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koermarulk:

kingunderthemountain:

misdre:

one of my favourite things in the world is that kakka means your highness in japanese and poop in finnish

Finnish and Japanese are the worst false friends

• “hana” means flower in Japanese, faucet in Finnish
• “kana” is a word for the Japanese writing systems and also a girl’s name (I think?), means chicken in Finnish
• “risu” means small twig in Finnish, squirrel in Japanese
• “sora” means (among other things) sky in Japanese, gravel in Finnish
• “kasa” means umbrella in Japanese, pile or heap in Finnish
• “himo” means string in Japanese, lust in Finnish
• “kutsu” means shoes in Japanese, invitation in Finnish
• “aho” means clearing or glade in Finnish and is the last name of a former Prime Minister of Finland, idiot in Japanese
• “Henna” is a not-entirely-uncommon Finnish female first name, means weird in Japanese
• the two names above have been combined and cause hilarious results
• and then of course my name is Minna which means nothing in Finnish and “everyone” in Japanese which has caused Japanese people to snicker at me in the past

One Finnish lady told me that her husband Teppo was on business trip in Japan and the hosts were all “well that’s a manly name” because it means “iron cannon”, i.e. an arquebus.

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dogpuppy:

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teaboot:

teaboot:

teaboot:

teaboot:

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

1. Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass
2. It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE
3. After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.
4. Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

And on top of that, having operated CCTV at multiple locations now- my favourite and most comfortable one having excess of 60 cameras- it can be REALLY hard to suddenly jump to a different operating interface and display configuration, because all the muscle memory is wrong

On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.

Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet

The closest I imagine I can equate it to is like. Getting really really good at painting with a pair of prosthetic hands, and then suddenly having them swapped out with someone else’s

Not the best depiction, but. Feels like this

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I love how many people read my work posts and tag it “body horror”, “eldritch”, “science fiction”, “Murderbot”, “Magnus archives”, “OP is a cyborg”

While all the people with security & surveillance experience are chilling in the notes like

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To be clear I love it. I love that we’re all living in our own little adventures

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firawren:

bethanydelleman:

bethanydelleman:

Other authors: My heroine was a poor orphan. Pity her.

Jane Austen: Pft, orphans have it easy! My heroine has two living parents and three extra guardians and all of them are the worst…

Jane Austen writing the Pride & Prejudice Netherfield Ball: Right now, Elizabeth Bennet wishes she was an orphan

Jane Austen, writing Persuasion & Emma: This heroine is half an orphan and, of course, I killed the competent one off. The resulting situation is so much worse than if I’d killed them both

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balotcoolerifyoudid:

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naamahdarling:

fullmetalfisting:

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onahotrock:

fullmetalfisting:

The fattest kitten at work hates humans SO MUCH. He doesn’t want to get picked up, he doesn’t want a cuddle. we’re all like, you should have thought about that before you decided to be the fattest little baby in existence. You think we’re not going to pick you up? You think we’re not going to kiss you? You’re so fat

do you have a picture of the little guy

He hissed at me 3 times while I took this picture

Thinking about how to kill and murder and bite and destroy humans

For those wanting an update:

Nine months after he and his sister were found together in the snow on the side of the road with no mommy cat, he’s now the sweetest, cuddliest baby boy in the world. Not sure the initial hatred was a feral kitten thing, either, because his sister was sweet from the get-go.

Oh my goodness he was so fat and cuddly. Little furry dumpling. Round hissing stress ball of hatred. Stubby taterboy. Anger problems given form.

And look at him now! Handsomest lad!

inthefallofasparrow:

woolandflax:

woolandflax:

woolandflax:

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

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threeture:

lanotteviene:

lanotteviene:

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

our sick deranged enemy polyester….

the demon lord, prince of lies, “Vegan Leather”…

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rizadyke:

Hey Reddit, I [M, 25] recruited a [M,11] orphan and double amputee to join the military and become a human weapon. AITA?

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