Émilie

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Hi, I'm Émilie

A map of the world with lighting strike incidents indicated with a heatmap. It ranges from 0 per square kilometre to 256+. The highest-intensity region is in the US to the north of the Gulf of Mexico. Large parts of Brazil, the DRC and Indonesia also have high intensities, but not as widespread.
An edit of xkcd comic #2501, Average Familiarity. Two stick figures are speaking. There is a caption below them. Stick Woman: "NDP is second-nature to us nerds, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Avi, Heather and Ashton." Stick Man: "And Yves, of course." Stick Woman: "Of course." Bottom Caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
A photo of the movie Groundhog Day on a computer screen in a dark room. The screen is showing Phil’s inspiring Groundhog report from near the end of the film.
A photo of a 2017 Australian gold coin, minted for the Year of the Chicken and featuring a crowing rooster on Heads.
A picture of a sheet of printer paper (Letter). It is entirely filled with Traditional Mongolian Script. I cannot transcribe it here—I used a few made-up letters to make up for the missing sounds when transliterating German into that script. It is the passage about capital being vampire-like dead labour, from Chapter 10.
A picture of a cat (Domino) watching the YouTube video in the above tweet on a computer monitor. Her paw is stretched out to the screen to grab Alec’s hand.
A tweet from March 9th, 2018, by @eyeballslicer LENIN: Ok comrades it’s time to pick pseudonyms TROTSKY: I choose Trotsky, the name of my jailor, a cunning rebuke of— STALIN: [tearing off shirt] MY NAME IS JOEY STEEL [everyone applauds]
The diagram used to explain the Christian Trinity—a triangle with text bubbles at each point, as well as one in the middle. Along the outside, the edges say "Is Not" while the lines heading to the middle bubble say "Is". This version says: King Charles of England Is Not King Charles Of Canada Is Not King Charles of Australia, with "is the same old fuck who thinks he's better than you" written in the middle.
Screenshot from the game Disco Elysium showing two available dialogue options: 1: (Whisper) “Are women bourgeois?” 2: Oh god, that’s bad. Surely I can think of something better.
Screenshot from Chapter 11 of the North & Reitter translation of Capital: “As independent persons, the workers are isolated persons. They enter into a relation with the capitalist but not with one another. They begin to cooperate only in the labor process, but by then, they have already ceased to belong to themselves. The moment they enter that process, they are incorporated into capital. As cooperating people, as parts of a laboring organism, they are merely one of capital’s particular modes of existence. The productive power that a worker develops when he performs social labor is therefore capital’s productive power. Labor’s’ social productive power develops without additional pay wherever workers are made to operate under the right conditions, and it is capital that has them operate under those conditions. Because labor’s social productive power doesn’t cost capital a thing, and also because the worker doesn’t start to develop such productive power until capital owns his labor, this power presents itself as belonging to capital by nature, as inherent in capital.”
A screenshot of a reply I made to someone else in a Stancil thread, and Will's reply to me. Me: "Stancil is saying that you can't predict historical things in general, though he keeps moving the goalposts and jumping around, so it's a bit difficult to trace his argument to the start. He believes plane crashes are unpredictable because you can't say exactly which people will die." Willy Boy: "No, I'm saying that it matters which people die, and since you can't predict that, history is unpredictable"
A portion of my previous reply to Will. "Marxism isn't about predicting the result of a specific roll; it's about the overall distribution of those results."
A screenshot of my statistics textbook. Probability Probability is a mathematical tool used to study randomness. It deals with the chance (the likelihood) of an event occurring. For example, if you toss a fair coin four times, the outcomes may not be two heads and two tails. However, if you toss the same coin 4,000 times, the outcomes will be close to half heads and half tails. The expected theoretical probability of heads in any one toss is 12 or 0.5. Even though the outcomes of a few repetitions are uncertain, there is a regular pattern of outcomes when there are many repetitions. After reading about the English statistician Karl Pearson who tossed a coin 24,000 times with a result of 12,012 heads, one of the authors tossed a coin 2,000 times. The results were 996 heads. The fraction 996/2000 is equal to 0.498 which is very close to 0.5, the expected probability. The theory of probability began with the study of games of chance such as poker. Predictions take the form of probabilities. To predict the likelihood of an earthquake, of rain, or whether you will get an A in this course, we use probabilities. Doctors use probability to determine the chance of a vaccination causing the disease the vaccination is supposed to prevent. A stockbroker uses probability to determine the rate of return on a client's investments. You might use probability to decide to buy a lottery ticket or not. In your study of statistics, you will use the power of mathematics through probability calculations to analyze and interpret your data.
