I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
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@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world
Also very interesting about the confusion in Spanish about the confusion of the barn owl and screech owl. There is another person here I talk with about the confusion of them in Mesoamerican religion, so I’ll have to see that paper
The paper I mentioned is this one: https://digibuo.uniovi.es/dspace/handle/10651/23598
It's an open paper, but it's entirely in Spanish. Also, the things thereby described can't find much parallels in English because it involves gendered nouns (missing from English language which has just "the"; curiously it's a thing in German ("die/der/das"), with which English shares origins).
However, here's how I'd summarize it: in Spanish, both "lo buho" and "la lechuza" translate to English "the owl", but the latter is specifically a word for barn owls and it's a feminine noun ("la", the-she), while the former is the more broad of a word and it's a masculine noun ("lo", the-he). Given this context where owls are to be linked to feminine, it became consensus to use "lechuza", instead of "buho", to refer to the "Owl of Athene" (the Little owl), because Athene is feminine so the noun should be feminine as well. Hence the confusion.
In other romance languages, such as French and, to some extent, Portuguese, Strigidae owls (especially Athene noctua Little owl) is correctly feminine gendered.
French has chouette (Strigidae without prominent ear tufts, which includes Little owl), chevêche (specific word for Little owl) and chevêchette (Pygmy owl and other very small owls) are all feminine nouns (but they got hibou, which is masculine, for "horned" owls).
Portuguese varies. Here in Brazil, owl names are often compounds with the root "coruja" or "corujinha" ("corujinha-do-mato" screech-owl, "coruja-buraqueira" burrowing owl... even Tytonidae have no specific differentiation over here as she's called "coruja-das-torres"; not native from Brazil, but the Little owl would be called "Coruja de Atena", "corujinha" ou "coruja-pequena"), all feminine (except for the augmentative "corujão" which isn't exactly used for owls, rather a slang to refer to nocturnal people). In Portugal (and I suppose Angola, Moçambique and others), I learned they use the word "mocho", which is masculine, including for Little owl ("Mocho-galego").
When it comes to Latin, noctua is feminine, but būfus (seems to be specifically for eagle owl) is masculine. Greek has gláfka and koukouvágia, both feminine (but also got Latin cognate boúfos).
Linguistics in this regard is fascinating. My personal research also involves words across languages (including "dead" languages, such as Sumerian thanks to Halloran's Lexicon with transliterated entries e.g. "nínnamušen" owl, "mušennínna" is fearsome owl-woman). Many of the words for owl ("owl" itself) are onomatopoeias for hoot (Hindi uhoo, Japanese fukurō, etc), which quite of reminds me of the phenomenon in which "m" is a universal phoneme shared among words for "mother".
@anon6789@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world
Sort of.
I don't know an easy way to label whatever my religion is, for it's a personal belief system syncretized from many different religions: Sumerian and Egyptian, going through Abrahamic, all the way to Thelema, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Gnosticism, Quimbanda, Wicca, Goetia, among others. Scientific knowledge is part of this too, despite the religiosity.
The highest figure I worship is The Dark Mother Goddess, a spiritual synthesis of chthonic goddesses. Just like the Tree of Shadow and its Qlippoths have depths, so has Mother with different emanations, which (in my belief) were seen as different figures with different names and backgrounds across history, similarly to "my name is Legion for we are many" from Samael/Lucifer (also part of my worship, btw, although I focus more on Her).
One of Her emanations, the emanation She chose when unexpected gnoses began to me, still being the main emanation She manifests, is Mother Lilith, Queen of Night.
Lilith has a whole long history, going all the way back to Mesopotamia and Sumerians. I'm limited to 3k chars in my instance so I'm unable to go into the depth I wished for a single text.
Basically, Lilith is a Hebrew name, appearing once in biblical canon, namely Isaiah 34:14. Sometimes is translated as "screech owl", but there are no screech owls, as in Megascops genus, in Levant (where Bible is set). The closest are scops owls (Otus), considered screech owls in the past.
