Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

i did a drawing of my monstersona for artfight. their name is Sandro, they live in the lake and collect trash.
#mastoart #oc

In 2013, Tom Scott made a video about english's singular "they" that referenced nonbinary people who use it because neither "he" or "she" fit them. I just found a... blog post? A sort of blog post thing he wrote about it, which makes a minor correction about something that slipped through the editing process. Whatever. What's much more interesting to me is the rest of the post.

When the video was posted, it was uncontroversial. It gained relatively few dislikes, and he mentions that most of those were from speakers of languages with grammatical gender who felt their language had been insulted. But in around 2016, it started to gather a lot more dislikes. I'm sure those of you here on fedi can imagine why. The reference to nonbinary people went from being "FYI, these people exist" to "I'm taking a side in a political issue" which, I suppose he is, but that was never his point.

But I really like this quote that he uses to finish the post:

It seems that, over the last few years, non-binary and trans folks have reached stage three on the Williams Scale: ‘then they fight you’. Hopefully, it won't take long to reach stage four: ‘then you win’.

Daily reminder that according to the BotW physics system, Link weighs the equivalent of somewhere between 8 and 9 apples.

The sun finally came out for like 15 minutes today so I finally got a photo of the Heckbird 🦜
(Acrylic and Posca pen on 8x10" wood panel)
#MastoArt #CreativeToots

chillin

Any time there's an order for one of these wonderful pins I walk 300m to and from the nearest post box to send them off

DM @maple to order one today and make me get some of the exercise that I could really do with

As we leave pride month and transition into wrath month, remember: