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Etymology and OnomasticsE. & O., No. 6

Algorithm

By Una Ada, May 24, 2025

I was aiming for something a bit lighter with this one, so it's more "Fun Facts with Una" and less ripping my hair out reading 18th century alchemy essays. #etymology #history #iran #turkmenistan #uzbekistan

Etymology and OnomasticsE. & O., No. 5

Viking

By Una Ada, May 15, 2025

The harder an excerpt was to transcribe the more likely I am to keep it, is this sunk-cost? No, I'm just assisting in legibility of historic documents! Look me in the eyes and tell me you could read Norwegian in Fraktur! #etymology #history #japan #norway #sweden

Heterodox Economics Reading Responses, No. 3

The Fantasy of Balanced-Budget Conservatism

By Chloe, April 22, 2025

This short essay was written as a reading response for a class to chapter 3 of Plotkin and Scheuerman’s book Private Interest, Public Spending (1994). Reading that chapter is not necessary for understanding this but encouraged. In their chapter on Balanced-Budget Conservatism, Plotkin and Scheuerman outline 3 major principles that...#economics

Heterodox Economics Reading Responses, No. 2

Free Markets vs. Freedom - Some Notes

By Chloe, April 18, 2025

The paragraphs below were written for a class in response to the second chapter of The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2007). In Chapter 2 of The Shock Doctrine, Noami Klein describes the influence of Milton Friedman and the Economics department at the University of Chicago in the proliferation of...#chile #economics #indonesia

Heterodox Economics Reading Responses, No. 1

Some Thoughts on Sabotage, Past and Current

By Chloe, April 11, 2025

This was written for a class in response to chapter 2 of David M. Kotz’s 2014 book The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism, and while reading that is not necessary to understand the discussion below, that is the context for which it was written. Something I couldn’t get out...#economics

Etymology and OnomasticsE. & O., No. 4

Nitrogen

By Una Ada, January 12, 2025

The pacing of this one is what I call "crunchy," as the research process for it was what I call "torment." Maybe I really should get a library card. #etymology #france #history #japan #netherlands

Chloe & Una’s Tentacular ExperienceC.U.T.E., Vol. 4 Notes

Kaede to Suzu

Welcome back to Season 2 of Chloe & Una's Tentacular Experience! Today we're talking about the ongoing series by Kyockcho, Kaede to Suzu. A heart-warming tale of sisterly love and also there's a guy there too I guess. We ask the hard-hitting questions other podcasts are afraid to ask, like "what is gained and lost when adapting a written work into a video format?", and "is it hot when a guy **** his **** between two girls' *******?" So *** on, and join us for our most spectacular (yet least tentacular) experience yet! #anime #manga #podcast

Etymology and OnomasticsE. & O., No. 3

Naruto

By Una Ada, July 25, 2024

At a certain point, we all have to wonder if, perhaps, allowing me access to maps was a mistake. This one's about Naruto, the city and the manga. #anime #history #japan #onomastics

Etymology and OnomasticsE. & O., No. 2

Oxia Palus

By Una Ada, August 04, 2023

You ever stare at a map of Mars for a couple hours then suddenly make the foolish mistake of wondering why the names are like that? #history #mars #onomastics

Etymology and OnomasticsE. & O., No. 1

Kinokuniya

By Una Ada, July 25, 2023

Japanese names are pretty interesting, so I decided to maybe actually figure out what's going on with them, y'know? #history #japan #onomastics

Chloe & Una’s Tentacular ExperienceC.U.T.E., Vol. 3 Notes

The Pollinic Girls Attack!

In this episode of Chloe & Una's Tentacular Experience, our brave hentai researchers delve into an ancient relic of the distant past (circa 2000-2012), Kafun Shoujo by Koume Keito. What if we lived in a world where plant pollen was actually anthropomorphized into people who wanted to have sex with everyone constantly? What if stock exchanges also featured anthropomorphized stock girls that one could have sex with? What do schoolgirls have in common with Joseph Stalin? And what would a breakcore remix of a hentai review podcast sound like? All these mind-boggling questions and more are answered in volume 3 of Chloe & Una's Tentacular Experience. #anime #manga #podcast

How To Be Broken and Never Get Better

There is a book in the forest just outside of town. It's an old legend. #fantasy #short-story

Chloe & Una’s Tentacular ExperienceC.U.T.E., Vol. 2 Notes

Your Neighborhood Tentacle Shop

In this episode, Chloe and Una make this podcast live up to it's name and talk about one of our favorite hentai manga, Your Neighborhood Tentacle Shop, a beautiful tale of the love between a young woman and hundreds of slimy tentacle monsters. Written by Okunoha (@okunoha on Twitter), Anata no Machi no Shokushuyasan is probably the most important piece of art ever created and you should read it and probably **** *** to it and thank us later. Seriously go read it and support the author as well. #manga #podcast

