Sephina Sevallis Melivia @melivia@queer.party

Lots of things are social constructs, like race, gender, art and Tuesday.

Various dictionaries claim that ‘underpants’ in UK/Commonwealth English refers exclusively to men’s underwear. I think this is arrant nonsense. What do you think, fellow word nerds?

“The LORD has sworn by his right hand and his holy arm: I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink the wine for which you have laboured; but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather it shall drink it in my holy courts.” – Isaiah 62:8–9 (NRSV), preëmpting Marx by two millennia

Hello, Mastodon! I’m back.

Still too bloody warm and humid for me to get anything done.

It appears I’ve forgotten how to flirt.

Even including ZWJ sequences, there are far fewer emoji than there are, say, Chinese characters, so I’m not sure how well it’ll work.

SephAmbition: Create a conlang that uses emoji as a logographic writing system.

You know, it would be nice if this roll of solder had its melting point written on it somewhere.

Is anyone else uncomfortable with the fact that the GNU project’s main image-editing program is named after an ableist slur?

Has anyone noticed that in Book 1 of ATLA, Team Avatar are shocked when Aang says, “By the way, this island I need to go to is in the Fire Nation,” but by the end of Book 3 they’re making field trips there basically every other day?

I hated capitalism before it was cool.

(This is in response to the Scottish Government backtracking on self-id; probably not widely reported outwith Scotland.)

I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANY MORE!

I am thoroughly, disproportionately furious about this article and the fact that it was shoved in my face by Arsebook.

That’s it, comrades; we’ve hit Peak Liberal.