Doomscrolling checkpoint.

[newpa_hasai@mastodon.social]

@structuredsucc Moon phases and rise/set times are really tightly correlated, so eg: a first quarter moon always rises around noon, is overhead at around sunset, and sets at around midnight.

The *only* author I've ever seen nail this is H. P. Lovecraft of all people.

[haloedrain@toot.cafe]

@c0debabe I haven’t used it seriously in years so I don’t know all the new features, but for tiny one page things that don’t need frameworks or routing or all the other scaffolding I haven’t seen anything that can beat it

[yantor3d@mas.to]

@structuredsucc animation is a medium, not a genre.

[dasparky@spore.social]

@structuredsucc chickens don’t require a rooster in order to form & lay eggs. Only need a rooster for fertilizing eggs for potential chicks to form.

[bolt451@writing.exchange]

@structuredsucc despite pro wrestlings reputation as a right wing interest. The second largest wrestling company in the world (AEW) has had a trans lesbian, a bi cis woman, a gay man and a non binary person all as champions

[yuriel@kind.social]

@structuredsucc

Judge Yuri 👩🏻‍⚖️ (@Yuriel@kind.social)

Ok, let me get SUPER petty for something astonishingly nerdy and trivial: #YouKnowWhatGripesMyAss? movies or TV shows where members of a legislature (or council, or club) raise their hand and say "Point of order!" only to speak. 😒 A Point of Order is used to note a deviation from the rules of the body. It's legislative "um, akshually"-ing. It's not supposed to be used just to seek recognition from the Chair to do normal-ass talking! 😡 Bunch of parliamentary procedure poseurs! :YellsAtCloud:

Be More Kind (kind.social)

[thestrangelet@beige.party]

@structuredsucc You don't need an expensive camera and lens to take great photos.

[joninalbany@beige.party]

@structuredsucc pizza dough is not difficult to make

[feijoa@mastodon.org.uk]

@structuredsucc You can make enjoyable music with any cheap synth.

[libramoon@mastodon.social]

@structuredsucc

astrology is about people being influenced by the movements of celestial objects = myth

[serpicojam@mas.to]

@structuredsucc

Drumming is simple.

[andrewd18@hachyderm.io]

@structuredsucc Despite the polished and risk averse nature of modern movies, movies are still an art form and you can learn just as much about the craft from the bad ones as you can from the good ones.

Watch more bad movies!

[icil@app.wafrn.net]

@structuredsucc@mastodon.social

When a roller coaster's track goes upside down it's not always called a loop. The actual term is "inversion" which encompasses a wide variety of loops, rolls, and combinations thereof (for example a "cobra roll" is two half loops connected by a pair of twists in opposite directions such that the track looks like the outline of a cobra's head).
Bonus fact: the distinctive clacking noise as one gets pulled up its lift hill is not caused by the chain itself, but rather a ratchet besides it designed to catch the ride vehicle so it doesn't fall back down and crash into something in the event of a malfunction.

[dulcemaria@toot.community]

@structuredsucc most women poop during vaginal childbirth and the nurse usually just wipes it away without comment

[thevoidtlmb@social.vivaldi.net]

@structuredsucc You don’t juggle with arms raised outstretched and the objects forming a perfect arc only above your head.

[bunny_jane@plush.city]

@structuredsucc "Gundam" isn't a generic word for giant robot!

Its like a brand name, like Ferrari. Most mecha in the Gundam anime franchise aren't even Gundams.

The generic term for a mech from the Gundam franchise is "mobile suit," and statistically the most common mobile suit is a Zaku. They made so many of those things.

[uair@autistics.life]

@structuredsucc

My special interest is power, and the means people use to hold it over other people. What just about everybody I've met gets wrong is that religion and marketing/propaganda are the same thing, a means to trick people into giving up their power. Everybody wants to see religion as a net positive and will fight like hell to avoid seeing that it's not. And thus the cycle of abuse continues. A religious upbringing is hard core child abuse. So is genital mutilation, while I'm at it. Why the everloving fuck is that barbaric shit legal anywhere?!?!?

"Give me a boy until he is seven and I will show you the man."--Jesuit saying

[dtauvdiodr@c.im]

@structuredsucc the machine behind me in zoom is real

[maggiejk@zeroes.ca]

@structuredsucc Cats are not aloof, they just have high standards and strict boundaries.

[gemelen@mammut.moe]

@structuredsucc
Black tea isn't black but red in Chinese language and in accepted classification, where black tea also exists but is a different type.