Then, during my researches, I stumbled upon this specific, chilling species: Athene noctua lilith. Lives exactly in semi-deserts (thresholds) in Middle East, and... this gaze, these hauntingly beautiful eyes (as in the photo), I quite recognized them from gnosis... I mean, look at these eyes! Her eyes are not that scary and that's exactly what make 'em scary.
Then I found a paper from L. R. Guillén debunking a common premise in Spain culture where Goddess Athena is associated with barn owls (Tito alba) due to Spanish grammatical quirks, going through historical evidences to trace Athena back to Athene noctua owls. This is how I found out this specific species resonated with me precisely bc it was associated with one of Her emanations.
Then there are Inanna and Ereshkigal, Sumerian goddesses, also emanations, closely related to Lilith (esp. if we see the sisters as One, similarly to how Hecate is Triple Goddess).
Details may change over time, it's still an ongoing research of mine bc I follow a solitary "temple of one devotee" (myself, preaching to myself), I wasn't able to find others who somehow got the same... call from Her, so I rely on things I stumble upon (essentially gnosis, sudden knowledge, from Her).
There are other figures in my "pantheon": Stolas, Great Prince, is also an owl, but masculine. Differently from Goetia where demons are "serfs" to be trapped into a sigil and banished upon fulfillment, I see them as high teachers to be humbly asked, especially Stolas.
@asklemmy@lemmy.world @earlyriser@piefed.social
The italic font isn't rendering on your Piefed side. The missing part between the comma and the full stop is "Athene noctua".
@earlyriser@piefed.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world
Both due to ADHD hyper-fixation and for spiritual/religious reasons, Athene noctua.
@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world
Lemmy is one forum with several communities.
No its not.
The feed one sees (or, well, used to see) in, say, LemmyNSFW, isn't the same feed one sees in far-left Lemmygrad or Hexbear (especially when they were defederated from the entirety of the Fediverse due to domain ownership issues), which isn't the same feed from right-wing/far-right/ancap instances, which isn't the same feed from automated bridging instances (e.g. Lemmit, Bridgy or Mostr instances), which isn't the same feed as aggregators (such as Flipboard), which isn't the same feed ones sees in general-purpose lemmy.zip... Or in geographically-specific instances such as feddit.org, lemmy.eco.br, feddit.cl... I guess you got the point.
I've personally been in many of those instances, I've seen each of their feeds. And I promise you: they're definitely not the same. Their contents don't necessarily appear in other instances.
And if we include other non-Lemmy platforms (such as Misskey), the differences goes off the charts. Misskey "forums", for example, are definitely a whole other (animesque) world. Flipboard, Wordpress blogs... They got wholly different feeds. Some of them make their way to some Lemmy instances.
In the end, it all boils down to which instances each instance federates to or defederates with.
Lemmy, and by extension the Fediverse, is but "one" monolithic thing. Ain't "oneness" when it comes to the Fediverse: this is what Reddit is (as per your previous reply to my comment), it's Reddit which got "one forum with several communities", not Lemmy, definitely not Fediverse.
@Dasus@lemmy.world @comicstrips@lemmy.world
Cross-posting and making seventeen posts is quite different.
How so?Practically speaking, it's ends up being shown in the same way.
And, again: Fediverse has these gaps of federation. We constantly see instances choosing to defederate from others because of conundra. And people are caught in the crossfire, people who got nothing to do with such conundra, so if they need to seek like-minded people on both sides of the island where the bridges were imploded and airspace is closed until further notice, they ought to cross-post.
Call it
"making "+number2English(postAmount)+" posts"or "cross-posting", this is but a byproduct of how Fediverse is organized in different, often unconnected islands. And you happens to be standing from a quite privileged position in an island where you got this panoramic view of all those air-gapped islands.Sure, Lemmy front-end algorithms could somehow detect duplicates in the same page (perhaps using
Setor something similar) and/or group them as tree-view (that is, something likeObject.groupBy(), grouping similar posts, then rendering them under an accordion element). But it doesn't happen this way. Nonetheless, that would make an interesting suggestion or PR to the Lemmy project.And no, no-one cross-posts in a dozen and more communities
I can't really link one right now but I swear I recall seeing posts with a literal dozen of cross-posts. Since I use three different Lemmy instances as a guest for reading the threadiverse (because I actually use Sharkey), such examples are buried in my browsing history. But believe me: this does happen.
