Our trains and other uses of technology to improve everyone’s lives are like those backwards hillbilly jokes about Russia people used to make in the’90s.

Srsly I do not understand social hierarchies. Why would anybody not want to know me?

​ Or anyone? Fr people really think they only want to know people as “Good” as them. That is the saddest failure of imagination I have ever heard of.

knowing myself as I do, and the fact that I closed 312 tabs yesterday in only one browser I will never remember a bookmark. Now can I learn to use tags?

Anyway. Wiktionary has alternate dialect conjugations of I guess the common and or irregular verbs in Irish, of which feic- (to see) is giving me the most fits right now.

​“ In Ulster, the present indicative, past habitual, future, and conditional have independent forms built on the stem tí- (also spelled tchí-); the feic-forms listed above are dependent and are only used in the present and habitual. The simple past indicative independent form is thainic or thanaic(the dependent form being faca, as in the standard language):”
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The best logo ever?

If you don’t need to read it, or recognize the elements, or have business with OPEC, you will never notice this logo, even in plain sight. But if you do, it’s incredibly distinctive and appealing. It does some of the shape stuff the old PBS logo did, grabbing your eye again and again to unpack what’s being implied or symbolized.

​The four circles look like refinery tanks seen from above. I don’t know what the “p” stroke is doing. Maybe a derrick, but upside down? Maybe a crane.