An image of the bedroom of the man being discussed. Apart from a small bathroom mat, the plastic hardwood floor is bare. The comforterless bed has a nightstand and a security camera on one side, and a cat tree and litter box on the other. The cats’ food and water bowls are alarmingly close to the litter box. The end of the room the picture was taken from has another cat tree.
A clip from The Great Escape (1963) where the prisoner are disposing of extra dirt from their tunnelling by dropping it through their pants onto a garden. Bluesky doesn't like gifs, so I had to do it this way.
A captcha. The text reads "the nightman cometh"
A screenshot of a Wikipedia user's user page. "My work on Wikipedia is currently focused on reverting vandalism, fixing up articles created by new users, adding hyperlinks, and fixing typos. " Their About Me section states that they have experience in web development and photography, and are strongly pro-copyright. In their info box on the right, they say that they are from Canada, in the Pacific time zone, and that their IQ is "Mensa-eligible". They have a list of userboxes below their About Me: "Beware! This user is a known talk page stalker." "This user supports the Canadian Crown." "This user supports the Conservative Party of Canada." "This user supports the British Columbia Liberal Party." "This user believes that evolution doesn't have to conflict with Christianity." "This user believes in restoring the monarchy of China." And a couple more boxes that are not interesting.
A screenshot of the Wiktionary definition of "mental". The third definition is shown. 3. (colloquial, UK, Ireland, Australia, new Zealand, comparable) Enjoyable or fun, especially in a frenetic way. "That was a mental party last night."
A screenshot of this post being written. I have selected French as the language, so that it will offer to translate.
A screenshot of this very post as written. At the bottom, next to the character count, it says German
A picture of the Palestinian Solidarity Protest in Calgary on November 12th, 2023. Green- and red-coloured smoke is spreading across 4th Avenue. A number of Palestinian flags are visible on the other side of the smoke.
A screenshot of a Suggested Post from Facebook. Group: "Colonial South African Memes for God Fearing Teens" Suggested for you • 15 hours ago Text: "Finders keepers" Meme: Two pictures. The first is of what looks like the only empty parking spot in a crowded lot. It is labelled "An uninhabited island in the middle of the pacific". The second picture shows that there's a small red car in the spot, labelled "the United Kingdom" It has 395 likes/hahas/loves and other reactions, 9 comments and 36 shares.
A gif of Barbados Slim from Futurama being crushed by a door, from the same scene as the above meme
A picture of the smog from several snowmobiles forming a distinct layer just above the ground. This picture was taken in a 0.064-square-kilometre cleared area at 9:41 am.
A picture of Domino standing on a cinderbrick wall. A thunderstorm approaches in the background as she stares determinedly into the foreground
A screenshot of a Reddit post from January 4th, 2013. It is heavily downvoted. Title: "I came up with this quote just a few minutes ago. I thought /r/atheism would appreciate" "Just to be clear, I'm not a professional 'quote maker'. I'm just an atheist teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly fiction book written 3,500 years ago. This being said, I am open to any and all criticism. 'In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.' - Aalewis Eh?"
A screenshot from iTunes, showing the song "Do You Hear The People Sing?" from Les Misérables. Reading the table in the screenshot, you can see that I have listened to it 277 times.
A picture of me with my cat, Domino, in my lap. I am wearing a shirt for the Falcon Flyers, the Dubai Junior League Hockey Champions in 2001. Domino is looking at me lovingly.
A photo of a tiny passport photo-sized envelope. In pen, it reads: “Emily can pass”
A quote tweet of a reply, as well as a reply to the quote tweet. I initially said: "What energy source with no mining required do you propose? Per unit of energy, nuclear power actually requires less mined material than wind or solar. This can be lowered even further by reusing spent fuel." YQR Action! quote-tweeted: "Uh oh we've kicked the mining lobbyist hornets nest" I replied: "Should we just keep on using fossil fuels, then? 80% of Saskatchewan's energy comes from that. 90% of Alberta's. I think that's bad. Because of the metals required, alternative energy sources necessitate mining. How do you propose we transition from fossil fuels without mining?
Morbo from Futurama
A screenshot of the Content Languages selection screen. "Which languages would you like to see in your algorithmic feeds?" I have checked Afrikaans, Dutch/Flemish, English, French, German, Interlingua, Interlingue Occidental, Luxembourgish, Occitan (post 1500) and Western Frisian.
A screenshot of the tweet I'm replying to, showing the error I mentioned in my reply from trying to reply to them.