you know, the one I put in quotes, is used in this language the one that it's conveniently already in

taking them pills that make you clean the kitchen good (when you do clean the kitchen which is still not often)

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

Aaaand the typo of the day is *drumroll* Voralgennutzung

Wenn Comic-Salon ist male/zeichne ich halt auch mal was Hier Mulberry im Zug auf dem Weg nach Erlangen

if the "oh no the evil transes want to put kids on hormones!" side meant what they said they'd be arguing to put all kids on puberty blockers. you can have a puberty when you're of legal age, sorry

Just barely out of bed I already fetched my meds Went to the bakery for treats Two salty and two sweet

my candific opinion is that this would vigify the english language be less rigible!

wind turbine maintenance manual really delivering in terms of new verbal stims, cf: Nasenkonus Nasenkonus Nnnnnasenkonus

23° und Hagel...... Ich weiß auch nicht

Brain: SUDDEN OPPRESSIVE FEELING OF DOOM Me, a CBT patient: Hey buddy. What's going on? Anything I can help you with? Brain: DOOOOM!! UNSPECIFIED DOOOOOOM!!!!

MS paint Mulberry nest to confirm my tablet works

there are like these playlists the artist specifically crafts to enhance your listening experience with the audio context of a song. They can be really personal to them. They're called albums ever heard of them

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

Female birds with confusing names.

Holy fuck my tablet-as-second-screen setup actually. actually finally works. The exact way I wanted it to. Hot damn.

Finally my tablet works but GUESS WHAT I need yet another cable/adapter to make it run as a second screen

black sesame ice cream really looks like concrete in its container, but tastes sooo good

- Dryad's Saddle solitary contemplation - Digital coloring of the ink illustration I did last month. Thought just filling the background with more plants didn't add anything for the character so I went for a faux paper marbling effect. #fungifriends #illustration #comicart #characterillustration

Alison Bechdel kommt nach Berlin aber die Lesung ist schon ausverkauft 😭

the autism is shouting at the adhd again for doing each repetition of a repetitive task a liiil differently

Trying to construct sentences in any of my L(2+n) languages, the brain reaches into the pool of L(2+n) vocabulary and pulls out Arabic and Russian more or less at random. some Latin sprinkled in to keep it exciting

For your consideration: Hornet Hollowknight-Silksong hanging out with a bunch of Pikmin

boy I did not miss talking about actionable insights while i was translating a video game for a month