Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

If you're still on mastodon.social, there's more reason to move.

It turns out that Watchful is very good at sensing how we're feeling, so getting them back in front has helped us be more responsive to basic needs like hyrdation, but also to mood/whim. Instead of holding strictly to a routine/system, we're putting much more weight on what we feel like doing at the moment. We think the change has made us happier and better at our job.

I'm still not a Buddhist, but I've made a personal commitment to follow the five precepts, as I currently understand them. Dabbling in study of Buddhism, things that seemed challenging, wrong, or nonsensical at first become more reasonable, correct, or plausible, as my understanding increases.

It's kinda scary because I find myself wanting to accept teachings on faith that they'll make sense someday, which is something I really dislike about organized religion.

computerfairi.es is shutting down, new account: @madewokherd@weirder.earth

@gendercensus You could presumably distinguish those by context and/or pronunciation. If you used "indefinite they" as a specific person's pronouns (if that's not a contradiction to begin with), the context and pronunciation would be identical, so the pronoun set would be equivalent in usage and indistinguishable.

@Satsuma @gendercensus For purpose of expressing my pronouns, or understanding the pronouns of others, I don't care about this at all.

@gendercensus Which would mean that of those, only "plural they" specifies a pronoun set because it has a specific reflexive. The others are just ways of using they.

@gendercensus No, I got that, I just thought maybe it'd make sense to go further.

@gendercensus I would argue that the forms including reflexive determines the pronoun set, not the number of people referenced.

@gendercensus Is the "name" of the pronoun set even necessary? In this case it's redundant with the forms, and it doesn't disambiguate the sets.

@gendercensus Even in this thread I'm unsure whether plural they means "they referring to multiple people" or "they/.../themselves referring to any number of people"

@gendercensus I hadn't heard of "ser" but saw it in the report, and I like it. But I don't know if it's practical to use.

@gendercensus I think it depends on what the person being referred to wants, i.e. they/themself and they/themselves are both valid pronoun sets. But I'd refer to they/themselves as "plural they".