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Yeah, so I hit reblog by mistake when I was trying to save this as a draft. The advice still holds though, even if the why isn't filled in yet.

when you're autistic and you learn how to smalltalk it literally feels like you started hacking real life

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Advanced small talk: Sports

If you work in a field with a lot of men, cis or otherwise, chances are that a lot of your coworkers are invested in local sports teams. You don't even have to actually know what they're talking about although knowing which teams play what sports can be helpful.

If somebody asks, "Did you see the game last night?" the correct response is "No I missed it, who won?"

This signals that you are

when you're autistic and you learn how to smalltalk it literally feels like you started hacking real life

[lmdhawk]

Alright notes time:

Havoc is a shitty example. There are other uses.

. "Eke out" at "at the behest of" aren't idioms. That's just the construction in which they're used. And yes, one could argue that they both have limited constructions compared to what they may have had in the past, but that's differnt than idiomatic use. "Wend" is similar, though even more limited.

Most people just say "chomping at the bit" because really, it's just a change in spelling.

I personally have never heard "coign of vantage" or "in high dudgeon"

Helter-skelter is pushing it as an idiomatic phrase being one word. At that point it's more like a etymology of the word has fossil elements

Inclement is not quite dead yet

so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

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I think "pro-choice" was supposed to be that.

We have "pro-natalism" and "anti-natalism," but is there a word for "Having children is neither good nor bad, everyone should have the choice whether to have kids or not, and any belief system which tries to assign a moral imperative to childbearing or non-childbearing should be seen as inherently reactionary"?

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[Image ID: A series of screenshots from the linked wikipedia list. First Image:

-ado, as in "without further ado" or "with no further ado" or "much ado about nothing", although the homologous form "to-do" remains attested ("make a to-do", "a big to-do", etc.)

-bandy, as in "bandy about" or "bandy-legged"

-bated, as in "wait with bated breath", although the derived term "abate" remains in non-idiom-specific use

-beck, as in "at one's beck and call", although the verb form "beckon" is still used in non-idiom-specific use

-behest- as in "at one's behest"

-champing, as in "champing at the bit", where "champ" is an obsolete precursor to "chomp", in current use

-coign, as in "coign of vantage"

-deserts, as in "just deserts", although singular "desert" in the sense of "state of deserving" occurs in nonidiom-specific contexts including law and philosophy. "Dessert" is a French loanword, meaning "removing what has been served," and has only a distant etymological connection.

-dint, as in "by dint of"

-dudgeon, as in "in high dudgeon"

-eke, as in "eke out"

-fettle, as in "in fine fettle",[3] although the verb, 'to fettle', remains in specialized use in metal casting.[4]

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-figment-as in "a figment of ones imagination"

-fro, as in "to and fro"

-hark, as in "hark back to" or "hark at you"

-handbasket, as in "going to Hell in a handbasket"

-helter skelter, as in "scattered helter-skelter about the office", Middle English skelten to hasten[5]

-inclement, as in "inclement weather”

-jetsam, as in "flotsam and jetsam", except in legal contexts (especially admiralty, property, and international law)

-kith, as in "kith and kin"[6]lam, as in “on the lam” lo, as in "lo and behold" loggerheads as in "at loggerheads"[7] or loggerhead turtle

-muchness, as in "much of a muchness"

-neap, as in "neap tide"

-offing, as in "in the offing"

-petard, as in "hoist[ed] by [one's] own petard"

-riddance, as in "good riddance"

-shebang, as in "the whole shebang", although the word is now used as an unrelated common noun in programmers' jargon.[8]

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-shrive, preserved only in inflected forms occurring only as part of fixed phrases: 'shrift' in "short shrift"[9] and 'shrove' in "Shrove Tuesday"

-span and spick, as in "spick and span"

-turpitude, as in "moral turpitude"

-vim, as in "vim and vigor", though preserved as the name of a scouring powder[10]

-wedlock, as in "out of wedlock"

-wend, as in "wend your way",[11] although its former past tense "went" is still in use as the past tense of "to go"

-wreak, as in "wreak havoc", "wreak damage", and "wreak vengeance"

-wrought, as in "what hath God wrought" and wrought iron

-yore, as in "of yore", usually "days of yore"

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"Born fossils"

These words were formed from other languages, by elision, or by mincing of other fixed phrases.

caboodle, as in "kit and caboodle" (evolved from "kit and boodle", itself a fixed phrase borrowed as a unit from Dutch kitte en boedel)

druthers, as in "if I had my druthers..." (formed by elision from "would rather"[12] and never occurring outside this phrase to begin with)

tarnation, as in "what in tarnation...?" (evolved in the context of fixed phrases formed by mincing of previously fixed phrases that include the term "damnation")

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Source notes: -bide, as in "bide your time" has been added to the list since.

-amok, as in "run amok" has been added to the list since

-behest has since been removed from the list

-figment has since been removed from the list

-goodly, as in "goodly number" has since been added to the list

-hark, handbasket. and hither have since been removed from the list

-lam, as in “on the lam” has since been added to the list

-neap, offing, petard, and riddance have since been removed from the list

-wreak(ironically the one that started this whole discussion) and wrought have been removed from the list.

