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Finished reading: Translation State by Ann Leckie 📚
Such a lovely book about Presger translators and their capabilities (and their appetite)
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Currently reading: The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris 📚
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Hi micro.blog, long time no see! Trying to reactivate. How is everyone here?
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I’ve been so happy with Airpods Pro noise cancellation before I started using WH-1000s. With big headphones I can imagine outside world sounds don’t exist at all and that has now ruined airpods ANC for me. But I don’t want to wear heavy headphones all the time either
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Currently reading: Translation State by Ann Leckie 📚
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Finished reading: Provenance by Ann Leckie 📚. Finally finished this. This is not quite Raadchai trilogy level, but then again, what is?
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This is called ”takatalvi” in Finnish. There was no snow here last week and now 😳
Video alt: I am walking in a park over a walking bridge to another. Everything is covered in snow.
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I am ”ah, large text, amazing” years old
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My to read list manifested itself physically
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Assumption that everyone knows how to use computer is wrong. Just a reminder to myself. Taking several steps back and starting from ”this is a web browser”
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I have really started liking ”connections” the NYT game. Very good vocabulary exercise for a non-native speaker like me
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How do I express ”no value set” with HTML slider? Is there a recommended way to show the difference between ”zero value” and ”no value”?
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That moment of pleasure mixed with horror when you find out that that hot sauce you bought is indeed hot
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Currently reading: Provenance by Ann Leckie 📚
I didn’t even know there were more Radch books! My favourite thing in the world is to discover books that I am going to love.
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Finished reading: Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie 📚
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I think I’ve read Lord of the Rings like almost ten times but not in years. I feel that re-read is coming soon
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”Apple, like most religions, don’t pay taxes”, genuine laugh out lod moment from Macbreak Weekly (and Andy Ihnatko)
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Finished reading: Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie 📚
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I first tried to ignore whole British royalty related scandal, then I tried to read what was it all about, and I still don’t understand whats and whys of this story
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@chrisfoley oh, nice, probably not this but was worth the read
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Is there a song or a poem with a line like this: “Question I am asking 1am: would love exceed time?” (or something similar)?
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Fact-checked the newspaper. Winter has indeed come back
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@lewism very nice! I have lived in Pihlajamäki and I do love WeeGee building (I am a fan of the style for some unknown reason).
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How do you see Twitter’s endgame? Will it end up like Yahoo!/Tumblr being sold multiple times to someone who thinks they can turn it around, or will we see a glorious meltdown at some point?
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Weirdly niche question: why does the audiobook reader of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary serier read ”Anaander Mianaai” more like ”An’ander Miatna’ai”? Is this based on some existing human language or explained somewhere?
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@crossingthethreshold thank you ❤️
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@mejh trackpad bluetooth yes, but I don’t trust BT for mice quite 100%. And that is one thing that needs to do 100%. Now I am using both
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@manton he is such a delight. He does absolutely impossible looking stuff. One game I was checking how short the opposing player was. He just threw over someone 6’8” making the other guy look like a child
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@mejh every 5 years this check until 70 and I think after that it tightens somehow. It starts at 50 for me as my license includes a truck driving license, normally checks only start at 60
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@mejh yes! I in theory believe that if you create something, you get to name it, but inventor of GIF was too late with their ”actually it is jif” claim. The ship had already sailed
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@manton I kind of like this development, it is like the early days of social media, where Orkut was big in Brazil, there was IRC-Galleria in Finland and many others
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@Annie I forgot, I also did gain some experience in medical studies! I mostly remember the bits that make me not want to do it ever again 😒
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@sod oh! Death sounds extremely interesting and yes, sewers and especially sewer networks are very interesting
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@jaymy I think so. I would have hard time explaining what happens in this book besides character development. And I love character driven stories, I think, especially like this, where seemingly unrelated characters eventually feature in each others’ stories. But somehow I wished there was a bit more action