yes machine please write for me

The word 'god' underwent a gender change.

It comes from the Proto-Germanic noun *gudan, which is reconstructed as neuter, based on Old English, Old Norse and Gothic - encompassing West, North and East Germanic - where its descendants still had a grammatically neuter form.

The masculine gender of the descendants of *gudan was introduced by Christianity.

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@TheBreadmonkey you could lock me in a room with Kino Loy and I wouldn't complain.

Asked my mum’s care home why the automatic door was still broken.
I got this this reply: 👇

We are doomed.

#aisucks

Variety has a double standard problem. And we all can see exactly why. Other movies with exactly the same blockbuster opening and obvious path to profitability had no “caveat” in the headline.

@DeliaChristina I said to a clerk in a store today:
Apparently social media is the one ring that rules them all.

Everyone needs to prevent further ruination of humanity and the planet by deleting all Meta and X and any Amazon related subscriptions.
Stay the fuck off Spotify.
Don't ever watch anything on a Fox channel.

Throw the ring into the fire of Mt. Doom.

@abetterjulie @wendypalmer

As a book editor I sure do!

@wm El Akkad owes you an affiliate fee! 👍🏽

I've read a lot of novels by Ukrainian authors over the last couple of years. I just finished The Length of Days by Volodymyr Rafeyenko and it's just such a lovely astonishing book. I really recommend it to anyone interested #ukraine #books #bookstodon

The crazy joker I once use to be
married a joketress way funnier than me...

Today I play the support partner...

Setting up her humor shots on a tee
as she dazzles the world with comedy lunacy...

Exasperated reaction shots now define my role
like the good nonplussed straight man I am...

Not a bad gig if you must know
cause I no longer gotta carry the show alone

#poetry #poem #amwriting

@cardamomaddict @TheBreadmonkey I honestly have no idea how your name was added Breadmonkey! It just showed up when I hit reply. Anyway, happy interaction to those who celebrate!

@evan @AlsoPaisleyCat anything that says bi- gets my vote for its ability to enflame the numbnutses.

Dang ok I know The Matrix is a trans allegory but I did not know this matrix (n.) late 14c., matris, matrice, "uterus, womb," from Old French matrice "womb, uterus" and directly from Latin mātrix (genitive mātricis) also "source, origin," from māter (genitive mātris) "mother"

One of the most brilliant and talented women I've ever known once shared a story with me that absolutely shocked me, a story that I think should be heard.

She was hired as a software engineer at NASA, her dream job. Honestly, a dream job for many- it would have bee a dream job for me, before I moved to security. Writing software for spacecraft has to be one of the coolest and yet most demanding jobs in the industry. Yet, her joy was quickly gone, and her spirit deflated.

She was consistently assigned menial, even pointless tasks. Mere busywork at times. Work far below her ability. Work that never gave her the opportunity to show what she was capable of. It didn't take long to find out why.

You see, not long after she was hired, her manager made it clear that he saw women's place as being at home and raising kids. If he was so against women working, why did he hire her? He had a problem, his male engineers had a habit of moving out of the area for higher paying jobs in the private sector. So he started hiring single women in hopes that they'd marry his male engineers, and keep them from moving away.

She had put in a tremendous amount of effort to establish her technical skills, her ability to solve the hardest problems, to prove herself as worthy of one of the most coveted roles in the public sector, to be able to work on cutting edge science and exploration. To her manager, none of that mattered. She was young, single, and he wanted someone that would tie his other engineers to that city. That's all she was to him.

He stated all of that plainly and clearly. He didn't care how smart she was, he didn't care how talented she was. He didn't care what she was capable of. All he wanted was for her to was to meet one of his male engineers, get married, and quit to raise kids.

I was fortunate enough to work with her and see her talent unleashed. I was lucky enough to see what she was truly capable of, and it was a lot. She would have been that manager's best engineer, if he'd given her the chance - if he'd seen her as something other than a means to tie down one of the men he'd hired.

His demeaning and sexist views robbed her of the career at NASA that she dreamed of, and robbed NASA of a brilliant engineer.

At this point, you may be asking why I'm sharing her story, a story that I don't believe was ever shared publicly, instead of her sharing it. Because of one of the other places that women have to fight to be heard: the doctor's office.

She knew something was wrong, she knew something had changed, she was dealing with symptoms of something, but had no idea what it was. Her doctor said it was a minor infection. As treatments failed, she went to a different doctor for a second opinion. Same answer. As the symptoms got worse, she went to more doctors, all said the same thing, Finally, half a dozen doctors later, she found one that was willing to perform even the most basic of medical tests.

It took only a few days to confirm the diagnosis: cancer. It would have been easily treated if diagnosed early, but had already progressed to stage 4. There was no effective treatment.

Because of a sexist manager, NASA lost a fantastic engineer, though the security community gained one of the most brilliant minds in application security that I've ever encountered. Because of doctors that don't listen to women, we all lost her.

(I won't mention her name, as she greatly appreciated privacy in life, though this story should be told and remembered. If you knew her, you're well aware of what a truly amazing person she was, not only as a remarkable talent, but a fiercely loyal friend. I was truly lucky to have her as a friend, and while she's been gone for a few years now, I still mourn losing her.)

@cardamomaddict @TheBreadmonkey they look great with your smile!

@NorcalGma2 looking through your posts, seems to me you have an innate talent for it 🥰

@cardamomaddict @TheBreadmonkey super cute!

@NorcalGma2 I hope that sometimes you write poetry... this is so evocative. ❤️‍🩹

@sfwrtr interestingly part of the longest word in the English language

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Some sort of fun fact I picked up in grade school.