Take up knitting and knit yourself some washcloths and dusting cloths! Pretty common here in Scandinavia (you can actually just get cotton machine knit ones in the supermarket but I'm not sure those are a thing elsewhere) and they're pretty much baby's first knitting project because it's just, a square

On the complete opposite end, people are joking about how if they want uniforms they should be wearing powdered wigs and breeches, but like, that's already a thing across the pond in the UK? The courts and house of Lords and a few other bodies have uniforms like that and yeah, there's a layer of outdated tradition, but it's also to sort of standardise how everyone looks, so that you still look like a barrister and someone to be taken seriously, regardless of age, race, gender, or looks. An equal footing sort of thing

Nearly - a single bacteria is a bacterium. There's some Latin rule going on here but I'm not sure I'd reccomend going into those weeds

I'd also add that like, for a lot of Scandinavia heat pumps work just fine? Like does America just have some really bad heat pumps or something?

I think the only reason why you wouldn't install one here (aside from obvious cost issues) would be if you already have a robust heating system built into your home, like a hot water system. And if that's the case, you can use the heatpump of the earth - geothermal! Use the power of the earth's molten core to heat and cool your home!

(... geothermal isn't as ubiquitous as I make it sound it's just, really fucking cool)

Obviously doesn't work everywhere but a lot of cities with rivers or canals have boat pubs that go up and down and around the place

They're pretty fun

Because the entire point was that the character in question is genderless and this was the early 80s and also French so more modern gender neutral terms didn't exist yet, and "let's just smash the two gendered endings together" was his attempt at one (I'm guessing emperoratrix comes from a literal translation from French, where a female emperor is an imperatrice, and -trice is -trix in english, so imperatorice -> emperoratrix) The book also uses s/he as a pronoun instead of they.

I mean hey, it's much more gender neutral than just defaulting to the masculine like say Le Guin did in left hand of darkness

They also do the vocals! Smh how could you forget Hatsune Miku?

Except there is no evidence he ever said this.

Sure but like, the thing people attribute the quote to be about most certainly did fucking happen. After all, nothing quite sours your opinion on an ideology like mass genocide

So does every Tumblr blog! Just add /RSS to the end of the URL in question. This also works in conjunction with other link modifiers like tags so for example if you want to follow an artist on Tumblr and only see their work and not anything they reblog, or you only want to see stuff from a certain fandom.

Keep in mind that this only works with blog links that look like [blog].Tumblr.com or [blog].com, not tumblr.com/[blog]. it also doesn't capture tags which is kinda half of tumblr's main form of interaction, but I think if you're interested in that you're the sort of person who actually uses Tumblr and doesn't just want to keep tabs on one or two artists you really like. Then again that could actually just be an interface thing and an actual RSS feed reader would show them as opposed to my kinda jank thunderbird setup

(I think you can also do this the other way around and turn RSS feed updates into Tumblr posts using like IFTTT, but I have questions for you if you're doing that for something that isn't an update blog)

...or you could wait and see if automattic ever does good on their promise to add activitypub integration into Tumblr.

Also on the subject of Tumblr adjacent things, ao3 also has an RSS feed button. For both authors, fics, and tags. Haven't used it in years but it still works according to the random author updates I get.

Owlbears are monstrosities not beasts and therefore the druid probably shouldn't of been able to shapeshift into one (I think. I've never actually played as or with a druid)

Also idk about the newer ones but the old ones last forever. You might need to change their battery but that's not too hard. I got a kindle keyboard that's been going strong for over a decade now.

Also kindles work fine with calibre, you just need a different file format. Mine can read PDFs! (I do not reccomend reading PDF scans on a kindle)

huh? What's tumblr got to do with this? Is this about Automattic adding the ability to connect up Tumblr accounts to the fediverse? Because you do know that isn't the same as the Threads situation right?

It's very probably going to function like how Wordpress and ActivityPub already functions - as a way to let people look at and interact with your blog from a Mastodon or other instance. And if Wordpress is anything to go by it'll also probably be limited to self hosted/paid accounts rather than something that everyone can have so the bot/spam/ghost account worry is kinda moot