DaveTLV @Surasanji@qoto.org

What a lot of people covertly realise, but don't articulate, is that pronouns in English are marked for both gender AND animacy. This is why it's generally disturbing to refer to a person as "it," because that pronoun is only for things. (And that's part of why it doesn't have a gender, objects don't have gender.)

But the fact that pronouns mark for social personhood is part of why it's so important to refer to someone with the right pronoun.

teeth levels are currently at 84% but fluctuating wildly

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Big Tick Energy

I am always the last to know.

Been semi-obsessed with the album "Eureka" by Mother Mother, this week. Gives me weird happy latter-day XTC vibes like this is an album I should have been listening to since high school in the 90s. https://open.spotify.com/album/4iIRAbGe4JEFIHJF7QfUH9?si=ejP-aiN_St-tz8We4zIo-g

someone please tell me this is not a good use of my time

Hoothoot said trans rights

[leans down and gently kisses ur forehead]

throwback to this meme my grandfather made, which inspired me to make a riff on it

@buffaloser

@Surasanji my knuckle tattoos are BRIP ELYF

@Surasanji briping isn't a hobby, it's a LIFE- STYLE,,,,

Attached are some older pictures of blackholes that predate the one released today, they are real, not simulations. Enjoy.

Just a reminder. Today's "first-ever" picture of a blackhole is not the first-ever. We have countless pictures of blackholes. This is just the first time we have been able to resolve the event horizon such that it takes up more than a single pixel. But like with all blackholes the blackhole itself is invisible and all you can see is the gravitational lensing around it. Something we have had for decades now.

It isnt the first ever photo of a blackhole, it is just the highest resolution of a blackhole we have.

#science #NASA #Blackhole

@Surasanji I heard Saudi Arabia does not want it viewed there, but the Abu Dhabi do.

#30

@Surasanji I just watched this the other day https://youtu.be/CWgcizAgxOs

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