æʃliŋ, sonic rush purropawgandist @aescling@cat.family

@monorail get bingus’d, dumpass

@wallhackio @vaporeon_ apparently

@Lady @vaporeon_ yeah that was cool

@vaporeon_ ow

@packetcat i’m not sure i’ve ever actually seen it in the wild fur disambiguation in lists, except in textbooks teaching you about that usage

btw, i’ve gotten marked down befur fur using semicolons this way in assignments lol

@Lady like, i feel they do not often recognize them as meaningfully distinguishable from the commies

@Lady anyway to be more clear what i mean is that sharrans feel like the conservative imagination of what anarchism is but i feel like most conservatives don’t even know what anarchism is

@Lady some do (they do not have a coherent idea of what communism is)

@packetcat the overly simplified rule is that it joins independent clauses in a non-explanatory way (“i went to the store; i went to the park” vs “i went to the store: i wanted some milk”) when you want to suggest a shorter stop than a full stop between the two sentences

@Lady yes that’s kind of what i’m getting at

@packetcat historical usage is not entirely consistent with this purrinciple but, fur example, when the WGA makes writing credits, they use & to mean that two people collaborated, and “and” to mean that two people worked on the same script at diffurent times

@packetcat i once saw @Lady suggest that “&” suggests that the linked terms are components of a whole; this is why i write things like “m & j” when talking about them

i am fascinated by the way that sharrans are portrayed like the conservative boogeyman of communism. a bunch of people duped into working against their own self-interest, in the earnest belief that they are toppling injustice wherever it may be found, but ultimately functioning as agents of disorder and chaos

@wallhackio what you’re describing sounds like a potential safety hazard at this point lol

@amy nya