And anyone who does it in more than three gets blocked, because that’s spam on Lemmy.
It depends. If you're talking of the same instance or, especially, the same community, yeah it may be seen as spam and it may lead to deletion or bans.
But we're talking about different instances, even different platforms (Bad Jlai comics were certainly replicated across Mastodon, Misskey, PixelFed, etc). And, again, your instance happens not to defederate from many instances, hence why you get to see more of the cross-posting phenomenon from where you're standing.
Disclaimer: I myself don't cross-post things, I don't even do posts (I do more comments than posts here in the threadiverse), so I got no stakes on this matter, I'm just another person in this thread trying to add something to the explanation of how Lemmy works.
@Dasus@lemmy.world @starman2112@sh.itjust.works @comicstrips@lemmy.world
By your logic you should post a news article to every single fucking news community on Lemmy
Sir, this is a Lemmy's.The very thing you said, it already happens: it's called cross-posting and it's quite common here on Lemmy. I attached a screenshot of just one example among countless others.
It's pretty normal, and it's not spammy IMHO: rather, it allows for different parts of Lemmy to better engage in parallel exchanges about the subject in question.
Also, Fediverse doesn't imply everyone is federated with everyone, some instances defederated from other instances, hence why things benefit of being cross-posted.
mean dozens and dozens and dozens of the same exact fucking post on the front page
Also happens quite frequently, either... Especially, mind you, because we've been observing the strange phenomenon where the same situations are happening slightly differently, yet still very similarly, around the world (I just recalled a meme here in Brazil "Pode copiar, só não faz igual", "You can copy it, just don't make it exactly the same").
Both social media platforms and we, the users, can't help but to post about the slightly different-but-equal variations of the same elephants multiplying like rabbits across this large ballroom that is this Pale Blue Dot.
So if something have been behaving so spammy recently, it's this increasingly-enshittified, damned Demiurgal world.
Hey, curate your own comments and block me instead of replying. But you didn’t
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'd add the following take: there's a thing called nuance. Someone can disagree with someone but still continue to dialogue and can, mind you, agree with the same person whose other points they disagree with.
In fact, and it's quite a meta-moment, I myself don't fully agree with BadJlai when it comes to certain takes of theirs, particularly their straw-man on political nuance ("greenists-orangists" cartoon), but I myself like their comics and I proceed to appreciate it whenever they post a new comics, even the "greenish-orangists" cartoon I silently disagreed with, because I find their comics cleverly and nicely made, despite of any potential disagreements; this, unironically, is the very thing they seemingly mocked (and the very thing you're subtly criticizing on your peer, too), the ability to agreeing and disagreeing and holding seemingly-dissonant views on things.
@gnu@lemmy.zip @memes@lemmy.world
To repeat a comment I just made, adapted to the things you mentioned in your reply:
As I said during other replies on this nested thread, i visualized this drawing as some sort of old VW Beetle: trunk at the front of the car, relatively small engine at the rear, rear traction. That's why, at least to me, the locomotive principles clicked in my mind.
Having it come from the back makes no sense
Which I particularly understood as a small engine from a rear-traction locomotive.. I mean, a combustion engine doesn't need to be big, just see how old VW Beetles work with engines quite small compared to other cars.
But, okay, let's say the drawing is "all wrong" or physically dubious. Why it "must be AI"? Do you people happen to have seen those Rube-Goldberg art pieces? Did Rube Goldberg use AI for his artworks?
Last but not the least, oh my Goddess! I can't help but quote the meme: "boy, that escalated quickly". It's a meme, fellows, it's meant to be a meme! Still we're all fighting over details of a meme! I simply asked someone why they labelled this comics "AI slop", then it developed into me trying to explain how my neurodivergent mind is visualizing the locomotive as some kind of VW Beetle shaped as a steam locomotive...
