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"Want to come in," the first dragon said, "and see my hoard of gold?"
"You still sleep on gold?" said the other.
"So what are you on, Bitcoin?"
"Hardly. I hoard pillows."
"Ooh!"
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories

whiney, assholes: "people want everyone to be treated the same, but not everyone is the same so you shouldn't act like it"

👍 *treats marginalized groups better and stops coddling privileged people who don't need it*

"no not like that"

Anyway, Xhosa is a member of the Bantu language family. Members of that family are spoken in roughly the southern third of Africa. It's theorized that Bantu languages didn't evolve clicks on their own, but borrowed them from members of a smaller (in terms of speaking population and geographic coverage) language family: Khoisan.

Part of the reason for this is that Khoisan languages use clicks a lot more and in a lot more places, but Bantu languages use them less often and in places in words that are "easier" to pronounce. Where "easier" is about where the tongue and lips and such are already placed based on surrounding sounds.

#LinguisticsMinute

Looks like a lot of my contract work is ending this month. Time to do the thing I struggle with: network and hunt for more freelance work. 😅

If anyone is looking for a copy editor or writer for games or fiction, drop me a line!

hey

Hot Take: Lunch is good assert your right to eat lunch

All people deserve the time and resources to eat 3 meals a day.

@shel @gaditb I feel like solarpunk is really a reaction to the current void we have for a positive vision for the future.

Both solarpunk and nastalga for past social rebellions seems to me to be rooted in the fact that we feel like our current social paradigm has run its course, yet we don't have a roadmap to something new or better yet,

@benhamill @shel @kibi I personally like “kindcore” because it implies the opposite of “hardcore”: Rather than being fueled by the aggression and pain associated with a word like “hardcore”, “kindcore” is fueled by compassion and love. Whereas “hardcore” would be a TV show like, say, “Game of Thrones”, “kindcore” would be “The Joy of Painting”.

That’s my take, anyway.

@brook @shel for me vaporwave is nostalgic but like, in an intensely melancholic way that isn't so much about wanting to return to the past so much as demonstrating how all the good things in the past were actually built upon lies and like… consumerism and whitewashing that we now know would escalate out of control

so it's like “wow remember when things seemed so nice??” but not in a “let's go back” way but rather a “wow we were so naïve” one

h.er

What if it's not small businesses that have intrinsically very high attrition rates, but rather exploitative rents that are destroying local economic growth before it can get off the ground?

Okay so it's super late at night and no one will see this but I gotta mention some #BlackPanther related things that came to mind

- the natural nuclear reactors in Gabon: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nuclear-reactors-the-2-billion-year-old-natural-fission-reactors-in-gabon-western-africa/

- Mansa Musa I, the 14th-century Malian emperor, who spent so much gold on hajj that he inadvertently tanked the Mediterranean market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali

unsung heroes of early programming: the many women who, as factory weavers, assembled programs on rope memory.

interviewers expect us to implement linked lists on whiteboards because they are fundamental, but not weave or knit programs??? idgi. https://mastodon.social/media/_gpYfKQjzGd_XcxI5mM

I had an epiphany recently when an activist on a ventilator pointed out that it wasn’t their revolution if they died because you couldn’t keep the hospitals running.

Criticising “capitalism” only gets so far: you have to slide the better version underneath it while it’s running. You have to save everybody.

Otherwise you’ll need to remind me - and then - why you thought you’d be better.

This is why I like to watch “capitalism” closely (and lift everything that works).

https://cybre.space/media/v_OgU4RgfQCpxCDSkSc

I'm training a neural network to generate new knitting patterns, in partnership with a bunch of folks at Ravelry.
This is "Mystery lace", test-knit by DataSock. https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/lazy-stupid-and-godless/3718985/426-450#442

Technology might destroy jobs, but it's capitalism that made livelihoods dependent on those jobs in the first place.

@shel

okay, two things:

one, I would love to be covered with birbs.

two, the problem here is that they're no longer in the hand. you have failed the definition, and so any analyses thereafter are irrelevant to any hand-bush-birb discussions.

so there!

#relatable