I once proposed a “toilets on the air” event where you took a QRP CW rig into a bathroom, sat on the toilet, and texted like it was 1912.

edit: someone beat me to it.

I know this is obnoxiously pedantic but the link you provide says the 666 meats come from the same animal.

When you say it like that, it sounds really mundane.

Ignoring the how of it all, here’s how I imagine it working subjectively. They have a much wider visible spectrum compared to humans, but they can’t perceive the whole thing all at once. They have four pairs of nictitating membranes that act like bandpass filters. Between the bandpass membranes and signal processing in the brain, they “tune” to different spectra, and can even narrow the bandwidth of the received signal. They can sense light polarization by aligning or misaligning their eyes to the direction of polarization, and because their eyes don’t rely on focusing a light to a point, they can stare at the sun without harm or discomfort.

Subjectively, they have no fixed concept of color, as objects appear different depending on how their eyes are tuned. Their languages lack simple color words, and must rely on analogies to objects that are similarly colored, much like most (Western) languages have no simple terms to describe odors beyond relating them to their sources (“earthy”, “fruity”, “floral”, etc).

The low-end of their eyes’ frequency range isn’t set, but they can at least see thermal radiation emitted by living bodies, and the high end is set at the threshold of ionizing radiation. Because their eyes work equally well during the day and at night, they and other species in their clade that share the same eye structure are neither nocturnal nor diurnal, and have active and rest periods that do not sync with the day-night cycle. Upon achieving sapience and developing a structured society with the concept of timekeeping, they do not use different time zones.

This would be a receive-only biological system evolved by a species of alien critters to serve as eyes, so not for any IRL project.

Does fldigi do SSTV now or am I not getting the joke?

Where possible I use an Anglish (YouTube Link) translation convention for alien words since their languages are unutterable by humans (and vice versa). As for how they sound, imagine the quiet yipping and growling made by a dreaming dog. The word in the OP is Romanized (if you can call it that) as GJbfrMr, and is pronounced /long rising weak growl, short rising strengthening whine, chuff, long low strong grunt, chuff/. The root word is the verb GJ meaning to work or to make and the suffix -bfr, which forms nouns from verbs or adjectives with a meaning of a software program or digital service described by the root. -Mr is an 3rd person proximal noun suffix roughly meaning “this…” or “this is a…”

I post my worldbuilding stuff mostly on the CBB conlanging forum, and there’s a comprehensive grammar for Commonthroat–the most widely spoken alien language–on FrathWiki. Sometimes I put stuff on a worldbuilding community here on lemmy !worldbuilding@lemmy.world.

*edit: got my own grammar wrong.

Thanks! Here are a few more samples:

Part of the livery of a particular spacecraft, spelling out the craft’s name, Dewfall.

The word for ‘Mech hangar’ (Every sci-fi setting needs some big ol’ stompy walking war crimes).

Another attempt at a glowing CRT aesthetic. This is the name of the worldbuilding project as a whole “The Lonely Galaxy”.

And here’s what the writing system looks like when hand-written. The word is “egg eater”, which is a very vulgar insult among these oviparous aliens. The aesthetic of the script leans toward the Brahmic writing systems of South and Southeast Asia.

At the time of the OP I was testing federating two nodeBB instances. ActivityPub requires HTTPS AFAIK.

Are the sugar gliders more like familiars/companions for the wizards or do they have their own society and stuff? Is dancing something sugar gliders are known for?

OK. NOW email is working properly. Turns out my own email provider is more permissive about random email servers. Gmail won’t even put it in the spam folder. I had to switch to a 3rd party email provider. Before I was using sendmail built into the server. I can confirm Gmail is receiving the verification emails now.

“succeed” perhaps isn’t the right word. I like the CBB and have no intentions of leaving. My only gripe is that it runs on a rather old platform. The problem I have with social media is that it doesn’t foster long-lasting conversations. Ironically you CAN achieve a traditional forum experience on Lemmy simply by sorting posts in a community by latest comment and choosing the “chat” option within a thread, but even though they’re trivially easy to select, since they’re not the defaults nobody will bother. The default options favor novelty, so older topics get buried quickly.

