Katie Ampersand

I’m a conlanger, worldbuilder, and occasional writer. Banner by me.

My Mastodon: @TheAndSys@koyu.space

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  • Girls own the void!
    Let’s make some noise
    Don’t leave the house without a party bag, check this!
    I’m still a princess, I can curtsy, I can beat you at tetris!
    Girls own the void!
    Let’s make some noise
    Don’t leave the house without a party bag, check this!
    I’m still a princess when there’s nothing left to wear

    From Girls by Patricia Taxxon















  • Same case as Fakefunk, I have my own fictional world set in the year 2500. I don’t really care about how the world is doing, but there’s this small, human-made island operated by sentient machines that is what i call a “utopia in the works”. They’re trying to make a utopia, but they’re not quite there yet. One thing I do know about this world is that “zero world countries” are now a thing, that is, countries that reach post-scarcity. The island this worldbuilding is focused on is one of those.

    My friends have called them the intersection of transhumanism and buddhism, and solarpunk with a cyberpunk aesthetic


  • All the dictionary definitions for the word dozen say “a group of 12”, which isn’t decimal-centric at all. Like I said, being able to express a definition with decimal digits doesn’t make it a decimal definition. I could just as easily say that it’s “a group of 20”. The definition doesn’t change, it’s just that I’m using base 6 now. Does this mean that it’s a base 6 definition? No, it just means that I can use base six to express it

    Anyhow, doesn’t seem like this is going anywhere lol. I guess it’s just a matter of which words you prefer


    • you can also say that a dozen is a group of 1100, does that mean that a dozen is a reference to binary? of course not, that doesn’t make any sense. just because you can use decimal digits to write a definition doesn’t make it a decimal-centric definition. duodecimal is decimal-centric not because of its definition, but because it’s literally “two(duo) ten(decimal)”

    • there are a lot of ways to count to 12 with only two hands. some with only one hand









  • Katie AmpersandOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlDid any of you know this?
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    3 years ago

    Yeah. I think it comes from different experiences and different associations with those experiences

    Here’s what I think The Funny here actually is: It subverts the expectation of the reader up front (as long as they are familiar with «facts and easter eggs» images that use this similar format) by showing them this format, and then presenting them with something beyond blatantly obvious

    Here’s what my brain associated this meme with: Yknow that time when everyone and their mother used facebook? There were pages that kept posting fun facts about marvel and they looked exactly like this. I think this image is making fun of them running out of actual facts