Ouroboros System
@ouroborosys.bsky.social
Ouroboros System. 20. Plural, ΘΔ & Queer. Conlanger. Feel free to DM if we're mutuals. מיר לערנען זיך יידיש. Anti-endos fuck off. They/them. Also on tumblr at https://www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-sys
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Ouroboros System
@ouroborosys.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Who up conning they langs?
מיר שרײַבן אויף יידיש 3 טאָג לאַנג אין אַ ביכל. ס׳איז גוט ביז איצט. ס׳דאַכט זיך אַז מיר האָבן איצט אַ טאָגבוך.
February 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
מיר שרײַבן אויף יידיש 3 טאָג לאַנג אין אַ ביכל. ס׳איז גוט ביז איצט. ס׳דאַכט זיך אַז מיר האָבן איצט אַ טאָגבוך.
just remembered we haven't posted here in a bit
we've been making some updates on our latest conlang on our tumblr www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... if anyone wants to see
the tl;dr is just it's a lot of work and it's going very slowly
#conlang #conlanging
we've been making some updates on our latest conlang on our tumblr www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... if anyone wants to see
the tl;dr is just it's a lot of work and it's going very slowly
#conlang #conlanging
February 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
just remembered we haven't posted here in a bit
we've been making some updates on our latest conlang on our tumblr www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... if anyone wants to see
the tl;dr is just it's a lot of work and it's going very slowly
#conlang #conlanging
we've been making some updates on our latest conlang on our tumblr www.tumblr.com/ouroboros-cl... if anyone wants to see
the tl;dr is just it's a lot of work and it's going very slowly
#conlang #conlanging
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The best places to learn about Tolkien’s conlangs are scrungly websites with bad formatting created in 2004 and never updated since.
January 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The best places to learn about Tolkien’s conlangs are scrungly websites with bad formatting created in 2004 and never updated since.
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Good god, definitely read that whole thread
Never figured I'd see the day I gotta jump ship from *all of Google* (or at least not in this decade) but if this clepto AI bullshit ain't undone real quick it might finally be time to look around for less invasive alternatives to all of it
Never figured I'd see the day I gotta jump ship from *all of Google* (or at least not in this decade) but if this clepto AI bullshit ain't undone real quick it might finally be time to look around for less invasive alternatives to all of it
I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
January 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Good god, definitely read that whole thread
Never figured I'd see the day I gotta jump ship from *all of Google* (or at least not in this decade) but if this clepto AI bullshit ain't undone real quick it might finally be time to look around for less invasive alternatives to all of it
Never figured I'd see the day I gotta jump ship from *all of Google* (or at least not in this decade) but if this clepto AI bullshit ain't undone real quick it might finally be time to look around for less invasive alternatives to all of it
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
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Resurfacing this old wisdom imparted by a sage internet denizen of yore, as we embark on this new Bluesky journey together:
January 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Resurfacing this old wisdom imparted by a sage internet denizen of yore, as we embark on this new Bluesky journey together:
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haven't posted in a while, but we've been working on an indo-european #conlang
it's going hellishly (positive and negative)
as a preview: here's the 1st and 2nd person pronouns
it's going hellishly (positive and negative)
as a preview: here's the 1st and 2nd person pronouns
January 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
haven't posted in a while, but we've been working on an indo-european #conlang
it's going hellishly (positive and negative)
as a preview: here's the 1st and 2nd person pronouns
it's going hellishly (positive and negative)
as a preview: here's the 1st and 2nd person pronouns
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The Kílta word for social media is: nivullës /niˈβulːəs/. It's from *nivuvullës (by haplology) niv-a "name; reputation" + vullo "harvest" + -ës agent/instrument derivation. So, "reputation harvester."
Kílta encodes a certain amount of grumpiness, which is maybe expected in a personal #conlang.
Kílta encodes a certain amount of grumpiness, which is maybe expected in a personal #conlang.
