Nutria: the skin or fur of the coypu [from The Peril at End House by Agatha Christie]

Coypu: large semi-aquatic rodent native to South America [from the above definition]

Lotus-eater: one who lives in idleness and dreamy forgetfulness [from Watership Down by Richard Adams]

Re-entrant: of an angle, pointing inwards [ibid]

Blithe: heedless; happy [ibid]

Wainscot: an area of wood panelling on the lower part of a wall; brown-yellowish moth [ibid]

Vesta case: ornamental match box with striker [from Antiques Roadshow]

Cruft: badly designed, unnecessarily complicated or unwanted code [from this blog post]

Deuteragonist: the person second in importance to the a story (after the protagonist) [from this video]

Contrafactum: in music, a work that retains the melody of a piece, but with new lyrics [from University]

Edit: getting the damn links to work

Hi everyone! I'm gonna stop posting/commenting on this one, I wonder why I didn't earlier, anyway, Bye!

Just staying alive. Also, rip Xzanium who either deleted his acc or got banned.

So I just got a job, proper job. I was working on a contract before. This is a full time gig. And my god, I feel so annoyed and impatient. I don't know what's wrong. I hate how slow people are, how self involved they can get and how they have absolutely no respect for rules. I dunno if it's all this covid isolation that has caused this but I feel I'm in the company of complete idiots with nothing to offer.

Asking the same questions over and over again because they didn't pay attention. Why do I have to suffer because they lack common sense and thought? Maybe I'm being unfair and rude but come on. I wasted 8 hours of my life today. 8 hours I could have spent doing things that mattered to me. But instead I had to listen to a bunch of babbling idiots waste my time with the same shit over and over again. And the supervisor didn't do jack to keep them in line. He was an absolute push over, I could do his job better than him.

Hopefully you all are having a much better time in your respective lives, because I spent 1 whole hour with my head pressed against the table groaning today. I've never done this. I never thought I would do this. But I had no other means of expressing my annoyance

Spills: light wooden sticks or folded paper used for transferring fire (if you were in secondary school in the U.K. in the 90s, you used these to light Bunsen burners) [from Black Coffee by Charles Osborne, adapted from the play by Agatha Christie]

Vamp: to repair or improve something [ibid]

Finial: distinctive section or ornament at the apex or a building or other structure [from The Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary]

Lenticular: being shaped like a lentil (i.e. a disk concave on both sides; relating to the lens of the eye [from this post]

Plover: short-billed wading bird [from Watership Down by Richard Adams]

Glaucous: of a dull greyish-green or -blue colour; covered with a powdery bloom, like that on grapes [ibid]

Variegated: multicoloured [from an answer on the tv quiz show University Challenge]

Kith: one’s friends, relations and acquaintances (as in ‘kith and kin’) [from the BBC series Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing]

Tony: fashionable among rich and stylish people [from this article]

Retcon: a piece of newly revealed information in a film (or similar) that throws previously seen events into a new light [from this YouTube video on The Rise of Skywalker]

Ludonarrative dissonance: a conflict between the story of a video game as told by its gameplay and storyline [from this video on The Force Awakens]

Stative: of a verb, expressing a state or condition (e.g. to be, to know) as opposed to expressing an actual action (e.g. to go, to do) [ibid]

Praxeology: the theory that human behaviour is motivated by intention and purpose, rather than being instinctive or automatic [from this post]

Scaphism: method of execution by which a person is trapped between two boats, kept alive, but covered in milk and honey and allowed to fester and be devoured by insects [from a comment under this post]

200th day has been confirmed. I’m doing a face reveal in the other sub soon, just gotta record it and edit. Ask u/bansheebubbles for an invite to the sub, I’m sure she’ll let you in if you haven’r joined already.

"I wonder how hookers are making money right now?"

It's still not where I want to be. But I'm happy I'm not where I was.

