I have come here to CHEW BUBBLEGUM and MAKE FRIENDS. And I’m ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM.
“Sex-negative coy boy” —The Economist
“Thinks he's people” —Vogue
he/him
Looking increasingly certain I'm dropping twitter at the beginning of the year. I may have some sort of presence on Mastodon at @[email protected] but I'm not sure what that will be yet. DM me if you want my email address!
I don't have anything to say about those guidelines from a top university about preferred language, BUT it does remind me of one time when I was working with some UK colleagues and we were discussing large typographical dot characters, such as •.
My housemate asked, very genuinely, “Why do they call [New Jersey] the Garden State?” and I tried to say “Because-Oil-And-Petrochemical-Refinery-State-wouldn’t-fit-on-a-license-plate” so fast I almost sprained something