二极管㆙ @0@social.hairydiode.xyz

TIL that somebody once tried to make a flying Ford Pinto and that the inventor died when it crashed during a test flight due to one of the wing struts failing.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE_Mizar

Language at the End of the World, an article about Rongorongo and the Rapa Nui.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/64/mikanowski.php

Also I found a picture of a chonky axolotl on Wikipedia.

Another neotenic salamander species is the Olm[0], which is an old world species that is blind and lives in caves.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm

Also according to Wikipedia, the name for Bonobos (formally known as Pygmy Chimpanzees despite being a seperate species) comes from a mispelling. [0]

[0] "The name is thought to be a misspelling on a shipping crate from the town of Bolobo on the Congo River near the location from which the first bonobo specimens were collected in the 1920s." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo

TIL that axolotl are neotenic.[0] There are rare instancea of axolotl going through metamorphosis to become terrestrial. However, if this occurs after sexual maturity the axolotl will not survive more than one or two years.[1]
[0] "axolotl ... is a neotenic salamander related to the tiger salamander." Wikipedia
[1] http://www.axolotl.org/tiger_salamander.htm

Examples of documents written in Hieratic script:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=36673001&objectId=113983&partId=1

http://www3.telus.net/public/sjfryer/Egypt/Hieratic/Samples/Neni1.htm

http://www3.telus.net/public/sjfryer/Egypt/Hieratic/papyrus/page01.html

An article describing the distinction between Hieroglyphic, Cursive Hieroglyphic, and Hieratic Text:

https://egyptianmoonlover.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/learn-to-recognize-hieratic/

In fact Hieratics were actually much more commonly used than Hieroglyphics[0].

[0] http://www3.telus.net/public/sjfryer/Egypt/Hieratic/introduction.html

TIL I learned that Hieroglyphs had multiple cursive forms used outside of inscriptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_hieroglyphs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieratic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demotic_(Egyptian)

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https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9432

New version of GNU Unifont with the Reiwa (令和) Japanese Era Character has been released.

There's this guy at the train station yelling "stanky butt dick, that's my name".

This guy's renting a parking space for 300/mo smh

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-parking-space-available/6880834378.html

Bay area rents are so high that this guy is renting his van out:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-temporary-or-longer/6883964406.html

Nobody:

kkutchta: CSS only chat

https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat/blob/master/README.md

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