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Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· 21d

I'd share more pictures if they contained alt text. And no, this does not count:

A screenshot of a picture of Mars rocks shared on Bluesky, with the following alt text:

"Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech" processing 2di7 & titanio44

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· 28d

Palm Springs "I like your hat." "Of course you do." Next minute...

Andy Samberg (Nyles), wearing JK Simmons (Roy)'s hat, as they dance together ballroom-style at a wedding reception. Both of them have intense looks on their faces.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Jun 27

Me three!

Your closest match:
Claudia Sheinbaum
President of Mexico (2024-present)

Your Results
78% Woke / 22% Chud
36% Techbro / 64% Neo-Luddite
52% Hopepilled / 48% Doomer
66% Davos / 34% Dubai

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Jun 16

Favourite was probably KAOS. Never forgive Netflix.

Poster for the series KAOS, starring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Jun 1

Thinking of doing one of those 30-day song challenges for June, but I'm tired of the usual prompt lists. Can anyone suggest an interesting/unusual list of music prompts? (Preferably less specific than this example)

Farce the Music 30-day Country Song Challenge

Day 1: A song that reminds you of summers in Kentucky while making you oddly horny
Day 2: A song that requests for you to make a successful field goal using the Savior as a ball
Day 3: A romantic song about bad genetics, being poor, and having unattractive offspring
Day 4: A song that Ryan Adams used to kick people out of concerts for requesting
Day 5: A song that suggests having sex with livestock herders and not livestock
Day 6: A song that Zac Brown once said was the worst country song he'd ever heard
Day 7: Your favorite song about an oil company bum who kills a rich lady so he can have a diamond for his girl
Day 7 (again): The best song that spells out a word that means "legal dissolution of marriage"
Day 9: The worst song you can think of that mentions being "fancy like Applebees"
Day 10: A song about a stack of reptiles that represents some sort of deep stuff and whatnot
Day 11: A song about driving a truck to a bar, picking up a babe, and driving her out to the pasture under the moon while drinking beer
Day 12: A song that was #1 on the country chart for 2 weeks but you've already forgotten
Day 13: Your least favorite song about getting drunk on a plane
Day 14: A song that tells the story of hitting a woman in the head with a stick and throwing her in the river
Day 15: Your favorite song about poisoned peas
Day 16: A song by the guy named on Day 6 that is worse than the song it refers to
Day 17: The best song about matriarchs not allowing their offspring to become cowherds
Day 18: A song that was written by one dude but another dude covered it and his fan think it's better but they're wrong
Day 19: Your favorite song screamed at you by Warren Zeiders
Day 20: Your favorite song Luke Bryan fell off stage while performing
Day 21: The best tune about a woman doing vandalism because her man is banging a skank
Day 22: A song that you can't tell whether Rascal Flatts, Dan + Shay, or Hunter Hayes are singing it

...

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 23

I'm not American but gave this a go. (I got 55% resonance for the Baptist Church btw.)

Your map
Thirty‐five American Christian neighborhoods, plotted by social position (left to right) and worship style (top to bottom). Your top five are highlighted in coral. You sit at the marker.

Scatter chart showing my position slightly on the liturgical/formal side of the "expressive/spontaneous-to-liturgical/formal" spectrum, and slightly on the progressive/inclusive side of the "progressive/inclusive-to-socially traditional" spectrum. American Baptist is highlighted as my closest match, though the Mennonite/Anabaptist point (for which I scored 25% resonance) is technically slightly closer to my position on the two axes shown in the chart.

The remainder of my highlighted Top 5 are:
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS, 39% resonance)
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (38% resonance)
United Church of Christ (UCC, 37% resonance), and
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA, 36% resonance)
...even though again there are closer points to my position on this particular chart.

All of my top 5 are fairly close to my position on the "expressive/spontaneous-to-liturgical/formal" spectrum (ELCA being the most formal and American Baptist being the most spontaneous) but they're widely distributed along the other axis, with UCC being the most progressive/inclusive and LCMS being the most socially traditional.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 21

I literally cannot even. Imagine being called Wordorigins.org and choosing to be factually and ridiculously incorrect to *checks notes* avoid complaints?? from other wrong people?? because their population is bigger??

Wordorigins.org (@wordorigins.bsky.social):
But if I wrote "Antarctic winter" I would get a dozen responses from those here in the north who would say it isn't dark there in winter. I lose either way, so I chose to go with the response that would upset those in the least populated hemisphere and the fewer complaints.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 21

That doesn't make it an Antarctic summer.

Bleat by Wordorigins.org (@wordorigins.bsky.social):

"To stave off cabin fever during those long, dark Antarctic summers"

LONG, DARK ANTARCTIC SUMMERS

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 21

what the actual fuck some northern hemisphere people are so fucking weird

Bluesky thread:

Chaucer Doth Tweet: Why are Penguins so ynterestede yn publisshinge bookes?