January 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The Kílta word for social media is: nivullës /niˈβulːəs/. It's from *nivuvullës (by haplology) niv-a "name; reputation" + vullo "harvest" + -ës agent/instrument derivation. So, "reputation harvester."
Kílta encodes a certain amount of grumpiness, which is maybe expected in a personal #conlang.
Kílta encodes a certain amount of grumpiness, which is maybe expected in a personal #conlang.
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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This is why when I check in with friends, I apologetically say something like, “You okay? I don’t know where anything is.”
Been getting a lot of people asking about LA geography concerned that the images they see means the entire county is on fire. That's understandable.
But LA is a big place. So, to give an idea of scale it's time to cart this out again. It's a map of LA with other cities superimposed on it.
But LA is a big place. So, to give an idea of scale it's time to cart this out again. It's a map of LA with other cities superimposed on it.
January 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is why when I check in with friends, I apologetically say something like, “You okay? I don’t know where anything is.”
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Remain eternally angry that AT LEAST six years ago I started pitching multiple editors about a looming insurance crisis in California and was told it wasn't a real story, or if it was it would affect a small number of people, and even if then, it would be a negligible policy issue.
January 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Remain eternally angry that AT LEAST six years ago I started pitching multiple editors about a looming insurance crisis in California and was told it wasn't a real story, or if it was it would affect a small number of people, and even if then, it would be a negligible policy issue.
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waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
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Not what I thought I'd be writing about when I picked the name Torched.
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
Zero percent containment
Reporting from a city, torched
www.torched.la
January 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Not what I thought I'd be writing about when I picked the name Torched.
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now
www.torched.la/zero-percent...
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For-profit "health" insurance companies are evil at their core, don't deserve to be around, and have no right to exist.
United Healthcare made a doctor scrub out of surgery, to confirm that a patient with breast cancer actually needed the treatment (that they already got "prior authorization" for).
United Healthcare made a doctor scrub out of surgery, to confirm that a patient with breast cancer actually needed the treatment (that they already got "prior authorization" for).
January 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
For-profit "health" insurance companies are evil at their core, don't deserve to be around, and have no right to exist.
United Healthcare made a doctor scrub out of surgery, to confirm that a patient with breast cancer actually needed the treatment (that they already got "prior authorization" for).
United Healthcare made a doctor scrub out of surgery, to confirm that a patient with breast cancer actually needed the treatment (that they already got "prior authorization" for).
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Yesterday I posted about the Romance words for "to want".
Spanish and Portuguese use 'querer' instead of a descendant of Latin *volēre.
What would *volēre have become if it had undergone the sound changes that occurred in these two languages?
Listen to its hypothetical modern outcomes:
Spanish and Portuguese use 'querer' instead of a descendant of Latin *volēre.
What would *volēre have become if it had undergone the sound changes that occurred in these two languages?
Listen to its hypothetical modern outcomes:
January 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Yesterday I posted about the Romance words for "to want".
Spanish and Portuguese use 'querer' instead of a descendant of Latin *volēre.
What would *volēre have become if it had undergone the sound changes that occurred in these two languages?
Listen to its hypothetical modern outcomes:
Spanish and Portuguese use 'querer' instead of a descendant of Latin *volēre.
What would *volēre have become if it had undergone the sound changes that occurred in these two languages?
Listen to its hypothetical modern outcomes:
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$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
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For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
January 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
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But are they gracious enough to share 👉👈
January 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
But are they gracious enough to share 👉👈
i love going outside and smelling & tasting ash
just Los Angeles things apparently
just Los Angeles things apparently
January 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
i love going outside and smelling & tasting ash
just Los Angeles things apparently
just Los Angeles things apparently
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The United States is Too Big. My hometown is going days at a time with no temps above freezing while Los Angeles is actively on fire
January 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The United States is Too Big. My hometown is going days at a time with no temps above freezing while Los Angeles is actively on fire
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SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵
January 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