Never forget that a UK Member of Parliament held this image up in a hearing while whining about getting bullied on Twitter for being a TERF
AernaLingus
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That makes a lot of sense to me. Just yesterday, I was on 4chan (not to hang out, but unfortunately it's still the best place to find certain things, so I will do targeted searches to get what I need and get out) and I happened to go into one of the few enclaves that's dominated by women. I swear it was it was like I was on an entirely different site: shocking, but in a good way. People are being nice to each other! No one's throwing slurs around or being casually misogynist! It's still 4chan, so there is some weirdness, but it's a lot closer to Tumblr tone-wise than I would have ever imagined possible. I suppose that's one of the advantages of imageboards--if you want to, you can pretty much just live inside of a few ongoing threads and completely ignore the rest of the site, which isn't really facilitated by a reddit-style platform.
Even if the politics of Hexbear could hardly be more different from 4chan and it doesn't have the same culture of being needlessly rude to each other, I can definitely see how the jocularity and calls for violence (ironic or otherwise) could be off-putting. Tbh, it's not a dialect I'm particularly fluent in either, but I'm more or less inured to it and (unlike 4chan) I don't have to communicate that way myself to be accepted here.
TIL I've been pronouncing estradiol wrong (in my head) this whole time; I thought it was /ɛ.ˈstɹɒ.di.əl/ rather than /ˌɛ.stɹəˈdaɪˌɔl/. Still think my version sounds better tbh, but at least I won't make a fool out of myself if and when I need to say it out loud.
THERE'S A NEW EPISODE OF ALAB??? Holy shit, I never thought I'd see the day. Thanks for calling it to my attention!
edit: sorry for the all caps, I was just really excited. ALAB fuckin slaps
Ooh, I knew about the basic syntax but I didn't know about the spaces thing! Should definitely same some time and hassle. Also makes copy-pasting the text much nicer, since the ruby text goes after each bracket grouping which is pretty terrible if you've marked up each individual character.
The one potential downside is that this approach doesn't add additional space between each group if the ruby text is long and spills over to neighboring groups. Compare these two results, where the top uses the spaces approach and the bottom individually marks each word/particle:
{猪蛋蛋上的粪便 | Zhū dàn dàn shàng de fèn biàn}
{猪|Zhū}{蛋蛋|dàndàn}{上|shàng}{的|de}{粪便|fènbiàn}
You can see that some extra space is left around 上 so that shàng can remain centered over it. However, there's a separate downside to this: it appears that while it will prevent ruby text from outright overlapping, it doesn't actually try to insert any space between adjacent groupings. So if I use the same pinyin style as your original post, the result around dàn dàn is not great:
{猪|Zhū}{蛋蛋|dàn dàn}{上|shàng}{的|de}{粪便|fèn biàn}
You can combat this by adding trailing spaces as needed, but it will look a bit haphazard because the space is included in the width when centering the ruby text, making everything look shifted to the left (here I put spaces after Zhū and dàn dàn):
{猪|Zhū }{蛋蛋|dàn dàn }{上|shàng}{的|de}{粪便|fèn biàn}
Unless the text is so long that it becomes difficult to understand which reading goes with which character(s), it's more of an aesthetic choice than anything; personally I like having the extra space, but I could see some not liking the irregularity. Probably less of an issue for Chinese than it is for Japanese where furigana can be much longer than the word, especially with some kun'yomi or wonky stuff used in fiction.
One of the all-time basslines
Spuukii Buugii!
I vaguely remember hearing about the initial plan, but I didn't realize this dude was gonna (attempt to) take T.O.P to the moon, too. Wild.
That's definitely been my experience. In the height of my teenage edgelord phase I was mainlining /b/, Encyclopædia Dramatica, and Liveleak to the point where nothing really fazed me--it was just part of my daily life. I'm still desensitized today such that I can still tolerate it, but now there's discomfort or even a reaction where before there was none.
I also wear Auras and I feel you on that...they really make you stick out like a sore thumb. This isn't exactly answering your question, but:
After seeing your post I started searching around about black Auras, and while they don't exist I did find some info on a different mask (Laianzhi HX1002) which is a KN100 that comes in black and seems promising. Don't have time right now to do anything other than dump a bunch of links, but I hope they might be helpful (I'm considering ordering a few to try them out):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Masks4All/comments/16ift5r/introducing_the_new_black_laianzhi_hyx1002_kn100/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Masks4All/comments/181co0o/handson_the_new_black_laianzhi_kn100_three_panel/
https://twitter.com/ericbkennedy/status/1767017275377266926
https://twitter.com/ericbkennedy/status/1784565201808785892
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMb7mD8JaWk
If anyone has any personal experience with these I'd love to hear it! The main complaint seems to be that the bottom strap is too long, but it seems like Laianzhi provides strap adjusters with the respirators (one thing that's not clear to me is whether you only get those if you get a whole box or if they are included in each sealed respirator package, which is something I might inquire about).
Episode 93 of Pokémon Sun & Moon (or S22E01 by the dub reckoning). That episode is apparently chock-full of references