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hannah 🐿️ (prehensile@tech.lgbt)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jan-2022 18:11:34 UTC hannah 🐿️

Another wikipedia article that's not about what I thought it would be about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_rule
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1. Lesbian rule
  
  A lesbian rule was historically a flexible mason's rule made of lead that could be bent to the curves of a molding, and used to measure or reproduce irregular curves. Lesbian rules were originally constructed of a pliable kind of lead found on the island of Lesbos. Figurative allusions The rule is alluded to by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics (book V, chapter 10) as a metaphor for the importance of flexibility in equitable justice: For what is itself indefinite can only be measured by an indefinite standard, like the leaden rule used by Lesbian builders; just as that rule is not rigid but can be bent to the shape of the stone, so a special ordinance is made to fit the circumstances of the case." In the early modern period the term was often used figuratively (as Aristotle had used it) to mean a pliant, flexible and accommodating principle of judgment – sometimes with overtones that were positive, but on other occasions in a more pejorative sense. In his famous letter to the Louvain theologian Martin Dorp, Thomas More referenced it when reproving...
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  @prehensile Well, it's not straight...
  
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