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• Post #4471958

  I have unfortunately been left alone with Photoshop, so… GLUTEN TAG.

• Post #4471957

  TIL that the Malagasy legislature passed a law last month that any land plot acquired by a non-Malagasy citizen during the colonial era will have its ownership reverted to the Malagasy state, unless the previous owner can prove that the land has since passed into private Malagasy ownership.

• Post #4471956

  130 years ago, 6 August 1896, the French legislature voted to annex Madagascar as a French colony.

• Post #4471955

  Today’s take is that people who see LLMs and gen AI as a tool against the copyright system are missing the issue that LLMs and gen AI have the same exact flaw as the copyright system: Megacorps laying claim to all of human creativity and aiming to be the only ones allowed to sell it back to you. Like… baby, the hundred-million-dollar companies transparently running a “first hit is free” scam on you are absolutely NOT about “democratizing” shit.

• Post #4471954

  In the last few years, I’ve seen far many more people criticizing progressives for having a cult-like devotion to Bernie Sanders, than I’ve seen actual progressives displaying a cult-like devotion to Bernie Sanders. In fact, I’ve run into a good dozen of the former in the last week alone, but can’t remember when I last interacted with the latter.

• Post #4471953

  Heard in a YouTube video just now: “Aww, a quokka!” “A what?” “A quokka!” “The thing that chicken have?” “That’s… no. That’s a cloaca.” “Oh.”

• Post #4471952

  Baguette-mayonnaise-tomato sandwich, my scandalously simple beloved.

• Post #4471951

  Sorry, my brain last night decided to remember that time a former mutual announced in public that they unsubscribed from several Patreons because, paraphrased, “$5 for full-res illustrations is a rip-off, give me MORE if I’m paying that much”. Aside from the fact that they described the exact way I’m running my Patreon as a “rip-off”, consider the optics of complaining in public that you’re “only” getting several full-res illustrations for FIVE (5) dollars.

• Post #4471950

  From Tumblr user AtomicWrongs: I also think it’s important to tell the difference between “the author’s barely-disguised fetish” and “the audience member’s unrealised kink that they’re projecting onto the author because seeing a character tied up is making them feel funny in their Audience Member Parts”

• Post #4405088

  Do I want to watch a YouTuber do a blind reaction to a Malagasy song? (Blind reaction as in “has zero prior knowledge about Malagasy culture or language”) Do I want to risk it?

• Post #4372685

  People in fiction when they need a ship that will fly really close to the sun: “How about ‘Icarus’?” The same people a while later when the ship named Icarus is severely damaged by its passage close to the sun: PikachuFace.gif

• Post #4361512

  The four-hectare (ten-acre) Sabotsy market in Antsirabe (Madagascar’s third largest city) burned down last night, reportedly being at least 90% destroyed. No injuries have been reported, but the near-total destruction of the city’s largest market has left the population traumatized.

• Post #4304833

  Most vampires don’t live in castles. Dracula lives in a castle because he’s a count, not because he’s a vampire. Most vampires don’t have That Accent. Dracula has that accent because he’s from Romania, not because he’s a vampire. Hashtag Stop Stereotyping Vampires.

• Post #4284254

  You can always follow a kangaroo into the water. You will certainly not regret following a kangaroo into the water.

• Post #4127122

  RE: https://yiff.life/@erkhyan/116966419438971263 I commented on BlueSky about how some of the responses to this post here on the Fediverse were needlessly hostile, argumentative, and/or pedantic, especially coming from users with “FOSS” and “tech” in their profile texts… … and I just discovered right now that my account almost immediately got added to two blocklists titled “Anti-FOSS” and “Anti-Fediverse”. Heh.

• Post #4097488

  Miara-dia“Traveling together” This took four months and a frankly bewildering number of redraws, and I definitely missed the intended deadline of Pride Month by quite a bit—but woohoo, it’s finally done! https://www.patreon.com/posts/86662728 #Art_SFW #ErkhyanArt #FurryArt

• Post #4044311

  I don’t remember, does Mastodon (or GlitchSoc) have an option to search specifically for a reply to me or a mention of me? I just realized now that there’s a post I intended to reply to, but forgot about for a few days, and now it’s hopelessly lost in the absolute flood of replies I’ve been getting in the last couple of days.

• Post #4042365

  Your irregular reminder that “Immaculate Conception” does not refer to Jesus being born without a biological father, but to Mary being conceived and born without sin because Embryo Jesus needed to be implanted into a completely sinless womb.

• Post #4025091

  Do you think the “flying saucers and abductions” aliens have a rank named “probe-ass-ionary officer”? (Never let a little pronunciation difference get in the way of a joke, I say.)

• Post #4022915

  Every time I see people clamoring for the internet to be like it used to be before, I cannot help but wonder if they’re also thinking of fixing an issue from the old internet, which is that the world in “world wide web” often looked like this.

• Post #3972428

  To this day, I still don’t understand why people were so goddamn ANGRY that the Imperial protagonists in Star Wars: Battlefront II defected to the Rebellion mid-story. Were people really THAT eager to play unrepentant fascist death squads? I mean, if that’s what you’re into, then Star Wars: Squadrons lets you play an Imperial squadron that never defects and even gets to blow up several civilian hospital ships for bonus points at one point.

• Post #3779123

  From the archives…

• Post #3776942

  Today’s tiny French village is… Apparently, the S is mute. Yup, the road sign keeps getting stolen.

• Post #3752687

  Me: “I wish it was as safe to go out at night in Antananarivo as it is during the day.” Monkey’s paw: *one finger curls up* Antananarivo: *becomes unsafe to go out during the day too, due to a wave of mass hysteria* (I would elaborate, but this is all so stupid, I don’t know if I could stand to. Maybe later.)

• Post #3730942

  The shortest possible day (sunrise to sunset) in Antananarivo is 10 hours and 59 minutes, and the longest possible day is 13 hours and 16 minutes. As you can imagine, it was a bit of a shock when I moved to Paris (shortest day 8 hours and 15 minutes, longest day 16 hours and 11 minutes) for a little while.

• Post #3681063

  Today in “sounds obvious but I didn’t think of it”: Every photo of the moon seen through a rainbow has the moon roughly three quarters full, because of the physics of rainbows. (i.e. a rainbow is a circle that’s 42 degrees wide around the opposite of the sun’s direction, meaning that in order to be seen through a rainbow, the moon has to be 42 degrees away from/to being full.)

• Post #3617635

  I… uh… … okay? https://ea-nasir-shop.com/

• Post #3567799

  Today in Madagascar news, people in the neighborhood of Ivandry in Antananarivo were surprised to hear gunfire. The official explanation? The presidential guard says they noticed a couple of drones following the presidential motorcade, so they… uh… attempted to shoot them down.

• Post #3480610

  Okay, but why isn’t there a brand of leavening named “Growing Pains”?

• Post #3473025

  Today in “please hire human translators”, this picture sent from Canada by a former coworker of mine. Who wants a “Sauce of Korean Guy”?