#flag semaphore

[apatheticshots]

[gowns]

i also run into a funny thing, dating in LA, where people are either like, "oh yeah i also love watching movies, i can't wait to see [upcoming slop]," or they're like "oh, that theater you like is actually sub-par, its programming is too obvious, it's not showing enough underground films." it's either high or low... where is my mid queen

[dappertron]

I fetched some fake pokemon creatures a while ago, but they were all hand drawn and colored, and I'm not really a great colorist on physical stuff.

So another go at Semaphray and Skuallyrojer, but as proper sprites at 2 (two) angles and with shinies.

To include more details that weren't disclosed before, they get new abilities with:

• Trade Winds, which doubles the user's speed if they gain a new item after not having one, like an inverse Unburden

• Ransack, which steals any item from any Pokemon that gets knocked out

[gortius-viii]

Another poll???

Oh yeah, you know it.

Again, this question was revealed to me in a dream, and so I pass it onto you to answer.

THIS is the semaphore flag system, it is used to communicate over long distances, most usually at sea:

And THIS is the international code of signals, again, it is primordially used to communicate between ships at sea, the main difference being that these flags are hoisted somewhere in the ship, forming a sentence, and they're aren't waved around like the other one:

[jonostroveart]

SEMAPHORE

This story is likely to be buried by the very significant news of the unanimous jury conviction in the Trump case, but it’s not insignificant that John Roberts has formally blown off the Senate Judiciary Committee’s request for an ethics discussion.

[nye-moss]

It’s finally here! The Nye Moss Shop is live:

Celebrate pride all year long!

The Semaphore Series is an art challenge for pride month. Every day, for the entirety of June, a new abstract art piece was posted based off of the LGBTQIA+ flags: and now you can own a copy! All art done by a fellow queer creator, some images may be subject to copyright.

[jeffrosencock]

So fucked up and evil that I can’t just beam my thoughts into peoples minds like

[economicsresearch]

page 559 - flag of popular Economian region.

These are lame as hell. Also, I think they HAVE been gassing me from time to time, knocking me out. To reset the blog or whatever, I do not know. I think the other guy took the gas this time though. As in the gas started and I held my breath and pinched my nose and my eyes stung and watered, then from across the room I heard wild hyper-ventilating. But it was slow. The most intense deep breaths you've ever heard, trying to draw all the air in this dungeon across to him. It's like he was trying to pull the gas away from me. Am I down here with a hero? A breath hero?

[starseungs]

anything that has to do with memorizarion is the actual villain in my story

[theperplexedpoet]

red flag semaphore

you see the semaphore think the signal's bad but I see a little more like the big red flags and so I do implore take a broader scope these flags can't be ignored if we're to have hope the red flag semaphore harbinger of doom acid rain petrichor yielding toxic fumes you see a semaphore that you can't decode the meaning gets unmoored tenets will corrode still you try evermore insistent fellow and stubbornly ignore the lack of yellow the red flag semaphore harbinger of doom acid rain petrichor yielding toxic fumes you see a semaphore take a closer look it's just a flailing bore a thinly skinned crook who we have shown the door fitted for a cell that's why he's on this shore screaming for a swell the red flag semaphore harbinger of doom acid rain petrichor yielding toxic fumes you see the semaphore think the signal's bad but I see a little more like his big red flags (2/7/24)

[an-android-in-a-tutu]

can't take game night seriously because of the intese cop three days from retirement vibes Mary is putting down

[awheckery]

crying screaming throwing up

as of this exact moment it's a dead heat, where are my people who remember when matthew macfadyen invented Yearning in 2005

where are my people who still scream over The Hand Flex, and will to their dying days

come ON, people!!!!!

Propaganda...

Mr Darcy (2005): ...

Mr Darcy (1995):

There's a reason why Colin Firth is forever known as Mr. Darcy above all other roles he's had and will have! Even ignoring the wet white shirt, which has become A Thing now, he is so hot with his curly hair and his little half smiles and his intense looks of longing and his legs that go on for milessss.

[dappertron]

I've got so many damned bird designs

Semaphray and Skuallyrojer are two birds based on birds, the Long-Tailed Skua and Parasitic Jaeger respectively, as well as sea faring flags. First guy's a Normal/Flying with sailor decor, a tail evoking a bunch of flags on a boat's stern, and some plumage tufts meant to resemble rigging. Its two wings are also colored like Japanese semaphore flags, AKA that one Mario Party minigame where captain Shyguy dooms you to death at sea if you choose the wrong flag. Second is a sailor turning into a Dark/Flying pirate (can you believe there are no overt pirate Pokemon?), with its birdy little features turning into a captain's coat and ruffled ascot. Its white and red wings turn into black and red, meant to be like the naval flags of quarter / no quarter.

[whencyclopedia]

Electrical Telegraph

The Electrical Telegraph was invented in 1837 by William Fothergill Cook (1806-1879) and Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) in England with parallel innovations being made by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) in the United States. The telegraph, once wires and undersea cables had connected countries and continents, transformed communications so that messages could be sent and received anywhere in just minutes.

Telegraph Pioneers

The idea of sending signals from one distant place to another has been in use since antiquity, notably with towers using fire beacons. Ships have long used a system of flags (semaphore) to communicate beyond shouting distance. These methods, though, were limited to only very important communications, for more mundane messages people had to use horse-riding messengers that could take several days or even weeks to reach their intended recipient.

The Italian Alexander Volta (1745-1827) invented the electric battery in 1800, necessary for a telegraph machine to be operated anywhere. Then the Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) created the first electromagnet in 1825. Ørsted's discovery that an electrical current flowing in a conductor can create a magnetic field – which he noted when observing the effect on a magnetic compass on his desk – was crucial to the telegraph machine since this was the answer to the problem of how to make electrical impulses visible in the form of a moving needle. The French physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) worked to create a theory that explained the relationship between an electrical current and magnetism. The first electric motor was developed by the Englishman Michael Faraday (1791-1867) in 1821. With all of these scientific discoveries put together, inventors now had the theoretical means to send electrical impulses through a wire and then see the effect at the other end. The trick was just how to create a working machine capable of sending and receiving these impulses over long distances and a code by which such impulses could be transformed into words.

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[boatcats]

I love discussions of Ed and Stede switching out the stoplight system for signal flags. Edward "Offensive Semaphore" Teach would be incredibly extra about this.

Stede: Color, sweetheart?

Ed, besotted: [ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY]

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

ITS SEMAPHORE TIME BITCHES

Well almost. Flag code.