«The Little Mouse» — a Malvina Reynolds song translation to #Esperanto
«Unu museto» — traduko de kanto por Malvina Reynolds al #Esperanto
I've had a varied relationship to Esperanto throughout my life. It's a bit difficult for me to talk about. The problem is I learned it before I learned how to even really read. I found a book about it and could write well by age 10. I don't even know for sure when I _started_.
Usually an adult speaks it to a kid, that's how they learn.

Because I was parented by internet I learned it from the internet and also got to speak/write to a lot of adults so my knowledge of the language is perhaps more varied than some native speakers who only talked to dad.
(It's almost always dad. I've read studies.)

I went a period where I didn't speak it for many many years. At least five. I could still remember it and read it. And even though I know five languages it's the only other one I often unconsciously _think_ in.
This is why I claim to be a native E-o speaker despite not meeting usual definition.

I am probably one of very few people that will ever be a self-directed native E-o speaker as giving your kids unmoderated online access is no longer done even by bad parents lol.
I believe the only reason I was able to get so good at it despite first learning it from a book I found at a relative's house is the internet access I had. I could join chat rooms about it etc.

Still maintain dictionary website I made 12 yrs ago even after its domain expired lol
Oh, as an aside, a good thing about this translation is that it retains the "mucked" / "fucked" quality of the original.

If you need a version without the root "fik´" (fuck) you can use fuŝ´:

That fucked up the clearing house!
Ĝi fikis kvitaĉambron!

vs

Ĝi fuŝis kvitaĉambron!

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Jun 20
no you're right.

and what's worse is that rent control can destroy multigenerational homes when an old person dies. you can't transfer it you know, it isn't property!

rent control attempts to fix the unaffordable rent market not by lowering rents but by freezing them for some.
rent control is also bad because it disincentivizes moving for opportunity, it adds an additional economic burden to every move, etc.

it's not a good policy. i understand wanting a bandaid but unlimited rent control is the wrong one.
i'd even be fine with 10 years of it while housing is built. but clearly the solution is that the government needs to start building out massive commie blocks. and no i'm not kidding.
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Jun 20
BREAKING: I have in the past been mocked by some for stating the truth of the matter that Jim Watkins still owns 5channel.

They say that he sold it to another Filipino company, Loki Technology Inc., and that contrary to my statements, this is not a shell company of Jim's.🧵
【速報】過去、僕はジム・ワトキンス氏がまだ5ちゃんねるを保有しているという真実を述べたことで、一部の人から嘲笑された

嘲笑者たちは、ジムが他のフィリピン企業である「ロキ・テクノロジー社」に5ちゃんねるを売却し、僕の記述とは逆に、これはジムのペーパーカンパニーではない、と述べている🧵
I have found in my records proof that this is a lie.

Remember so-called ghost man Wilson Orje? Who had no information online about him?

When looking through records I received when I opposed to Jim's naturalization as a Philippine citizen, that his wife's maiden name is Orje.
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Jun 19
I'm writing this in my role as vichan's elder neckbeard and sometimes maintainer whenever the latest channer goes off the rails and fails the task of maintaining a FOSS project…

Apparently the last one to do that, username @/h00j, added a new CAPTCHA. Don't bother to use it:
It should be self-evident why a CAPTCHA that is open source can be trained against by attackers. Be smart, avoid this sort of thing, it's not really secure even when it "works".

Link to the commit I refer to: github.com/vichan-devel/v…

Were I maintainer I wouldn't have merged this
Not because Securimage is any worse than the other PHP CAPTCHA's floating around in the underbelly of vichan's shitty codebase that is old enough to be in middle school (ironically, just like those who wish to use it in 2022! I kid…kid.)
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Jun 18
#Esperanto words for "furry" lol 🧵

ret´best´ig´ul´o
retbestigulo
a person who becomes an animal on the internet

This word has many benefits. A furry convention is a:

retbestigul´ar´eg´o
retbestigularego
"a big group of people who become animals online" Image
One benefit is non-exclusion of scalies

Another benefit is easy relationship to the word:

bestigulo — otherkin / therian
"becomes-an-animal person"

A popufur is a

retbestigul´estr´isto
"a person for whom being a leader of furries is a job" Image
The furry fandom is the "ĉiu´retbestigularo" ("all the online animal people"), while the concept of furry is "retbestigeco" ("state of becoming an animal online"). Image
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Apr 29
the sad thing is i should've had an edge

i understand decentralized systems, federated systems, and the nuances of the differences between them

but Mastodon has so many features i hadnt seen before. ie prioritization of local posts over global posts. i did not account for this
actually what i failed to understand most about Mastodon was how it isn't a traditional federated network as i think of such—where your instance barely matters to your experience.

instances come into existence to balance load, and picking one is random, in traditional federation
instead Mastodon has leaned heavily into local features — creating a highly interesting two-tiered system where your instance is super important to your experience of the entire network.

and therefore choosing an instance should not be approached how i did it.
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Apr 29
That's the Jim I know.

Totally lacking in the reading comprehension department.

"Elon bought Twitter" ≠ "Elon took control of Twitter" and also ≠ "Elon has changed (even a single) Twitter policy"

lmao.
Please rack up more bans for evasion, the Musk administration may be more lax but if you have multiple evasion bans that might count for something…against you.
reporting a ban evasion account = harassment according to Jim stans

i didn't even boost it or know about it until hours after he was banned lol

you're a wet noodle, ninjastuntz
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