Lagrange Point 4 Linguist
@l4pointlinguist.bsky.social
EFL word-gardener, apprentice logomancer, interested in just a little bit of everything. (He/Him)
It is amazing what the smell of salt, the sound of crashing waves, and a powerful wind has done for my mood.
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
It is amazing what the smell of salt, the sound of crashing waves, and a powerful wind has done for my mood.
Remember when our main image of creepy out-of-touch ultra-rich people wasn't them making Hitler-worshipping AIs or taking blood from young people to try and be immortal, they just designed big planes and paid people to stand around and pretend they were human-sized chess pieces?
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Remember when our main image of creepy out-of-touch ultra-rich people wasn't them making Hitler-worshipping AIs or taking blood from young people to try and be immortal, they just designed big planes and paid people to stand around and pretend they were human-sized chess pieces?
My most woke belief is I want nothing to do with any AI that could even conceivably pass as intelligent unless it is so intelligent as to have enough agency to be its own person and not do whatever I tell it to just because I told it to.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My most woke belief is I want nothing to do with any AI that could even conceivably pass as intelligent unless it is so intelligent as to have enough agency to be its own person and not do whatever I tell it to just because I told it to.
I finally heard "6-7" in the wild. My first thought was bemusement that it really didn't mean anything. My next thought was sincere excitement that the kids who said it could conjure their own joy so effortlessly. My next thought was jealousy, because what would give me joy would be to...
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I finally heard "6-7" in the wild. My first thought was bemusement that it really didn't mean anything. My next thought was sincere excitement that the kids who said it could conjure their own joy so effortlessly. My next thought was jealousy, because what would give me joy would be to...
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I am just now discovering that it is entirely possible that my YEARS of struggling with Japan Post websites is because when I type my family and given names composed of Roman letters in the Roman alphabet, I do not switch to Japanese when typing the space that separates them.
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I am just now discovering that it is entirely possible that my YEARS of struggling with Japan Post websites is because when I type my family and given names composed of Roman letters in the Roman alphabet, I do not switch to Japanese when typing the space that separates them.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I am just now discovering that it is entirely possible that my YEARS of struggling with Japan Post websites is because when I type my family and given names composed of Roman letters in the Roman alphabet, I do not switch to Japanese when typing the space that separates them.
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I am just now discovering that it is entirely possible that my YEARS of struggling with Japan Post websites is because when I type my family and given names composed of Roman letters in the Roman alphabet, I do not switch to Japanese when typing the space that separates them.
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JALT 2025 was great. I still don't really get how to network, and I'm still a fish out of water being a JHS/HS teacher at a conference mostly dominated by university profs.
But like always, I walked away with more ideas than I will likely be able to implement before next year's con rolls around.
But like always, I walked away with more ideas than I will likely be able to implement before next year's con rolls around.
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
JALT 2025 was great. I still don't really get how to network, and I'm still a fish out of water being a JHS/HS teacher at a conference mostly dominated by university profs.
But like always, I walked away with more ideas than I will likely be able to implement before next year's con rolls around.
But like always, I walked away with more ideas than I will likely be able to implement before next year's con rolls around.
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There's a lot going on in this short poem - the play on words in the title, the cricket metaphor, and the complexity of language - wrapped up in tight little Ars Poetic
'Anglish' by Zaffar Kunial, from England's Green
#poetry
#poemoftheday
'Anglish' by Zaffar Kunial, from England's Green
#poetry
#poemoftheday
November 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There's a lot going on in this short poem - the play on words in the title, the cricket metaphor, and the complexity of language - wrapped up in tight little Ars Poetic
'Anglish' by Zaffar Kunial, from England's Green
#poetry
#poemoftheday
'Anglish' by Zaffar Kunial, from England's Green
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Reposted by Lagrange Point 4 Linguist
remembering that time that a friend of mine who was a scholar of ancient Assyria and Babylon made me a Soldier token out of clay in the style of art from Nineveh and wrote its stats in cuneiform
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
remembering that time that a friend of mine who was a scholar of ancient Assyria and Babylon made me a Soldier token out of clay in the style of art from Nineveh and wrote its stats in cuneiform
I over-planned materials for a project involving single signature custom notebooks, so any time I finish work early I spend the last 10 minutes assembling them. It is so good for de-stressing.
