Sidereus

Happiness, sadness, the bittersweetness, and beauty💐
#frieren #葬送のフリーレン

Talking about it with friends and I think you can consider Ishiguro's opening for Kusuriya the link between his fine work of the past and the outstanding work for Shoushimin & Seihantai. Something about the way he built the fake dioramas feels like he was transcending the 2D cel paradigm already

Comic. [Two people walking together as inverted catenary curves fall around them.] PERSON: Oh wow, the first inverted catenary fall of the year! Time to swap out my all-season tires for square ones.

Inverted Catenaries

xkcd.com/3176/

魔法少女魔女裁判はじめる

One of my favorite things about Sekimeiya is how you not only have the log of the entire game up until the current point (separated into scenes with summaries and space for notes), it is also entirely *searchable* and you can jump back into the previous scenes at will.

Grinded 350 splash tokens for the previous ER season, and I need 450 to get tropical dimension abigail. But I haven't been playing ER at all recently so I don't think I'll get it at this point. Feels terrible to just let them expire though...

I will never forgive Uchikoshi for not explaining who kicked the can

Maomao 🌿 #薬屋のひとりごと

I've decided to stop being a fake Ellery Queen fan and actually read an Ellery Queen book.
I already read Roman Hat, but I'm not going to count that. Starting French Powder today.

⌛英訳を担当した "The Clock House Murders”（綾辻行人先生の『時計館の殺人』) はイギリスでは来月、10月9日発売予定です。アメリカでは2026年6月2日予定のようです。よろしくお願いいたします！

Also if Jinshi tries to put his lips on Maomao like that again, I hope she knocks him upside the head. Bastard

finished S2 of Apothecary Diaries. The second half didn't have much in the way of mystery-solving, but I enjoyed the story a lot regardless. Maomao continues to be one of my favorite protagonists ever, and Shisui was a great addition to the cast.

He didnt have it. I checked. @normalnick.bsky.social

I could just pay up and keep playing it (if I wasn't too pissed at NYT to give them any money), but the social aspect of it is already ruined. I can't expect all my friends and family to pay for a subscription to be on each others leaderboards

I can't believe NYT paywalled the mini crossword. That was my favorite morning activity and a fun way to stay connected with friends/family via the leaderboard. I'm actually devastated

I think I might finally be getting the motivation to read mysteries again

忄 is 心 but it's been radicalized by the far left

I think we should call a piece of trivia a trivium

Wasei-eigo A single panel comic where three stickmen are reading manga on a monitor, with the currently visible panel depicting a nude shot of a female character alongside a narration reading "Even her style is good..." This makes no sense as you obviously don't have a "style" when you're naked, and the reason for this is a mistranslation borne from assuming that the Japanese word スタイル (sutairu) is just the English word "style", when in fact its meaning in Japanese is actually "figure", as in "Even her figure is great" - the actually correct translation for the line in question, as it actually makes sense for a comment about a naked body. The first stickman understands all this and is going "Argh!" in response. The second stickman is unaware and is just saying "What?" The third stickman, slightly offscreen, is going off on a rant about how スタイル is CLEARLY the English word "style" because they've learned just the exact dangerous amount of Japanese where they think they know way more than they do, resulting in confident proclamations about things that are very wrong. There is text under the panel, which says "If you really hate someone, teach them to recognize wasei-eigo mistranslations." The comic is titled "Wasei-eigo", and it was created by Daiz (of daiz.moe) and modeled after the xkcd comic strip number 1015. The manga panel featured in the comic is from a series called Goodbye Isekai Tensei. #translation #localization

visual novels (especially kinetic novels and VNs with few choices) should be more easily navigable. like a book

Cute!

OSHA FATAL FOUR

Known in Japan as the 死天王

Another well-known contrast between the two conditionals is the popular public service announcement: 飲のんだら乗のるな。乗のるなら飲のむな。 Nondara noru na. Noru nara nomu na. If you drink, don’t [then] drive. If you [are going to] drive, don’t drink.

This is a great example of the difference between -nara and -tara (and a good thing to remember in general!)

A geometric progression is the discrete version of an exponential function, so this is where the name for this smoothing method originated according to Statistics lore.

Statistics lore

Kyoto is beautiful

The Witch Chose to Die With X – Yesterday, We Lost Our Lives, Tomorrow We Were Born. From page one, this book just started crazy strong. The sudden chaos, the confusion, the impactful introduction of the time mechanic, and the relation between the two main characters, all of it hit…

I felt like writing a short text about Minami Asovu's "The Witch Chose to Die With X: Hyperserial Murders at the Eternity Manor" for my website, it's a really good book.

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a girl with pink hair is wearing a mask while holding a piece of paper ALT: a girl with pink hair is wearing a mask while holding a piece of paper

Leaving tomorrow to visit Japan for the first time