Posts by intransitivelie@beige.party
(DIR) Post #AsSaZtibUkNHTAZ3ke by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-03-26T21:26:50Z
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Traditional marriage is between one man and one woman and one reporter from the Atlantic.
(DIR) Post #Asbd5jXtubHqVWckK0 by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-03-29T17:52:39Z
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All those memetic "a group of this type of animal is called a whatever" things are fake. We all know that, right? There's no governing body of animal collective nouns.You can call a group of similar animals anything you want. You can call a group of anteaters "a sobriquet of anteaters" if you want. No one can stop you. It doesn't even have to be a noun. You can call a group of squirrels "a scurry of squirrels" (and in fact people do) if you want, so "an ineluctable of Burmese pythons" is totally fine.A patiently of orange-rumped agoutis. A loud buzzing noise of hornets. A social disease of cockroaches. A fundamental of carp. It's anarchy.This is English. There are no rules. Dig yourself a shallow hole in the middle of the language and squat there flinging excrement at anyone who happens by.
(DIR) Post #Asr5beyeQ6rq7scViC by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-04-06T17:32:01Z
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Only QTing this to make sure everyone knows it's a thread. Excellent points.via @majorlinuxhttps://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux/114292004763824982
(DIR) Post #AsyGqZP3sxiimi0OBs by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-04-11T01:23:00Z
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In 11th Grade I wrote a paper about how the real tragedy of Hamlet was actually that he gives in to violence rather than remaining true to his principles, and I think about that sometimes.
(DIR) Post #Asze2pam0trEZYG6qG by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-04-11T04:20:09Z
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If anyone was wondering where 🎶Moth! Liquor!🎶 came from, it was inspired by this incomprehensible pin through a fairly tortuous chain of reference. Explain it to me please. Use small words.
(DIR) Post #AtItA9irLGrOsigJpg by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-04-21T02:21:11Z
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Well fuck, it was Easter and 4/20 and I didn't eat a Jesus edible.
(DIR) Post #AuLWgAoNYGakilwyWm by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-05-21T20:45:41Z
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I know things are rough right now in the UK for trans folks, but just remember, there's always a unisex bathroom available.
(DIR) Post #Aug3ACrsHfMNZHzg7U by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-06-01T02:31:11Z
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Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. You can preface anything he says with that fact and it'll tell you exactly how much credence to give anything he says.For example, "Stephen Miller is a white nationalist who says that left-wing terrorism is on the rise." Or, "Stephen Miller, a white nationalist, says that leftists are inciting violence against law enforcement." How about, "Stephen Miller, who is a white nationalist, can leap headlong up his own ass at the first opportunity and lay his toxic eggs in his own colon."Ok, maybe that last one is just rank speculation, but you get the idea.
(DIR) Post #AulpCTXt0zaVSiakpE by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-06-03T23:11:59Z
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The reason why you think that in the 1950s everyone was doing well financially with only one breadwinner is that you're ignoring the unpaid labor of women and the subjugation of minorities. I'm not saying that we're doing better off now than they were then, but the reason why white families could afford houses and cars and vacations is not utterly divorced from sexism and racism, shall we say? #subtoot
(DIR) Post #AuubFDPHpC8bLGcYT2 by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-06-08T06:12:37Z
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If you see someone you know at a protest, no you didn't.
(DIR) Post #Av2NIj7LvrSsHlPryS by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-06-11T19:45:24Z
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Gavin Newsome is still a fucking cop.
(DIR) Post #AvPMoJ2hpe5Zk9nuRE by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-06-23T02:08:39Z
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Last night I couldn't remember what the G in GERD stood for, so I landed on Godzilla. Godzilla Esophageal Reflux Disease. And my brain, because it's my brain, instantly came up with the ideal way to express this concept as a Japanese-style commercial for an antacid. Picture this, because I can't draw:INTERIOR, JAPANESE EATERY, DAYA MAN SITS EATING SPICY NOODLES. CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYS. SUDDENLY!MAN: (grabs his chest exaggeratedly) Oh no!ZOOM IN ON CHEST. A TINY GODZILLA ROARS AND BLASTS FLAMES. PULL OUT TO REVEAL SPOKESWOMAN FOR ANTACID.SPOKESWOMAN: Ah ah ah! Godzilla cannot have a home in your esophagus, for I have the cure to destroy him!SHE HOLDS UP ANTACID, WHICH TRANSFORMS INTO JET JAGUAR. JET JAGUAR FIGHTS GODZILLA IN THE MAN'S ESOPHAGUS. JUST WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE JET JAGUAR IS ABOUT TO LOSE, THE SPOKESWOMAN SHAKES HER ANTACID MAGIC WAND AND HE IS FULLY RESTORED. HE BEATS THE CRAP OUT OF GODZILLA AND BANISHES HIM TO THE LAND OF SMOKE AND GHOSTS.CUT TO THE MAN SIGHING WITH RELIEF.MAN: (smiling brightly) Ahhhhh.CUT TO SPOKESWOMAN WHO IS NOW ON THE BEACH WITH JET JAGUAR. THEY ARE BOTH WEARING BIKINIS FOR SOME REASON.MONTAGE. JET JAGUAR MAKES ELABORATE MARTIAL ARTS MOVEMENTS. THE SPOKESWOMAN BURIES HIM IN THE SAND. HE BURSTS OUT OF THE SAND. THEY BOTH LAUGH. GODZILLA SHOWS UP AND DANCES WITH THEM. GODZILLA IS ALSO WEARING A BIKINI. THEY DO VARIOUS EXAGGERATED THINGS IN THE SURF. THE SPOKESWOMAN AND JET JAGUAR BUILD A SAND CASTLE. GODZILLA KNOCKS IT OVER. THEY ALL LAUGH.CUT TO ANTACID LOGO.SPOKESWOMAN: Banish your Godzilla Esophageal Reflux Disease to the Land of Smoke and Ghosts! No worries! All singing!THE SPOKESWOMAN AND THE MAN FROM THE JAPANESE EATERY SING A SONG ALL ABOUT BANISHING GODZILLA TO THE LAND OF SMOKE AND GHOSTS. IT IS LONGER THAN NECESSARY. THE ANTACID LOGO SPARKLES IN RHYTHM.FADE TO BLACK.---I'm unappreciated in my own time.
