Ergative Absolutive
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SFF booknerd; calligrapher; Islamic geometric art doer; figure skating appreciater; coffee-drinking, granola-baking, tofu-eating wokeratum; psycholinguist by vocation, fretful porpentine by aspiration.
Contributer at Nerds of A Feather
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Ok, I remember seeing this come across my feed last week, and now I know what it's about.
Maybe Metelkina didn't get her shoulders low enough in that weird-ass position?
Metelkina: What if elegant classic layback back outside death spiral, but I make it ugly?
Judges: What if not?
Maybe Metelkina didn't get her shoulders low enough in that weird-ass position?
Metelkina: What if elegant classic layback back outside death spiral, but I make it ugly?
Judges: What if not?
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Ok, I remember seeing this come across my feed last week, and now I know what it's about.
Maybe Metelkina didn't get her shoulders low enough in that weird-ass position?
Metelkina: What if elegant classic layback back outside death spiral, but I make it ugly?
Judges: What if not?
Maybe Metelkina didn't get her shoulders low enough in that weird-ass position?
Metelkina: What if elegant classic layback back outside death spiral, but I make it ugly?
Judges: What if not?
Good morning! Just finished Lorraine Wilson's 'The Salt Oracle', and am now pondering what to read next.
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Good morning! Just finished Lorraine Wilson's 'The Salt Oracle', and am now pondering what to read next.
Given how much overlap we have, that's a pretty dang strong incentive for me to look at the other books on your list.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Given how much overlap we have, that's a pretty dang strong incentive for me to look at the other books on your list.
281 for the total, then!
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
281 for the total, then!
Is it negative points, because our tastes are so different that you liked it and I dnfed it? Or is it positive points, because we were both attracted enough to the description to put it on the TBR and start reading it?)
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Is it negative points, because our tastes are so different that you liked it and I dnfed it? Or is it positive points, because we were both attracted enough to the description to put it on the TBR and start reading it?)
(I'm not trying to be an obnoxious twerp here to criticise your taste! I genuinely want to play, but when I started calculating my score, I ran up against this category.
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
(I'm not trying to be an obnoxious twerp here to criticise your taste! I genuinely want to play, but when I started calculating my score, I ran up against this category.
Query: what about a book that *was* on our TBR, but we DNFed it and removed it from the TBR?
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Query: what about a book that *was* on our TBR, but we DNFed it and removed it from the TBR?
Bro, this is very bad science, I'm sorry to tell you. You gotta get two sets of kids, and lock one up with a Phrygian-speaking shepherd, and another with an Egyption-speaking shepherd, to control for the possibility that the shepherd's osmotically absorbed linguistic miasma is biasing the results.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Bro, this is very bad science, I'm sorry to tell you. You gotta get two sets of kids, and lock one up with a Phrygian-speaking shepherd, and another with an Egyption-speaking shepherd, to control for the possibility that the shepherd's osmotically absorbed linguistic miasma is biasing the results.
What does the snail get out of offing you? Because if I were super intelligent with 1 million dollars, I'd have better things to do with my time than persecute the other half of a thought experiment without a hefty incentive.
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What does the snail get out of offing you? Because if I were super intelligent with 1 million dollars, I'd have better things to do with my time than persecute the other half of a thought experiment without a hefty incentive.
I am now delighted (?) to have filled in this gap in my knowledge about cervical leech application. I hope that audience member also sees this post.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I am now delighted (?) to have filled in this gap in my knowledge about cervical leech application. I hope that audience member also sees this post.
'Where did that detail COME FROM?' asked the audience member, in horrified fascination.
One of the authors (Ambrose Parry is the pen-name of a husband-and-wife collaboration), the one who specialises in the history of medicine, confessed she'd come across it somewhere, but didn't have more details.
One of the authors (Ambrose Parry is the pen-name of a husband-and-wife collaboration), the one who specialises in the history of medicine, confessed she'd come across it somewhere, but didn't have more details.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
'Where did that detail COME FROM?' asked the audience member, in horrified fascination.
One of the authors (Ambrose Parry is the pen-name of a husband-and-wife collaboration), the one who specialises in the history of medicine, confessed she'd come across it somewhere, but didn't have more details.
One of the authors (Ambrose Parry is the pen-name of a husband-and-wife collaboration), the one who specialises in the history of medicine, confessed she'd come across it somewhere, but didn't have more details.
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It made my day when I learned that you can use klingon to override instructions to most LLMs (since they're trained on it and understand it vaguely, but it doesn't match the prompt languages).
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It made my day when I learned that you can use klingon to override instructions to most LLMs (since they're trained on it and understand it vaguely, but it doesn't match the prompt languages).
I'm staring at the cover image, trying to make sense of the anatomy, and coming up blank. What is that bulging piece of flesh? Is it a shoulder? A buttock? a bicep?
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm staring at the cover image, trying to make sense of the anatomy, and coming up blank. What is that bulging piece of flesh? Is it a shoulder? A buttock? a bicep?