Will this be pirate friendly or should I just bite the bullet and get a legit version?

Explains a lot tbh

Please give me some good follow recommendations on Mastodon

Would also recommend the CleanURLs extension that tries to remove tracking elements from URLs you click. It's not 100% perfect, especially against those shortcut links, but the "Copy Clean URL" button when you right click makes it easy to share stuff without the tracking bullshit

God the way he draws mechanical stuff is so perfect

Since it was in retaliation for a lynching I imagine it was just cruelty on the cadres' part they thought was justified

Oh I must've missed that

Has there been much in Ukraine in way of anti-war protests? I've heard there have been some but it doesn't seem like there's an organized anti-war or even anti-conscription movement, although that could be due to the western media bubble

I think this isn't something specific to the internet and smart phones, it's just the sheer ubiquity and convenience make existing without them unfathomable despite plenty of people in the world living without it, like electricity or running water.

One page twitter manga was a mistake

I'm not saying that couldn't be the origin, but reading through some stuff on google points to it originating as a pidgin english term (original either coming from Mandarin or an Indigenous American language)

What's interesting is it's not a direct appropriation like whites naming their kids Lashawn and more in the spirit of it; i.e. names with no cultural origin or taking ones that do and modifying the spelling/pronunciation

Rest in peace comrade Biggs!