Nova Patch

Red Fox & Wood Mouse Cross a Stream in Wicklow Mountains #trailcam YouTube video by Nova Patch

Here’s the video: youtu.be/0VPPYpdzte8

🗣️: From Waste to Wonder: The Mysterious World of Fungi that Grow on Dung
📆: 02.22.2026 @ 10:00—12:00
📍: Zoom!
🔗 : www.newyorkmyc.org/event/from-w...

#mycotalk #mycology #talks #mushroom

A woman, her legs splattered in mud, stands on a muddy path with her bicycle.

Mademoiselle Billaud after winning a cyclocross race.

It's the 100th anniversary of this photo, and it still goes harder than anything on the Internet.

February 14, 1925
#otd

i18n engineers, L10n teams, linguists, and type designers:
UTW is leaving the US and coming to Europe for the first time
www.unicode.org/events/utw/2...

“The absence of inclusive options has tangible consequences”. Read 👉 buff.ly/cJDQOXV #GCNnews

Arcane Cycling Team Is Now Official: Exciting Year Ahead Arcane Cycling Team is now officially registered with Cycling Ireland and relaunching as a community-led queer cycling club. Join us.

Arcane Cycling Team is relaunching as a community-led queer cycling club in Ireland simply-sorcha.com/arcane-cycli...

Colourful puffy jamo stickers for writing in hangul, with the packaging headline: I ❤️ HANGUL

Happy Hangul Day #한글날

I moved to Ireland three months ago and just started Irish lessons with Gael Linn in Dublin. Our class includes students from Scotland, France, Spain, Indonesia, the US, and a majority from Ireland, united in learning a shared language. #gaeilge

Inspector Gadget (1999) - Gadget Figures it Out YouTube video by Matthew Bowen

yet strongest with Inspector Gadget youtu.be/7LSpyncaGcE

poster by ride leader Aubrey: @nonbinarybikeclub PIECE of CAKE RIDE 10/1 [October 1] 6:30 [pm] Ride Brooklyn ⇩ Mia’s Brooklyn Bakery

non binary bike club
piece of cake ride
/\___/\
꒰ ˶• ༝ - ˶꒱
./づ~🍰
#bikenyc

The Irish language is enjoying a moment, but are policymakers invested in its revival? In the News podcast: Why did 25,000 Irish speakers descend on the streets of Dublin last Saturday?

Podcast episode on the Irish language rights movement today: www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...

#cearta

Na mílte ag máirseáil i mBaile Átha Cliath ar son chearta teanga agus chearta na Gaeltachta an 20 Meán Fómhair 2025. Thousands march in Dublin for Irish language and Gaeltacht rights on 20 September 2025. Miloj marŝas en Dublino por lingvo- kaj Gaeltacht-rajtoj la 20an de septembro 2025.

Agóideoirí ag coimeád banna le focail „Cearta teanga = cearta daonna“ Protesters hold a banner reading “Cearta teanga = cearta daonna” Manifestaciantoj tenas standardon kun la vortoj «Lingvaj rajtoj = homaj rajtoj»

Cearta teanga = cearta daonna

Language rights = human rights

Lingvaj rajtoj = homaj rajtoj

Thousands march in Dublin to demand greater Irish language rights and help for Gaeltacht Demonstrators want action on housing and education, look to help in next month’s budget

Thousands march in Dublin to demand greater Irish language rights and help for Gaeltacht

have a hot birthday 🎂🔥🥵

My first bobcat footage, captured this morning during a two-night camera trap session in Crotonville, Westchester County, New York

This artist's conk was signed by @novapatch.is great-grandparents and has been in their family for over 100 years! Collected in Clark Lake, Michigan in 1923. A living (well, once living) piece of family history.
#fungi #artistsconk #mycology #mushroomart #heirloom #clarklake #michigan

Camera trap photo of a groundhog in Marine Park, Brooklyn, New York 🌑 24°C/75°F 2024/04/08 10:43:09

my hog says howdy

hmu if you need Esperanto translations :)

nice alt text 😂

😋

A cinnamon raisin bagel with “everything” seasoning on top (sesame seeds, poppy seeds, onion flakes, garlic flakes, kosher salt), in front of a neon “Hot Fresh Bagels” sign in the window of All American Bagel & Barista II, Queens, NYC.

Behold the cinnamon raisin everything bagel!

If your “everything” bagel doesn’t contain cinnamon and raisins, is it really an *everything* bagel?

you can count on us Perl people to provide questionable event naming advice!

here’s my bad idea: “YAPC” was renamed “The Perl Conference” nine years ago, so now’s your opportunity to adopt the orphaned “YAPC” and apply the recursive backronym “YAPC Ain’t a Python Conference” — it won’t be confusing at all! 😅

changing my name to “<blink>Nova Patch</blink>”

Exploits of a Mom

when names are valid syntax, it reminds me of xkcd.com/327/

It’s a graphically engaging Unicode proposal, but the Script Encoding Working Group concluded that “this usage is a typographical distinction, not an orthographical one, and as such should be made by a higher-level protocol, such as rich text or markup.”

An illustrated black cat with yellow eyes peers over a ledge in a Japanese subway sign. Below it, the text reads: 広がらないで 右側を歩いてネ！ Translation: “Don’t spread out. Walk on the right side, ne!” The final ネ (ne) adds a soft, friendly tone, like saying “okay?” or “please” to gently prompt cooperation.

In a classroom scene from Lucky Star, Episode 7 (2007), green katakana text appears beside the teacher as two students react in the foreground: ナルホドネ･･･ Translation: “I see…” or “Ah, I get it…” The final ネ (ne) softens the expression, adding an informal, agreeable nuance, like “right?” or “you know?”

A Toshiba newspaper ad published in the Asahi Shimbun on 19 December 1972 (p. 3) shows a fish laid out on a woven mat, thinking: お正月まで あと13日ですネ Translation: “13 days left until New Year’s, ne.” Here, the ネ (ne) adds a conversational tone, evoking casual reminder or shared awareness. The ad promotes Toshiba kitchen appliances for the holiday season.

Unicode proposal to encode Katakana Letter Small Ne (ネ):
⓵ unicode.org/L2/L2025/25042-katakana-letter-small-ne.pdf
⓶ unicode.org/L2/L2025/25060-katakana-letter-small-ne.pdf
#UTC183 #日本語

Raku exclusion makes me no less of a nerd. in fact, if your preferred language is missing, it’s a sign that you’re a bigger nerd 🤓

Gratsby believed in the green light…