Happy May Day, y’all.
"wholesome" and "pure" are not antonyms of "sexual" btw
How did it get up there
It’s difficult to tell - typically light fixtures are installed using some combination of screws and brackets to affix them to the wall, but in this case the actual point of connection is obscured by a cat.
Everyone passionately defending the em dash from being stolen completely by AI has also had the side effect of teaching me that I’ve been using it wrong. I was doing this - with a normal-sized dash and spaces between - rather than the larger dash with no spaces. So that’s cool I guess
it's actually called em dash because it's meant to be the width of an M. There's also an n dash which is meant to be the width of an N.
normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!
n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4–7 things today."
m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add context—extra information or thoughts and lists of things—without making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).
on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear
like so.
and while it's not incorrect to use em dashes with a space before and after the dash — this definitely done in published writing too! — it's less common than using it without those spaces, especially online.
"Normal dash" is also known as a hyphen. It's frequently used in hyphenated words such as "gluten-free" or compound modifiers as in the phrase "a ham-and-cheese sandwich".
En-dash is also used for time periods (1889–1935) and to convey that two entities are involved and equally important (the Dodgers–Giants game, the Iraq–Iran War). It conveys sequence and it avoids taking sides.
funniest thing about FNAF 2 is probably mangle okay so imagine going to a pizza resturaunt and you see this thing ⬇
and the employees are like yeah thats bungle fungle mungle tungle and we let the toddlers rip it apart for fun. and nobody sees a problem with it
This painting of a cave bear, at the Chauvet Cave in France, was drawn with 14 lines around 32,000 years ago. The artist used a technique known as 'stump-drawing' - the use of fingers or a piece of hide to paint the muzzle and to emphasize the outlines of the head and forequarters
When I was early on in my transition I got in a Lyft, and the driver was this big country guy. I was a little nervous so I just sat quietly in the back.
After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said “is this Hatsune Miku?”
And he said “Yep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know Transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.”
I think about that interaction a lot.
