that word temporarily broke me (its constituent phonemes are all valid/typical afrikaans (and dutch) but the word itself made no sense), then I looked it up

that sounds exhausting. I wish to flippantly suggest launching your colleague to another planet, but cruel fate might reveal them to be a muskovian martian so perhaps best not to broach that subject…

some circumstances is still legal in the u.s.

as someone else pointed out, US-wide legal slavery (enshrined in constitution) in the form of prisoners

found while giving my feed a moment of scroll while making coffee after too many 3am worknights, I saw this response to the substack guy giving themselves a pat on the back again for helping the nazis

the product produced by the producer operating in a violently censorious state has complied with censorship in the production of the product? omg, stop the presses!

(nevermind the fact that if you spend half a second thinking through where said state exercises its power and control, the reasons for the things you observed should all but smack you in the face)

neither our posters nor our instance really give a fuck which posts random federated weirdos like or don’t like

although every now and then some of those come by and get a fedifuckton of updoots, but when you look at it it’s all very 🤨 and

there are lots of complaints one can level at ccp-run china without having to dip right into this strand of sinophobia, what the utter lazy fuck. bullshit like this that helps the world stay bad and intolerant. fuck off with it.

(sincerely: one of your downvotes from sunny ZA)

no internet points today, only internet cookies (good kind)

gives a hell of a kicker to the numbers I found

this for the specific concept in japanese martial arts (and sometimes applied elsewhere too)

I’ve said it before a few times: this shit is a tunguska-level event on society today

that there’s now even retroactive contamination fallout is sickening :|