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The god problem: I announce a new…meme? Acronym?
Feels as if all the people I read and follow are fed up with the fake piety and treacle-osity of “Thoughts and prayers.” Which itself has been shrunk from “All my thoughts and prayers are with you in this difficult … Continue reading
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Tagged acronyms, memes, TAPs, thoughts and prayers
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I’m having problems with phrases reduced to strings of letters
I recall the time when I was so proud I’d figured out what LOL meant, and OMG. That was when Twitter limited our individual expressions to 140 whatevers and it was necessary to use condensed language such as “b/c” for … Continue reading
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Tagged acronyms, James Webb Space Telescope, Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, Twitter
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