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food 

pimento cheese would be way more palatable to me if people didn't decide to use so fucking much of it on things that include it

idea: a dictionary/encyclopedia that defines words and concepts with incongruously mixed vernacular

masticate: v. to munch down on (esp. vittles) with your fangies

🎶 you know that we are liiiving in a material world
and i am an ephemeral girl

hrt 

really? i just have to put this gel on every day and i'll turn into your moth boy

valentine’s day, terminology, only half joking 

my comp sci background and polyamorist leanings suggest to me that this valentine’s day we should deprecate the word “couples” in favor of “tuples”

"Vuples vulpes, the species so nice they named it twice." -- @rey

transphobes, good news 

so the National Lottery has reasonably enough decided to go ahead with its £500,000 grant to UK trans charity Mermaids, on top of the over £300,000 raised by @Hbomberguy's stream. #ThanksGraham twitter.com/Mermaids_Gender/st

"what else are you gonna call a slide whistle/trombone hybrid??"
"i'm sorry, we're just not willing to invest in your 'slimbone'"

i don't wanna be at work... i wanna be home making chiptunes.........

put on your best arpeggios and do the portamento with volume slide

What are aspects of accessibility you feel a lot of websites forget to take into account?

Discussion on behalf of #Florence for #accessibility #a11y

the phrase "past ubiquity" popped up in a thing i was reading about RS-232 and, while i get why that standard is still in use sometimes (simplicity, longer cable length than usb, good for some industrial and scientific applications), it really made me think about all the other computer bullshit whose presence in our lives is solely because it used to be the hot newness

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a moment of silence for every technical standard or computer feature that's still around "due to past ubiquity" and for no better reason

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