Job is done early, but also fold, pierce, stitch, tape. Just peaceful work with hands before I go home.
Job is done early, but also fold, pierce, stitch, tape. Just peaceful work with hands before I go home.
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I over-planned materials for a project involving single signature custom notebooks, so any time I finish work early I spend the last 10 minutes assembling them. It is so good for de-stressing.
Job is done early, but also fold, pierce, stitch, tape. Just peaceful work with hands before I go home.
Job is done early, but also fold, pierce, stitch, tape. Just peaceful work with hands before I go home.
Comprehension is not a binary.
Today at my doctor's office, there were signs up over the alcoves where we were supposed to put our shoes after taking them off and over the case where they kept slippers for us to wear. I knew all the characters on the signs. I could guess what they meant. ...
Today at my doctor's office, there were signs up over the alcoves where we were supposed to put our shoes after taking them off and over the case where they kept slippers for us to wear. I knew all the characters on the signs. I could guess what they meant. ...
October 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Comprehension is not a binary.
Today at my doctor's office, there were signs up over the alcoves where we were supposed to put our shoes after taking them off and over the case where they kept slippers for us to wear. I knew all the characters on the signs. I could guess what they meant. ...
Today at my doctor's office, there were signs up over the alcoves where we were supposed to put our shoes after taking them off and over the case where they kept slippers for us to wear. I knew all the characters on the signs. I could guess what they meant. ...
It rained basically all weekend but for the first time in ages I didn't have urgent work brought home, so I think today was a tuning day, a day to set things to rights in the hopes that I can resume creative habits and keep them over the winter.
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It rained basically all weekend but for the first time in ages I didn't have urgent work brought home, so I think today was a tuning day, a day to set things to rights in the hopes that I can resume creative habits and keep them over the winter.
The 10 Games to Know Me meme is interesting because I can't grok how showing any game I've liked could teach anyone the Tao of me.
The closest I can think of is 9 screenshots of a Civ game that I'd begun and then abandoned when I stopped liking the story of the world that emerged.
The closest I can think of is 9 screenshots of a Civ game that I'd begun and then abandoned when I stopped liking the story of the world that emerged.
October 26, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The 10 Games to Know Me meme is interesting because I can't grok how showing any game I've liked could teach anyone the Tao of me.
The closest I can think of is 9 screenshots of a Civ game that I'd begun and then abandoned when I stopped liking the story of the world that emerged.
The closest I can think of is 9 screenshots of a Civ game that I'd begun and then abandoned when I stopped liking the story of the world that emerged.
The absolute cheek of Adobe Acrobat insisting on asking me if I want an AI summary every time I open documents that I made to use as handouts when teaching a class I developed the curriculum for.
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The absolute cheek of Adobe Acrobat insisting on asking me if I want an AI summary every time I open documents that I made to use as handouts when teaching a class I developed the curriculum for.
I was surprised to read Jane Child's "Don't wanna fall in love" dropped in 1990, because that "WOOoo-wOOoo" has such a tight grip on some of my foundational neurons that it feels like I must have been listening to it for most of the 80s.
youtu.be/zWd__w5UWVc?...
youtu.be/zWd__w5UWVc?...
Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
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October 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I was surprised to read Jane Child's "Don't wanna fall in love" dropped in 1990, because that "WOOoo-wOOoo" has such a tight grip on some of my foundational neurons that it feels like I must have been listening to it for most of the 80s.
youtu.be/zWd__w5UWVc?...
youtu.be/zWd__w5UWVc?...
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If traditional artworks aren't able to scratch that artistic itch of yours, perhaps you might be wanting to check out the paintings of Joachim Ingulstad of Norway.
Here's a 3-in-1 artwork of his that's simultaneously an oil, UV-reactive and also glow-in-the-dark painting. Interesting.
#art #modern
Here's a 3-in-1 artwork of his that's simultaneously an oil, UV-reactive and also glow-in-the-dark painting. Interesting.
