Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Tauros in greek is bull, yeah. The minotaur was the Bull of Minos. It may link back to the pre-greek people of crete, known for bull-leaping.

    The “ken” in “Kentauros” is thought to mean piercing, but why is a piercing bull a half man/horse? There’s no obvious explanation.

    I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination, like franken- in english. But if there were any evidence of that some very excited nerds would’ve told us, I’m sure.


  • Personally, I say sen tore.

    According to my classics professor ~20 years ago, we can’t know how “au” would’ve been pronounced in the greek.

    He told us that ancient greek diphthong pronunciation is just made up. Apparently it’s much harder to reconstruct those sounds confidently, but that didn’t stop past classicists from claiming their reckonings as incontrovertible facts. Oxford and cambridge used to expell students for following the diphthong pronunciations of the other, but both are basically guesses.






  • When I was like 9 or 10 I thought our neighbor was at the door so I jumped out in my home made samurai pizza cats outfit, yelling “samurai pizza cats, they’re so bad!”, presuming that he was there to play samurai pizza cats.

    Turned out to be a boy from my class at school collecting money for something. He proceeded to blackmail me, getting my lunch in exchange for keeping my dorkiness hush-hush.







  • All social media apps generate enough data about their users to engineer effective disinformation campaigns, influence elections and sway public opinion.

    The US would prefer that China has to ask Russia to do that, rather than having direct access.

    It also helps the china hawks in the US government who want war by contributing to the perception of China as implacably malicious.





  • We used a two person system.

    One held the cat close to their body, securing the front paws against the cat with one hand and securing the head with the other hand. You have to secure the back hips against you with your arm or elbow.

    The other pushed the pill into the cat’s mouth, held it shut and stroked the throat.

    After a few months the cat realized struggling wasn’t worth the effort and only tried to claw our faces off if we got complacent.

    We miss her very much.