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Imagine this scenario. I show up at work after staying up all night on Mastodon. Coworker asks why I look so tired. My response: I was up all night tooting. Coworker's face falls, they sidle away.

What I am saying is we have awesome jargon like "federated timeline", why do individual messages have to be referred to by the same word my grandfather used to discuss breaking wind?

@superdrew

suggested alternatives:

rumbling, barking, snorting, roaring, galumphing, thumping, walloping, stomping, thrashing, clomping, plopping, pulsing, jittering, throbbing, shuddering, pulsating, weeping, quivering, shivering, dissolving, liquifying, dematerializing, dissipating.

@taz I used to be up all night tooting, but now I spend all night plopping.

Samizdata ✔ @Samizdata

@taz @superdrew There's a pill for that. (first toot from Tusky!)