S.D.
@summerd.bsky.social
Tired, grumpy, old, queer, nerd. Into conlanging, spec evo, TTRPGs, and staring blankly at the wall for hours. I don't talk much.
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Follow the #NoKings hashtag if you want to gather some excellent data for a placard-based language investigation! Here's a great example.
October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Follow the #NoKings hashtag if you want to gather some excellent data for a placard-based language investigation! Here's a great example.
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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Look, I don't really want to wade into American politics, but since emblem gestures are my jam, a reminder: gestures are treated in communication as more deniable than words and bad-faith actors can easily exploit this feature.
January 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Look, I don't really want to wade into American politics, but since emblem gestures are my jam, a reminder: gestures are treated in communication as more deniable than words and bad-faith actors can easily exploit this feature.
With all the shit going on my husband is looking for jobs in the EU. Anyone need a DevOps Engineer and willing to help an American couple escape? 😰
January 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
With all the shit going on my husband is looking for jobs in the EU. Anyone need a DevOps Engineer and willing to help an American couple escape? 😰
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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
The puppy is at the vet getting a broken tooth pulled, and now the older dog is just eating up being the only dog in the house. He missed being the only one to get love and attention.
January 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The puppy is at the vet getting a broken tooth pulled, and now the older dog is just eating up being the only dog in the house. He missed being the only one to get love and attention.
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It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.
January 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.
My husband and I have been working on a space facts coloring book for kids. We really love doing it, we're really enjoying what we've created so far. But some days, like today, we're staring at each other saying "How do you explain Hawking radiation to 5th graders?" In as few words as possible. 😰
January 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My husband and I have been working on a space facts coloring book for kids. We really love doing it, we're really enjoying what we've created so far. But some days, like today, we're staring at each other saying "How do you explain Hawking radiation to 5th graders?" In as few words as possible. 😰
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It’s such a delight to not understand youth culture as I get older. I’m so happy for these kids and their glizzy skibidi toilet giga chads.
Feeling threatened by young people because they’re creating confusing new trends is a SKILL ISSUE. Embrace being supportively baffled!
Feeling threatened by young people because they’re creating confusing new trends is a SKILL ISSUE. Embrace being supportively baffled!
January 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It’s such a delight to not understand youth culture as I get older. I’m so happy for these kids and their glizzy skibidi toilet giga chads.
Feeling threatened by young people because they’re creating confusing new trends is a SKILL ISSUE. Embrace being supportively baffled!
Feeling threatened by young people because they’re creating confusing new trends is a SKILL ISSUE. Embrace being supportively baffled!
Enter the year you turned 10 into the GIF bar and see what was popular (way) back then.
January 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Enter the year you turned 10 into the GIF bar and see what was popular (way) back then.
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January 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm very tired, and it's the middle of the night, so I'm sure that didn't make sense. So, yeah...
December 28, 2024 at 7:47 AM
I'm very tired, and it's the middle of the night, so I'm sure that didn't make sense. So, yeah...
My biggest fight right now is working out the morphology for changing words from one part of speech to another. Don't want to just make random affixes, I want them to be words attached on. E.g. noun>adj (manner) is -with. So "with-speed" means fast.
December 28, 2024 at 7:45 AM
My biggest fight right now is working out the morphology for changing words from one part of speech to another. Don't want to just make random affixes, I want them to be words attached on. E.g. noun>adj (manner) is -with. So "with-speed" means fast.
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Thoughts?
OSV is standard word order. Agents of intransitive verbs may be animate or inanimate, but agents of transitive verbs must be animate. Inanimate agents must be introduced via a postposition after the verb, changing the word order to OVS
Deer I hunt.
Door closed wind by.
#conlang
OSV is standard word order. Agents of intransitive verbs may be animate or inanimate, but agents of transitive verbs must be animate. Inanimate agents must be introduced via a postposition after the verb, changing the word order to OVS
Deer I hunt.
Door closed wind by.
#conlang
December 20, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Thoughts?
OSV is standard word order. Agents of intransitive verbs may be animate or inanimate, but agents of transitive verbs must be animate. Inanimate agents must be introduced via a postposition after the verb, changing the word order to OVS
Deer I hunt.
