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My wife gives me a dirty look when I refer to Vincent Van Gogh as "Vinnie Vang".

Starkest difference in the resulting default mental image for a proper name versus its common diminutive – go.

I'll start: "Vincent" versus "Vince".

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Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people:

Artist: Radiohead

What is your gender: No Surprises

How do you feel: Scatterbrain

If you could go anywhere: Sail to the Moon

Favorite mode of transportation: The Tourist

Your best friend: You

Favorite time of the day: The Gloaming

If your life was a TV show: Daydreaming

Relationship status: All I Need

Your fear: Burn the Witch

Stealing this from @angel-with-paper-wings because it looks super fun! :D

Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people:

Artist: The Grateful Dead

What is your gender: Lady with a Fan

How do you feel: Hell in a Bucket

If you could go anywhere: Standing on the Moon

Favorite mode of transportation: The Wheel

Your best friend: Friend of the Devil

Favorite time of the day: Till the Morning Comes

If your life was a TV show: Eyes of the World

Relationship status: Unbroken Chain

Your fear: Fire on the Mountain

Tagging: @cornistasiathecoblinking @chaifootsteps @les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques @margoteve @scientistservant @jennyfair7 @wishuponastarion @theawkwardarchaeologist @scouts-mockingbird

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credits for the images:

letstalkpalestine

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“The brands are right. No one gives a f—k about X anymore, and no one will be outraged when you — yes, you, Elon Musk — have finally killed it. The days of serial tweeters like me lamenting the days of Twitter Classic are over. We’ve gone elsewhere and use X only sparingly, and only as a necessary evil. Without us, and without any advertising support, X will soon make no money of any sort, and you’ll be left only with the occasional $8 a month from @FreedomBob69. Oh wait, but here’s more reality for you, Elon! The Cybertruck is already not only a laughingstock, it’s also barely existent on the eve of its launch and, by your own admission, won’t turn a profit until a year and a half from now at the earliest. The Boring Company, established to make the Hyperloop a reality, has only built a glorified parking ramp in Vegas after burning through nearly $800 million in VC funding. Tesla’s revenues are sinking as the big automakers roll out their own EVs that are more appealing than your four-wheeled bachelor pads. Your company SpaceX will fail in its doomed mission to make humans a multiplanetary species, and its rockets won’t stop blowing up. And your biography sucked. So it’s over for you, Elon Musk. You are a public failure of a man. You’ll still be rich, but you no longer matter. That’s all you really wanted out of this, wasn’t it? You bought Twitter because you thought that owning it would make you the most special person in the whole wide world, only to reveal yourself as an unremarkable s—thead with no good ideas. You drove everyone away, including the companies that could have propped up your reputation for another five minutes. Whether you’ll ever understand this is of no concern to me, or to anyone else. You’ve shared your bucket, and it has nothing but holes in it. So, for Bob Iger, and for the rest of humanity, let me say: Go f—k yourself, Elon. Go. F—k. Yourself. Is that clear?”

— The end of Elon Musk

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Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)

Becoming Who We Are Kickstarter ends Dec 14! Preorder now to help us fund the book!

bit.ly/becomingkickstarter

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Well, that's filthy. "We refuse to give queer kids money, and we won't let anyone else give them money either."

“It definitely broke our spirits,” said Brittany Harris, 17, a junior and the co-president of the club, when she heard that the board didn’t want to accept the grant that students had worked on for weeks.

LGBTQ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back.

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alex hirsch going rogue… king shit

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Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen

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Firefox v120!

New copy link without site tracking feature: removes the tracking at the end of urls usually that end with "?=[long ass string of numbers or info on your browser or how you clikced the link]" previously an optional feature of ublock origin to remove it as you go to sites, but now you can also copy links as well

New "Tell websites not to sell or share my data" option in privacy settings. Websites have no obligation to do this, except under GDPR which is most sites. adds a bit to your fingerprintability, however if everyone turns this on it will work better for everyone.

Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites.

you can set "cookiebanners.service.mode" to 2 to automatically refuse cookies and have them stop asking you about it. While it's also an optional feature of ublock origin, this might work better

Firefox has enabled URL Tracking Protection by default in private windows for all users in Germany. Firefox will remove non-essential URL query parameters that are often used to track users across the web.

Not sure how to turn this on in settings (this is also an optional ublock feature, these don't hurt to stack) but once again removes the tracking at the end of urls telling you how the link was shared and how you got there

Firefox cares about your privacy and is making the internet a safer place from corporations. Do your part and download it today

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In linguistic terms, I would pronounce it as a single-syllable with a triphthong (a single voewl sound made of three vowels that run together), though there's a very thin, subjective line there and many other Aussies would say it's a two-syllable word. IPA-wise, I'd say my pronunciation is something in the neighbourhood of 'aɪən, though that a at the start might not be quite right.

I want to know something regarding the pronunciation of the word "iron", and I'm only asking native speakers and those who've been living in an English speaking country since forever (as a child), but it's not quite their native language. The latter is my definition for "second language". And only that. If you went to school in an English speaking country for a couple of years (for example studying abroad), that doesn't count as a second language in this case, please press the last button then.

The description in the poll is only a "more or less", not an absolute.

So...

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Sometimes you have no choice: something pops into your head and you are compelled to share it with others. Sorry.