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Apr. 13th, 2026 03:25 am
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The case of the missing notifications

Apr. 11th, 2026 11:58 pm
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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

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It's not about the humanicide, it's about avoiding awkwardness.


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He got cursed with it after that time Jesus yelled at a fig tree.


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anthimeria

Apr. 10th, 2026 07:41 am
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anthimeria or antimeria - (rhetoric) n., the use of a word from one part of speech as if it were another.


In English, most commonly using a noun as a verb, as in "Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle" -- Shakespeare, Richard II, act II, sc.iii, l.95. Indeed, many of the 1500+ word coinages that Shakespeare is credited for were anthimeria. In linguistics, the more common term is zero derivation, deriving a word from one of another part of speech without modification. Like most terms from rhetoric, this is from Ancient Greek, from antí, opposite + méros, part.

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research for the mamogya fanlore article is going down some dark places, a word which here means that m thought "good god if you're going to be cutting yourself for a bandman and @ -ing him the pics please at least pick one that makes good music" while collecting primary sources

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Apr. 9th, 2026 02:32 pm
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If there's one thing I want English-speaking AMV/animatic culture to steal from CN-speaking AMV/animatic culture it's the presence of La gloire à mes genoux as an entry in the list of Default AMV/Animatic Songs. It fucks.
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balefire

Apr. 9th, 2026 07:22 am
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balefire (BAYL-faiuhr) - n., a funeral pyre; a beacon fire; a bonfire.


And with fire, we cross the limit of what my pure ASCII pronunciation guide can handle -- only those dictionaries that use IPA can render that bizarre triphthong well. I've given the meanings out of the usual order to match the word's history -- this goes all the way back to Old English bǣlfȳr, where pyre was the primary sense, but even back then it also held those other meanings, as did the element bǣl, which itself meant funeral pyre/blaze, and reaching back its PIE root *bʰel- meaning blaze/burn/glow/shine, giving us cognates fulgent and flame, both via Latin. The sense of balefire meaning an extremely powerful fire or magical attack is a creation of modern fantasy stories and games.

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