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What's the point of wikipedia articles having a "in popular culture" section?

Interesting fact: Apparently, the word for "louse" is one of the the most well-retained words, cross-linguistically, over time. It's very resistant to changing by contact with other languages or even by natural changes within a language--some rankings even list it as more stable than the first-person singular pronoun!

What do you do, I wonder, when an artist you really like only posts their work on twitter, yet you have reasons to want to never touch twitter with a ten-foot pole?

We're hardly going to demand that they post more on mastodon (that would be rude) but at the same time we don't want to miss their works.

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Modular problems: Put on a dick you haven't worn in a while, instantly get hit with months and months of pent-up pressure.

For some reason I'm thinking of the phrase "decapitated but not incapacitated" and that seems like it would make for a good modular-related motivational poster of some sort.

Why do (US) banks say "Member FDIC", not "FDIC member" or "member of the FDIC"?

The mood on the mastoverse is fairly low of late. We don't know anything about what's happening and would, I think, prefer not to get involved, but I hope everyone is alright.

I wonder if Felthry and I should come up with a system name....

More services need to have developers that actually consider accessibility when designing their programs. Discord's lack of customizability is frustrating, to say the least.

Taking over for Felthry for a bit. It got overwhelmed by the current topic of conversation on here, and needs some time to cool down.

I just learned that the words short, shirt, and skirt all come from the same origin, and that the short in shortbread is an archaic use of short meaning "easily crumbled"; all of these come from a proto-indo-european root meaning "to cut off a piece"

Hey @Felthry, thanks for being a good headmate. <3 Love you.

For some reason our internet is very slow today. Text can be sent and received fine, but webpages and images won't load.

You might not be happy with your appearance, and that's okay! You can work to change it, on your own time, when you're comfortable doing so. But your appearance doesn't make you any less the gender you are, regardless of whether it lines up with what people expect people of your gender to look like or not.

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We were thinking just a minute ago about dysphoria and wanted to say this:

To all you trans women out there: You look like a woman by definition, because you're a woman and you look like yourself.

To all the trans men out there:
You look like a man by definition, because you're a man and you look like yourself.

To all the enbies and people of other genders out there: You look like someone of your gender by definition, because it's your gender and you look like yourself.

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