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HERE ARE 7 ENGLISH WORDS

And
Angle
Annoint
Ant
Apart
Appear
Apple

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one of the more difficult conlanging problems is acquiring good lists of words with a reasonable semantic distribution so you don’t wind up with 50 words for travel but can’t talk about what you ate for breakfast, or whatever

so anyway i have some lists of words

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HERE ARE 7 ENGLISH WORDS

Above
Acquire
Agape
Alder
Alive
Allot
Ancestor

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can’t believe P·M·D R·R·T assigned me Pikachu

if you reply to someone like “blocked & reported”, understand:

• every server which follows you will fetch the original post

• none of the servers which follow you will receive the report

if you're wondering what this means it mostly means painter jeans and button flys

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yeah i’m the kind of age where i want to bring 90s fashion back

actually, W3C, i prefer to receive my updates through RFC 4287 Atom feeds

it is funny because i think @aescling and i have very similar jobs but also, from what i can tell, very different ones

i think this is a good thing, to be clear

i was a metadata nerd before i worked in a library but now i have the social scripts to narrativize it

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keep dreaming about work adjacent topics. i spend all day thinking about these topics so it makes sense, but also, how about not

all we have is their weird software detritus that we’ve picked up and repurposed for our own uses

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obviously there WAS a community of weirdos who were willing to put the time in over decades to write specifications and build software just to talk to each other, but like, WHAT kind of a community? how? why?

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can’t sleep so i’m thinking about defunct social web specifications

today¦s cursed G·N·U Make recipe 

@for target in $$($(MAKE) -s -f '$<' listout QUIET=1 $(SHUSHEOPTS)); do if test '-d' "$(BUILDDIR)/public/$$target" && test '!' -d "$(DESTDIR)/$$target"; then mkdir -p "$(DESTDIR)/$$target"; fi; for file in $$(find "$(BUILDDIR)/public/$$target" -not '(' -name '.*' -or -type d ')'); do printf '%s\n' "$$file" | sed 's:$(BUILDDIR)/public/:/:;s:/_\(.*\)_\(\..*\)$$:/[\1]\2:g;s/¦/:/g;' | xargs printf 'Copying <%s>…\n' >&2; printf '%s\n' "$$file" | sed 's:$(BUILDDIR)/public/:$(DESTDIR)/:;s:/_\(.*\)_\(\..*\)$$:/[\1]\2:g;s/¦/:/g' | xargs cp "$$file"; done; done

if there are so many trans women in programming why haven’t they written any programming languages

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