A contraction is a separate word, with its own accepted usages in the community. For example, “gonna” comes from “going to”, but is not the same, as “I’m gonna the shop, do you want anything?” sounds wrong

Chaotic evil in the dog waste disposal alignment chart

He should be awarded a prize for services to womens’ horticulture, given the number of women at MIT who filled their offices with houseplants just to keep him away.

RMS doesn’t approve

TIL there was a Kirby vacuum cleaner company

I don’t know, the optics of naming things a lot of people will ride after famous women seem somewhat problematic

Was he also the guy who claimed that Ashkenazi Jews aren’t actually Jewish but are a Turkic people from the Caucasus, or was that another grifter?

You know the saying “behind every sign there’s a story”? It may apply to laws as well.

Also, almost no Icelanders have last names (in the sense of family names). Most have just a patronymic that translates as “son/daughter of (father’s name)” (i.e., Björk’s father was named Guðmundur), which is why references to Icelanders in the news refer to them by given name. As the Icelandic name pool is limited (there’s a naming committee which must approve all new names, and they’re somewhat conservative), the population register also includes people’s nicknames.

The Lucrezia Borgia clause

How about “jackanapes”?

“Hey baby, are you the British economy? Because I’d like to give you a weak pound”

“This engine is transgender!”

I wonder how long until they quietly resume running them

A bit rude of him not to procure some boys for his honoured guest

Though the Germans who, disappointed by the revolution’s defeat, emigrated to the US did end up forming the backbone of the abolitionist cause.

I think he’s Japanese-American in the sense of both his parents being of Japanese heritage.

also, somebody who is au fait with transphobia

Which one?

So the non-Germanic languages are the ones doing kennings here? Interesting.