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Margot/Marty
@martymango0.bsky.social
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Worldbuilder, conlanger, casual artist & crafter // ace, agender
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On one hand, every joint in my legs hurts. On the other hand, this is because I walked a couple miles of hilly zoo today so... worth it.
I grew up with The Worst Band in the Universe! I loved it!
Never knew anyone else who'd ever even heard of it, which I always thought was a shame
My mom came through & found me my seasonal cookies!

(My complaints still stand, but at least we found some!)
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Not to mention, ban ‘cashless’ brick and mortar stores. Not everyone has tap-to-pay and last I checked, physical money is still LEGAL TENDER and businesses should have no grounds to reject customers paying with hard cash.
tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
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“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
www.technologyreview.com
Somebody explain to me why, on October 16th, I cannot find a pack of orange-colored Oreos anywhere (we checked multiple stores) but I *can* - if I was so inclined - purchase CHRISTMAS PACKAGED ones

Make it make sense
Gah! I love these little crows!

(Also, I kinda want that first panel without the text 'cause I want him just takin' in the fall as the background on all my devices & maybe even framed on my wall, he's that good a birb)
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“The scheme provides unconditional, regular payments to eligible artists and creative workers, allowing them to focus on their practice without the pressure of commercial viability.”

“A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return.”
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)
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Sharktober: 07. Tropical Shark 🌴

A zebra shark. 🦓
You might think: Hey Elli, this shark doesn't look like a zebra at all! - Just look up juvenile zebra sharks.

#sharktober #sharktober2025 #digitalart
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In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
My mom got a better angle picture for me.

The little guy hung out on my shoulder for probably 10-15min, just chillin', before going on their merry way; I think they were tired 'cause it was kinda windy during that part of the day
I have been blessed!

(Excuse the photo quality; it's hard to take a pic of your own shoulder without moving too much)
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Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
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The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
What was the weird pickle thing, Hank? I need to know WHICH pickle related story caused you to cross that one off
[my local beach is building post-season berms]

Guy:"What's with all the diggin'?"

Lifeguard letting the digger through: "Oh, yanno, it's a thing they do for the winter. Makes a barrier; just gives the storms something to crash on that's not, like, the town..."

(NOTE: read in a New England accent)
I don't yet have candy corn in the house & this can't start eating it the second it ticks over into being October this year, so I guess this guy'll have to do
How did you spend your Tuesday?

I spent the day manually queueing over 300 Halloween posts to run throughout the month of October on my Tumblr.

Basically nobody follows me on social media anywhere; this is for me.

I have no regrets.
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The problem with spending all weekend at a maritime folk festival is now the inside of my head is 80% shanty choruses by volume & will continue to be for the rest of the week
Hey.
Hey, wtf just *clacked* against my window?
I live on the top floor of a ≈6 story building surrounded by parking lot on all sides...
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