Stop Doing Poetry
“Constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic” “each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables” - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
Look at what poets have been demanding your respect for this entire time, with all the words and letters we built for them,
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“But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,”
They have played us for absolute fools
@Leucrotta Aaaaaugh the nostalgia feels!
ADHD sometimes means forgetting to do stuff – even stuff one really wants to do. That's why it took me over twenty years to follow up on a spot-on recommendation to listen to King Crimson.
Have some tritones, nerds.
"it's common sense!" and "everybody knows that…" are arguments that are easier to make the *less* you know about people different from you
anything can be common sense if you only talk to people you have everything in common with
"I've never seen the media interview a black parent about how race is being taught to their children."
@fluffy Because reprimanding folks for openly being wrong rarely changes anything for the better and they get to keep acting like unparented children while we feel like we're being punished for having done nothing wrong?
At least, that's why I loathe mouthy Internet randos. One of many, many reasons.
The #Meta plot thickens! Turns out that #Facebook doesn't actually own the name Meta because it belongs to another company that's currently in stealth mode.
That didn't seem to stop Facebook from publicly announcing the name change and branding, quite the Zuck move.
Meta (the real one) have posted a public letter about this on their front page. I'm linking the Archive copy because the front page will be eventually replaced by an actual website:
🔗 https://web.archive.org/web/20211103213225/https://meta.company/
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