Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

seriously tho the number of times I use the words "discusses" and "experiences" in these abstracts is ABSURD

They're both like 200 words long and I'm pretty sure I uses experiences 5-6 times in each 😬

There's a point in this interview where my childhood neighborhood comes up and you can hear me almost give the interviewee my cross-street before I very obviously remember this whole thing is being recorded for a public archive and start backpedaling.

One of the things that linguists are trying to figure out is whether words are stored as discrete objects in the bring or if they're each 'assembled' from their component parts.

The most likely answer seems to be "a bit of both" but tbh I'm pretty sure I lean heavily towards component parts personally because I will just inflect things/stick suffixes on roots in non-standard ways with *incredible* frequency

Love making up words and then finding out they're real words

« Another thing which makes this worse is that our science changes over time. If I did the best possible research on what we right now think would be the best shape for a superfast flying thing (based on the Blackbird perhaps?), nonetheless ten years from now we might do other research and discover a new shape is better, and using that shape would come across as wrong and super dated. To give a real example though I forget what story it was, there’s an SF story set in the future where an explorer entering a derelict spaceship pulls out her cell phone and turns the screen white so she can see by its light–instantly dates it to the brief phase when phones didn’t have flashlights, and feels distracting. If it just said “She shone a light” it wouldn’t be distracting at all, it would always feel correct no matter how much tech changes.» from https://www.exurbe.com/terra-ignota-ama-questions-craft-of-writing-performer-casting/

I find it really interesting that the author thinks this is bad instead of one of my favorite things about reading older scifi. Everyone’s taste is different I guess??

Saved a really great clip only to discover that i had not saved the really great clip 😢

this interview was done in person and both of us are holding papers so occasionally i'm like oooooh I want to save thi--CRINKLE CRINKLE CRINKLE

I'm reviewing my interview tape and I forgot that the interviewee suddenly brings up the death of his cousin to carbon monoxide poisoning when he was 17

It's just so fucking tragic

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‘They have bread but it doesn’t meet your obnoxiously high standards’ is also a valid possibility I suppose

The opened @7:00 & close @5:00 (its currently 1:20) — what do you want to bet that they are already completely out of bread?

I suppose it’s possible that they know they’re definitely going to sell out but if that’s the case why aren’t they making more &/or making bread more than once a week

What if you make too much??? Selling day olds is a time honored bakery tradition!

But if you only make bread once a week, WHY would you do that the day before you close

In this particular fic its Mace Windu which is a fantastic choice tbh