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just spent three hours in a meeting waiting for the fifteen-minute segment they needed us to be present for
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random thought: europe and environs has forks, east asia has chopsticks, what other sorts of eating utensils do other cultures have/had in the past?
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For the one year anniversary of JWST, a *magnificent* image of an active star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. About 390 lightyears away in the constellation Ophiuchus. Molecular hydogen is shown n red, lighter colored gas around the bright central star is polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

More info: nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/

Extended description: webbtelescope.org/contents/med

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI)
Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)

all the ca-dmv-bot posts make us really want to know

what does the california dmv have against area codes???
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apparently in the earliest drafts of the hobbit, gandalf was named bladorthin
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What size would you like your #dragon today?

Artist is siggy: twitter.com/siggymcc
(Huge thank you to @yingxera for finding the source! :mouse_blob_heart: )

@Nine you boosted social.pixie.town/@elfi/110560 but we can't see the LB it refers to, either you didn't boost that or it doesn't federate with awoo
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Those for whom English is not your first language: How easily did /θ/ (as in "thanks" or "breath") and /ð/ (as in "there" or "breathe"), the two sounds represented by ⟨th⟩ in English, come to you?

These are sounds that are cross-linguistically rare; only three or four major languages (and a handful of minor languages) have them, so I'm curious how easy or hard it is for language learners to acquire them
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Those for whom English is not your first language: How easily did /θ/ (as in "thanks" or "breath") and /ð/ (as in "there" or "breathe"), the two sounds represented by ⟨th⟩ in English, come to you?

These are sounds that are cross-linguistically rare; only three or four major languages (and a handful of minor languages) have them, so I'm curious how easy or hard it is for language learners to acquire them
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Zelda games with good lynels: 5 6
Zelda games with playable lynels: 0
Zelda games with even friendly lynels: 0

come on nintendo
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