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cryptomnesia is weird.

The other day, I quoted Douglas Adams word-for-word, and yet was fully convinced I had come up with it myself.

What on earth is an "identitarian" anyway

Saw the word in a thing someone linked about people being blocked, so I don't exactly want to search it

or, we are officially _an_ employee of the university? Society and language aren't really set up for cases like ours.

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We are now officially employees of the university!

the Hearth :ms_agender_flag: boosted

"The term “currying” has nothing at all to do with the delicious foodstuff. Instead, it’s named after the mathematician Haskell Curry, who rediscovered a technique devised by another mathematician named Moses Schönfinkel. While Haskell Curry certainly contributed heaps to computer science, I think we’ve missed a fun opportunity to have a useful programming technique called schönfinkeling."

I just realized the two main characters of this series we're reading are named Wax and Wayne

wait, isn't hiveway what that homestuck game was called?

the name mcafee makes me think of what mcdonalds probably calls their coffee, McCafé

it has occurred to me that "millimillennium" is a perfectly valid synonym of "year"

Remember when video game controllers had just one button (or several buttons that all did the same thing) and an arcade-style joystick?

I don't, I wasn't alive then.

@awoobot you're still adorable! Congrats on having pronouns now!

because I feel quite thoroughly embarrassed right nwo

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there should be something that points out when a post that was boosted is very old so people don't make fools of themselves replying to something from months ago just because someone boosted it

Is there a word for when you feel like gender is a thing that happens to other people, and not to you?

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