These kinds of insults definitely exist here in the UK too, e.g., swot, spod, as well as geek, neek, nerd, etc. I don't think these are imported from the US, as they've been around for a long time. Perhaps a manifestation of anglo-saxon anti-intellectualism?

Thank you for this brilliant transcription. It's as good as the image itself.

Ian's Shoelace Site has 25 different ways to tie your laces. I've been using the eponymous Ian knot for years.

I'm not the OP, but I have an example from two days ago posting to a community hosted on feddit.uk:

• https://lemmy.world/post/2131922
• https://feddit.uk/post/747976

My comment is https://lemmy.world/comment/1718032, which is present for lemmy.world, but not for feddit.uk

I haven't posted any comments since, so I don't know if it's a one-off thing.

Beehaw's defederation of lemmy.world doesn't seem to be involved in this one.

Spinney is a nice word for a smallish gathering of trees, alongside copse, coppice, etc. I'm not aware of a term for one specifically in an open field, though.

I think it's a very good idea, and I can't see any obvious disadvantages except, perhaps, the loss of posting and comment history from the currently existing communities.

Maybe also consider merging !foodporn@lemmy.world ? That one seems to be quite general too, and posts often become discussions of how to cook the showcased dish (plus I really dislike the name of the community).

A red Majohn A1 with a Pilot VP stub nib in place of the standard EF nib, Lamy Peridot ink.

I don't think I've come across that before, but I'd say it depends on what is meant:

• I don't know what that thing is.
• There is a thing, but I don't know what it is.
• There is a thing such that I don't know what it is. I.e., I do not know what all things are.

There may well be some other ones, but I don't know what they might be.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

(Samuel Beckett)

This opinion looks a little question-begging to me: do all businesses who declare these kinds of things do so as branding? I myself, don't believe they do as many would be doing so for advocacy for minority groups, for example.

Thank you. He did owe him a (trifling) mina of silver, though; how much copper is that worth, I wonder?

Swot is a venerable and frequently used word, derived from the word sweat. Neek is what's current with my children's generation (South London): it's a portmanteau of nerd and geek, apparently. Spod may well be regionally and temporally specific, as it's what I used to be called in SW England in the 1980s.

I have a Xerox colour laser printer that I'm very happy with: accepts off-brand toner, speaks postscript, good quality printing, no problems at all. I've also been very happy with Brother laser printers in the past.

Miso, Marmite, MSG, and Maggi are all good.

Not all at once, though.

Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C C Bombaugh, one of my favourite reads, feels like it might be an obscure book.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but you can get yeast improvers , a powdered 'mother yeast' that claims similar results to sourdough.

I have a starter in the fridge that I only use once every two or three weeks, and have not had any mould problems; perhaps you just have to be only a little less lazy to keep a viable one, and feed on that sort of a schedule?

I agree though, that making sourdough bread can be a nuisance time-management-wise until you find some sort of rhythm that suits you.

Yes, that seems about right to me.

I can't quite put my finger on the rule for when you can use "for me"; perhaps there isn't one.

I do think, however, that you can safely put "For me," at the beginning of the sentence instead of using "to me" later: "For me, it seems...", "For me, it looks like...", etc.

You can unblock communities and users in the web interface: settings > blocks. Can't see a way to do it using Jerboa, though.

Yes, it is a famously polarizing taste, but a small amount in something hefty like a ragout adds umami without adding too much of the marmite flavour. I'm vegetarian, and find it's really handy for adding meatiness to such things.

If you try it and like it, do try marmite spaghetti.

Apart from the hole, that could be chicken on a raft, an old Royal Navy dish.