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People have said some mean things to me in my time, but at least I'm not Noah Webster.

(from Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell by Gabe Henry)

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924

Aleksandr Rodchenko     

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Pálos library, Central Priest Education Institute, Budapest, 1940. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Picked some clover flowers today and it got me thinking that we really need to bring back "in clover" as an idiom meaning "blissfully content"

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An Australian man is translating War and Peace into Bogan Australian:

As a speaker of Bogan Kiwi, this is a project I can get behind

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was referring to a book i own and i said “i have it on book”

is it so over for me

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If I had a dollar for every Wellington poet who wrote about masturbating to Lucy Liu in their debut poetry collection published by Te Herenga Waka University Press, I'd have two dollars. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice

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Made a few murderbot posts that seem to resonate with the fandom so i got to find out there's a variety of tags

Murderbot -normal and what I use

Murderbot Diaries -also normal and provides clarification between the character and the series, which is respectable but i can't be arsed to go to this level of specification because I come from superhero comics

The Murderbot Diaries -fine. You have more free time on your hands than I do to include the "the"

TMBD -teenage mutant binja durtles

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not being able to borrow an ebook because someone else has it on loan is stupid as hell. like babe this is Document. these are pixels.

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Just wanna take a moment of appreciation for what I saw at my local Barnes & Noble today

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I'm informed that Wells thinks Skarsgard perfectly captures Murderbot emotionally, which is reassuring!

There's something really fascinating about the responses to Murderbot using "it" pronouns and giving its gender as "indeterminate" or "not applicable". Lots of reviewers call it "he"; lots of people say Skarsgard is the wrong casting because "Murderbot passes as female and uses 'she' pronouns" which is just. Not true? I mean, I'm not completely done with System Collapse but I don't think this is going to happen in the next 50 pages?

Where is all the gendering coming from; do people even realize they're doing it?

(Don't get me wrong, I don't think Skarsgard is the right person for the role (though I can see him as Combatunit or Three), and it gives me a lot of misgivings about the direction the series will take the character. But not for this reason)

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There's something really fascinating about the responses to Murderbot using "it" pronouns and giving its gender as "indeterminate" or "not applicable". Lots of reviewers call it "he"; lots of people say Skarsgard is the wrong casting because "Murderbot passes as female and uses 'she' pronouns" which is just. Not true? I mean, I'm not completely done with System Collapse but I don't think this is going to happen in the next 50 pages?

Where is all the gendering coming from; do people even realize they're doing it?

(Don't get me wrong, I don't think Skarsgard is the right person for the role (though I can see him as Combatunit or Three), and it gives me a lot of misgivings about the direction the series will take the character. But not for this reason)

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Oh my God, the classroom was munted...

New Zealand's most popular Christian metalcore music festival? In MY necromantic space opera??

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New Zealand's most popular Christian metalcore music festival? In MY necromantic space opera??

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The little saint and the dead prince

Something possesed me and this came out, I don't have much explanation for this one, just yearning griddlehark. There is some symbolism going on but it's up to interpretation!

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