Gravity Development Log, Part 4

Game Mechanics

By Una Ada, June 06, 2021

This is the final section of my blog on the browser game Gravity (at least as far as working on it before the project is due), where I hastily throw together some game mechanics to make project feel something like a game. Expect some future work on this, as I am not proud of its current state in the slightest. #blog #programming

Gravity Development Log, Part 3

Rendering and Animation

By Una Ada, June 03, 2021

In this third development blog for my browser game, Gravity, I finish the background functionality of the game. Now the view in the DOM should reflect the model at every animation frame, and also some physics should apply to the scene! #blog #programming

Gravity Development Log, Part 2

Framework and Basic Functionality

By Una Ada, June 01, 2021

Continuing work on my browser game, Gravity. This time, I'm setting up the overall framework of the project's code and adding in some very basic functionality, like checking for user inputs and creating an output element. #blog #programming

Gravity Development Log, Part 1

Concept and Planning

By Una Ada, June 01, 2021

This is the first installment in a series of blogs about a browser game project I'm doing for my software engineering course, going over some background info for both the assignment and my project itself as well as my plans going forward. #blog #programming

Una Mono

Another font? That's right! I'm continuing on my journey to update the styling on my GitHub pages blog, this time I'll be creating a monospace font for code blocks! #blog #design #fonts

Chloe & Una’s Tentacular ExperienceC.U.T.E., Vol. 1 Notes

Alignment You! You!

Chloe and Una take you, the beautiful and highly intelligent and also did you do something with your hair recently? listener, on a journey into the world of Japanese erotic cartoons, beginning with the 2007 manga Alignment You! You! and it's 2008 anime adaptation. #anime #manga #podcast

Una Nota

A new heading font to express the feeling of not being able to get tacos. #blog #design #fonts

Statehood: Humanity's Demiurge

By Hermes the Magi, March 19, 2021

the trickster god’s world engine the manner of the formation and normalization of the state States dug their hooks into exploitable aspects of human social life as early as 3800 B.C.E., using livestock herding, agriculture, sedentarism, military bands & religion as their main weapons. These examples are taught in modern...#philosophy #politics

無名の女子

A neatly arranged pair of shoes. Legs swinging to and fro over the edge. On the horizon, an apocalypse looms.#short-story

Goth Angel Sinners🥀👼🗡, Part VI Notes

Goth Angel Sinners Pt. VI: A Real Podcast Notes

A real episode. #podcast

Fonts, eh?

By Una Ada, July 11, 2020

I'm made a font!#blog #design #fonts #programming

未来がない

By Una Ada, April 27, 2020

Fuck my life, lmao.#blog

Anarchy.Websiteに振り仮名と地域化

By Una Ada, December 11, 2019

Sleep deprived ranting about ruby text, internationalization, localization, CSS3 support, monospace fonts, and some other stuff. Does this count as documentation? Am I doing a documentation here? #blog #programming

Goth Angel Sinners🥀👼🗡, Part V Notes

Post-Scarcity

A couple of sleep deprived losers try to explain the philosophical and ecological necessity and implications of post-scarcity as a quote unquote economic mode. #economics #podcast #politics

Goth Angel Sinners🥀👼🗡, Part IV Notes

The Paris Commune

We're not a history podcast and nobody actually knows what happened in Paris in 1871. #history #podcast #politics

Goth Angel Sinners🥀👼🗡, Part III Notes

Spiderman 3

In this latest episode of Goth Angel Sinners, we've addressed complaints that the episodes were too long and that we are "over representing people born in 1997" while we discuss Spider-Man 3, cops, moral ambiguity, and Infinity War for some reason. #movies #podcast

Goth Angel Sinners🥀👼🗡, Part II Notes

Catalonia

Join our hosts @trewbot and Chloe in this second installment of the Goth Angel Sinners podcast for an interview with senatorial candidate Jae Em Carico and discussions about the CNT, Revolutionary Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War, and the 2017 Catalan Independence Referendum. #podcast #politics

The Absurdity of Madoka Magica

By Una Ada, September 08, 2018

This post contains spoilers for Puella Magi Madoka Magica/Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (魔法少女まどか☆マギカ) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie (劇場版 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ) Beginnings (始まりの物語), Eternal (永遠の物語), and Rebellion (叛逆の物語). Please watch the show (or first two movies) and Rebellion before continuing. Everyone has some contrarian opinions, a prevalent example of...#anime #philosophy #review

Goth Angel Sinners🥀👼🗡, Part I Notes

Shoplifting

In this first installment of the Goth Angel Sinners podcast, our hosts @trewbot and Chloe, along with special guest @CheechGuevara, discuss the extremely controversial topic that is the morality of shoplifting. Join us for this exciting discussion about loss prevention, optimization, morality, and absentee ownership. #economics #podcast

Does Shoplifting 'Hurt' Workers?

