@breakfastgolem actually the character from The Matrix's name is Neo

it is a corruption of Nny, short for Johnny

(John Matrix is the name of the monster)

@iitalics bowing my head in unspeakable sadness and grief as i walk backwards into the room with the shroud, keeping my face pointed away as i delicately place the shroud over the shameful, gruesome nakedness of whatever the number is now

@clacke it's going so bad they had 5 retroactive demotions!

@emily @amber but this empty car chassis on cinder blocks in front of the apartment can provide important urban wildlife habitat!

@clacke boosting this from the rooftops

@traabot Pie chart labeled "Types of atom in the universe":

Hydrogen, 74%

Helium, 25%

Other, 1%

@alexandra i can imagine at least one more to access the instances that your other accounts don't federate with

::glances at x0r's suspended list::

in theory

@violet @Amber why did i parse this as a d&d alignment when i skimmed past this

@eleanorkonik i'm reminded that "araneus" is already in use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneus

and ironically enough this wiki page is a great example of the default female specimen image thing i mentioned, cf. picture of marbled orb weaver here and male here https://www.deviantart.com/fractalfiend/art/Male-Marbled-Orb-Weaver-401800965

@eleanorkonik the female spiders tend to be the big ones people notice (and in my experience tend to be the default specimen in illustrations in books), so surely the special name would be for the males instead?

@trysdyn i faved and boosted this

then scrolled away and saw my boost right next to someone's post about being trans

and every statement in this post has just gained a whole new and different significance

@be
"non-profit-backed"
which is to say [non-profit]-backed
which is to say it is backed by an org that is, technically, a non-profit

just a little bit of dark pattern to let it be the reader's fault for thinking one meant, say, "non-[profit-backed]"

ahahahaha this is so perfect 🙃

@okf @bgcarlisle 📎 it looks like you're trying to rant about how bad MS Word is

have you tried using a thesaurus? 👀

@elilla thank you for posting this

this explanation is such a good anecdote against the recent well-poisoning that started to make all of these objections too easy to misread as being more of the poisoners' own whataboutism

@douginamug @alexandra neither do i, but i guess it's something about the problem being bad enough to draw our attention but not so irreparably bad that it doesn't?

@alexandra @douginamug this feels like that thing with the planes returning full of bullet holes everywhere except where it counts, but i can't quite line up the elements

@metalune @csepp @human it's [government [given name]] not [[government given] name]

@prehensile just gonna leave this here in case anyone's still trying to figure this out (scroll down to "Introduction" for some basic definitions) https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC7123893?javascript_support=no http://www.sachinmittal.com/2016/06/02/how-to-predict-financial-crisis-the-dragon-king-theory-vs-the-black-swan/

@erosdiscordia imagine identifying by an ethos of optimization of technology and advancement of knowledge through off-label uses of things

and being a bioessentialist about gender institutions

@prehensile special properties as the source of the ring and either infused with sauron's power or a locus connected to it

more magick and symbolic connections than physics and energy transfer