Etymologist
@etymology.bsky.social
True but unserious facts about language history every day! unless it’s raining or I’m busy. Blame @coolhand
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First post!
This is a site I made that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries.
Take a look! I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people and companies with more wealth than the annual output of nations.
Let’s fix it.
This is a site I made that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries.
Take a look! I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people and companies with more wealth than the annual output of nations.
Let’s fix it.
Exploring Global Wealth
Compare GDP, net worth, and market cap of countries, billionaires, and companies on a unified scale
assisted.site
April 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
First post!
This is a site I made that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries.
Take a look! I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people and companies with more wealth than the annual output of nations.
Let’s fix it.
This is a site I made that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries.
Take a look! I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people and companies with more wealth than the annual output of nations.
Let’s fix it.
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This is an interactive I put together of the board and executive overlap between DOW30 companies. It’s incredibly incestuous. And Chevron is its heart
I was going to wait to share this because I just shared the global wealth one, but most of these are in freefall today
I was going to wait to share this because I just shared the global wealth one, but most of these are in freefall today
Corporate Overlap in the DOW
Shared board members and officers within the DOW 30
assisted.site
April 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is an interactive I put together of the board and executive overlap between DOW30 companies. It’s incredibly incestuous. And Chevron is its heart
I was going to wait to share this because I just shared the global wealth one, but most of these are in freefall today
I was going to wait to share this because I just shared the global wealth one, but most of these are in freefall today
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While we’re at it, other QOL:
• change your comment visibility threshold to 0 from 2
• turn on all the in app media players (if you want them)
• @graysky.app is a mobile client w keyword mute
• 📌 saves the parent comment to this feed (unique to each user)
⬇️
bsky.app/profile/unde...
What else?
• change your comment visibility threshold to 0 from 2
• turn on all the in app media players (if you want them)
• @graysky.app is a mobile client w keyword mute
• 📌 saves the parent comment to this feed (unique to each user)
⬇️
bsky.app/profile/unde...
What else?
February 12, 2024 at 11:37 PM
While we’re at it, other QOL:
• change your comment visibility threshold to 0 from 2
• turn on all the in app media players (if you want them)
• @graysky.app is a mobile client w keyword mute
• 📌 saves the parent comment to this feed (unique to each user)
⬇️
bsky.app/profile/unde...
What else?
• change your comment visibility threshold to 0 from 2
• turn on all the in app media players (if you want them)
• @graysky.app is a mobile client w keyword mute
• 📌 saves the parent comment to this feed (unique to each user)
⬇️
bsky.app/profile/unde...
What else?
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I just learned this; maybe everyone else already knew, but you can use from:me in search and then whatever terms to find things in your own post feed
🤩 lifesaver
🤩 lifesaver
February 12, 2024 at 11:29 PM
I just learned this; maybe everyone else already knew, but you can use from:me in search and then whatever terms to find things in your own post feed
🤩 lifesaver
🤩 lifesaver
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Hey folks!
With new people joining, I want to highlight the Bipolar community here. It's been fantastic to have these convos and very helpful to me.
This infographic was made with input from the community - just one example! Meanwhile, I'm going to post feeds and call some folks out in comments!
With new people joining, I want to highlight the Bipolar community here. It's been fantastic to have these convos and very helpful to me.
This infographic was made with input from the community - just one example! Meanwhile, I'm going to post feeds and call some folks out in comments!
February 7, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Hey folks!
With new people joining, I want to highlight the Bipolar community here. It's been fantastic to have these convos and very helpful to me.
This infographic was made with input from the community - just one example! Meanwhile, I'm going to post feeds and call some folks out in comments!
With new people joining, I want to highlight the Bipolar community here. It's been fantastic to have these convos and very helpful to me.
This infographic was made with input from the community - just one example! Meanwhile, I'm going to post feeds and call some folks out in comments!
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Also! I'm going to launch the paid/nifty bits of the Patreon in the next few days
If Patreusers (?) are willing I'd sure appreciate a free follow on it to make me look popular and intelligent and in demand 😆
FR tho, thanks if you can. This layoff culture is murdering me, gotta try something new
If Patreusers (?) are willing I'd sure appreciate a free follow on it to make me look popular and intelligent and in demand 😆
FR tho, thanks if you can. This layoff culture is murdering me, gotta try something new
Get more from one impossible thing* on Patreon
*at a time
assisted.space
February 1, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Also! I'm going to launch the paid/nifty bits of the Patreon in the next few days
If Patreusers (?) are willing I'd sure appreciate a free follow on it to make me look popular and intelligent and in demand 😆
FR tho, thanks if you can. This layoff culture is murdering me, gotta try something new
If Patreusers (?) are willing I'd sure appreciate a free follow on it to make me look popular and intelligent and in demand 😆
FR tho, thanks if you can. This layoff culture is murdering me, gotta try something new
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I don’t think any of us want to be Americans right now, so here’s Canada! It has (or, sadly, had) an enormous variety of first peoples’ languages.
