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Comment on An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control. in ~enviro
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Comment on Commonly misspelled words quiz in ~humanities.languages
MechanicalMagpie Linki got mischievous wrong, which is funny bc i had a pet named mischief and am perfectly capable of spelling "mischief" correctly. i also got restaurant wrong. this word is my nemesis. i have never...i got mischievous wrong, which is funny bc i had a pet named mischief and am perfectly capable of spelling "mischief" correctly.
i also got restaurant wrong.
this word is my nemesis.
i have never in my life been able to spell this word correctly without autocorrect or looking it up. when i was a kid, my dad literally quizzed me every day for weeks on how to spell this word, and threatened to take away my snacks if i failed, and i still got it wrong lmao
idk why my brain refuses to remember this one super common word, but maybe i could trade it for hors d'ouevres, a word i will never use in conversation but which i was able to correctly identify and spell without a problem bc i once said it "hores de vores" after having read it in a book, and the experience haunts me to this day.
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Comment on In the world of tech, people constantly ask “Could chatbots ever be conscious?” but I feel like asking “Are you?” Take the test! in ~tech
MechanicalMagpie Link ParentIm pretty sure C-score is one of those stories thats gonna live in my head rent free forever, like the metamorphosis of prime intellect and the fable of the dragon tyrant. also, i got a good...Im pretty sure C-score is one of those stories thats gonna live in my head rent free forever, like the metamorphosis of prime intellect and the fable of the dragon tyrant. also, i got a good chuckle out of my test results. im definitely not beating the replicant allegations i guess ¯\(ツ)/¯
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Comment on How far back in time can you understand English? in ~humanities.languages
MechanicalMagpie Linkmodern back to 1300 was all easy, i had to read 1200 twice to get it, and 1100 was....i got the gist of it? but i couldnt say word-for-word what's being said or described, and if i'd had to read...modern back to 1300 was all easy, i had to read 1200 twice to get it, and 1100 was....i got the gist of it? but i couldnt say word-for-word what's being said or described, and if i'd had to read that passage cold with no previous context, i think i wouldnt have understood anything beyond "its a dialog". And 1000 is completely unintelligible to me
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Comment on How do you remember? in ~tech
MechanicalMagpie Linkdepends what im trying to remember. Most personal stuff goes into nextcloud notes. Grocery lists and conlang stuff goes to Silent Note bc of the formatting and check boxes Long form documents...depends what im trying to remember.
Most personal stuff goes into nextcloud notes.
Grocery lists and conlang stuff goes to Silent Note bc of the formatting and check boxes
Long form documents (like story ideas that turned into actual stories) get moved from notes to a word(odt) document in my cloud storage.
work stuff goes in OneNote if its something that a team member could benefit from. If its just for me, it goes in a running text file.
if its an event, or something i have to Do, it goes in my calendar so that i get a reminder
if its a website that i really want to keep forever, it goes in nextcloud bookmarks. If i just want to find it again later but dont really care if it disappears, i bookmark it on whatever browser i accessed it on.
if its really quick or if ive forgotten multiple times in a row to do it, it goes on the back of my hand lol
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Comment on List animals until failure in ~games
MechanicalMagpie Link...i knew a lot more birds than i thought i did. my grandmother was a bird watcher and when i was a kid i was obsessed with figuring out how to make bird noises. the only one i can actually......i knew a lot more birds than i thought i did. my grandmother was a bird watcher and when i was a kid i was obsessed with figuring out how to make bird noises. the only one i can actually replicate these days is a mourning dove lol
also, i love this? "The term “house spider” can refer to multiple kinds of spider, but it has a single entry in a 1600s bestiary that goes on and on about its wondrous beauty" clearly this guy loved spiders and tbh hes right and he should say it.
86 animals listed
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Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games
MechanicalMagpie Linkthis really reminds me of The Impossible Quiz, except with a little less stupid 2000s humor. anyway i accidentally said im a robot on level 14 so ¯_ (ツ)_/¯ i guess my true nature has been revealed.this really reminds me of The Impossible Quiz, except with a little less stupid 2000s humor. anyway i accidentally said im a robot on level 14 so ¯_ (ツ)_/¯ i guess my true nature has been revealed.