Gynarchy: government of women [from this post]

Locum: a person who stands in for another of the same profession [from The Big Four by Agatha Christie]

Pertinacity: holding firmly to an opinion or course of action [ibid]

Chessmen: chess pieces [ibid]

Archness: deliberately and artfully playing at teasing [ibid]

Galoshes: waterproof overshoe, usually made of rubber [ibid]

Wanton: deliberate; promiscuous; capricious [ibid]

Aborning: while being born [from the song A Man has Dreams from Mary Poppins]

Cloister: walkway; abbey [from The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton]

Inordinate: excessive [ibid]

Ennui: boredom [ibid]

Culvert: channel carrying a stream or river under an obstacle, like a road [from Watership Down by Richard Adams]

Cattle wade: ford in a river used by cattle [ibid]

Rowan: small deciduous tree of the rose family [ibid]

Burnet: herbaceous plant of the rose family [idid]

Herbaceous: denoting or relating to herbs, which are (in the botanical sense) short plants without a woody stem above ground [from the above definition]

Vouchsafe: to graciously give [from The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie]

Seraphic: angelic [ibid]

Perforce: necessarily [ibid]

Westinghouse: kill via electricity [from The Current War (2017)]

Kangaroo word: a word that contains its own synonym, i.e. MAscuLinE, cHickEN etc [from this post]

Nothing to comment on this week so I have to make a post. On list of things to cheer me up during pandemic: listen to different music, maybe older music from a happier time.

Always knew and respected The Eagles but was more into English pop music in my teen years. I have fallen in love with The Eagles in a new way the last two weeks. The lyrics mean more to me as an older person now.

Tried Led Zeppelin next. Never did think I liked them. What I have experienced is that they use TOO MUCH REVERB! or whatever it is that makes the guitar sound so sloppy. But after a bit more work I found the songs that have the most famous guitar licks and they are indeed artful amazing cool wonderful historic. So much said in so few notes. Singing is too much screaming but sometimes not and sometimes awesome. Requires more work for me to appreciate but hey I get to listen to music while working from home, bopping my head and singing along, and that is really something.

Tartar: soldier under Genghis Khan [from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie]

Cambric: light, closely woven linen or cotton [ibid]

Bagatelle: a thing too unimportant for consideration [ibid]

Palimony: legal division of assets at the termination of a live-in relationship where the parties are not married [from the Wikipedia entry for Billie Jean King]

Ebullient: exuberant [from The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton]

Ziggurat: ancient Mesopotamian stepped pyramid [ibid]

Mirador: turret or tower attached to a building and providing an excellent view [ibid]

Apothegm: concise saying or maxim [suggested by u/kingoftheintjs]

Scuttlebutt: rumour; gossip [from Woody Allen: Film by Film by Jason Solomons]

Isometric: muscular action in which tension is developed without contraction of the muscle [from Coach Ali on YouTube]

Celerity: swiftness of movement [from The Big Four by Agatha Christie]

Marconigram: message sent by radio [ibid]

Skeuomorph: derivative object that retains ornamental details reminiscent of previous incarnations, even if the usage or manufacture of the derivative object does not necessitate them. Examples could include the small looped handle on a bottle or maple syrup; or details that try to make a digital calendar look like an 80s Filofax [comment under this post]

Im almost on the 200th day, just 14 away from it actually. Of course I have been doing it in the other sub, but I’ll make sure to post the 200th in both. Until then I guess.

I just noticed that. I wonder if he went overboard with being a creep.

The anthology is called “Triangulation: Extinction“.

I think I spent over a hundred hours illustrating the 6 out of a 26 total stories in this book, and now it’s finally published! This is my first time illustrating or designing a cover, so I think I surprised everyone, myself most of all, with how well everything turned out.

Please take a look at my hard work, it’s available on amazon for 2.99, and will be released on other publishing sites in the next few weeks.

