Lagrange Point 4 Linguist
@l4pointlinguist.bsky.social
EFL word-gardener, apprentice logomancer, interested in just a little bit of everything. (He/Him)
I realized today that I have probably been told 「死ね」(die) or "fuck you" more this year than in the previous 18 years living in Japan combined.
February 18, 2026 at 11:25 AM
I realized today that I have probably been told 「死ね」(die) or "fuck you" more this year than in the previous 18 years living in Japan combined.
A rule of thumb that rarely proves inadequate - whenever culture is talked about in a modern political context, it's really just a euphemism for race.
Because culture doesn't have neat and tidy boundaries. As long as people can interact, it flows, mixes, blends, and swirls.
Because culture doesn't have neat and tidy boundaries. As long as people can interact, it flows, mixes, blends, and swirls.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A rule of thumb that rarely proves inadequate - whenever culture is talked about in a modern political context, it's really just a euphemism for race.
Because culture doesn't have neat and tidy boundaries. As long as people can interact, it flows, mixes, blends, and swirls.
Because culture doesn't have neat and tidy boundaries. As long as people can interact, it flows, mixes, blends, and swirls.
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What we get wrong about good vs. evil:
February 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
What we get wrong about good vs. evil:
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How to cope in this hellscape:
February 12, 2026 at 9:28 PM
How to cope in this hellscape:
Sometimes while trying to sleep, a part of my brain will idly wonder "What would it feel like if right at this moment something grabbed me from behind and violently shook me while screaming in my ear," and then my autonomic nervous system definitively proves I don't have aphantasia.
February 12, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Sometimes while trying to sleep, a part of my brain will idly wonder "What would it feel like if right at this moment something grabbed me from behind and violently shook me while screaming in my ear," and then my autonomic nervous system definitively proves I don't have aphantasia.
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my SPOOKIEST blog post yet (it’s not very spooky but it is interesting)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
Unsolved historical mysteries that keep me up at night
Pondering all of the things that have been lost to the vast, gaping void of the past.
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 AM
my SPOOKIEST blog post yet (it’s not very spooky but it is interesting)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
There was a chunk of my youth when the only music I listened to that had lyrics were songs in languages I didn't understand. I still frequently listen to music in languages I don't know. Hell, I like songs in conlangs.
It is weird to me that there are people who think this is even an issue.
It is weird to me that there are people who think this is even an issue.
dude, i would fucking die of joy if we got Hindustani classical at a big event in the states
Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?
February 11, 2026 at 1:38 AM
There was a chunk of my youth when the only music I listened to that had lyrics were songs in languages I didn't understand. I still frequently listen to music in languages I don't know. Hell, I like songs in conlangs.
It is weird to me that there are people who think this is even an issue.
It is weird to me that there are people who think this is even an issue.
It just sunk in that the English word 'art' (<-Latin 'ars', <-PIE *h₂r̥tís (fitting), *h₂er- (to join)) may be cognate with Avestan '𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀' (ərəta, “truth, right”) (<- Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás (just, exactly)) and I can already tell I'm going to spend a lot of turning this around in my head.
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 PM
It just sunk in that the English word 'art' (<-Latin 'ars', <-PIE *h₂r̥tís (fitting), *h₂er- (to join)) may be cognate with Avestan '𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀' (ərəta, “truth, right”) (<- Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hr̥tás (just, exactly)) and I can already tell I'm going to spend a lot of turning this around in my head.
There comes a time every peak of summer/winter where my aircon just puffs out its vent and then goes quiet for a long time and it really sounds like the thing is sighing and giving up.
And like, I get it. But could you maybe not...?
And like, I get it. But could you maybe not...?
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 AM
There comes a time every peak of summer/winter where my aircon just puffs out its vent and then goes quiet for a long time and it really sounds like the thing is sighing and giving up.
And like, I get it. But could you maybe not...?
And like, I get it. But could you maybe not...?
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"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
Boreas looks like they're coming to Tokyo to visit. May it be a long stay! Come, enjoy the Kanto plain and lay down your snows.
February 6, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Boreas looks like they're coming to Tokyo to visit. May it be a long stay! Come, enjoy the Kanto plain and lay down your snows.
Kickst~rter is a good metaphor for what tech companies have done to the internet. I might want to give some people on it my money now and then, but if I so much as think in its direction, it will flood every website I look at with ads for years. So I don't touch it.
February 4, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Kickst~rter is a good metaphor for what tech companies have done to the internet. I might want to give some people on it my money now and then, but if I so much as think in its direction, it will flood every website I look at with ads for years. So I don't touch it.
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I wish we could move beyond "this isn't who we are". to "this is what it is. Now how can we change it?"
February 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I wish we could move beyond "this isn't who we are". to "this is what it is. Now how can we change it?"
oooOooOh noO! You shanked my Jenga ship!
January 28, 2026 at 12:04 PM
oooOooOh noO! You shanked my Jenga ship!
When I studied art as an undergrad, I wanted to be a world-famous artist. That didn't happen. I went in a different direction to make sure I had a roof over my head. I don't regret the career, though sometimes I regret not building my skills more than I did.
January 28, 2026 at 11:33 AM
When I studied art as an undergrad, I wanted to be a world-famous artist. That didn't happen. I went in a different direction to make sure I had a roof over my head. I don't regret the career, though sometimes I regret not building my skills more than I did.
