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i'm so glad the rich hoard their money so that i can struggle to survive everyday for the rest of my life :)

@AudreyJune maths!

like, actually, no joke, one of the primary considerations in making final name decision was a numerical thing. the name had to be a particular number of letters, a particular number of syllables, and a particular number of words, all together. by that point we'd already sort of figured out what we were keeping, what we were changing, and what we were throwing out entirely, so we ended up with a simple set of constraints that ended up exactly fitting a bad pun. hence, name.

I'm an anti-commercial descriptivist, language evolves naturally and every deviation from its prescribed form is valid except if advertising has ANYTHING to do with it

a good etiquette is that if you're finding you want to censor a word, instead consider leaving it as-is, so wordfilters will catch it, and using a euphemism for the word (e.g., "f-slur") in the CW of the post

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your regular reminder that censoring words l*ke th*s is actively counterproductive because it bypasses the filters that people set up for themselves

to take an innocuous example, if i use filters to block the word "orange", and you write "or*nge", you have now ensured that i will see a post that i have explicitly tried to get out of my timeline

Ill never stop laughing at the dublin theatre festival putting up big banners all over town that just say DTF

trans language not a particularly hot take 

when you choose to class all trans people as transmasc or transfem you are enforcing the binary we're trying to shake off

listen if ur gonna make a character some kind of catgirl or catboy you better emphasize the cat part hard

i better see this human looking person with cat ears and a fluffy tail knocking shit off of shelves, giving you a false sense of security, and begging you for food at every instance of the day even though you fed them like 200 times already

NSFW and highly lewd 

i wanna write a story on a lewd site and tag it "defloration" and "creampie" etc, but it's actually just a sappy light novel about a couple picking flowers and baking a nice creamy pie together.

everyones always talkin bout big tiddies this big tiddies that but nobodys talkin bout renewable tiddies smh

I don’t care what you’ve been told in class. You really think you’re given the tools to influence those in power?

Listen to people who are oppressed.
Listen to people who know more of history, struggle and fascism than you.
Learn about fascism, alt-right; antifascism and leftism.
Learn about cognitive biases and apply this knowledge to call the status quo, the one that’s hurting people, into question, not to be an edgy jerk saying that maybe «nazis are not that bad».

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I love how many privileged people tell that their stupid understand of free speech works to us, who for most of us have noticed for years that it doesn’t work at all how they think it does.

We couldn’t ban nazi and TERF as a whole on Twitter. Talking to them only made it worse. We would be suspended for telling it’s good to punch them, while they were allowed to spread their hate all day long.

They don’t get that their understanding of free speech is totally backwards and disconnected.

if i was a magic card id be pushed to the point of ppl calling for bans before im released but id have no impact on the metagame bc i die to removal

what if magic story emulated discworld instead of the mcu, wouldn't that be great

i am a simple man. i:
- check fedi
- check fedi
- check fedi
- put phone down
- get sad abt my life
- check fe

Announcing these things explicitly is good, even if you can't change the limitations of your event location:
You're giving people who have need of this information a way to establish their priorities, and if they *want* to face the risk or challenge to attend.

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If your event is in a location that is inaccessible or unsafe for some potential attendees (due to location/weather/politics/…), it would be fair to point this out.
You probably can't move, but you can communicate that the event is in a very narrow, or hot, or right-wing place.

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