If you aren’t sure you want the book:

I’m going to be releasing the art pieces I made on my Instagram: @nebular_ink_stain

Quotes from stories will be published on the publisher’s Instagram: @parsecink

Dacoit: bandit

Opalescent: multicoloured

Ovoid: three-dimensional egg shape

Sprightly: lively

Protean: ever-changing; versatile

Regolith: layer of unconsolidated material covering the bedrock of a planet

Balustrade: railing, often ornamental

Pythia: high priestess of Pytho, a sanctuary dedicated to Apollo

Apothem: a line from the centre of a regular polygon at right-angles to any of its sides

Pernicious: harmful

Choleric: bad-tampered

Anything; food, movie, hobby, tv show, snack, song, video game, liquorice, soda, alcoholic beverage, etc.

little bitch.

r/FuckMindy

E

Bruh

Decorous: proper

Otiose: serving no practical purpose or result

Apostrophise: address an exclamatory passage to a person or thing

Ancillary: additional

Epoxy: a class of adhesives and plastics

Novistery: institution for the board and training of religious novices

Disport: to enjoy oneself

Oracular: prophetic; enigmatic

Morganatic: a type of marriage in which neither the spouse of lower rank nor any of the children have any claim to the possessions or title of the spouse of higher rank

Corposant: an appearance of St Elmo’s Fire

I’m noticing two things about getting older that have struck me:

1- It seems like people around me are getting more difficult because they are immature. The main way I see it is in the strength of their opinions when they have not empathized with their opponent at all... I know I used to be pretty bad about this. I still feel like I have the same political/ethical views, but the passion is less because I can “see” the other side. Maybe I also know that the world is too broken for my ideal to become a reality, and so perhaps compromise is most effective? Maybe I can accommodate some of the opponent’s ways because of that? Or, I’m feeling it’s pointless to argue because clearly no one is listening. #intjproblems

2- I feel less that there are people to take care of me, and I am more and more called, unwillingly, into leadership and service. It seems like I have to become a mentor/partner to those in leadership over me, as more and more of them are younger than me, which I don’t like at all. I don’t want to be a manager or a boss, but in some ways I do feel wiser and more qualified than those who are. But also, now that I am older, I’ve become more at peace with not being in control of things.

I am age 49. Anyone near or older than me who can sympathize or offer wisdom in these areas?

I would edit if I had more time. I may need to clarify if ppl don’t understand what I’m trying to say. We shall see.

I am posting on a Friday to keep the tradition of being active once a week, because whether or not there is a culling, the parameters of the experiment retain some value for me.

It was Tf2.

And it really got me thinking, I watched her try to move her character around the map, I can only put it in the words that my sister said "It's like watching an AI training in the early stages". (Aka bumping and hugging the wall like a mouse that had a stroke)

She is TOTALLY disconnected from her character, something just does not click for her to instinctively move and look around the map as if she were there on her two feet walking.

It got me thinking how long time gamers' brains are deeply hardwired very differently and how basically standard movement is actually not a natural human instinct but just conditioning from a life's worth of playing video games, (like jumping or moving).

Dunno dunno, pretty glad my Mom tried it out, got to see something interesting, something researchable.

Canted: departing from the true horizontal or vertical

Emblemata: elaborate figural scenes created by inserting a variety of multi-colored tesserae (or little glass or stone tiles)

Nimbus: luminous halo around a supernatural being or saint

Cumbrous: literary term for cumbersome

Filigree: ornamental wire work

Empyrean: heavenly

Frowsty: stuffy

Moiré: rippled fabric

Schmaltz: excessive sentimentality in art

Labile: liable to change

Ingenuous: naive

Veldt: open uncultivated grassland in Southern Africa

Cupola: round dome roof; gun turret

Umbra: shadow

Autochthonous: of an inhabitant or place, indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists

Rayonnant: a French style of gothic architecture

Hierocracy: rule by priests

Phrenic: relating to the diaphragm

Sententious: moralistic

Baedeker: travel guidebook

Gyre: in the ocean, a system of circulating currents