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Comment on You need to be bored in ~life
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentsame for me. I have adhd and there is a giant gulf between "my mind is wandering and im pondering the meaning of life / daydreaming" and "I'm bored". boredom is physically painful, i can't...same for me. I have adhd and there is a giant gulf between "my mind is wandering and im pondering the meaning of life / daydreaming" and "I'm bored".
boredom is physically painful, i can't concentrate on a single thought. its like the gears in my brain are slipping and never catching, nothing holds my attention for more than 5 minutes, and I actually can't daydream, my mind won't wander. it feels like the mental equivalent of getting your car stuck in the half melted slushy ice and just spinning your wheels as you frantically try to get unstuck.
idk maybe thats not actually boredom but its the thing ive always labeled as boredom bc it feels like how ive heard other people describe being bored.
what he's describing in the video is just kind of what i do by default when i run out of phone things to do, but thats never felt like being bored to me. its always felt like....exercising my brain i guess lol.
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Comment on Planning documents for the US Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit left in the hotel's business center in ~society
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Comment on What is the most insane, tedious, difficult, and/or noteworthy gaming achievement you have completed or given up on? in ~games
MechanicalMagpie LinkI've gotten Ghost, Shadow, and Clean Hands in the OG Dishonored game, while playing on max difficulty. I have 137 hours in the game and thats absolutely because I've played it start to finish at...I've gotten Ghost, Shadow, and Clean Hands in the OG Dishonored game, while playing on max difficulty. I have 137 hours in the game and thats absolutely because I've played it start to finish at least 5 times.
... I'm unfortunately very bad at it now though. i started playing on easy and i still got clocked escaping the prison 😂
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Comment on How are you planning for a potentially bleaker future? in ~life
MechanicalMagpie Link Parenthey samesies! my plan is basically "support as many of my friends as i can for as long as i can and then go die in a ditch somewhere cuz Boy Howdy Am I Tired". its been working out p well so far i...hey samesies!
my plan is basically "support as many of my friends as i can for as long as i can and then go die in a ditch somewhere cuz Boy Howdy Am I Tired". its been working out p well so far i think!
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Comment on Is anyone working on an Android version of ICEBlock? in ~comp
MechanicalMagpie Linkive come across https://www.stopice.net/. it seems pretty legit from what i can tell? web/sms based so like. theres the whole issue with sms being unencrypted and all that but given the info...ive come across https://www.stopice.net/. it seems pretty legit from what i can tell? web/sms based so like. theres the whole issue with sms being unencrypted and all that but given the info that's actually being sent i dont see that as a huge issue.
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Comment on Victories and challenges: An A[u]DHD community and support fortnightly thread #2 in ~health.mental
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentnot necessarily autism or adhd specific but TheLatestKate might be worth a look.not necessarily autism or adhd specific but TheLatestKate might be worth a look.
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Comment on LukHash - Bootloader (2025) in ~music
MechanicalMagpie Linknew lukhash album? oh hell yeahnew lukhash album? oh hell yeah
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Comment on How many languages do you speak? in ~humanities.languages
MechanicalMagpie Linki can speak/read/write english (for a given value of all of those considering i am american 😂) im barely conversational in ASL (i sign poorly and if my conversational partner goes too fast i get...-
i can speak/read/write english (for a given value of all of those considering i am american 😂)
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im barely conversational in ASL (i sign poorly and if my conversational partner goes too fast i get completely lost lol but if were both slow im.....okayish)
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i can read cyrillic, but i dont actually speak enough russian (the reason i learned cyrillic) to know what im reading (so ig it'd be more accurate to say i can decode it?? idk the actual terminology for "i can look at the letters and know what sounds they make, more or less correctly, but idk what the word i just
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i can puzzle my way through reading german, spanish, and french provided i have a translation app for words that arent related enough to english or latin for me to recognise
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i know the bare bones of latin. i more or less understand how conjugation works and i can recognise a decent number of words, but i cant actually read anything more complicated than a prayer or a song (and even that might be pushing it) lmao
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im teaching myself mandarin, i cant really sight read much other than simple, common internet phrases, but im also not actually learning with any regularity due to who i am as a person
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oh and i can pick out a few letters of arabic, i could probably brush up on hebrew enough to be able to "read" hebrew again the same way i can "read" russian (except i know a few more words in hebrew - primarily liturgical tho) and i kinda remember how to read korean, enough to shop at the korean market near me lol.