September 29, 2023 at 10:48 AM
I don’t think any of us want to be Americans right now, so here’s Canada! It has (or, sadly, had) an enormous variety of first peoples’ languages.
Ever seen a chart of Morse code? It’s really cool! There are some very creative keyboard designs based on this (and other schema) to help people with disabilities communicate more quickly via switch or eye gaze
September 28, 2023 at 11:20 PM
Ever seen a chart of Morse code? It’s really cool! There are some very creative keyboard designs based on this (and other schema) to help people with disabilities communicate more quickly via switch or eye gaze
Survey! What do y’all call it when you stick out your tongue and go like ”thbbbb” at someone? When I was growing up we called that ”blowing a raspberry” but I can’t imagine that’s universal.
September 27, 2023 at 6:44 PM
Survey! What do y’all call it when you stick out your tongue and go like ”thbbbb” at someone? When I was growing up we called that ”blowing a raspberry” but I can’t imagine that’s universal.
This is a very interesting chart of the origins of the word “two,” but whoever made it … well, I don’t know what they were going for really. Fireworks? Enjoy
September 22, 2023 at 7:02 PM
This is a very interesting chart of the origins of the word “two,” but whoever made it … well, I don’t know what they were going for really. Fireworks? Enjoy
Probably my favorite book that I own is this one signed by Helen Keller. Since I was posting about orthography last week … check out her handwriting! She was a rad person
September 21, 2023 at 12:31 AM
Probably my favorite book that I own is this one signed by Helen Keller. Since I was posting about orthography last week … check out her handwriting! She was a rad person
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one day after Elon Musk said he would start charging all users for X, Bluesky is seeing its biggest single-day in new user signups mashable.com/article/blue...
Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only
The day isn't even over yet Bluesky has already seen its biggest influx of new users in a single-day
mashable.com
September 19, 2023 at 8:52 PM
one day after Elon Musk said he would start charging all users for X, Bluesky is seeing its biggest single-day in new user signups mashable.com/article/blue...
I’m grumpy this morning so we’re going with the origins of the names of candy. Mmmm candy
September 20, 2023 at 1:46 PM
I’m grumpy this morning so we’re going with the origins of the names of candy. Mmmm candy
Late night is for language memes
September 20, 2023 at 8:47 AM
Late night is for language memes
India is incredibly linguistically diverse! Here’s some cool maps to illustrate
September 20, 2023 at 1:56 AM
India is incredibly linguistically diverse! Here’s some cool maps to illustrate
Fun etymological fact: “gif” was actually an old English word pronounced as /jɪf/ (it later became just “if”). So every time people debate the pronunciation of gif, all I can think of is “yiff”
img dot yiff
img dot yiff
September 19, 2023 at 8:59 PM
Fun etymological fact: “gif” was actually an old English word pronounced as /jɪf/ (it later became just “if”). So every time people debate the pronunciation of gif, all I can think of is “yiff”
img dot yiff
img dot yiff
Speaking of cool alphabets - technically orthography - check out these amazing scripts from West Africa. The area is historically so resource rich that people didn’t have to travel to hunt or trade, so languages evolved in isolation
September 19, 2023 at 6:10 PM
Speaking of cool alphabets - technically orthography - check out these amazing scripts from West Africa. The area is historically so resource rich that people didn’t have to travel to hunt or trade, so languages evolved in isolation
On the topic of invented languages: the most famous one, Esperanto, has been used for several entire films. One of them is 1966’s “Incubus” starring William Shatner, and I highly recommended it after a few drinks with friends
September 19, 2023 at 12:23 AM
On the topic of invented languages: the most famous one, Esperanto, has been used for several entire films. One of them is 1966’s “Incubus” starring William Shatner, and I highly recommended it after a few drinks with friends
Last language meme for the weekend… get killing, kids!
September 18, 2023 at 3:34 AM
Last language meme for the weekend… get killing, kids!
Some more weekend fun. My field is augmentative communication so this hits home
September 17, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Some more weekend fun. My field is augmentative communication so this hits home
Weekend etymology memes: late night edition (M for Mature)
September 17, 2023 at 5:00 AM
Weekend etymology memes: late night edition (M for Mature)
Weekends are for language memes
September 17, 2023 at 1:17 AM
Weekends are for language memes