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Speakers of American English! You can help do an actual science just by answering some questions on a topic practically everybody likes to talk about: What Is The Right Word for a Thing?

New online American English dialect survey languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

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While there isn't an official way to link your Mastodon account with Keybase, you can prove your identity manually by signing a message with the Keybase CLI. Then, anyone that meets you via the fediverse can communicate with you securely by verifying your signature. There is a good explanation of how to do this at ryanmaynard.co/mastodon-keybas

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Today's lesson: Medium is bad. They've suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories for bogus reasons and with only 12 hours notice.

also this cherry-blossom petal-shower icon animation is HILARIOUSLY dramatic... oh dang i love it

whomst thought that it was a good idea to make the English word "volume" cover two ENTIRELY different forms of measurement

@BatElite i let them know every day, but tomorrow i'll make an extra effort to let them know πŸ’–

flarf 4: the flarfening 

Oh, my poor anxious fibres! While people eat scorpions and blowfish, breakfast tomorrow morning won't be easy for me to stomach. I feel like a little baby...! -- and, well, while I would not normally bother, we aren't changing anyone's minds here. Listen, I would recommend making either one of those blue marbles actually overcome things in the end. I'll restart everything all over the world again, since I really DO love you.

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My problems with them outright banning the papers won't matter, for you can absolutely fire back against them with love. It's gonna be forever changed: since I need the money to get somewhere, we can split it between the two of us! It helps you and your cute face that I love. Neither of us can stop me now, dude. I've been thinking about our long-lost laughter, and you know how I feel about that change.

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more predictive text flarf poetry 

I still think that since we are fragile, how you incite drama about others draws too much attention. That would essentially mean losing; it eliminates all of our boundaries. Funds are going, and that's just well enough for them. We can't afford to wither away under their presence.

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predictive text flarf poem 

It's fine by bird anatomy to be with you, and completely different languages can't express that. Only defending myself actually let me overcome the end, what was the neat little bit. I'm fine. That's just how we are.

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Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.

A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."

People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.

Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.

every time i see a bird, something switches off in me and i become a primal mess just sputtering "ooh bird" in baby talk like an uncivilized orangutan of some sort

tiny wistfulness 

years after its release, i caught up with a series and have finally read through it in its entirety after i got into it 6 years ago. the last installment was released in 2016 and a new installment (or another remake) has been teased, but... it makes me sad to know that for now, things have to stop here. i rarely binge things and feel upset about things ending where they were, but this series is too close to my heart for that. it's a lil lonely to have to wait for more.

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request for donations 

We're struggling to afford groceries for the whole week, any donations (even very small ones) would be greatly appreciated

ko-fi.com/charlotte (my partner's kofi)

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So you haven't heard the bad joke about this person having difficulty getting a key into a dodgy lock but eventually succeeding? [punchline in cw] 

It was really forced anyway.

this was only supposed to be a quick doodle i swear i didn't mean to suddenly go lineless and then start cel-shading computerfairi.es/media/Uz-TYFM

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!