Jess
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Alphabetical clock
oshy
cutekita@ocean I think more efficient for that would be clocks where the numbers are moved clockwise one position, so where 1 usually is, is 12 and where 2 usually is is 1. with this clock you'd immediately notice something is wrong, with a slightly wrong clock you need to pay attention to it and then you'll be even madder
David Penfold 
@catsalad That is horrible 🤯😁
Kevin Karhan 
@catsalad very cursed because how is it supposed to actually function?
Miakoda 
@hellomiakoda @catsalad yeah…
To the point that I've to remind folks thaf asking someone if they are is quite illegal in Germany…
Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🍋@catsalad
Nope.
Acht-elf-vijf-vier-negen- een-zeven-zes-tien-drie-twaalf-twee.
Arjen Haayman@sjaakkeuvelaar @catsalad that's not alphabetical, that's alfabetisch
Jared
Imbrium Photo@catsalad Just add a sign underneath that says "Out of Order" ...
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈
Noxy 🐾🏳️🌈@catsalad now make it work purely mechanically!
Bear Jew 2.0 
@catsalad Not in german
Tone 🚴♀️
Mike@catsalad I told the wine buyer at our store that I had dusted and alphabetized the wine 😆
🍋 Superball ☀️
Ariel Millennium Thornton@catsalad The obvious accessory is a one-year one-page alphabetical calendar to hang underneath it.
Andi H
CANELA BLANCA@catsalad Does it still give the right time twice per day?
Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯@christopherbrown @catsalad At least twice a day. 4 and 7 are in the correct places.
Jeff@davew @christopherbrown @catsalad With servos and a micro controller, you could do better than that. At the top of the hour, you can spin the hour hand to the correct hour, so it reads correctly per the labels all the time. (We've had self-setting analog clocks for decades now that have the electromechanical bits for this trick already inside them. My highschool had them in the 90s.)
Kim
Knightmare
Toni Aittoniemi@catsalad which language is the reference?
svaclav@gimulnautti @catsalad it's written in alt text 🙂
Ben 🏴☠️
James Baker 🍁@catsalad This is like a classic M&Co (https://www.theprintarkive.co.uk/products/3936-m-co-askew-clock-tibor-kalman?srsltid=AfmBOopXkvB5LpwPqC9kA7VpJzby0H13gC48NDlMAIdtgdftaA_se--t&variant=54873096290687), who made fantastic clocks and watches, including a very important one for cat owners!
Amorpheus@catsalad Looking at that clock is like inverting the vertical axis of your mouse for one day. Retraining causes massive neural disassociation, leaving you unable to use a mouse after switching back to what you believed to have mastered.
felizI have set the keyboard layout on my phone so that it runs on the QWERTY keyboard layout when using English language and on the Dvorak keyboard layout when typing in German. It took two weeks to be fluent on both layouts and now my brain doesn't even notice the difference anymore.
@feliz @catsalad Yeah, up to a certain age, you can retrain. Specialization always takes a toll, though.
My grandma lived her entire life in the same appartment with a balcony door lever on the right side. At the age of 70, they installed a new door with the lever on the left side. Strong neural connections made her hand instinctively reach to the right side at first try for years after.
For strong sensory feedback specialization, neural adaptation is very limited.
https://soulunity.substack.com/p/how-a-1964-cat-experiment-reveals
Leeloo
Hermannus Stegeman@catsalad oe nice.. a different one in every country
I am Jack's Found 404E-I-E-I-Ooooooh 🎵
Varx
Æ Sea F.
Rob van Kan🔻@catsalad The right order is
5 - cinque
10 - dieci
12 - dodici
2 - due
9 - nove
8 - otto
4 - quattro
6 - sei
7 - sette
3 - tre
11 - undici
1 - uno
Duke
Mungen Cakes ✅The time is now EI:FOEL
@catsalad Or 8:411
Johan Sköld@catsalad the best part with this is the clock would be different in different places
Veviser
Mx. Alba 
@catsalad
Totally wrong it should be 8 3 1 11 9 10 12 2 4 5 6 7 (acht drie een elf negen tien twaalf twee vier vijf zes zeven)
Totally wrong it should be 8 3 1 11 9 10 12 2 4 5 6 7 (acht drie een elf negen tien twaalf twee vier vijf zes zeven)
Scott Michaud@catsalad I kind-of want to see one work, which would involving jumping around, especially if the minute ticks are also alphabetical.
TerenceSomeone is ahead of you and made a watch that works that way. Oh, and it’s purely mechanical.
Ada (Villain arc) 🏳️⚧️@catsalad I hate you and I hate this clock. My eyes are cursed and my tears will be forever tainted. I am less useful for spell components now. I don't like this fact.
Aknavah Allim@catsalad
I tried to understand this in my language until I realised this was English 😵💫😀
I tried to understand this in my language until I realised this was English 😵💫😀
Heikki Piirainen
Jonathan Lamothe@catsalad It took ke longer than I care to admit to figure this one out.
FediThing 
Come On Giant Asteroid!GET THAT OFF MY TIMELINE!! MY BRAIN IS NOW BROKEN IRREPARABLY!!!
Verđandi K Soldusty@catsalad
The perfect clock to curse someone with. I think it's made me cross-eyed 😵💫.
The perfect clock to curse someone with. I think it's made me cross-eyed 😵💫.
Ham on WryAlso known as a Dementia time piece.
Replied in a sub, but there is a mechanical watch that essentially works this way. The hour hand skips to the appropriate hour. Note that it makes the same distance jump—5 clock hours each hour. Still, an amazing bit of ingenuity in watchmaking.
Nuclear OatmealWell. Aren't you the fancy one? Taking the Express while the rest of us are in our handbaskets.