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Like.... 60-70% of writing youtube seems to be "neither readers nor writers know how to read or write, respectively" followed by an example of their own writing that reads like 16 Harlequin romance novels formed a polycule and are both committing and solving crimes.
January 27, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Like.... 60-70% of writing youtube seems to be "neither readers nor writers know how to read or write, respectively" followed by an example of their own writing that reads like 16 Harlequin romance novels formed a polycule and are both committing and solving crimes.
Every 4th post on my feed is now that Norman Rockwell painting.
January 27, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Every 4th post on my feed is now that Norman Rockwell painting.
I don't know how it relates to weed, but he's making the same face I make whenever I see someone throw a pot that turns out normal, not chunky clunky like I always do.
I keep getting this PSA and I just cannot figure out what this photo has to do with anything else about the spot.
Is it “pottery, not pot”? Is that the bit? Is the guy named Herb and he’s striking out? Is he cursed to be bad at pottery?
WTF do these characters have to do with not getting high?!
Is it “pottery, not pot”? Is that the bit? Is the guy named Herb and he’s striking out? Is he cursed to be bad at pottery?
WTF do these characters have to do with not getting high?!
January 20, 2026 at 11:40 AM
I don't know how it relates to weed, but he's making the same face I make whenever I see someone throw a pot that turns out normal, not chunky clunky like I always do.
It occurs to me after watching this that there was a peculiar mouthfeel to how America imagined cowboy names. I had never heard of "Hopalong Cassidy" until I saw this video, but if you had said that name to me with no context, I would have assumed it was a cowboy name.
As I somewhat expected 🤷♂️ The Algorithm does NOT love a video essay about 100 year-old cowboy movies that doesn't frontload the present-day relativity 🙄 So if anyone wants to help this one find its way to the sources, outlets, forums etc that will boost it we'd be grateful
youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...
youtu.be/Y4KcKvDer-U?...
This Movie Exists - HOPALONG CASSIDY
YouTube video by moviebob
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
It occurs to me after watching this that there was a peculiar mouthfeel to how America imagined cowboy names. I had never heard of "Hopalong Cassidy" until I saw this video, but if you had said that name to me with no context, I would have assumed it was a cowboy name.
Today was the kind of day that needed a trip to the holosuite to salvage.
a man in a niners baseball uniform is standing on a field
ALT: a man in a niners baseball uniform is standing on a field
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January 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Today was the kind of day that needed a trip to the holosuite to salvage.
Human body bug report: Repeated testing shows that accidentally biting the inside of your cheek results in just enough swelling to increase the likelihood of further accidentally biting the inside of your cheek.
January 12, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Human body bug report: Repeated testing shows that accidentally biting the inside of your cheek results in just enough swelling to increase the likelihood of further accidentally biting the inside of your cheek.
youtu.be/4xRv9ZQOCPo?...
In the 70s, there were adults who funded media and who thought children needed to be told to eat cheese. Like they would not do it on their own without instruction. It was apparently an urgent problem facing the nation's youth.
In the 70s, there were adults who funded media and who thought children needed to be told to eat cheese. Like they would not do it on their own without instruction. It was apparently an urgent problem facing the nation's youth.
I Hanker for a Hunka Cheese
YouTube video by Channel 80something
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 12:27 PM
youtu.be/4xRv9ZQOCPo?...
In the 70s, there were adults who funded media and who thought children needed to be told to eat cheese. Like they would not do it on their own without instruction. It was apparently an urgent problem facing the nation's youth.
In the 70s, there were adults who funded media and who thought children needed to be told to eat cheese. Like they would not do it on their own without instruction. It was apparently an urgent problem facing the nation's youth.
There is this trope in sci-fi that in the future, people won't eat food that's food as people in the real world know it. We'll try to make it look like food, but it will be reconstituted proteins.
It solves the question of how a crew could spend months in space on a small ship.
It solves the question of how a crew could spend months in space on a small ship.
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 AM
There is this trope in sci-fi that in the future, people won't eat food that's food as people in the real world know it. We'll try to make it look like food, but it will be reconstituted proteins.
It solves the question of how a crew could spend months in space on a small ship.
It solves the question of how a crew could spend months in space on a small ship.
/me starting to read an article about the "fire horse" phenomenon
"Well, I don't believe in zodiacs, but it makes sense people might worry. It's doubling up on symbols of chaos, power, and drive."
/me reads that it's primarily directed at women born in that year
"Well, I don't believe in zodiacs, but it makes sense people might worry. It's doubling up on symbols of chaos, power, and drive."
/me reads that it's primarily directed at women born in that year
a south park character says god damn it
Alt: a south park character says god damn it
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
/me starting to read an article about the "fire horse" phenomenon
"Well, I don't believe in zodiacs, but it makes sense people might worry. It's doubling up on symbols of chaos, power, and drive."
/me reads that it's primarily directed at women born in that year
"Well, I don't believe in zodiacs, but it makes sense people might worry. It's doubling up on symbols of chaos, power, and drive."
/me reads that it's primarily directed at women born in that year
"You look like Taylor Swift."
(I was then a fat, dark-haired man well on his way to middle-age.)
(I was then a fat, dark-haired man well on his way to middle-age.)
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"You look like Taylor Swift."
(I was then a fat, dark-haired man well on his way to middle-age.)
(I was then a fat, dark-haired man well on his way to middle-age.)