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I'm David, I work in events, typically around strange videogames. I run a small game design festival named Feral Vector, and curate some things for other events. I also do a bit of production management for Geeks For Social Change.

Outside of that, I'm studying maths, and tend to ride bikes a lot.

I've been on fedi since 2016, but only got around to moving off .social this year.

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language/brain nerd stuff 

So in this case, "circular" is a more specific term than "round", and if I'm right that would be what causes most people to switch shape and colour ordering.

This paper goes much deeper:
annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.

Excellent answer from Daniel Ross here: quora.com/What-order-of-adject

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language/brain nerd stuff 

I suspect it might be because ordering adjectives by specificity makes for efficient thinking and communication, which is somewhat subjective. Hence adjective order would be an emergent, flexible convention observable across languages and cultures, rather than inviolable rule. Which is the case.

Languages that put noun before adjectives tend to show this same ordering, but inverted. Seems like the noun is the most specific thing and grounds the other characteristics?

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The most common order in each case is exactly what I expected, but I did expect deeper biases toward the most common word orders.

Admittedly this is small number of people, and this poll is hardly science, but changing "round" to "circular" seems to switch the natural sounding word order of shape and colour for most people

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“Hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it”

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"You need to get out of your comfort zone."

Absolutely not. Never. It took me ages to get into it.

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Society: Be yourself.

Society: No, not like that.

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Everyone: the racist, sexist, violent system has failed us

Tech bros: idk, it works on my machine

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Hi Friends!

Life's a bit strange right now, so I kind of forgot that GB Rober is once again discounted over on Steam.
Anyway, I remembered it and now I'm reminding you that it is and that you should buy it, please. And also maybe leave a positive review once you're done. That would be cool.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1566050/GB_Rober/

Ahh, May, when everyone leaves the sunroof slightly open and forgets the wind will set off their car alarm

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uk mediapol 

very funny that the BBC has launched a new "Verify" service/channel/something that is intended to produce "objectively" verified information about current events... when that's already the point of the news. they're already a news reportage station. why did they have to make an additional "true news". that's... what the normal news is supposed to be...

Follow up poll, which of these is most correct to you?

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Which is most correct to you?

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The Trans Travel Guide is complete, at least as far as US states (and DC)! I still welcome any and all contributions, and will be adding US territories next followed by countries ordered by number of USA visitors. PLEASE PUBLICIZE this and please feel free to send corrections!

https://github.com/jmaslak/trans-travel

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WE DID IT. Thank, you, thank you, a thousand times thank you, all 2400 people who chose to help the Vagina Museum to grow and thrive! https://www.gofundme.com/f/9um7y

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To all businesses. I don't want your app. A pox on your app.

Instagram advertising courses to me on indigenous forgiveness practices. For the low low price of [$n] you too can rip ancient cultural practices out of context and try to apply them within a capitalist hellscape

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The quality of the anti-WGA astroturf bots is proof that the studios really can’t produce anything without writers.

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