Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird @nazokiyoubinbou saw it out of context, thought it was perfect, then realized it wasn't about FOSS generally but social media specifically and i'm not 100% sure (but hardly <50% sure either)

@futurebird i think they should do this, but not as a stunt

like actually barge in there with an armed escort on the authority of it

@futurebird @froge the way we parse light going into these particular anatomical structures in our heads as a representation of space and colour was one of the things that had occurred to me as soon as i saw OP as one of those things that's clearly instinctual rather than culturally acquired, but come to think of it the fact that we even perceive these bands of different wavelengths as *qualitatively* different things is there too

i wonder how it even evolved

@futurebird @AbyssalRook so basically like how (virtually) all humans have some capacity to learn and produce language, but no one has ever uttered a sentence that was entirely formed from nothing but a priori hard-wiring in their brains...

wondering what happens with an orb weaver... they definitely need to work stuff out given the huge variety of arrangements they need to deal with, and the end result of the orb pattern has to be consistent, but what goes on in what they subjectively want to do/react to that results in that pattern? it's definitely not a top-down blueprint for an abstract orb web surely......

@futurebird as someone who doesn't even believe that nature exists but is convinced there's got to be *some* stuff that's hardwired, thank you for that "almost"

@futurebird might've been earlier than that, given how old the post was... https://riotouseaterof...

@futurebird it's tumblr's fucked up auto-moderation i think

(similar nonsense happens with bluesky though bluesky is even worse in my experience)

not much has improved since a drawing of a tree i posted in 2018 got flagged

@ChuffMeister @alexwild off topic but "Nike" is an amazing corn/unalive/etc. of "nuke"

originally had "[" as 3 because i was thinking sloppily and figured "big string = big number" but the error was obvious once i'd sorted the [-initial 3-longs into their sequenced groups of 4 at the end and it was clearly skipping a few series

the -^ order was entirely arbitrary

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@futurebird oh wow this feels way easier

sorting into 3 groups by length, then sorting by first glyph in each...

@futurebird (now i'm wondering if anyone's going to decide on their best "one true" answer by going in unicode order)

@futurebird the more common unicode emojis might be safer...

@futurebird i tried copypasting into a plaintext editor but some of the line-initial "▣"s got garbled into tofu -_-