What even are words? Pieces of long dead people’s thoughts, which we assemble as grim puppets to replicate our own thoughts in a form that we hope others will comprehend? To hell with this, return to grunts and screams.

They’re also not birds. Or ladies, for that matter.

TL;DW

Well, there’s certainly a double entendre in chosing it as the name of a satellite, but it definitely comes from the name of tgat comic book character. Which itself is a play on asterisque (this symbol: *), which, of course, comes in turn from aster as you said.

His compagnon Obélix has a name which works on two levels: It can be seen as a play on obelisk (he is himself a sculptor of menhirs, which are vaguely similar to obelisks), but “obèle” is also the French word for the dagger symbol (†), which is an alternative to the asterisk.

You probably can unleash your special interest again without denying yourself.

I’m not trans (I think), but I do hyperfixate (probably on the spectrum, a shrink even said so but he wasn’t abilitated to do an official diagnosis), and I feel like one of the good things about hyperfixations is how they’re things outside of yourself, and how you feel about them isn’t too affected by how you feel about yourself or your immediate surrounding. I feel if I became a girl, my interest for my hyperfixations, including past ones would be one of the most consistent things about me, I wouldn’t feel the need to change or deny them even as I’d change everything else.

Sorry if my experience isn’t relevant tho, I may not understand every trans issue.

Tbf, it’s not in the bible or anything unlike the other two, it’s more of a medieval european legend with christian parallels…

Jesus has multiple fursonas, including a lamb, a lion and a pelican. But the easter rabbit might be Ēostre’s fursona.

Also, we definitely needed to know whether or not the cake was real.

China tops US 😳

If 1000 people love jazz, I am one of them. If 100 people love jaee I am one of them. If 1 person loves jazz, it is me. If noone loves jazz, I am dead.

If the world is against jazz, then I am against the world.

Reminded me of natethesnake.com

Do you mean in terms of population? In all the maps I see, Ansar Allah’s territory seems smaller, tho they do control the most densely populated zone…

I didn’t find the number of people in each zone, but I guess there does seem to be more Yemeni living under Ansar Allah’s rule.

Might be worth mentioning that this is Ansar Allah (aka the Houthi state), they don’t control most of Yemen.

It’s possible that your phone uses AI upscaling, yes. Upscaling an image means increasing the number of pixels, which involves guessing what color these pixels should be, and that’s often done with.AI. Like other generative AIs, it can be wrong and cause aberrations.

Shout! Shout!
Let it all out!
These are the things that you do without

Probably has to do with the notion of Trump being “anti-establishment” and Epstein being considered part of that “establishment”. The idea in certain sphere has long been that there was a conspiracy of evil pedophiles running the deep state and that Trump was their adversary (see Pizzagate).

Some of his closest allies were pretty vocal on the Epstein case before the 2024 election, being convinced the likes of Bill Clinton would be compromised (which he was), but apparently believing Trump was innocent (which, obviously, he wasn’t). Trump opposing the release of the file was something many in his camp appeared surprised and disappointed by, as his appearance in them ; tho of course those closest to him will say that was another conspiracy.

You’re right in theory, but it’s Spez we’re talking about. I tend to consider that the following is a rational reaction to Spez preparing to take any action about anything in any context:

For the history podcasts, I listene to “The History of Rome” and “Revolutions”, both by Mike Duncan, and “The History of Byzantium” by Robien Pierson.

The woman reading fairy tails and books is Abitlate (she also has the youtube channel Abitfrank)

For the group of people chatting format, I have “The Deprogram”, which is a communist podcast about politics, and “Une invention sans avenir”, a podcast about cinema, which is in French.

The daily fiction one is “La chute de Lapinville”, also in French. And while I’m on the topic of French fiction podcats, " Les Donjons de Nahelbeuk" is of course a classic.

Shrek