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“[A]ll languages have little dings in them where there really is no quick way to express something that you could express in most other languages. My favorite example is in French, where you can't say that something sticks out. For example, if you have a rental car and you park it in the lot, all the cars are parked in a straight line and you don't park yours all the way in, so the back is kind of sticking out—you can say you parked wrong, there are all sorts of things you can say, but you couldn't go to the office and say, mine is the car that's sticking out back there. There's no verb for that. Or, in Danish, there's not a word that you would specifically use to mean to get liquid off of something. You can't wipe, you can only erase. Everybody does fine, but all languages have those sorts of dings.”

— John McWhorter, Discussion with Yascha Mounk on Substack, April 9, 2025.

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I'm having a good time :)

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Just found out that the "five stages of grief" weren't actually about grieving other people at all, the theory was created when psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was working with terminally ill patients and used those terms (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) to refer to the non-linear coping methods people use when faced with their own deaths.

I don't know why I'm surprised, a lot of these sorts of things are deeply misunderstood and misrepresented, but knowing the context really does change its meaning and just makes it make sense in a way it doesn't when applied to grieving other people.

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I think we should bring back 1980s style Horrible Little Man animated mascots, but this time extend them to products beyond food.

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instead of either having a server be muted or unmuted discord should introduce a setting called special princess mode where the server is muted except ☝🏽 for one person that is your special princess and the emoji0oo990op09iop09i8o09i8op09iolp-09op-0opyujiko8o9i8ukol9iukolp9i8uki sorry. i got a drop of oil on my keyboard bc i was eating hummus with a little bit of olive oil earlier and i was cleaning that off. anyway and the notification icon is a heart. and they have to to call it that.

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fuck marry kill:

fuck, marry, and kill

kill marry, fuck kill, and marry fuck

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its crazy that mr brightside is one of the best songs ever yet isnt even the best killers song

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[comes out of my mutuals blog breathless and blood stained] didnt even fidn the . fucking post

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everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3

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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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one more year until people stop dying

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Due to the name "GIMP" being considered quite offensive in some dialects of english, which has been a renewed topic of debate among the wider FOSS community, we are proud to announce that across the next month or so the project will be rebranding!

From now on, GIMP will be known as FAG!

The name stands for "FOSS Art & Graphics"! As our project had no longer been associated with GNU at all for a long while now, we felt it was finally time to sign the divorce papers and get rid of their name tainting ours. However we still wanted to convey that FAG is and always will be Free and Open Source software. After a long session of brainstorming, spending days upon days looking for a name that conveys our values and project well, we finally ended at FAG. We're quite happy with it! What do you guys think? Let us know through comments and reblogs!

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Don’t a let a little thing like being a boy keep you from being a girl

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Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

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Tumblr is odd because you’ll see a mutual post something really profound like “the birds still sing for those who listen” and you see them 5 minutes later saying something like “need to be pegged.grilled cheese style”