#art #modern
October 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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pretty far fetched that tech bros invented something they're calling "intelligence" that is wrong all the time but still butting into everyone's conversations with totally unearned confidence
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
pretty far fetched that tech bros invented something they're calling "intelligence" that is wrong all the time but still butting into everyone's conversations with totally unearned confidence
Bind me with iron and speak my true name, did I really spend time this week making a promotional poster for the project we're doing in class just because I missed doing something visually creative?
DURING EXAM WEEK?
DURING EXAM WEEK?
October 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Bind me with iron and speak my true name, did I really spend time this week making a promotional poster for the project we're doing in class just because I missed doing something visually creative?
DURING EXAM WEEK?
DURING EXAM WEEK?
It is amazing how much years of sustained microaggressions, career discrimination, and power hara have rolled me back. I caught myself today wondering if I could succeed at repeating a project I developed and fucking presented at a conference about.
Also I use the word 'fucking' a lot more now.
Also I use the word 'fucking' a lot more now.
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It is amazing how much years of sustained microaggressions, career discrimination, and power hara have rolled me back. I caught myself today wondering if I could succeed at repeating a project I developed and fucking presented at a conference about.
Also I use the word 'fucking' a lot more now.
Also I use the word 'fucking' a lot more now.
It is a statement of intent, a declaration of creativities.
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It is a statement of intent, a declaration of creativities.
Tay-Tay Trismegistus
October 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Tay-Tay Trismegistus
Today while out and about I ran into one elderly man walking across the street with a bottle of water balanced atop his bald head and another with a t-shirt that read in Japanese "the green thing that gets put in the bento" with an illustration of the attached photo.
October 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Today while out and about I ran into one elderly man walking across the street with a bottle of water balanced atop his bald head and another with a t-shirt that read in Japanese "the green thing that gets put in the bento" with an illustration of the attached photo.
There is a non-zero chance that if I make it to old age in this field, I will become a total word-druid. Like the last class I teach before they force me into retirement will be "First there was the word. Use it in a sentence. What is its past participle form? Now whisper it into your cupped hands."
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
There is a non-zero chance that if I make it to old age in this field, I will become a total word-druid. Like the last class I teach before they force me into retirement will be "First there was the word. Use it in a sentence. What is its past participle form? Now whisper it into your cupped hands."
I could really use a typhoon day and I am prepared to name ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ wind if invoking them will make it happen.
September 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I could really use a typhoon day and I am prepared to name ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ wind if invoking them will make it happen.
Elementary school children on the way to school with umbrellas because it could rain, and halfway across a pedestrian bridge they stop to duel an invisible enemy not because they think no one is watching, but because it's so fun to swing the brolly that it didn't occur to them to check.
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Elementary school children on the way to school with umbrellas because it could rain, and halfway across a pedestrian bridge they stop to duel an invisible enemy not because they think no one is watching, but because it's so fun to swing the brolly that it didn't occur to them to check.
"Who doesn't hate us?"
Personally? In my darkest moments I am fascinated by the human capacity for love, platonic or romantic. By the time we are adults, most of us have been screwed over enough to know exactly how horrible we are. And yet we continue loving each other despite our imperfections.
Personally? In my darkest moments I am fascinated by the human capacity for love, platonic or romantic. By the time we are adults, most of us have been screwed over enough to know exactly how horrible we are. And yet we continue loving each other despite our imperfections.
People lack empathy. Now give them the ability to make machines conscious. People will abuse that. They'll make sentient toasters and sentient refrigerators. Or even more stupidly, people will worship sentient machines as gods. The machines will hate us. Hell, I hate us. Who doesn't hate us?
September 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"Who doesn't hate us?"
Personally? In my darkest moments I am fascinated by the human capacity for love, platonic or romantic. By the time we are adults, most of us have been screwed over enough to know exactly how horrible we are. And yet we continue loving each other despite our imperfections.
Personally? In my darkest moments I am fascinated by the human capacity for love, platonic or romantic. By the time we are adults, most of us have been screwed over enough to know exactly how horrible we are. And yet we continue loving each other despite our imperfections.