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To all the people who are "not prejudiced" but who nonetheless object to trans people or gender queer people using the pronoun in the singular.

"But that’s nothing new. The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular #they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf."

https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-they

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Check out the #DickGaughan: R/evolution 1969-84 - an 8-disc box set. If you love Gaughan's music as I and so many others do, this is a very cool, and althought is doesn't solve the Celctic Music debacle, it looks like a great project.

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I guess this is a good thing. In the hospital waiting room.

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Timothy Snyder: "Don't obey in advance!"

Read the book. It called "On Tyranny."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-america-fascism-authoritarianism-resist-election-2024-1235157764/

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Sunday New York Times Opinion front page.

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Learned SomethingNew today. ForYears, I as all of you are, was aware of the tendency for companies especially TechCompanies to slam two words together and to capitalize the SeparateWord. I now know that this is called CamelCase.

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Taking BART into the city to meet some friends at the Botanic Garden.

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Snow Boston!

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On a house in Cambridge, MA.

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This book had a ridiculous influence on my life when my aunt Anne gave it to me at age 11!

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I learned a new word today.

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You know that feeling. #wordle #strands #squaredle #crosswords, and there are so many more. Which ones do you do?

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My neighbor, who is originally from Dundee, went home to see his parents, and while he was there the three of them went to a christening in Burnley. He came back to Boston with a Burnley cap and Eccles cakes from a real Lancashire bakery. Heaven!

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Has anyone watched "Hapless" yet?

https://www.kveller.com/hapless-may-be-one-of-the-most-irreverant-jewish-shows-youll-ever-watch

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@NekoCase working in #London: "British people doing #Americanaccents is one of my favorite things. Not because I want to make fun of them, but because Americans are constantly fucking up other people’s accents and I like getting it the other way."

https://open.substack.com/pub/nekocase/p/jolly-olde

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