seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

EnKITTification

Artist: bruised_blood

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From the '80s Tech Today' challenge
https://b3ta.com/challenge/80stechtoday/popular/

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116134655818773863

The Alt text is particularly glorious. 🤘🖖

Think a "bully pulpit" is about bullying an audience? Think again.

The phrase actually goes back to Theodore Roosevelt, who used "bully" to mean excellent or first-rate. It's the same idea as in the phrase "Bully for you!"

When Roosevelt called the presidency a "bully pulpit," he meant it was a terrific platform for sharing his ideas, not a place to push people around.

Was that what you thought it meant?

Read more: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/why-the-bully-pulpit-isnt-what-you-think/

Some people call these the same thing, and other people have different names for them — and it can depend on where you live!

That's just one of the cool things you'll learn this week from my chat with Joan Houston Hall, former editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English (often called DARE).

WATCH: https://youtu.be/F6dYztdHnG8?si=fbziIA7D-tXJBrwQ

READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/1165/transcript

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229

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(I call them both a spatula.)