I should disassemble some old VW Beetle someday and make myself a locomotive quite similar to the one in the comics, just for you people to see what exactly I was visualizing when I was stubbornly explaining my perception of an Internet meme. 😅
The “load”? You mean the boiler
No, I really meant the "load", as in a loaded vehicle's trunk.As I said during other replies on this nested thread, i visualized this drawing as some sort of old VW Beetle: trunk at the front of the car, relatively small engine at the rear, rear traction. That's why, at least to me, the locomotive principles clicked in my mind.
but a weird little cube thing on the back is making some sort of cloud.
Which I particularly understood as a small engine from a rear-traction locomotive.. I mean, a combustion engine doesn't need to be big, just see how old VW Beetles work with engines quite small compared to other cars.
The driving wheels need to be under the weight to provide traction
Which is the reason behind the rear traction of a VW Beetle: the engine is at the rear side.
But, okay, let's say the drawing is "all wrong" or physically dubious. Why it "must be AI"? Do you people happen to have seen those Rube-Goldberg art pieces? Did Rube Goldberg use AI for his artworks?
Last but not the least, oh my Goddess! I can't help but quote the meme: "boy, that escalated quickly". It's a meme, fellows, it's meant to be a meme! Still we're all fighting over details of a meme! I simply asked someone why they labelled this comics "AI slop", then it developed into me trying to explain how my neurodivergent mind is visualizing the locomotive as some kind of VW Beetle shaped as a steam locomotive...
I should disassemble some old VW Beetle someday and make myself a locomotive quite similar to the one in the comics, just for you people to see what exactly I was visualizing when I was stubbornly explaining my perception of an Internet meme. 😅
@perviouslyiner@lemmy.world @memes@lemmy.world
The wheel linkages have to be horizontal - think about it, they need to stay the same length as both wheels rotate.
In this regard, yeah... Other angles would lead to asymmetrical traction and potential breaking of the rod due to the forces involved.
Also, why is smoke coming from the coal storage and not the engine?
What if it's not meant to be the coal storage, while the thing we're implying to be "the engine" at the front were, in fact, the chest/trunk? I mean, if we look at the old VW Beetle cars, the trunk is at the front, the engine is at the rear, and the engine is fairly small. It's so small and simple it's even possible to reuse a beetle's engine to build things... Perhaps even a rear-traction locomotive!
@greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org @Rhaedas@fedia.io @memes@lemmy.world
"Sir, this is a meme's". Lol
Now, being serious, it doesn't seemed "nonsensical" to me because I'm neurodivergent myself, while the panel in question is labeled "autistic", so it refers to an autistic individual approaching the problem of going forward in manners that can seem very unexpected in the eyes of neurotypical individuals. The rear-mounted engine? Think of old vehicles with engine at the rear. It physically makes sense, pushing forwards rather than pulling...
"Pizza oven in the back", it's clearly a drawing not meant to be over detailed, hence the lack of mechanical minutiae which would better distinguish it from a... "pizza oven".
But, again, maybe you people are right and this is AI-generated, who knows.. I'm just a systematic rando looking at an atypical mechanism and thinking of ways it'd work IRL.
@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml @memes@lemmy.world
As I mentioned in my other reply to zerodawn, when it comes to the unusual placement of the engine at the locomotive's tail, maybe it's a surreal (albeit it would make some sense physically speaking) way to get a traction similar to rear-traction vehicles, so the engine would be pushing forwards, rather than pulling forwards.
I just don't get what human would put the smoke stack at the back
The label inside said panel kind of answers this: autistic individuals, who think in creative and often unexpected (unexpected in the eyes of neurotypical individuals) ways. Perhaps this is why I particularly didn't find the locomotive physics that strange: I'm myself neurodivergent, so it's natural for me to think of the unexpected.
