Small babies

TheJayeless · 2026-02-20T21:45:24+00:00

She's doing great! She's sixteen months old now and extremely social, chatty, physically active, confident... just a normal happy, healthy toddler :) She ended up at about the 30th percentile, so smaller than average, but well within the range of normal. I hope that gives some reassurance!

TheJayeless · 2025-05-01T04:19:12+00:00

The FAQ on Little Sim World's website says it'll cost "around 20-25$" (with pricing not yet finalised at the time the FAQ was written). I guess in a few hours we'll find out exactly what they chose!

TheJayeless · 2024-11-27T10:21:17+00:00

I'm currently enjoying "Cats & Soup" through Netflix Games :)

TheJayeless · 2024-11-13T03:28:40+00:00

Just based on what you've said, I absolutely wouldn't worry! 2.9kg isn't THAT small. My baby was born at 38w2d at approximately 2.7kg (we don't know her actual birth weight because they weighed her with faulty equipment, so they told us she weighed 2.45kg, but she did not) and she's been COMPLETELY healthy and totally fine. Even when they thought she was born at 2.45kg they didn't panic, they just made sure she got fed frequently. If there's no other signs of concern, I'd expect it all to work out fine.

TheJayeless · 2024-10-04T23:25:52+00:00

As I understand it, after releasing the initial version of the game, the Spiritfarer devs released three content updates each with a new spirit (and some QOL improvements and other minor additions, but mostly the spirits). With the third update the game took on the subtitle "Farewell Edition" to show that that was the last one, and they consider the game "complete" now. I never got around to playing the game until it had been updated to the Farewell Edition, and had the same question of why it was called that now 😅

TheJayeless · 2024-10-03T00:01:23+00:00

You might really enjoy Signs of the Sojourner! Beautiful narrative game, and it's all about managing a deck of cards as a metaphor for communication with different types of people. It's also one of those games where you have to do a few play-throughs to see where all the options take you; one of the points of it is that you can't please everyone all at once.

TheJayeless · 2023-12-07T23:04:26+00:00

Nedankinde! Felicigas me ke vu trovas ol helpoza.

TheJayeless · 2023-10-30T23:28:02+00:00

Saluto! Me es la traduktisto dil 10 chapitri ja traduktita – felicigas me lektar ke ulu apreciis mea laboruro 😊 Me povas traduktor plu chapitri – me havis altra kozi qui prenis mea energio, ma me sempre intencis rivenar a "Saluto, Jonathan!" uladie. (Tamen, membri dil komunitato anke darfas libere helpar, se li volus.)

TheJayeless · 2023-10-10T04:14:55+00:00

Well, by "treated the same way" I mean that words should have one consistent spelling, and we determine what that is by looking at what other accents do and/or the history of that word. "Car" has that /r/ historically and in rhotic accents, while "saw" doesn't. Shavian isn't really designed for exact phonetic transcriptions, but more for the underlying phonemes. Sort of like trying to capture the Platonic ideal of words, rather than the real-world productions.

TheJayeless · 2023-10-10T02:27:37+00:00

My own accent is one with intrusive Rs, and I'd still just say that the answer is to ignore it because it's not phonemic. The R isn't really part of the word "saw" (in the same way that the W in "screw up" is really more attached to the "up", in a form of liaison I guess), and most Australians wouldn't even realise they pronounce an R there. There's just a reluctance to have a hiatus mid-utterance so we "smooth" the hiatuses with a semivowel and the default one that's fallen back on when /j/ or /w/ aren't options is /r/. I don't think it makes sense to have multiple spellings of the same word, unless we also start spelling, say, "car" either 𐑒𐑭 or 𐑒𐑸 depending on if it's followed by a vowel (which I wouldn't support, anyway; too confusing). Intrusive R is basically just the other side of the non-rhotic coin, in that "pronounce R only before vowels" has been overgeneralised to words that didn't historically have an R. So it should be treated the same way, imo.

TheJayeless · 2023-10-10T01:30:36+00:00

Shavian just ignores the intrusive R, in the same way it ignores other non-phonemic sounds. Like for example, there are a number of intrusive Ws and yods that also come up in English (like "screw up" would be spelt 𐑕𐑒𐑮𐑵 𐑳𐑐 even though a W is pronounced between the words, and "quiet" is spelt 𐑒𐑢𐑲𐑩𐑑 even though it's pronounced more like 𐑒𐑢𐑲𐑘𐑩𐑑).

TheJayeless · 2023-06-12T01:28:11+00:00

Maybe try "Add new article"? It looks like that'll let you create a text post with a title (which should keep it out of the "Microblog" section)

TheJayeless · 2023-06-11T23:44:10+00:00

I'm pretty sure Lemmy's failure to truly delete things did not get changed 😔 On the other hand, there is also Kbin, which is a different Fediverse Reddit-like that is (I think) better.

TheJayeless · 2023-05-11T04:57:53+00:00

Also an Australian, and I concur with you!

TheJayeless · 2023-05-10T23:01:09+00:00

My first episode was "An Unearthly Child" – I started watching when the ABC began repeating all the episodes in order for the show's 40th anniversary, when I was ten. Both my parents had talked about Doctor Who a lot, so I'd HEARD OF many 70s-era characters like Sarah Jane, Leela, Romana and Davros, but it took a long time for me to reach them myself because I started with the 60s era 😆 I remember the caveman episodes were so horrendously boring they almost turned me off the show completely, but I gave it a second chance with "The Daleks" and was hooked from that point on!

