linux: y no women in our spaces ????? :( :( :(
also linux: our preferred softwares are bitchx, gimp and something with an abortion joke in the official documentation
@mavica_again School: "we cannot teach this in our institution because its name runs afoul of our antidiscrimination policy"
Gnu Project: "how DARE you this tasteless Pulp Fiction (1994) reference is SACRED"
@mym no no see all it means is GNU (not general, not anymore!) image manipulation program!! it's inoffensive and you're triggered for no reason, i swear!!!
@mavica_again @mym hey quick question, what other meaning does the word gimp have? it solely means the art program in my dialect of english, and searching the word up simply returns a bunch of pages on the art program
@thetacola gnu (formerly general) image manipulation program was originally named for the pulp fiction character "the gimp" who is named after the gimp suit they wear which is a bdsm accoutrement named after a slur aimed at physically disabled people
you can corroborate any of this through your own research
@thetacola and in case you think there is no possible linkage between gnu image manipulation program and bdsm (which i am fine and in favour of, just not the slur) this is the splash screen for version 2.7.2
@mavica_again @thetacola oh... Oh now that would be a very awkward pop up while running Linux at work.
@mavica_again that very well could have been on my work's Linux systems back in like 2010, or whenever that came out, since they ran Red Hat at the time.