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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by johnsonap on Monday May 09, 2022 @11:02AM (#31314971)
Foone's pronouns are they/them
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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by aulin on Monday May 09, 2022 @11:20AM (#31315269)
how is one supposed to know this from the twitter thread in this post? I even tried to actively look them up and couldn't find any info about it.
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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by jwilk on Monday May 09, 2022 @11:47AM (#31315638)
https://twitter.com/Foone

> Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (they/them)

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by johnsonap on Monday May 09, 2022 @11:52AM (#31315711)
it's in their twitter bio
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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by rahimiali on Monday May 09, 2022 @09:57PM (#31322481)
my bad. I shouldn't have assumed gender.
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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by S0und on Monday May 09, 2022 @11:53AM (#31315728)
You've posted this "fun fact"? 4 times already. Are you this bored?
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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by johnsonap on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:07PM (#31315912)
Just something I care a lot about.
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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by prannies on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:20AM (#31324059)
It is disruptive to have pronoun activists such as yourself wandering in and derailing the conversation.

Please find a more useful hobby than this worthless language policing.

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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by johnsonap on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @06:32PM (#31333532)
What's more disrupting, my one little comment, or you bickering with me about it? it's not language policing, it's treating folks with respect. Also, glad you created your account just to say this.
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Re:Everything with a battery should have an off switch by rahimiali on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:13AM (#31335768)
for what it's worth, i was grateful to be called out on my gender assumption. that assumption can cause widespread harm. i'm less concerned about my pronoun assumption.
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