Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org
poorly distributed mind;
follows a bunch of hashtags;
not anti-anything;
usually located in California
Joined Nov 2022
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Walmart heir wants museums to attract more people and donates $40 million to help.
Alice Walton's foundation Art Bridges is providing $40 million in grants to 64 museums around the country .
She believes all museums should be free https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1204655934/walmart-heir-museums-free-donates-40-million-to-help #museums #ArtBridges
Wiktionary nous donne "l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions" et la variante "le chemin de l'enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions". Ça marche pour moi. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%E2%80%99enfer_est_pav%C3%A9_de_bonnes_intentions
Comment dit-on en français "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions" ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_with_good_intentions
#français #francais #proverbe #proverbes #french #proverb
If you're blind:
Does it help if we tag abstract art images in toots with an "alt" description? What kind of description do you appreciate?
(my take is: I label abstract paintings with just "abstract painting" so as to make them easy to ignore but I don't try to describe them because it would be futile in my opinion much like summarizing poetry)
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@rl_dane the French pronunciation of imported English words can be hilarious e.g. 'bulldozer' https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=bulldozer&op=translate
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@rl_dane while we're at it, the German 'ü' is pronounced like the French 'u'. This sound doesn't exist in English.
German pronunciation of 'ü': https://translate.google.com/?sl=de&tl=en&text=K%C3%BChlschrank&op=translate
French pronunciation of 'u': https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=de&text=trou%20du%20cul&op=translate
#french #german #english #words #sounds
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@rl_dane German 'ö' is pronounced more or less like a French 'eu'. The closest in English would be the 'u' in 'purr'.
Today in special units for America: "Asteroid the Size of 100 Capybaras" which is in fact the size of 1 billion capybaras.
https://ts2.space/en/asteroid-the-size-of-100-capybaras-to-pass-earth-no-cause-for-alarm/
#astronomy #units #asteroids #capybaras #big #earth #america
Interesting spelling for "Ampèrian". In French, it's spelled "ampérien" with an acute accent, not "ampèrien" which would look and sound wrong even though it's derived from "Ampère".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Marie_Amp%C3%A8re
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/amp%C3%A9rien
#spelling #english #anglais #français #french #accents #physics
Here's something you don't get with digital images or ordinary prints: gold and silver effects.
I blame the Big Bang.
#politics #causality #causation #transitivity #physics #philosophy #liability #bullshit
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Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-book-of-hours/
I sincerely apologize to those I offended or will offend in the future. Rest assured that it has never been my intention to hurt anyone as it would benefit neither of us. This was only poor communication on my end. Now get used to it or kindly fuck off.
I need to find out when the word for "mind" (Latin: mens, Sanskrit: manas) disappeared from the French language and some other European languages.
I call the mind the last taboo of rationalist society.
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"Children In France Playing With A Toy Guillotine. 1959
#pic #pics #pictures #picture #photo #photography #PhotoMonday #photografie #photographie #Fotomontag #foto #fotos #fotographie #fotografie #fotograf #france #history #historical #histodons #histodon
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@Great_Albums @lowqualityfacts it's "whoever", not "whomever" because it's the nominative case (as in Latin, German, etc.) which I just learned is also named the subjective case in English. The nominative case applies to the subject but also to the complement if the complement is the same thing as the subject. For example, in "I am a Berliner", both "I" and "a Berliner" use the nominative case because they describe the same thing. However, in "I eat a Berliner", "a Berliner" is not equivalent to the subject and therefore uses another case. This is poorly explained here and there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicative_expression
oh wow, Mastodon supports approval voting! Let's see if we can make Donald Trump win.
#poll #politics #vote2024 #trump #thoughts #prayers #cabbage #horseshoe #crabs #blood #republicans #democrats #others #wow
Tell us, who's qualified to be US president?
poorly distributed mind;
follows a bunch of hashtags;
not anti-anything;
usually located in California
Joined Nov 2022
