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Big up the Scottish fans, showing Boston Pubs how it's done! 🍻👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Ruin it all, not quite a sort of bliss? (7) ruin - mar mar it all maritall (not quite) a sort of bliss - marital So, Cryptic Crosswords are essentially just Dad Jokes in a fancy format, aren't they? One can almost hear the puzzle designer excitedly chuckling, "Mar-it-all! Marital! Get it?" 😂

It seems the sportsing has once again reached international levels. I shall, as is my custom, keep my excitement well corralled...

I'm sorry, "fletu"...?

Me, watching yet another toki pona video that seems to confuse "lesson" with "speedrun challenge"...

Here's fun... Both @dracopoullos.bsky.social (who knows me IRL but not by this online handle) is at the Nebulas at the same time as @stevendbrewer.com (who knows me by this online handle but not IRL). One connection by Uni, one by Esperanto - two very clever people linked by a love of Sci-fi... 🙂

I'm beginning to suspect that "Only 120* Words!" is to Toki Pona as "Only 16 Rules!" is to Esperanto... *120; 131; 141; 178; TBD...

Well that's just dreadful news. Rest in Peace, Anthony Stewart Head. Our Watcher.

Jen via memorigilo sorbigi vian trudherban tranĉfadenon per akvo antaŭ ol uzi ĝin... 👍

I see we have some weapons-grade horseshit flying around on the Esperanto front today! Must be the weather... 🤔😂

I wonder what Amazon will do once people stop buying books on Kindle over this device debacle? Will they relent, do we imagine? Perhaps reinstate support to improve sales? Well, not for me. As the saying goes, "Once bitten, twice go fuck yourself."

Google, in a surprising move, wants even more people to stop using Google... Time was, installing Chrome and setting Google as my homepage was automatic. Now, it's more a case of (almost) anything but.

Guardian 100 Best Books List... Personal Count: 4 and three-halves. As Suzy Izzard once put it, "I'm thinly read." 😂

Look at my sweet kitty! Rigardu mian dolĉan kateton! o lukin e soweli suwi mi!

or, Synthetic Human Inventiveness Theft Executor... SHITE.

I'm sure I'll get there in the end... Until then, toki pona podcasts coming in hot, like, youtu.be/H0FCcjwV9Kw

"I spoke with a Scientist who, as a single Black woman, joined the faculty of U of C, San Francisco, in 2021 and, at 36, bought a condo. She asked for anonymity, so I'll call her 'Tonya'..." This seems contradictory...

Vi ne bezonas ChatGPT! Vi bezonas legi librojn kaj ekzerci vin pri lerta argumentado... *Kaj regi la akuzativon, kompreneble... 😜

I do a daily Bluesky search for 'Esperanto'. It's interesting to see how it's used, and how much more often non-Esperantists mention it. It's often either: Something useless, doomed to failure. Something naive, foolish. A dilutional amalgam. Gibberish (replacing Greek & Chinese as the go-tos).

A great day for racist cunts in the UK, I see. Interesting to see the old maxim "You Become What You Hate" unfold in real time as we limber up to goosestep our way into this century's 30's and 40's... Congratulations, too, to Labour for shitting the bed so overpoweringly. Well done, all!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 06 Elektu seneksplike unu libron ĉiutage dum 20 tagoj, kiu iel influis vin aŭ restas kun vi. Tago 06 #booksky #20books20days

Just did my Census for Canada™ 🇨🇦 Added Esperanto, naturally. Wonder if there's an FOI to be had to get real numbers from the system...?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 05 Elektu seneksplike unu libron ĉiutage dum 20 tagoj, kiu iel influis vin aŭ restas kun vi. Tago 05 #booksky #20books20days

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 04 Elektu seneksplike unu libron ĉiutage dum 20 tagoj, kiu iel influis vin aŭ restas kun vi. Tago 04 #booksky #20books20days

Mi ĵus tagmanĝis je du kolbaspirogetoj kun saŭco. 700 kalorioj. 0 bedaŭroj.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 03 Elektu seneksplike unu libron ĉiutage dum 20 tagoj, kiu iel influis vin aŭ restas kun vi. Tago 03 #booksky #20books20days

Gustav Landauer, in 1907 there, talking, as so many do when dismissing Esperanto, out of his arse. Not entirely his fault, I suppose... William Auld and Marjorie Boulton weren't born until 1924. 🤷‍♂️

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 02 Elektu seneksplike unu libron ĉiutage dum 20 tagoj, kiu iel influis vin aŭ restas kun vi. Tago 02 #booksky #20books20days

Learn Esperanto. It really is *that* easy!™️

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 01 Elektu seneksplike unu libron ĉiutage dum 20 tagoj, kiu iel influis vin aŭ restas kun vi. Tago 01 #booksky #20books20days

Agreed. When someone complains about "Big Oil," most people understand they're talking Petroleum, not Olive...

Some rando: "its fucked up that esperanto is gendered. i feel like at that point you should just be able to fork it and drop the gendering" You can. Not everyone does, but, "Be the change," and all that. The more people learn Esperanto and use genderless alternatives, the more common they are.

"Ooh! With 'generative' AI we can have so much more Esperanto content!" Actually, what you can do with it is: iru tien al la forfikejo!¹ M'kay? ¹Hie thee to the fucking-off place...

I just want an Esperanto book shop. Sort of a cross between the Travel Book shop in Notting Hill and the Local Shop from League of Gentlemen. Few customers, whom I can dissuade with a hissed, 'Estas nenio por VI ĉi tie!' Safe among the Precious Things, drinking coffee, and "writing" my novel. 😁

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Pacienco estas Virto. Sed kiu volas esti virta! Diable @bsky.app KJF okazas!? Riparu vin mem, uloj!

To be clear, I really don't give a fuck whether someone likes or learns Esperanto. But to suggest it somehow "doesn't work" for people in Africa or SE Asia is asinine in the extreme. It's a foreign language. People in Africa and SE Asia are perfectly capable of learning foreign languages.

December Issue: Marcus Colla, 'Back to Babel: New Studies on Esperanto, Internationalism and Global Languages in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...

Kvar-fromaĝa rizoto kun rostitaj legomoj estis la vespermanĝo hodiaŭ. Sufiĉe bongusta afero, sed iom dormetiga pro la kvanto de ĝi kiun mi manĝis. La cetero ne sufiĉis por esti plia, plena manĝo, sed ĝi estis iom tro granda por ke mi estu plene maldorma...

Ŝajne estas bone ĝisdatigi apojn en la poŝtelefono. Bluĉielo apenaŭ funkciis, sed nun - post ĝisdatigo - ĉio funkcias bone kaj mi povas vidi ĉion denove. Do, mi vidu tion, kio okazis pasintjare...

Kiel ĉiuj fartas? Ŝajne pli ol jaro pasis ekde kiam mi laste uzis Esperanton, aŭ sociajn retejojn ĝenerale. Miaj Esperantaj kapabloj iom rustiĝis, mi kredas. Mi deziras plibonigi kaj ĝustigi mian Esperanton. Kie do nuntempe troviĝas bone, lerte, kaj klare parolataj Esperantaj aferoj?