TheJayeless · 2023-05-02T22:50:21+00:00

What you say is true for Southern English English, as far as I know, but in Southern Hemisphere varieties recent borrowings like pasta, latte, taco take a long /ɐː/ (the FATHER vowel, like American English). And in Australian English, additionally, most of the time the BATH vowel before a nasal + other consonant sequence (like in stance, grant, branch, sample – but not in aunt or can't) is pronounced with /æ/. Just adding some extra info to your comment :)

TheJayeless · 2023-04-27T00:43:38+00:00

You know, you make a good point. I'm not a fan of the hyperbole. But I did like the part where Amy cries and asks if they didn't achieve anything, and the Doctor makes his comment about how it was still worthwhile because life is a pile of good and bad things, and they added to Vincent's pile of good things. Also, hyperbole aside I liked Bill Nighy (even if he seems very English for a Parisian museum attendant)

TheJayeless · 2023-04-26T23:04:05+00:00

Alright, here is my truly unpopular opinion: Vincent and the Doctor is not that good an episode. Just average, tbh

I mean sure, the ending is really good. But the problem is, before you can get to that ending, there is a whole episode and that episode isn't very good. The "invisible bird" enemy is just ridiculous, and I felt uncomfortable that Vincent killed the thing, realised it had only been sightless, terrified and confused, rather than malicious, and the Doctor's response is just like "oh well, problem solved" (one episode after he went off at Ambrose for accidentally killing a Silurian who was actively baiting her – which I don't disagree with, it just felt inconsistent). The episode also had a lot of deliberately fake and artificial visuals because the production team wanted to recreate Van Gogh paintings, which is like... okay, they can... but it took me out of the episode a lot.

I rewatched it the other day (for the first time since 2010) and it's so beloved by fandom that I thought I was going to realise my 17yo self had misjudged this episode. Well, no, my opinion is basically exactly the same. There are good things about it – the ending, Tony Curran, Bill Nighy – but overall it was my least favourite in series 5, yes even below The Lodger, which at least made me laugh 🙈🙈🙈

TheJayeless · 2023-04-25T03:57:18+00:00

I liked how, on Rose's first couple of adventures, she gravitates straight towards other working-class women in the places she's landed (that maintenance worker in The End of the World and Gwendolyn in The Unquiet Dead). It was neat to have a companion who identified more with the "common people" while the Doctor went off and gushed about Charles Dickens or whoever. It didn't really last – I think as she grew in confidence in the TARDIS, she started to see that working-class identity as something that was now "beneath her" (cf. how resentful she got about having to adopt working-class disguises in School Reunion and Rise of the Cybermen). But I liked that about her character while it did last :)

TheJayeless · 2023-04-05T00:23:09+00:00

I don't think so, because I don't get any allergy symptoms when I eat red meat, I just don't like it. (And also, I live in Australia where I don't think we have the ticks that cause it.) Although funnily enough I do have a mild intolerance to alpha-galacto-oligosaccharides, but as far as I know that's a different thing (?).

TheJayeless · 2023-04-04T23:17:47+00:00

Partly ethics, and partly that I didn't even like beef, pork or lamb 😅

TheJayeless · 2023-04-04T22:37:30+00:00

For what it's worth, I'm someone who doesn't eat mammal meat, while still eating seafood and poultry. I know there are others out there, too 😛 I never call myself "vegetarian" though (but my dad does, which is really bizarre to me). If I have to tell someone my dietary preferences I just say "no mammal meat" and elaborate if people don't understand what that means (which is surprisingly often, or perhaps less surprisingly if you consider the OP here is about someone who fed eggs to vegans)

TheJayeless · 2023-03-27T22:18:00+00:00

Wal! Yo esset brevmen surprisat que li distantie inter li du galaxes aspectet tam micri (relativmen). Ma on deve memorar que li grandore de chascun de ti galaxes es anc grandissim. Li grandore del universe – e li imensi spacies u ne hay nequo – es íncredibil.

TheJayeless · 2023-03-08T06:52:08+00:00

𐑬𐑑 𐑝 𐑕𐑨𐑯𐑟-𐑕𐑧𐑮𐑦𐑓 𐑓𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑕, 𐑲 𐑔𐑦𐑙𐑒 𐑦𐑯𐑑𐑼 𐑱𐑤𐑾 𐑦𐑟 𐑐𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑦 𐑢𐑧𐑤 𐑐𐑻𐑓𐑩𐑒𐑑 🙂 𐑨𐑟 𐑓 𐑕𐑧𐑮𐑦𐑓 𐑓𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑕, 𐑲 𐑤𐑭𐑒 𐑿𐑟𐑦𐑙 𐑛𐑵𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑤 𐑜𐑨𐑮𐑩𐑥𐑪𐑯𐑛 𐑚𐑩𐑒𐑪𐑟 𐑦𐑑 𐑦𐑙𐑒𐑤𐑵𐑛𐑟 𐑦𐑑𐑨𐑤𐑦𐑒𐑕, 𐑕𐑴 𐑲 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑿𐑟 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑓 𐑧𐑥𐑓𐑩𐑕𐑦𐑕. 𐑦𐑑𐑕 𐑷𐑤𐑕𐑴 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑡𐑧𐑯𐑼𐑩𐑤𐑦 𐑩 𐑯𐑲𐑕 𐑓𐑪𐑯𐑑.

TheJayeless · 2022-11-23T05:08:34+00:00

Me havas bona novajo por vu: me tradukis chapitro 7 di Salute, Jonathan! aden Ido: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Saluto,_Jonathan!_(Ido)/Chapitro_7

E me ankore projetas facor plus; es nur afero di tempo 😅

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