We incidentally drove a strain of the flu into extinction with our lackluster attempts at lockdown. Sometimes I wonder about a Covid and Flu free world and how little work is actually required to get there.

i stg every kink can be subtextually boiled down to:
-i am powerful/in control
-i am seen as desirable
-i am safe and can now be vulnerable
-i can explore taboo in a safe + controlled environment

once you realize that you realize that no kink can hurt you

(Some day I need to write down the quibbles. They’re related to my somewhat quixotic belief that UNESCO should make Wikipedia the first pan-human intangible cultural heritage, and to my utterly deeply quixotic belief that the entity and servers should almost certainly be under UN jurisdiction.)

It looks like Language Science Press has several syntax series langsci-press.org/seriesIndex