That’s… absolutely not a dinosaur.

It looks like a heart to me.

And some more context (~15 minute read): https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf

there are now three 196 communities (plus a 4th on Hexbear I think) which are each relatively active

This one on Blahaj has by far the most posts. The “original” Blahaj 196 and .world 196 have fewer posts but their most upvoted ones tend to have around the same or slightly more upvotes than the most upvoted posts on here.

It’s all so stupid though. Why don’t they at least close one of the two 196’s? If their migration failed, just admit it and close the community on World. If they truly want to migrate and don’t want to moderate on Blahaj under Ada, then close the old one.

But it’s like… The most defining line of the album and the project…

No, that would be “semen stains the mountain tops”.

I never really got what the old sub’s icon was supposed to represent tbh

It’s from the proposed Middle English Wikipedia. Here’s the frogge article, here are all articles that have been written. But the no-fun-allowed Wikimedia killed it off.

He did shoot his load…

Uhh wait what?

The correct 196 is already within you.

Well then… Your comment showed up first when I opened the comments, and without any other context it baffled me.

I am honestly a bit impressed by how you managed to read all this into OP’s pic. Literally nothing there is about using Facebook, being guilted(???) into using it, nothing suggests that leftists shouldn’t build their own spaces. Are you really responding to the pic or to something else?

:(

but with a sciencey flair.

Tbh the test at 16personalities has almost no sciency flair at all, as far as I see, its main appeal and likely reason for popularity is the cute illustrations.

So, umm, which band??

They can switch to Cyrillic: az, buki, vedi, glagol’, dobro… Then Futhark, and so on, there’s no lack of alphabet systems out there. The preference for Greek is kind of lazy.

And then also how is it bridged to glowie?

Just like how you have “newfag” and its more civilised equivalent “newbie” (though the two terms are more independent from each other, the latter is older).

where did you see that and what makes you think this association extends into the wider world?

Youtube, 4chan and similar shithole sites that directly followed Terry Davis, and which initially formed and adopted the lingo. Many such people are also in the circles that focus on privacy, distrust of the state and big tech companies bordering on paranoid, etc. (4chan’s /g/ in particular)

I have seen the old r/waterniggers

It was just r/waterniggas. And IIRC it wasn’t generally meant to be racist, so the shift to r/hydrohomies was tolerated. They got banned just due to the name, not behaviour of the users. It’s really not equivalent to people laughing at and making memes out of a schizophrenic man spouting racism.

It’s safe to say that the vast majority of people using the term know about its origin, and it’s not mere association, but literal origin (see the video above), and also the original form “glownigger” is still widely used (it’s bizarre that it’s on the end of the list on Wikipedia, in fact, after some forms that are probably barely used). Otherwise “glowie” doesn’t make much sense at all, doesn’t it? It’s a softened version pto avoid the overt racism, but it still gives a wink to it.

they actually had this thing called indian plays in both soviet countries and germany

Americans are so racist they have to fabricate nonexistent racist stuff elsewhere to feel better about their own racism. Impressive.