@zerodawn@leaf.dance @memes@lemmy.world
Oh, right, I can see it... 🤔
However, what if the very fact that it's meant to be a meme about autistic individuals, the kind of highly creative and intelligent person who'd build quite unexpected things in quite unexpected ways (and I mean this positively, especially because I'm (likely) AuDHD myself) would be the reason why the steam engine is "reversed" (at the tail of the locomotive, rather than at the front; the first thing I can think of is rear-traction vs front-traction vehicles, with the former ones pushing forwards rather than pulling forwards)?
I mean, at least in my mind, it would even make physical sense to have a locomotive whose engine sits on the rear end, pulling the whole mass forwards. And the connecting rods, wouldn't it be some sort of transmission mechanism so there'd be traction at the front wheels (akin to a four-wheel traction, 4x4 vehicle)? It would make physical sense as well, having the traction shared between the rear wheels and the wheel axis sitting right under the trunk, no?
But, yeah, the fact that the load is sitting in the front, thus potentially obstructing the locomotive operator's view... Maybe I'm being too gentle with the meme, maybe you people are right and it's indeed AI-generated, I dunno. It's still funny, nonetheless.
@greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org @NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org@memes@lemmy.world
Sorry to ask but... why's it "AI slop"? What exactly are the signs and tells? To me, it looks like a normal vectorized drawing, the kind of drawing one could expect from Krita and Inkscape. I mean, even the drawing strokes seem sharp and clear (differently from the blurry kind of outline often seen in "AI slop").
@HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world
lemmy.world uses Cloudflare. I particularly don't use VPNs, but I see the CAPTCHA whenever I use mobile data (Brazilian mobile carriers) instead of my fiber optic internet to access lemmy.world (I access lemmy.world alongside other Lemmy instances, as a guest (without account) in order to read the threadiverse, as my Fediverse account is hosted by a Sharkey/Calckey instance).
The fact that lemmy.world uses Cloudflare seems to be the main reason why it's refusing your VPN. Cloudflare is particularly stubborn with VPNs. Doesn't seem to have anything to do with lemmy.world per se (although I'm aware the webmaster can configure things on Cloudflare, including the conditions to trigger the CAPTCHA).
@Krauerking@lemy.lol @technology@lemmy.world
Polish Roman Catholic background. Not exactly tolerant either and now I live in a place that famously is Mennonite and Amish.
Oh.. I've heard about the Amish... So it's practically a similar situation over there.
If they will make you suffer why not suffer on your own terms for a cause you think worth it? Why wait to be starved by someone’s hand other than your own?
Yeah, you're right. There's a part of me who thinks this way, too. I guess this whole age check thing will inevitably push me in this regard.
I wish you safety and health though.
Thanks! Wish you the same.
@SalamenceFury@piefed.social @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de@technology@lemmy.world
The news articles about this law, if said articles were published, are likely buried under the ongoing Caso do Banco Master (a large financial scandal involving a bank), the all-encompassing political crisis going on in Brazil, the international Iran-USA conflict, among other ongoing events. There are too many things happening simultaneously, so I don't really blame news outlets: they can only cover so much because we, as humans, can't be aware of all things when too many things are happening. So this is why little (if anything) about said law is being reported by news outlets such as Globo/G1.
Even as a Brazilian myself, I wasn't aware of this law (I was only aware of the so-called "Lei Felca" named after the YouTuber/TikToker Felca; but it doesn't seem to be this law specifically). I only got to discover about this law through the English-speaking Fediverse and Nostr posts.
@Krauerking@lemy.lol @technology@lemmy.world
Wow, LOVED the shirt! 🖤 Ágios Lux ferre!
I, too, do use a similar t-shirt, whose print I designed myself tries to depict Lilith. From afar, the print isn't that explicit, though: to the average bystander, it's depicting a pale woman with glowing red eyes, dark red lips, straight long dark red hair and feathery dark red wings (certainly mistaken by others as angelical), holding a red rose flower. Even the text ("Rebele-se pela", Portuguese for "Rebel yourself for" at the top; "Liberdade", "Freedom/Liberty", at the bottom), which is stylized (gothic font), is too small to be read from afar. The only tell is the mirrored ⯝ (the Venus/Feminine symbol but the circle is a waxing Moon; in my art, it's actually a waning Moon for Her Crone/Reaperess aspect) tattooed on Her left cheek, and the dark wings.