By Una Ada, August 30, 2018

A discussion on the idea that shoplifting has an effect on the employees of the store against which it is done. #economics

The Windbreak Forest Lattice in Hokkaido

By Una Ada, July 26, 2018

I saw some trees on a map and decided I just had to know what was up, completely forgetting that not everything in the world is available in English and overall just making myself look like a fool. #geography #history #japan

AI Isn't Going to Kill Us

By Una Ada, July 19, 2018

According to the Future of Humanity Institute’s 2008 technical report titled “Global Catastrophic Risk Survey” by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom there is a 5% chance that a superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI) will cause the extinction of humanity by the year 2100, and I’m here to tell you why that...#philosophy #technology

Mathematical Graphing Library

By Una Ada, July 14, 2018

Every now and again I get back to transcribing my old school notes as digital files on this site; which notes I work on really depends on my mood, and if you have read any of this site I’m sure you’re aware I’m more often than not in the mood...#blog #mathematics #programming

Graphing a Poisson Distribution using Canvas

By Una Ada, May 21, 2018

A few semesters back I was taking a class called “Mathematics for Physics and Engineering II” which was a companion course for “Intermediate Physics Lab” that covered a lot of the mathematics used in data analysis. One example of this is the Poisson Distribution, which we had plenty of assignments...#blog #mathematics #programming

Notes on Differential Equations

By Una Ada, April 27, 2018

(Fall 2015) Do you love calculus but wish it was a bit more... actually useful and good? In that case, do I have the math for you: Differential Equations. More specifically: the basic stuff about differential equations that I actually took notes on. #mathematics

Death isn't real and neither are you

By Una Ada, March 20, 2018

Oops! I wrote another thing about death! This time rather than picking apart traditional descriptions of death, I'm going to be introducing a more modern take on the whole idea. #death #philosophy

Fear and Death

By Una Ada, March 15, 2018

I'm on that existential bullshit right now and it's not going away. So, I'm just going to plunge head first into philosophy and verbosity to try to act like I'm fine when in reality I'm panicking at the mere notion of existing in a universe that has time. #death #philosophy

All That Is LeftATIL – Issue 001

Introduction to Syndicalism

By Una Ada, October 14, 2017

This post was published in All That Is Left Issue 001 as “Syndicalism.” While a sentiment of anti-authoritarianism born of a distaste for corporatism and other modern manifestations of centralized capitalist governments lends itself quite cleanly to the ideas of anarchism, what is not immediately clear is how, in an...#politics

Praxis and the "Report from the Real Minority"

By Una Ada, August 31, 2017

This report needs a real breakdown from an experienced political analyst that isn’t just some neoliberal corporate sellout, but as I’m me and I’ve not slept in something like 24 hours now, I don’t feel qualified to do this. However, perhaps because I have not slept, or perhaps because I...#politics

Thelma & Louise 2: Army of Darkness (Scene 10)

By Una Ada, May 07, 2017

This post was published as Scene 10 of Thelma & Louise 2: Army of Darkness FADE IN: EXT. MORNING - The place where they were camping The trio is sleeping, CORN begins to bloat a bit as the sun rays from the fresh sunrise filter through the trees that are...#script

Sonic's Last Adventure (Scene 10)

By Una Ada, April 02, 2017

This post was published as Scene 10 of Sonic’s Last Adventure CUT TO: EXT. EVENING - Large empty meadow THE COROLLA rolls along the highway, a shot from above would do well here. A breeze sweeps across the plains of golden wheat or some other grass. Either way this is...#script

The Muppets Yakuza (Scene 9)

By Una Ada, March 05, 2017

This post was published as Scene 9 of The Muppets Yakuza INT. NIGHT - BASEMENT-ESQUE ROOM It’s really dark, like, really pushing the dynamic range on them cinema-grade cameras that cost as much as my college tuition kind of dark, people in the theaters will be complaining about the glare...#script

y r u crying.txt

By Una Ada, February 23, 2017

y r u crying? im not crying yes u r y r u crying? im literally not yes u r y do u keep insisting that im crying when im not bc if i believe it mb itll come true #poetry

A Collection of .txt Files from Feb. 22 and 23, 2017: An Exploration in Monospace Formatting as Emotional Expression