Wordorigins.org (@wordorigins.bsky.social): To stave off cabin fever during those long, dark Antarctic summers

Me: Long dark summers?

Wordorigins.org: Summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere

Me: Dear gods. Antarctica isn't in the northern hemisphere.

Wordorigins.org: But it is dark in Antarctica during the northern hemisphere summer

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 20

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 16

Post a meme you made.

[Batman slap meme - single-panel comic in which Batman is slapping Robin hard across the face]

Robin: "Everything in Australia is trying to kill y-..."

Batman, slapping Robin: "Australia has one of the highest extinction rates in the world!"

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 15

This strange person seems to "know" a lot about me. Not surprisingly, it's all wrong...

Bsky notifications:

Sisyphus - Fuck IDF, Free Palestine, le barde là... (@thecarpy.bsky.social):
Verry sorry

Sisyphus - Fuck IDF, Free Palestine, le barde là... (@thecarpy.bsky.social):
You are fascinating. You might notice that there is a female counterpart to emperor, empress, you might also notice that there is no such thing for captain or surgeon, like a female noun. You must be USian, probably MAGA, or ReformUK, or some other random idiot ? How you could not work that out ?

Sisyphus - Fuck IDF, Free Palestine, le barde là... (@thecarpy.bsky.social):
Might be my woke thing, but I think we need to honour those who give birth to us - I know, you do not care, break your knee and you will know what your mother endured for you. If you have the luck to have her still around, celebrate her, mine went while I was a teen. I thus think they are entitled

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 11

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· May 6

Just had an unsolicited call from my dad to let me know my Nonna died.

[Stranger Things Season 3 - 3-panel comic]:
1. Mike and El sitting on El's bed: "Is everything okay?"
2. Hopper: "I don't think so. It's your grandma."
3. Mike and El looking surprised and concerned.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Apr 26

There's a little straight-to-telly Aussie comedy from 2004 called Go Big, about a trio of con artists who take on corporate bigwigs. It stars Justine Clarke, Alex Dimitriades and the late, great Tom Long. I know it was studied in a media production class once, but otherwise it's impossible to find.

[Go Big] Gina Katz (Justine Clarke), Ethan Foster (Tom Long), and Hamish Fitz-Herbert (Alex Dimitriades), all wearing business attire and toasting with glasses of champagne.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Apr 25

Some friends "encouraged" me to try tuna and peanut butter sandwiches, so I did. It was...fine, I guess. Not gross, but also not better than having them separately. I hope you appreciate this information. FOR SCIENCE! 🧪🔭🧫

Rice cake covered in a layer of peanut butter.

Chunks of tuna on the peanut-butter-covered rice cake.

A half-eaten tuna-topped peanut-butter-covered rice cake.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Apr 19

This is a dance-off. If you see this repost a dance, or you are eliminated.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Apr 18

So if anyone knows where I can find some good Einstein's Riddle/Zebra Puzzle books, please let me know! 🙏

Black text on white:

Who owns the fish?
This was given to me as an exercise in logic puzzles. I think it is a great puzzle. According to the worksheet I was given this puzzle is attributed to Albert Einstein. [italics]He claimed that 98% of the world could not work it out.[end italics - also that's a stupid claim and you should never believe claims like that.] Can you?

There are five houses in a row and in five different colours.
In each house lives a person from a different country.
Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain pet. No two people drink the same drink, play the same sport, or keep the same pet.
Fill in the table below ad[sic] try and work out which family keep fish as a pet!

- The Brit lives in a red house
- The Swede keeps dogs
- The Dane drinks tea
- The green house is on the left of the white house
- The green house owner drinks coffee
- The person who plays polo keeps birds
- The owner of the yellow house plays hockey
- The man living in the house right in the centre drinks milk
- The Norwegian lives in the first house
- The man who plays baseball lives next to the man who keeps cats
- The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who plays hockey
- The man who plays billiards drinks beer
- The German plays soccer
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
- The man who plays baseball has a neighbour who drinks water

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Apr 18

I'm looking for a physical book of Einstein's Riddles/Zebra Puzzles as a gift for my (maybe autistic) nibling. I think he'd get a real kick out of them. I remember having books of these kinds of puzzles growing up, but now I'm having trouble finding good ones.

A zebra puzzle (it's not in English but there's a grid of 5x5 boxes and a list of clues underneath).

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Apr 14

Lol at the grifter who couldn't read the room 😅 (now also blocked)

Screenshot of a reply from Coach Chron (@coachchron.com):

Memory fails methods. Repetition forges them. Pick one process. Execute daily. Phrases come later. Action imprints.

Canberra Tragic@emoneconomist· Apr 14

(Not that I'm especially fond of rom-coms, it's just that they tend to show off cities well and we seem to have a relative dearth of them, in favour of gruesome crime/thriller/slashers and political dramas. Plus the occasional sci-fi.)