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womanhood; whiteness; queerness; being online 

as a white trans woman who has been very online, of course i care about what other online white trans women think or say and what the general cultural currents are like in that space. those are my people, to some extent

but it’s very important not to mistake that personal sentiment for the idea that this microdemographic of white womanhood is remotely important, relevant, or even coherent on any kind of political scale. or that a culture which is steeped in white protestant ideas of gender, western european orientalism and racism, and feelings of exclusivity and sometimes outright bigotry inherited from forums like somethingawful or 4chan is actually, on the whole, a good or progressive force

it’s okay to recognize your personal attachments to these communities and still criticize them. it’s more than okay, even healthy, to recognize your personal attachments to these communities while deciding you don’t give a fuck what they think or whether their current Discourse has takes which are right or wrong. it’s absolutely crucial that you do form other commitments, to other cultures and communities which ARE politically meaningful and DO matter, if you want to get anything done

@coriander @Taweret@octodon.social it was only added for All Eevee in sword & shield and later games

it was introduced in let’s go!, but just for the partner eevee (presumably, to match pikachu)

list of mastodon admins who have generally correct opinions but aren’t dealing with multiple unresolved mental illnesses

@aescling right after the tackle

ASH: Cross!
CROSS: I’ve gotta do this! Go!

[this is what he’s shouting over his shoulder in the second screenshot]

CROSS: You bit me on the day that we met, too, remember? Remember?
CROSS: Lycanroc, REMEMBER!!

@aescling the “i have to do this!!” dialogue was extremely choice also but unfortunately the subs for that movie are severely off‐sync

@aescling the Bite was a pan there wasn’t a good single frame of it

pokémon the movie: i choose you is not a GOOD movie but it does go all in on the fanservice

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oversteeped my assam and now it’s ✨spicy✨

girlfriend always smells nice in the morning…

remember when there were things to learn around every corner

@coriander i think i started conlanging before i took a language class but i don’t think i started reading linguistics articles on wikipedia until after, so the language class was probably my first encounter

@packetcat this is picked up upon by later Marxist thinkers as well; for example Mao distinguishes between colonialist interests and those of the “national bourgeoisie”, explicitly saying that an alliance between the proletariat and the national bourgeoisie is necessary initially to overthrow colonialism

however you can’t ignore class either, because what you see is that as colonial power weakens, the national bourgeoisie will flip-flop and ally with the colonizers in order to remain in power

@kit never underestimate the ability of philosophers to question things

@wallhackio @aescling “which unicode codepoint is your favourite” [1,112,064 options]

@james@strangeobject.space use the unicode tags? mostly you wouldn’t; most of them aren’t even defined, but there are a few. Here are some examples :⁠—

• Script code Qaag is currently being used for identifying nonstandard use of Burmese characters for the Zawgyi font, ideally to aid in migration to a standardized form. See <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawgyi_f>.

• Region QO is used to mean “Outlying Oceania”

generally speaking, you would not use these tags yourself, unless you are working in the sort of narrow field which requires them. the bigger issue is if you are developing your OWN private‐use tags for some purpose (for example, to tag a constructed language in a fantasy novel). in that case, it would be ill‐advised to use a tag that Unicode CLDR has reserved for their own purposes, because Unicode CLDR is ubiquitous in computers and it might acquire some weird edge‐case meaning later.

this is documented almost nowhere so if you don’t spend your days looking thru highly technical character set algorithms and documentation you would be forgiven for not knowing

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reminder that Unicode reserves certain private use tags for their own purposes, so you should avoid using those ones yourself if possible

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