-nother, as in "a whole nother..." (fixed phrase formed by rebracketing another as a nother, then inserting whole for emphasis; almost never occurs outside this phrase), has been added to the list of born fossils

so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

[lmdhawk]

things that are enjoyable:

showers

things that are not enjoyable:

getting in the shower

getting out of the shower

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Image ID addendum: The person in question is the well known Trans Youtube Video Essayist Natalie Wynn, also known as Contrapoints.

don’t talk to ME about gay yearning. in 2020 during lockdown i lived alone on a boat for three months. i went ashore once a day to work in a marine bio lab. we all had to access the lab at different times so we were never together & risking infection. i was alone all day every day, from my boat to the lab and back to my boat. one day a woman anchored her boat beside mine. we passed each other ashore just once at the harbor and she hit on me and invited me back to her boat. i told her i’d love nothing more but i could not risk exposure because of my weak immune system. she said it was a shame but that she understood. that night i was watering my vegetable garden i grew in 5 gallon buckets up on my roof and playing music on my speaker. “american pie” came on and she climbed up on her roof and shouted all the lyrics to every verse at me across the water and we danced together on our respective roofs. she raised anchor and moved on a few days later.

so yeah i know what it is to die a thousand deaths in an instant while your heart beats on.

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Does Gunslinger Girl count?

I wonder if “we have to torture this special character. in the lab facility. with secret science.” is an interest all 12-year-old children share or were we just the generation exposed to Maximum Ride

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Image ID: A screen shot of a tweet from 23:58 03 Sp 20 by "Noah" (Who has two jack o' lantern emojis around his name) (@chipnamius) who's profile picture os a white probably man who is bald.

"What happens in your head when you do 27+48?

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[Image ID: A screenshot of tumblr tags: "#i see someone is about halfway though the c's"]

ah! didnt see u there! u caught me indulging in one of my most fascinating interests as of late. its called a "dictionary". *turns page and softly chuckles* oh, this is clever...

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"Hang on. That's my blood. Letting people have your genetic material is bad enough in the...mundane world? Is that the term? Without magic. My point is, why should I trust you with my blood?"

Wait, are you saying that magic is real?" "Yes." "And you can test if I have magical potential?" "Yes. It's simple: a piece of paper, a drop of your blood, and a simple spell."

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See, I feel like the second one, talking about being a med student, was supposed to be sarcastic, because obviously there are plenty of Catholics who support trans rights despite the Pope's less-than-great take on things, and then she just decided to fucking go with it to see how long people would genuinely buy it.

But maybe I'm reading the post wrong.

do you support jk rowling?

absolutely not.

i wouldn't be caught DEAD supporting that transphobic piece of shit.

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[Video summery: A mustachioed man in a baseball cap and hoodie following around another man who had a Trump hat on and insulting him while the man in the Trump hat is filming.] [Image ID: A screenshot of notes by @malfiora "Very important: notice how he's not touching the asshole. This means that he's not committing assault. At worst, he's causing a nuisance, and cops usually have better things to do than write a fine for that. So it the guy filming called the cops, there wouldn't be much they could legitimately do.

Make informed choices when you stand up to Nazis"

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exactly the energy we need for 2025

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[Image ID: a screenshot of tumblr tags from @freshcreamdorayaki from 21 hours before. "#i have the impression that people associate polyamory with cheating when it's actually the opposite #like yes cheating is bad but it's not bad because of the involvement of multiple people #cheating is bad because of the lying and hiding and violation of the relationship agreement of exclusivity #in a"

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the hate of polyamorous people feels so arbitrary to me. like i know bigotry is irrational but like. you understand the appeal of threesomes and foursomes but you can't respect when people love multiple people. even though you have multiple friends. there's gunk in your brain

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[Image ID: A screenshot from a tweet by June Slater (@juneslater17), whose profile picture is a person with short blonde hair and black square framed glasses. "Do these trans women ever do 'real women stuff' Put the washer on, get the kids to school, packed lunches, housework, cooking, shopping, visiting relatives in care homes, chauffeuring kids around, or do they just fanny around all day with their appearance?"

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Such a great, revealing peek into the transmisogynist’s mindset

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See, I don't think this is necessarily a matter of cramming them into the smallest possible habitat but rather a mater of "I have x amount of living space and want to to have y animal companion in my life, so I need to figure out if x-the amount of space I need for myself personally is going to be enough to be even remotely viable?", Start with bare minimum and go from there is the driving force in logistics.

Of course anyone who stops there, especially with a living creature, is irresponsible, but is how you start.

Really bothers me that people seem to always be asking “what’s the smallest size enclosure I can fit x animal into?” Why would you want to cram them into the smallest possible habitat? “What is the ideal enclosure size?” is a much better question

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Update: Blorbo but he's from the backstory that one of your players wrote for his character in your D&D campaign, that you expanded on because he's also your queer platonic beloved and likes it when you write about his characters.

Blorbo but he's from a story that your friend wrote and never posted anywhere so maybe three people in the entirety of God's Green Earth know what the hell you're talking about.