Writing

Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. […] Bei aller Liebe: Wer kommt auf die Idee, einem Küchenutensil einen derart sperrigen Namen zu verpassen? Ein Marketingprofi sicher nicht. Oder eben doch, weil sich der hirnrissige Namen tatsächlich durchgesetzt hat.

Habe gerade auf einem #noking Schild das Wort “Simpelton” für den Orangenen gelesen und überlegt wie man so einen einfach gestrickten Menschen bei uns nennen würde. Dabei ist mir das famose Wort “Einfaltspinsel” wieder eingefallen. Lange nicht gehört.

On a snowy Sunday morning in February 1808, the poet William Wordsworth was walking along Fleet Street in London. He’d just been to visit his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his lodgings on the Strand. Coleridge was at a low ebb: stuck in an unhappy marriage, weighed down by perennial financial difficulties, mentally blocked from writing, in poor health and addicted to opium. The visit had a lowering effect on Wordsworth’s own spirits. Walking along Fleet Street, eyes downcast, “ear sleeping”, feet moving automatically, he was absorbed in sombre thoughts.

This is way more satisfying than a book-tour excerpt. Also, it features Barton Springs. Essentially, the thesis is “write what you know” – but it certainly helps to have led an interesting life ahead of doing so.

Basically the reverse of a monopoly, a market controlled by a single or dominant seller.

Lacking money.

Now that it’s been a couple of months since the Journaling January event, I have a question.

Jennifer Lee, a 24-year-old pastry chef from Connecticut, has read hundreds of books. She’s partial to romance novels with burning enemies-to-lovers arcs, especially those that lean on fantasy tropes: magical colleges, regal dragons, and slender, shirtless half-elves coiled in knotty muscle. She isn’t above the occasional steamy sex scene. She enjoys the work of Sarah J. Maas and her vast bibliography of kink-friendly fairies, just as she likes the Hunger Games–tinged entanglements of Lauren Roberts’ Powerless trilogy. But one thing Lee emphatically does not like is any book written from the perspective of a third-person narrator. I know this because on her TikTok page, where Lee posts about her literary proclivities to 15,000 followers, she has uploaded a video in which she scrunches up her face in disgust at the prospect of venturing away from her preferred syntactical architecture—the safe, ensconcing I’s and me’s of the first-person perspective. A single sentence is emblazoned across the bottom of the frame. It reads, plain and simple, “I HATE third person POV books.”

DWDS-Artikel des Tages am 04.03.2026 Sind die Augen der Weltöffentlichkeit auf einen gerichtet, kann ein einziger Satz genügen, eine große Kontroverse auszulösen. Ein Beispiel ist eine Bemerkung, die John Lennon im März 1966 in einem Interview mit dem London Evening Standard machte: „We’re more popular than Jesus now.“ Isoliert gelesen klingt das nach Größenwahn. Tatsächlich äußerte Lennon den Satz im Rahmen einer Reflexion über den Bedeutungsverlust des Christentums in Großbritannien und den überwältigenden Erfolg der Beatles. Ein gewagter Vergleich, ja. In Großbritannien blieb das Interview jedoch weitgehend ohne Resonanz. Erst als ein US-Magazin das Zitat im Juli 1966 prominent abdruckte, folgten vor allem im amerikanischen Süden heftige Reaktionen: Radiosender boykottierten Beatles-Songs, es kam zu Protesten und öffentlichen Schallplattenverbrennungen, selbst der Ku-Klux-Klan trat in Erscheinung. Die Affäre überschattete die dritte und letzte US-Tournee der Band im August 1966.

Zu einem Kometen gehörend, von einem Kometen stammend.

Andere Bezeichnung für Mc Donald’s

I haven’t used the BSDs in a while so if you’re a regular user I’d like to know whether you find this shitpost amusing or if I’m totally off with my stereotypes here.

Bin heute früh bei der Arbeit über die angehängte Skizze zum Vernieten von Blechen gestolpert. Ich vermute, dass der dargestellte “Döpper” der Ursprung für das in Westfalen gebräuchliche Wort “döppen” (= jmd im Schwimmbad kurz unterzutauchen) ist.