Door closed wind by.
#conlang
OSV is standard word order. Agents of intransitive verbs may be animate or inanimate, but agents of transitive verbs must be animate. Inanimate agents must be introduced via a postposition after the verb, changing the word order to OVS
Deer I hunt.
Door closed wind by.
#conlang
Getting married in an hour and a half!
December 17, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Getting married in an hour and a half!
I'm getting married on Tuesday. And I'd love to use that as an excuse for not doing #lexember for days, but really it's just depression kicking my ass on top of a mountain of stress.
December 13, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I'm getting married on Tuesday. And I'd love to use that as an excuse for not doing #lexember for days, but really it's just depression kicking my ass on top of a mountain of stress.
#lexember day 6
I decided to change up how I make my kinship terms today.
/wɛ.ʁɔ/ (n) - son
Derived from /wɛ/ (v) - to cry, to weep
/ɔ.tu.ʁɔ/ (n) - daughter
Derived from /ɔ.tu/ (v) - to drink, to suckle
/ʁɔ/ (v) to do (a thing) - I've made this also into a kinship suffix
I decided to change up how I make my kinship terms today.
/wɛ.ʁɔ/ (n) - son
Derived from /wɛ/ (v) - to cry, to weep
/ɔ.tu.ʁɔ/ (n) - daughter
Derived from /ɔ.tu/ (v) - to drink, to suckle
/ʁɔ/ (v) to do (a thing) - I've made this also into a kinship suffix
December 7, 2024 at 5:01 AM
#lexember day 6
I decided to change up how I make my kinship terms today.
/wɛ.ʁɔ/ (n) - son
Derived from /wɛ/ (v) - to cry, to weep
/ɔ.tu.ʁɔ/ (n) - daughter
Derived from /ɔ.tu/ (v) - to drink, to suckle
/ʁɔ/ (v) to do (a thing) - I've made this also into a kinship suffix
I decided to change up how I make my kinship terms today.
/wɛ.ʁɔ/ (n) - son
Derived from /wɛ/ (v) - to cry, to weep
/ɔ.tu.ʁɔ/ (n) - daughter
Derived from /ɔ.tu/ (v) - to drink, to suckle
/ʁɔ/ (v) to do (a thing) - I've made this also into a kinship suffix
#lexember day 4 I did a couple words to work on a sentence
/kwu/ (n) - here, this place - when used w/ infinitive verb it changes the verb to the present "tense"
/ɔ.wa/ (v) - to sing, to recite
/ɔ.wa kwu ak ji cim/
sing here of I you
I sing of you = Thank you!
(still working on grammar) #conlang
/kwu/ (n) - here, this place - when used w/ infinitive verb it changes the verb to the present "tense"
/ɔ.wa/ (v) - to sing, to recite
/ɔ.wa kwu ak ji cim/
sing here of I you
I sing of you = Thank you!
(still working on grammar) #conlang
December 4, 2024 at 11:46 PM
This may be the best thing I have ever seen in my life. ❤️❤️❤️
thank you very much for this! and thank you for the explicit warrant that it was worth clicking on an instagram link, without which i probably wouldn't have :P
since it was, I've gone ahead and downloaded it so everyone can enjoy it without needing to perform this dread calculus:
since it was, I've gone ahead and downloaded it so everyone can enjoy it without needing to perform this dread calculus:
I Put the Glamour back into Grammar — Christian Uffmann
YouTube video by Jake Eakle
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December 4, 2024 at 5:42 PM
This may be the best thing I have ever seen in my life. ❤️❤️❤️
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How incredible is it that these totally ordinary moments from the lives of ancient Babylonian students have survived.
These are the 4,000-year-old teeth marks of a 12ish-year-old kid who bit a clay assignment cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/23...
These are the 4,000-year-old teeth marks of a 12ish-year-old kid who bit a clay assignment cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/23...
December 3, 2024 at 8:21 PM
How incredible is it that these totally ordinary moments from the lives of ancient Babylonian students have survived.
These are the 4,000-year-old teeth marks of a 12ish-year-old kid who bit a clay assignment cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/23...
These are the 4,000-year-old teeth marks of a 12ish-year-old kid who bit a clay assignment cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/23...