But there are lots of ideas that social media brings to the table that I think enhance the forum experience without robbing it of its more cozy character.

In the end, though, my motivation is 80% wanting to improve my sysadmin skills and 20% wanting to create a community. Like how do I manage software updates, backups, migration, provisioning more resources, etc. Since I’m so green when it comes to administration, I’d suggest not using an email address or using a throwaway, and of course using proper password hygiene goes without saying.

Regarding tags, my intention was to start out with a single category and let community usage dictate which topics deserve their own categories. When I was on the Minecraft forums back in 2011, I was annoyed by how granular the forum structure was.

Upvote for the Dark Crystal reference.

Tiny furry human! The adults are quite striking as well.

I searched for “monkeys” and this is the first post across all the instances I have access to that’s just a nice picture of a monkey and not a rant about NFTs or similar.

I’m curious about the white hole. That was something I played around with, that the central light was spewing out matter and had a negative gravitational field that pushed people toward the surface since you don’t experience the gravity of a sphere if you’re inside it.

I’d also like to know more about the clouds.

I’m always a sucker for giant cosmic space god heads.

I based the idea on Unicron from G1 Transformers. For the longest time I called the structure in my conworld Yinrihcron in want of a better name. Now the name is used in-universe by humans.

Also, if there are gods or super powerful beings, even high level spell casters there needs to be a good solid reason why they aren’t the ones who are saving the world. The Forgotten Realms made me question that too much, as a player I was meeting all these high level beings and they told me to go into the pit of evil bad guys who are going to take over the world.

I generally solve this problem by presenting gods more like they are in IRL religions, inscrutable and unknowable. This also allows for things like crises of faith, which would be hard to pull off when you have tangible evidence of your deity lying around. As for why they’re so aloof, this is my go-to explanation.

an ARES group in a neighboring county set up an AREDN network. They said it worked very well, with two caveats.

First was a jurisdiction issue. They couldn’t send climbers up to replace or repair equipment on their own, they had to wait for another entity to do it, this lead to things going unrepaired for a long time, which leads to…

Second, WISP equipment, even outdoor-rated stuff, isn’t as weatherproof as one would hope. Where I live (gulf coast US) we get a lot of wind and rain, so things broke down often. Combine this with the inability to replace and repair equipment as needed and you get a perpetually flaky network. I think it’s no accident that the most active AREDN mesh is in SoCal where the weather is perpetually clement.

This is all second hand, of course, though I can vouch for the WISP gear not being exactly Ragnarok proof. It seems when it worked, it worked very well, but it often didn’t work for the reasons above. If you can locate equipment in places you have access to, I think it’ll be fine.

Seeing as how this has persisted through both my longest-lasting conworld and my most detailed conworld, I’d say a race of sapient doglike creatures. While part of the appeal of of dog ownership is that, compared to humans, dogs are emotionally simple critters with uncomplicated needs, A big part of me wishes I could explain things to my dogs in a way they could understand, and that they had the capacity to unambiguously tell me how they’re doing. I also wish I didn’t have to keep burying them every 10-15 years. Ergo, sapient cynoids that live over 7 centuries it is.

Unrelated, but I would draw maps when I was a kid, just an island with blobby regions representing biomes or polities or whatever. There would ALWAYS be a lake of lava somewhere on the map.

Oh, and mechs. Big ol’ stompy walking war crimes. Combine this with the sapient dogs and you get space doggos piloting mecha-Clifford into battle, good times.

Interesting.

In my case, the light was the physical manifestation of a god of order. Opposing the light was a god of chaos and entropy that appeared as a writhing mass of viscera that completely surrounded the sphere, underground from the perspective of the inhabitants living on the inner surface. The world existed near the birth of the universe or near its end; it’s not clear to the inhabitants which is true. The light is either banishing the chaos and establishing physical laws, or fighting a losing battle against the incarnation of heat death. Magic is possible either because the laws of physics are still sorting themselves out or because they’re breaking down.

A day-night cycle was made possible thanks to a hemispherical shield that orbited the light, occulting it for half a day