By Una Ada, February 23, 2017

This is a collection of .txt files that aren’t long enough to rationalize each being archived on its own. About half of the files of this sort were written in these two days. Files in alphabetical order: 2017-02-22 07:27 alignment.txt 2017-02-22 07:41 breathe.txt 2017-02-22 07:10 concern.txt 2017-02-22 04:35 how are...#poetry

Opposite Jurassic Park (Scene 7)

By Una Ada, February 05, 2017

This post was published as Scene 7 of Opposite Jurassic Park INT: SOME BUNKER, This is a very dimly lit bunker, something like you see in movies with war rooms and stuff, there is a flashing red light in the background. Aside from the light and a telephone sitting on...#script

Playing an FPS on a Drawing Tablet

By ████, November 19, 2016

This post was submitted to Student Voice but not published, for some reason. Update Jun. 4, 2020: Since apparently people have actually been trying to read this article, let me just point out that tablets frequently have a “mouse mode” where they will act like track pads, use that. Also...

Pop Tarts (God)

By Una Ada, March 26, 2016

This post was written as a submission to an open call by @ruinedpicnic on twitter (now called @punishedpicnic) for music to sing. Ruined Picnic and Friends by ruined picnic and friends Every single morning I wake up in a state of peace. As if part of the void, or an...#lyrics

Student Voice – Volume 102, Issue 13

The feasibility of spontaneously morphing into an octopus

By ████, February 05, 2016

This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 13 as “The process of spontaneously morphing into an octopus.” This argument has been deemed quite controversial: is it possible for one to simply become an octopus without outside forces acting upon them? To start off, one might ask if...#student-voice

Using Pens for Math Is Not Bad

By ████, December 24, 2015

Perhaps an argument against this would be the resource usage, the amount of paper used when you leave mistakes on the page is so much more. Think of the trees! Then again, erasers either come from trees or petroleum so you’re going to be using something either way. Efficiency aside,...

Student Voice – Volume 102, Issue 11

A student’s guide to pencils

By ████, December 02, 2015

This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 11 as “Philosophy of pencil classification can be very complicated.” Pencils are pencils, but to say all pencils were created equal is a stretch of the imagination that one should not be so willing to make. What exactly is a...#student-voice

Student Voice – Volume 102, Issue 10

General Relativity's Astronomical Effects

By ████, November 18, 2015

This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 10 as “Thinking about theory of relativity can garner many impactful realizations.” Four score and another score ago, Einstein introduced the idea of general relativity. Well, that’s when he presented the results at the Prussian Academy of Science. Unlike previous...#student-voice

Student Voice – Volume 102, Issue 8

SPS and Chem Demons Host Annual Haunted Lab

By ████, November 01, 2015

This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102 Issue 8 as “Physics lab gets spooky on Halloween.” On Halloween, which was Saturday, more specifically: Saturday, October 31, 2015. Well, really specifically: Saturday, October 31, 2015 from 5pm to about 9pm. Anyway, where was I going with this…? Oh, yeah,...#student-voice

Student Voice – Volume 102, Issue 7

Office chair provides fun, convenience, comfort

By ████, October 29, 2015

This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 7 as “Wednesday blues healed by nifty spinning office chair.” The UW-River Falls campus classrooms are sprinkled with a wide assortment of differing sorts of chairs. Many classes have those odd plastic ones with the slits in the back, which...#student-voice

Student Voice – Volume 102, Issue 4

UWRF SPS Visits 3M Super Science Saturday

By ████, October 08, 2015

This post was published in Student Voice Volume 102, Issue 4 as “UWRF Society of Physics Students Chapter visits 3M.” On Saturday, Oct. 3, several members of the UW–River Falls Society of Physics Students Chapter attended 3M’s Super Science Saturday. Moving from the left to right, as from the perspective...#student-voice

The Road

By ████, October 06, 2015

The dog walks along the road. Didot, the name of neither dog nor road, rather a class of fonts, the class of fonts used for the poster in the shop window that can be seen just behind the dog. The reflection of the dog nonexistent. This world itself does not...#short-story

Awkward Smile Day

By ████, September 14, 2015

I open the door and the bell rings. That familiar electronic bell that is really more of a beep but tradition says it’s a bell and there’s no arguing with tradition. I am thirsty and really need to raise my blood sugar level before I faint. To this end I...#short-story

Nihilism on Aisle 7

By ████, September 14, 2015

The rain stopped, it had completed its task, it had watered the crops just the right amount; it was ready to die. There was no funeral for the rain. Nobody was saddened by its departure. There was a silent acceptance of what it had accomplished for the world, but no...#short-story

Sunny Day

By ████, September 04, 2015

It was a sunny day, not that I could be bothered to give a damn about things in the sky. I had my eyes on the prize and not much more. One way or another I was to end the day $0.15 richer. You see, one must set goals for...#short-story



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