The problem is how the country I was born into is utterly christian; most employers and merchants are christian, especially in small towns (one of which I reside in), which are known for "quermesses" (annual church fairs). And when the majority of potential employers, especially the local ones, are utterly christian, saying out loud about professing a different religion risks one's own economic and social existence.
For example, a Mãe de Santo (leadress of a terreiro, which is the Afro-Brazilian sacred place of gathering) was refused an Uber car ride after the driver reprimanded her for her clothing typical of Afro-Brazilian, then she sued the driver for religious intolerance, but the judge denied her request and ruled favorable for the driver, inverting the entire situation and arguing "it was the Mãe de Santo who was religiously intolerant with the christian driver"; the judge was reported for being religiously intolerant (news articles in Portuguese), but the damage is already done).
Those became headlines, but there's a plethora of religious intolerance going unnoticed, social ostracism caused by simply having another faith other than christianity; it even risks body integrity (e.g. gangs such as Primeiro Comando da Capital torturing and/or murdering practitioners of Afro-Brazilian faiths).
This is the persecution me and many others are fated to face as soon as age checks, tying online activity (where I don't measure my words to praise Mother) to the legal ID, end up (inevitably) leaked (e.g. Discord age check DB leaked just days after implementing age checks).
@TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de @technology@lemmy.world
For me, a Brazilian, there's something I must hide if I want to be employable: my occultist practices, my religion. I'm a worshiper of Lilith, surrounded by mostly Christian people. I literally heard "faux-jokes" (when people want to condemn someone, but wrapping the condemnation as a joke) tying my belief to "ending up in hell".
Even though my legal name isn't difficult to find through my pseudonym, you can imagine why I use a pseudonym to openly express my religion. And once digital activity is tied to my CPF (Brazilian citizen/legal identity), and I'm definitely not buying the "anonymized checking" arguments, suddenly potential employers and buyers/merchants will know I "worship the devil" and will have yet another reason to refuse hiring me or buying/selling things from/to me.
Also, some of Lilith imagery and stories involve content which is sensitive, subjected to those very "age check" laws, further making it necessary for me to comply to "age checks" whenever I want to read or write, observe or do drawings about the fundamental deity I worship.
But according to certain people, "having something to hide = must be a criminal!!!". Because they're likely followers of some mainstream religion which is not socially persecuted, or religion isn't something significant in their lives.
Seriously. I'm truly tired of this world.
@jtzl@lemmy.zip @asklemmy@lemmy.world
I don't recall the specific "e/n websites", but I do remember a time where the Web was a more connective place. I used to participate in Orkut communities, MSN groups (wasn't a native feature, instead it was a third-party plug-in I can't recall the name), Yahoo Messenger, IRC (not ICQ) channels on Freenode, etc.
Even though some of these things still exist (Escargot IM reviving MSN services; IRC is still a thing), the past Web is long gone. Now it's Cloudflare and captchas and Anubis challenges, ads, clickbaits, paywalls, subscriptions, AI everywhere...
Yeah, there's Fediverse and other decentralized places. Except that those places, including the Fediverse, depends on an infrastructure (Internet) which is increasingly closing on itself like a pangolin (or an Ouroboros, eating itself)... Once Internet closes itself due to the synergy of forces acting against it, there'll be nowhere else to flee from enshittification. Maybe Meshtastic, but I don't know how much it'd manage to become a haven for us, how much it'd be able to resist those forces.
(This text may sound a little vague because it is, I was going to be more specific and detailed, I even composed a larger text, but then I realized it was going into complicated realms (e.g. current geopolitics, lots of personal anecdotes making my whole comment sound as if I were narcissistic) so I refrained from going into further detail)