(DIR) Post #AxbV908I6GEH0GSZKy by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-08-27T18:45:36Z
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Seige the day.I said what I said.
(DIR) Post #AxhoPwmMsyr1bQl7q4 by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-08-30T18:10:21Z
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I don't talk a lot about Palestine because I don't feel like I have anything useful to say, honestly. Israel is continuing to commit genocide, we all know it, and no one is doing anything about it. I guess I could keep saying that, but I'm not sure what purpose it serves.I feel powerless about a lot of things, but Palestine in particular.
(DIR) Post #AyArAXopL7yRIC5u08 by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-09-13T04:34:03Z
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I love that on fedi I will frequently come across posts which say things like, "I'm switching my LobNar configuration from Dexxxxus to Qzzzzp, because while I appreciate the LBND support, Drippz doesn't play well with *screeching sound repeated seven times at precise intervals* and my ¿~™€€÷¿ port is 33759904.5 so I can't install 🍒🍒🍒 without voiding my warranty."And I'll look at it and wonder idly what the fuck they're talking about, but I don't have to care, so I let it flow over me like the lifeblood of the universe, while secretly harboring the suspicion that no one, not even the poster themselves, knows what the fuck they're talking about.
(DIR) Post #B05XCvR12BNYMvG3Au by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-11-07T00:44:45Z
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Instead of reporting on the dollar amounts of corporate fines, the news should just say how many minutes of profit the fine represents. "The EPA slapped Apple with a two second fine," is much more honest.
(DIR) Post #B05wW3g17318HqUjEu by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-11-08T23:56:42Z
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People in the future are going to be super confused by Windows versions."So there was Windows, right?""Well, mostly Windows 3.1.""Which was the third version?""No.""So then Windows 4 must have come after that.""No, they jumped to version 95.""So then Windows 96...""No, then they skipped to 98.""Oh, but it was for the year it came out, right?""Kinda.""But surely after that...""Well, after that they actually moved away from version numbers and gave them names.""Oh, like MacOS!""Sort of...""What do you mean?""Well, the first version was XP.""What does that stand for?""No idea.""Did they just use letters after that?""No, then they named the next version Vista.""Like... the stuff you see out of a window! Ok, so the version after that was Windows Outlook, right?""No, the version after that was Windows 7.""7?!""Yeah.""But... It wasn't the seventh version of Windows even.""Yeah, but the version after 7 was 8.""Okay, back on track!""Not really. The next version was 10.""Because it came out in 2010?""No.""Fuck.""Then came Windows 11, and they stopped releasing new versions for a while and just added LLM panopticon nonsense until everyone switched to Linux in the 2030s and then when the second coming of Jesus fried everyone's hard drives...""Yeah, yeah, I know, Windows II: The Empire Strikes Back...""No, that was Windows V.""I give up."
(DIR) Post #B0yhmKSPOSS0LmGHiq by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-12-05T23:15:25Z
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I have to say, if someone was going to give Trump a pity Peace Prize, FIFA is one is one of the funnier options. It's not quite as on-the-nose as Twitter or something like that, but it's probably funnier.OK, #poll time. What would the funniest organization to give Trump a pity Peace Prize be?(And for the whiners, I've made it multiple choice so we don't have to first-past-the-post this. I can't do ranked-choice. I'm sorry; it's a limitation of the software.)
(DIR) Post #B177nNwo3PypXOK85g by intransitivelie@beige.party
2025-11-01T23:35:28Z
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- Poe's The Raven is canonically set in December.- The narrator is reading at night by the light of his fire.- The narrator hears a rapping on his chamber door.- The caller turns out to be a raven. - The Norse god Odin is identified with ravens.- Odin is also identified with Santa Claus. - Ergo: the poem is about a December night visitor associated with ravens who, upon finding the chimney impassable due to fire, comes to the door and leaves a black gift as repayment for the occupant's ill deeds.The Raven is a Christmas carol. QED.
(DIR) Post #B1b9GEFTODuV1FvPv6 by intransitivelie@beige.party
2024-12-12T02:15:14Z
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I love English. It's a trash fire disguised as a language and I'm here for all of it. However, I really need to be better about people not speaking it "correctly." It's a goddamn trash fire. Of course people don't speak it correctly. I'm pretty sure there's no correct way to speak it. And that's leaving out all the racism and classism which goes into "grammatical perfection."English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want. English doesn't give a fuck. English will take your error and turn it into a part of itself. English drinks prescriptivist tears like fine wine. Contribute to the delinquency of English any way you can.