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tortipede

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O Rydychen - fel y Ddraig Goch. Me kamav te sikhyov te dav duma rromanes mai lasho.
Gorja/Gazho/Sais/cis/aiming to be an ally. He/him. Or fo. Not fe, though.

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angeidheal, to gaidhlig Scottish Gaelic
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An canadh neach sam bith agaibh seo gu nàdarra? Chanainn “turas sàbhailte dhuibh” ‘na àite.

@gaidhlig

tortipede,
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@angeidheal @gaidhlig I was puzzled by this until I realised that my brain had seen 'gu nàdarra', taken a left turn past Old English nǣdre and Welsh nadroedd, and arrived at 'nathair'. I wasn't sure how I'd wish snakes a safe journey, either.

glynmoody, to Japan
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Everyone in will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/japan-sato-only-name-by-2531-marriage-law "Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requiring spouses to have same surname"

tortipede,
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@glynmoody I am ineluctably reminded of this:
https://youtu.be/EnghR4-Egw0

mekkaokereke, to random
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Rest in Power Shafiqah Hudson.
https://www.netrootsnation.org/profile/shafiqah-hudson/

Shafiqah, known online as SassyCrass, was a brilliant teacher, writer, and Black feminist that we owe so much to.

We talk a lot about how online disinfo campaigns from Gamergate to the Alt-right to Moscow's Internet Research Agency, target the Black community. But the Black community doesn't fall for it. "Famous security researchers" often pretend that they first found these disinfo networks, but they didn't.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html

tortipede,
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@mekkaokereke I'm wondering to what extent well-educated Black Americans internalise this prejudice & see AAVE in the same negative way?
Context: I have taught English to the British Army. One group had a lot of Caribbean soldiers who very much saw any Creole features in their English as just "broken English". I tried to get them to see it as a system with its own grammar (to help grasp the different, standard English grammar, but also self respect) but they weren't having it.

tortipede,
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@mekkaokereke The one who most strongly disagreed with me was an articulate young woman from a different island whose own English was already excellent. I think that her view was basically that if she could do it, why couldn't they? She flatly refused to accept that proper Patwa wasn't English, but actually a different language. In the end I showed her some Tok Pisin, and she struggled through about half a sentence before grudgingly admitting that I might have a point, but she wasn't convinced.

nic, (edited ) to dysgucymraeg Welsh
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O’r bobl sy’n fy nilyn, neu‘n gweld hwn rhywle arall (fel @cymraeg neu ), sut fyddech chi’n disgrifio’ch hunan?

Dw i’n postio hyn yn uniaith Gymraeg yn fwriadol.

tortipede,
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@nic @cymraeg "Siaradwr ail law" (rhy hen i fod yn un newydd)

cstross, (edited ) to random
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NEW HOME SECRETARY ANNOUNCEMENT:

Will it be:

tortipede,
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@garius @cstross TBF I think it was Eric Heffer who had a reputation for storming out of Labour Party meetings. About the only time I've heard my father use the F word was when reading aloud an account of Heffer attempting to storm out (again), and throwing open a door only to find it was a cupboard: he tried another door, and got another cupboard; on his third try, it was a broom cupboard, and a broom fell out, hitting him on the head. "Oh, fuck it," he said, "I suppose I'll have to stay now!"

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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NOTE: I quoted a report from an executive of DuckDuckGo attending the antitrust lawsuit against Google. This article has now been retracted from Wired:

"After careful review of the op-ed, "How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet," and relevant material provided to us following its publication, WIRED editorial leadership has determined that the story does not meet our editorial standards. It has been removed."

I hope we'll learn more about what Google actually does, since September 28, the court established a process allowing the Justice Department to publish more information about this case.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

tortipede,
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@johncarlosbaez @kitti I may well be wading in out of my depth, but isn't that just a syntax thing? I get quite different results on DDG with ' "baez" modular forms ' from what I get with ' +baez modular forms '. With the former, every single hit on the first page of results mentions you by name, and about half also have the word 'modular' or 'forms' visible within the preview snippet - with the latter, they mostly mention 'modular' but very few results obviously mention you.

vagina_museum, to random
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In today's Adventures In Instagram Censorship, we've discovered the following things:

  1. There seems to be a set number of manual reviews you can request, and we've exceeded ours.
  2. As well as not liking boobies, they also don't seem to like 15th century allegorical paintings.
tortipede,
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@vagina_museum I'm willing to bet that if you posted pictures of where babies really come from, they'd object to that, too.

isomeme, (edited ) to random
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People seem to be settling on calling Elon Musk's social media dumpster fire "Xitter". I study classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and in the Spanish transliteration of that language, "x" is pronounced "sh" (so e.g. "xochitl" is approximately "SHOH-cheet"). It seems to me that this pronunciation is quite appropriate for use in "Xitter". Tezcatlipoca would approve. 🙃

tortipede,
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@isomeme https://toot.wales/@tortipede/110798597379008977

murphyslawyer, to random

I’m old enough to remember when my mobile phone company promised it wouldn’t bring back roaming charges after Brexit.
Now they’re charging £2 per person per day in Europe and £5 elsewhere.
This is nothing to do with government legislation and everything to do with greed.

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tortipede,
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@WhyNotZoidberg @murphyslawyer I was with Three for years, and left for precisely this reason. I'm now with Smarty - which uses the same Three network, but chooses not to scalp users for EU roaming.

tortipede,
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@WhyNotZoidberg @murphyslawyer There is no surf charge for me on Smarty.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Happy !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

tortipede,
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@dascandy42 @ColinOatley @mekkaokereke Here in the UK that compensation became part of the national debt. That debt was only finally paid off in 2015. In accounting terms, we finished compensating the slave owners less than 9 years ago.

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