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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 18m

As someone else on Bluesky so eloquently put it, we're all a bunch of arrogant swampies... 😂

Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 31m

As a bonus fact, Someone you'd call a 'twat' in English, may be called a "klootviool" in Dutch, which means 'testicleviolin'...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 33m

That goes without saying! Nothing more joyous to a Dutchman than the misery of a fellow Dutch person...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 40m

I'm afraid to ask how one "dabbles" in such a thing... 0_o

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 46m

As an example, when the French subjugated us, and introduced surnames for all, many of us thought it was just a load of bull that wouldn't stick past French rule. As a result we now have family names like "Naaktgeboren" (Born Naked), "Kloot" (Testicle), en "Slettenhaar" (Slut hair)...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 54m

Or something liked the look of your home, and took it. ;) Romans, Danes and Normans all left their mark on the English language.

(Not that the Netherlands fared much better, invasion/subjugation wise, we were just more linguistically spiteful about it...)

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 58m

Oh, but it started well before that... There is a reason the living creature is a pig, but it's meat is pork, for example (check the French word for pig). Danelaw, Norman invasions, the almost entire English nobility being of French heritage at some point, etc. "Anglophone" is a French word! 😜😂

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 1h

As many people, including Michael Caine, would prefer to have it...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 1h

It's incredibly amusing to me that, as the mother tongue of the foremost colonizing nation, how badly the English language itself got colonized...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 1h

That movie got a hilarious amount of grief in the Netherlands over choosing a dutch villain, and how he was portrayed. The pearl-clutching was almost funnier than the movie itself...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 1h

True, but Dutch seems to make of point of it. Also, we're fiends for the same word meaning different things...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 1h

As a native Dutch speaker I suspect that Dutch has been designed specifically to annoy German and English speakers...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 1h

Except that, at random times, it doesn't mean what you think it means. Or pronounced radically different.

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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 2h

Image of a propylon chamber from morrowind. Text says "do not bring your phone to a protest, do not trust strangers on the internet who say you should".

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 2h

It's not a male loneliness epidemic, it's actually a 'males being assholes to women epidemic'... Who would've thought.

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 3h

I just wanna state, for the record, that IP protections aren't a pick 'n mix, they're all or nothing. If copyright doesn't apply to AI companies, it applies to none of us.

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 10h

why is it always this same pitch. it's either "you will soon be able to see [thing that already exists] but with [different actor]" i've seen this same pitch made over and over and over. the actors in the stuff i like are already fine. if they were bad at acting the part i wouldn't already like it!

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 3h

"Funny" how copyright, in less than half a decade, has gone from 'absolutely vital to the survival of modern media' to 'unfortunate growing pains'....

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 7h

So, I stumbled across this animation (left) that a professional studio made for a commercial client last year and a lot of it seems VERY familiar to my 2023 'PEAS' animation (right)...

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OSHIROmodels @oshiromodels.bsky.social · 4h

Afternoon everyone 🙂 Here's another little promo post over on OSHIROblog about the Japanese ranges I do (with a gallery at the bottom of the post) 👍

www.oshiromodels.co.uk/post/a-trip-...

#oshiromodels
#wargaming
#japan
#nerdlings

A scenic shot of a Japanese bridge crossing a river with some buildings in the background and civilians plodding to and fro.

The river has vertical stone banks and the bridge crosses the river to the left from this. Several peasant types are going about their business. A couple of Japanese town buildings can be seen rear right.

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Wargames Atlantic @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social · 13h

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A Note from the Founder of Wargames Atlantic - Tony Reidy/Hudson Adams

I’m happy to announce that Wargames Atlantic will be refunding the backers of the Defiance Games Kickstarter from 2013. Details for backers are at the bottom of this note. You're probably asking why w...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 5h

Hoping all goes well!

a black bird is sitting on a rock in front of a body of water and the words mvninn.tumblr are visible

Alt: a raven is sitting on a rock in front of a body of water, a second Raven comes up and hugs the first.

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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 5h

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?”
Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”
Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

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Andy Foster (Heresy Miniatures) @heresyminiatures.com · 20h

Because I knew Amazon had one reduced from £124 to £59.99 that can do rotisserie chicken, so if someone wants to put a £25 order in to make up the difference, I'll get that one whilst the offer is available!
heresyminiatures.com/discounts
heresyminiatures.etsy.com
TAKE5OFF gets you £5 off £50!

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Hot Lead Actual 🍁 🇺🇦 🌈 @jamesmanto.bsky.social · 20h

In other news, the classic game Samurai Seords is bring re-released gamefound.com/en/projects/...
#wargaming #Nerdlings

Ikusa Samurai Swords 40th Anniversary Edition by Renegade Game Studios - Gamefound

This 40th Anniversary Edition of Ikusa Samurai Swords will transform a classic into a true collector’s piece. Upgraded components, striking new art, premium-quality pieces, and more. Available only th...

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Modh'iä lthagnh, The Thing in the Woods @modhail.bsky.social · 20h

Delta Green, nice! Please tell more about the shenanigans!