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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · Jun 02, 2026

Replying to @dansinker@omfg.town

@dansinker@omfg.town ooh, fondly remembered here, too!

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 20, 2026

Replying to @SteveJB@beige.party

@SteveJB@beige.party Sure you got the right article? there's a lot of ground between Lake Ontario and Grapevine, Texas @mwl@io.mwl.io

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 16, 2026

Replying to @bytebro@mastodonapp.uk

@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk @meluzzy@woof.tech please address all correspondence to this PO Box:

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 12, 2026

Replying to @TeamMidwest@glammr.us

@TeamMidwest@glammr.us faving on the strength alone of "paleotempestological"

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 12, 2026

Replying to @actualham@social.coop

@actualham@social.coop 💜 all too relatable good luck finding something else

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 12, 2026

Replying to @quixoticgeek@social.v.st

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st as often happens, a comment someone makes is the seed crystal to a bunch of thoughts that have built up to saturation levels, crashing them out: https://toot.cat/@idlestate/116561682103070836

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 12, 2026

Saying someone has "a cold" or "the flu" have such deep roots in common use. This is as much a question of linguistics as of medicine or biology.

As such, it carries with it all the fraught aspects of linguistic prescriptivism. Here, I'm thinking particularly about exercises of, and resistance to, authority.

These terms are like "consumption" or "the grippe" or "the flux". They are descriptive & symptomatic, first, foremost, and probably always, to some extent.

I still boggle at how new, still, molecular diagnostics are, and specifically how, out of all recorded history of disease, the COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in the widespread deployment of them, revealing both their power & their limits.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st

social.v.st

Quixoticgeek: "We need to really stop using the terms "the flu" …" - (void *) social site

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 10, 2026

Replying to @iris@neuromatch.social

@iris@neuromatch.social @gregatron5@vmst.io You may have read the same thing years ago here, because the author of the piece linked above has a fediverse account from which he advocates quite intensively for UBI.

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 10, 2026

Replying to @noodlemaz@mstdn.games

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games @aparrish@friend.camp It's all so very spindly force-grown new that the rank-and-file haven't quite internalized fully the cognitive dissonance required not to make apologies in one direction or another. I hate the gaslighting that frames any resistance, skepticism, or even reluctance as 'hate' Like, time will tell, but even wait-and-see isn't even good enough: We all must get in the emperor's new boat and try not to sputter as we sink beneath the waves.

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 07, 2026

Replying to @GetzlerChem@mstdn.science

@GetzlerChem@mstdn.science oh no you too?

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 06, 2026

Failing to ekranoplan is ekranoplanning to fail

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like jam or bootlaces @idlestate@toot.cat · May 06, 2026

Replying to @arclight@oldbytes.space

@arclight@oldbytes.space there's a transposition in the middle two letters from the animal name to the curl dev: "bagder" @meena@cathode.church

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