"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision.
"actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux."
i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!"
coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

i license this shitpost as CC4-BY-NC-SA. you cannot use it to profit from or in any commercial work, you must attribute me if it is used by you, and other shitposts using it must adhere to the same license
this post is more than double mastodon's default 500 character limit, and about fifty chars over pleroma's 1024 limit. if you wish to copy my shitpost you need an instance with custom character limits 
if i posted this on twitter i'd have to split it across six posts oof

@lynnesbian ha, haha, look at me reusing your post for profit by boosting it
An action I can take even though my instance has a 512 limit
Foiled again lynne

O wait I don’t profit from boosting good posts, the creator does
Foiled again by lynne

@lynnesbian whats a twitter? is that a cat toy?
@lynnesbian hey I wonder if I can post planepacked...
Ben Lubar (@[email protected])

Content warning: Dwarf Fortress artifact: Planepacked (long)

lubar.me
@lynnesbian No need to split. Just buy the blue checkmark from Musk, and you'll be able to write up to 3000. ;)
@lynnesbian actually pleroma limit is 5000.

*Flee far, far away*
@marsxyz is it? i thought the default was 1024, a lot of instances have it set to that
@lynnesbian In older version it used to, when I setted up mine it was 5000. It may has changed without me noticing tho
@marsxyz @lynnesbian yeah it's 5k

@waifu @marsxyz hmm okey

in that case, default limit pleroma users are free to use my shitpost under license 

@lynnesbian

(or three toots)

(BUT NOBODY MENTION THAT)

(whoops)

@lynnesbian Having lived without the character limits (not this instance but elsewhere) ... yea ... they're clearly dumb IMO and I'm ready for any spicy take that they're destroying our brains and discourse.
@maegul @lynnesbian they don't need to be anywhere as low as they are but we also don't want people putting the entire bible in a toot (actually happened, caused a bunch of problems)

@jeremy_list @lynnesbian

I’ve been on a number instances/platforms now with limits ranging from 4,000-15,000, and AFAICT it’s basically never a problem. So long as the UI has an “expand” option for longer content, nothing is lost.

@maegul @lynnesbian yeah it wasn't a UI problem it was a set of bugs that were only triggered by the existence of a toot which that much text.
@lynnesbian Oh well, at least it's not No Derivs.
@lynnesbian I am happy that shitpost licensing is a thing

@funkeh @lynnesbian

licenses that are shitposts are next

kasm/LICENSE at master · landondyer/kasm

Simple 6502 assembler. Contribute to landondyer/kasm development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
@lynnesbian wait holy crap this is OC???
@lynnesbian is it possible with those restrictions to use this shitpost on anything capable of compiling ImageMagick?

@lynnesbian forking your shitpost and adding more shit to it, touting it on social media as the next best shitpost, then going out the door and falling of a cliff. last updated 3 years ago

EDIT: just realized this is 4 years old. sorry for the necropostimg lol

@lynnesbian what if I use it, profit by it, then donate all the proceeds to you, then you sue me for violation of the license anyway, win in court, you are awarded damages, and I pay the damages in full to you. then is it ok?

@lynnesbian this copyright statement is probably a shitpost too, but i don’t think you can actually do this legally (unless you’re the original author of that well-known copypasta which i doubt), because this is either a derivative or a redistribution of a “All Rights Reserved” work (since the original to my knowledge didn’t have a copyright statement which means no license (nothing allowed) rather than no copyright)

P.S. just realized i’m replying to a 6 year old post but i already typed this all out so

@lynnesbian If you’re actually the original author then damn waow cuz this is one of those memes that are shared all over the internet and i wouldn’t ever expect to see the original author of