#wordsmeanthings

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-11-23

Geriatric lawmakers is the etymological inspiration for the name “Senate”.

It’s always been like this.

#history #law #governance #etymology #WordsMeanThings

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-11-21

If you believe that #WordsMeanThings, this is the perfect stocking stuffer for that word #history nerd.

superversive.co/store/p/premiu

2025-11-17

So many people don't know that the phrase "rule of thumb" is a reference to a patriarchal law about the diameter of the stick a husband could use to beat his wife. Please stop using this misogynistic reference; there are several other ways to say guideline.

#wordsmeanthings #wordsmatter #patriarchy #humanism #feminism

Proto Himbo Syrupeanguyjantic@infosec.exchange
2025-11-17
  1. How many times is "trapezoid" used in this article?
  2. How many actual trapezoids are depicted anywhere in the article?

livinginashoebox.com/baluchon-

#geometry #wordsMeanThings #words #facepalm

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-11-16

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

While I agree that #WordsMeanThings this sort of navel-gazing cannot be considered a productive use of energy for anyone, you included, right?

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-11-15

“Liberation” is not achieved through simplistic solutions or quick fixes; it thrives in #nuance and the willingness to persist through discomfort.

In other words, #EmbraceTheSuck because #WordsMeanThings.

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-10-26

In a system where the power of #incentives, #assets, and #influence can feel omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, #history demonstrates any human #power—up to and including seemingly wannabe ancient monarchs of empires—can be resisted and transformed by people.

The source of inspiration for change is found in #art.

Especially—and particularly—the craft of buzzwords and #memes.

#WordsMeanThings #UrsulaKLeGuin #rewriting #writing #RevolutionWillBeMemeticized

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-10-16
bart fish

we can't call fashy, fashy.
we can't call racist, racist.
we can't call misogyny, misogyny.
we can't call anti-human, anti-human.
we can't call anti-labor, anti-labor.
it's a war on words and reality.
weird world these tools are creating.
Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-10-16

#WordsMeanThings

Given that this is what passes for #journalism in the Paper of Record™, it’s easier to understand how we got this far on the dumbest, darkest timeline.

As a young man, you become a college activist, you're focused on progressive politics. And when you graduate from college, you start to identify not as a Democrat, but as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. And given your bio, being a Democrat feels like it would have been a pretty natural home. So just let me start by asking about what went into that decision, what you were embracing and what you were rejecting in that identification.

I wouldn't describe those two identities as
mutually exclusive. I think that one can live within the other, meaning that I am both a democratic socialist and I'm also a Democrat. One is a description of my political ideology, the other is a description of the party that I belong to.

D.S.A. being the ideology.

Democratic socialism being the ideology.
D.S.A. being an organization. The Democratic
Party being the party.

Got it.
Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-10-16

Which do you believe in more: #WordsMeanThings

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-10-11

The boys at Normandy entered the chat to say that if you were ever issued a Department of Defense Common Access Card, you’re card-carrying antifa and this is all cringe af, what are #American #virtues anymore?

🇺🇸

#WordsMeanThings #GIJoe #heroes #veterans #patriotism #culture #war

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-10-09
The image is a dark, solid black rectangle. Superimposed over the black background is a series of lines of white text, stacked vertically. The text reads, in order from top to bottom: "Curse--God damn you", "Swearing--By God, I will ruin you", "Profanity--Trump is god", "Vulgarity--look at her tits", and "Obscenity--the ever popular f word". The text appears to be intentionally disruptive or provocative in nature, utilizing progressively stronger language categories as it descends.
2025-10-05

As an oft-ignored aside to "What is a Roguelike, anyway?", I also have opinions on what "Proc-Gen" is.
In each specific implementation, it can be quite strictly defined, but the general concept, what the words mean, is broad and all-encompassing.
"Generated using a Procedure".
Woohoo. I am now no further enlightened.

#roguelike #roguelite #rougelight #procgen #proceduralGeneration #WordsMeanThings #gamedev

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-09-28

@farbel @skua

“pro-life” because—supposedly—#WordsMeanThings

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-09-28

responsibility > accountability to the #BodyPolitic

#WordsMeanThings

Coach Pāṇini ®paninid@mastodon.world
2025-09-25

TIL the term Marxist-Islamist and now I need a brain-flush.

#WordsMeanThings

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