Might be a long shot, but does anyone know a real human I could commission to write a short story in the Catalan/Valencian language? Bonus points if they are queer/adjacent.

EDIT: thanks everyone, I have a few leads that I’ll be following up with 💜

RE: https://mas.to/@jimkennedy/116320165651070852

That’s what we get for not putting Netanyahu and Gallant behind bars.

Despite their similar meaning and appearance, the verbs ‘to search’ and ‘to seek’ don’t have any etymological relationship whatsoever.

‘To seek’ comes straight from the Proto-Germanic ancestor of English, while ‘to search’ was borrowed from a French word related to ‘circle’. Searching is going around looking for something.

Click my new infographic to learn all about these word families.

‘To seek’ has the highly irregular past tense ‘sought’. Why does the k become a silent gh? And why ... 1/

"As of today, more than 10,000 active #Starlink #satellites are in #space, constituting about two thirds of all satellites that are currently in orbit. That’s a number that would have seemed unbelievable just a decade ago. 'Starlink has changed our relationship with space,' says Hugh Lewis, a space debris expert at the University of Birmingham in England. 'The character of the night sky is no longer the same as it once was, and I’m not sure it will ever be again.'"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-reaches-milestone-of-10-000-starlink-satellites-in-orbit/

#kagi, one of the very few internet services that is completely worth the money, has added “LinkedIn Speak” to its translator as a destination language.

Here’s what it did about my sock.

Top shelf internetting, here.