@[email protected] I shouldn't be surprised... but I am disgusted. It's so disgusting. The fucking inhumanity and apathy of those with the power to change it.

@[email protected] imagine changing your name because thought the acronym was embarrassing, not the person you named it for -_-

it’s funny how different scholarly fields can tangle on my timeline—here I can’t help reading ‘“close friends”’ (in scare quotes) as a euphemism for a certain kind of romantic relationship that historians were terrified of talking about for generations...<https://astrodon.social/@spacetelescope/113345996356064167>

them: “Government should operate like a business”*government gives billions of dollars in subsidies to a for-profit corporation*me: “So the government’s getting an equity stake in the business they just capitalized, right?”them: “OMG no, that would be communism”