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Basically, Foone ends up disassembling a device that has no off switch, and leaves it disemboweled on his desk as a warning for other devices.


Foone's pronouns are they/them


how is one supposed to know this from the twitter thread in this post? I even tried to actively look them up and couldn't find any info about it.


https://twitter.com/Foone

> Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (they/them)


it's in their twitter bio


my bad. I shouldn't have assumed gender.


You've posted this "fun fact"? 4 times already. Are you this bored?


Just something I care a lot about.


It is disruptive to have pronoun activists such as yourself wandering in and derailing the conversation.

Please find a more useful hobby than this worthless language policing.


What's more disrupting, my one little comment, or you bickering with me about it? it's not language policing, it's treating folks with respect. Also, glad you created your account just to say this.


for what it's worth, i was grateful to be called out on my gender assumption. that assumption can cause widespread harm. i'm less concerned about my pronoun assumption.




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