Ein Begriff bzw. eine Redensart ist auch ein Wort.

Etymology

Kontext: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/54489926

I started writing mostly for catharsis. This week I write for resistance. Words, grammar and spelling mistakes are 100% human made. Does anyone feel in a similar way?

Unter neoklassischer Theorie oder Neoklassik wird eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Richtung verstanden, die in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts begründet wurde und die klassische Nationalökonomie ablöste.[1] Charakterisiert wird die Neoklassik nicht durch bestimmte Lehrsätze, sondern durch ihre Methode, insbesondere das Marginalprinzip, das in Begriffen wie Grenzkosten oder Grenzerlös zum Ausdruck kommt.[2] Wesentlich haben zu ihrer Entstehung die Ökonomen Alfred Marshall, William Stanley Jevons und Léon Walras beigetragen. (Wikipedia)

So, this is the end of the Journaling January event for 2026.

Siehe auch https://feddit.org/post/24974348/11269426 ^^

There is this thing that many people have problems doing: having a vision for themselves. They don’t want to think about five or ten years when they are struggling to make it through today. And it makes sense. But, there is something to be said for having a vision of where you want to be, even if that is just “not in my current situation.”

Are you the kind of person that likes to have alone time? Personally, I am the kind of person that really needs alone time. I cannot handle too much social activity, unless it’s in small groups.

Who are people you admire? Are they alive? The fact they are no longer alive would be one issue for me, another would be the likely language barrier. The person I am thinking of was German. As far as I am aware, they didn’t speak English. At least not to a level that an English interview would be possible. (I’ve read a fair amount about them, and read interviews - and all of them were translated.)

Collectors know all about this one - but in a bad way. You always want to get something that is special: a limited edition playing card, an album that was misprinted, that first edition book that there are only a hundred known copies of.

There are people that you come across in your life that you really appreciate. Some people have the power to leave an indelible mark on you and deserve to be remembered.

There have been places that I used to go to that don’t exist anymore. A coffee shop I used to go to everyday shutdown years ago. One of the schools I went to was torn down.

Numerology is an ancient mystical belief in the connection between numbers and events. While it is not a widely practiced belief system in modern times, many people still feel they have an association with a particular number.

Wenn’s so richtig dunkel ist

sapperlot: Ausdruck der Überraschung

Back on day twelve we used random words from news or social media for writing, and on day twenty it was suggested to use a random article from Wikipedia. Today is the next leg of the current events based aspect of journaling: choosing a news story that makes you upset.

Think back to a time when you were in a conflict. Was it something silly or stupid? Was it something that you thought was lifer altering in some manner?

So, we all experience traumas. But not all of them are serious. Some of them just cause a little embarrassment.

Loss is one of the things that we all have to deal with in life, either personally, or through someone else’s loss. This is one of those things that journaling is really great at helping with.

Sorry this prompt is a little late being posted. I was unable to get home due to my neighbor’s house being on fire.

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There are a ton of decisions that we make every day. But do we know what those decisions will lead to? Not likely, and yet our lives can be looked at as the sum of all the small decisions that we have made. This is the prompt that allows you to explore those small decisions, maybe see if your life is currently where it is because of some small decision you made way back when you were a child.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41813739

This is a writing challenge, sponsored by me.

I will admit it here and now: the images used in these prompts were a mistake. Someone recently commented on these posts and said I should make some changes to them. So, I made changes to them - even thought I hate to admit to my own mistakes. ;)

I have the feeling that the title of this prompt would appear to be obvious since the words are in the prompt… But, in reality, it’s a reference to the song Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof. That’s just the way my mind works at times.

Life is full of lessons. I don’t think you stop learning just because you left school, or you left the workplace. Personally, I think we should make it our lives objectives to learn something every day. This prompt is about one of those lessons.

At some points I tried to pair these prompts. Some of them were to be complimentary, some of them to just bring together a theme.