so basically, my only language is english. i dabbled in enough other languages that im really good at mimicking the sounds, and that i sometimes fuck up my english grammar in odd ways when im speaking, but i cant actually converse in any other language with any degree of reliability
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Comment on How did you learn to read? in ~humanities.languages
MechanicalMagpie Linki learned phonics at age 3, though i suspect my mom actually started me sooner than that bc she got tired of me constantly asking her to read me things. i think i was reading early readers by 4 or...i learned phonics at age 3, though i suspect my mom actually started me sooner than that bc she got tired of me constantly asking her to read me things. i think i was reading early readers by 4 or so and after that i just kinda....ran with it? i dont think anyone ever taght me to read in the sense that I was supposed to read the words on the page in a specific order to maximise my retention.
That said, i am an excellent speed-reader, and a terrible comprehension reader. I read fast af but i only retain like ~50% of it. its not really a problem in the day to day, i can skim through work-related reading material like nobodys business, and since most of that stuff just requires me to follow directions, skimming for the general concept is actually way more helpful than reading for complete comprehension.
it does mean though, that if im reading for fun, ill enjoy the heck out of a book, but i wont be able to tell you a thing about it other than "this was a cool book, i liked it a lot, you should check it out" which for some reason has never really sold anyone on anything ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ (like for example, i read Iron Widow semi-recently. There were mechs, it was kinda like darling in the franxx except less....uhhh...Weird (iykyk), the main character was a complete badass, and i 10000% support womens wrongs in her case specifically. Also the love triangle was solved with poly(!! yes!! fantastic!!). Anyway thats pretty much the entirety of what i remember about it. Excellent book, 10/10 i recommend it!)
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Comment on What's an atypical thing you do that you'd recommend to others? in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link ParentIm not the person you asked, but i am non-binary so i figured id chime in. The wikipedia article is pretty good and very thorough. If you want a lighter intro, this article from the national...Im not the person you asked, but i am non-binary so i figured id chime in. The wikipedia article is pretty good and very thorough. If you want a lighter intro, this article from the national center for transgender equality is good.
You could also check out Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. This book was pretty instrumental to me personally when it came to figuring myself out. 10/10 do recommend, along with anything else written by hir that catches your interest.
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Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link ParentThe sentence is "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" because im boring and couldnt remember the cool sentence that uses all the letters. Here is the key. im still not entirely decided on...The sentence is "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" because im boring and couldnt remember the cool sentence that uses all the letters. Here is the key. im still not entirely decided on how i want to combine and shape letters/words so I'll probably end up changing some things for using it for english. im gonna toss it at a conlang though, and see how that shapes up.....once i find the notebook i put the conlang in 😅
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Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentthis is super cool, and has inspired me to make my own version! thank you for posting itthis is super cool, and has inspired me to make my own version! thank you for posting it
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Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentanswers 1. no idea strawberry?? ???? kimchi! (though evidently it originated in china before korea put their own spin on it. According to ppl on rednote anyway.) comrade ngl i have no clue what a...answers
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strawberry??
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kimchi! (though evidently it originated in china before korea put their own spin on it. According to ppl on rednote anyway.)
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comrade ngl i have no clue what a hyperbolic paraboloid is but it sounds like math and im allergic
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chicken eggs! my mom told me for years that we didnt get flu shots bc she had an allergic reaction and she thought i might too (neither of us are, or ever have been (afaik) allergic to eggs.)
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avocados, im assuming.
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is this the giant bean?
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banh mi
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chick peas/garbanzo beans
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so what im hearing is, this fungal piece of shit might be able to tell us the name of god, but we cant kill it in any way that matters?
more seriously, this is both fascinating and concerning. the concept of an invasive, carnivorous mushroom thats beating out all the local mushrooms is absolutely wild and sounds like something out of a cheesy scifi novel