Holy shit. Yeah, dude, gamergate started the trend of adding -gate on the end of things. You figured it out. - ThreadSky

Damn it's Mike Gate
Not sure what he did
Probably a preposional
phrase dangling metaphor something
It's where the cheese binds
Gentle reader
Play on..

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piratedan7.bsky.social•298 days ago

apparently our regulatory society works or else this dude would have died in a tragic playground accident decades ago.

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ltponcho.bsky.social•298 days ago

incredible

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edrobot.bsky.social•298 days ago

This is now gate gate

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whatsdonsmoking.com•298 days ago

Serious Question... what's gamergate?

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objectiveunlocked.bsky.social•298 days ago

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devinoch.bsky.social•298 days ago

These people can VOTE. God help us.

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colbosch.bsky.social•298 days ago

G. Gordon Libby didn't murder communists in South America for this disrespect.

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colbosch.bsky.social•286 days ago

Not one of you, in the past two weeks, caught that his name is G. Gordon Liddy. Tsk.

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sarabeee.bsky.social•298 days ago

Ellsberg-gate

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policyg.bsky.social•298 days ago

There’s plenty of idiots the think MAGA came out of gamergate, so…why not?

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clearspark.bsky.social•298 days ago

Important question: how old are they?

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mattferrel.bsky.social•298 days ago

11

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golvio.bsky.social•298 days ago

Physically or emotionally?

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glenuendo.bsky.social•298 days ago

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wistfulwitness.bsky.social•298 days ago

That’s the only question!

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horizontalhold.bsky.social•298 days ago

I Remember when the access Hollywood tape came out and some people thought it was the -gate suffix's fault they had to say pussy.

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kbkorb.bsky.social•298 days ago

Tachyons have carried him away.

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peoriabummer.bsky.social•298 days ago

At least now we know that brain worms are a real thing. It’s nice to have an explanation for all this.

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justingwallace.bsky.social•298 days ago

Lord preserve me from ever letting my pride lead me that far out ahead of my skis.

Jesus.

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gojira1000.bsky.social•298 days ago

A vintage block right there. Sparkling, with a hint of oak and lead paint chips.

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bvielhaber.bsky.social•298 days ago

I love that history began when they were born. It makes IG so much more mind-numbing.

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mikebabulic.bsky.social•298 days ago

…but that’s all water-under-the-gate now

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ladymolson.com•298 days ago

Can't wait to read that book

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jesrcerulean.bsky.social•298 days ago

Ah, the shallow time-pool of those younger than us. Gamergate started some things- mostly bringing horrible people to our attention- but not that one thing.

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jwheat.bsky.social•298 days ago

Be fair, he's just a...[looking up his claimed occupation]..."political livestreamer." Ah, ok, carry on.

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alexdel.bsky.social•298 days ago

That is some galaxy brain DaVinci Code shit there.

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miss-billigend.bsky.social•298 days ago

😂

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koblbird.bsky.social•298 days ago

"Watergate is when they put chemicals in the water that turned the frogs gay rigth?"

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lizardky.bsky.social•298 days ago

That's watergayt.

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dbeecher.bsky.social•298 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w

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turtlebee.bsky.social•298 days ago

From someone whose profile says "working on a second book about #GamerGate." Oy vey.

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thefaultinmyarse.bsky.social•298 days ago

They say the first million dollars is the hardest to earn, so I just skipped that and started on my second million instead.

It’s probably the same with books.

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monovoce.bsky.social•298 days ago

Probably written in crayon

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darksidestraxus.bsky.social•298 days ago

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geovaughan.bsky.social•285 days ago

I seem to recall a something -gate from back in the 70s. Gamergate really did have a powerful and wide reaching impact.

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fabricatus.com•298 days ago

Water you think was the origin then?

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matthewsp.bsky.social•298 days ago

JFC

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momsterville.bsky.social•298 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 needs a history lesson.

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crabofdoom.bsky.social•298 days ago

This is funny, in a perverse way, bc the only reason it would've had "-gate" tacked on and made sense, as the origin of the habit, is if it was actually about gatekeeping women out of tech, and not "ethics in video game journalism".

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bugsnoffer.bsky.social•298 days ago

When the bull escaped, gate-gate

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skiskamp.bsky.social•298 days ago

'Water' would like a word.

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staidwinnow.cultofsundries.com•298 days ago

There you go, always working in linear time.

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mmasnick.bsky.social•298 days ago

Named after gamergate, apparently

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baswisselink.com•298 days ago

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ubfriccardo.bsky.social•298 days ago

The gatekeepers of gates.

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gandalf-the-wight.bsky.social•297 days ago

The word frigate actually referred to scandals over the act of frying foods. Early modern English.

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stephensmith.bsky.social•298 days ago

::headdesk::

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dachibi.bsky.social•298 days ago

Everyone missing the point that... a short memory incentivizes the media cycle of this.

History and retention is in the opposition of marketing.

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onezero.bsky.social•298 days ago

It's a shame his tachyons only travel back so far.

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lizardky.bsky.social•298 days ago

Given how he's dressed, more like TACKYons, amirite?

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onezero.bsky.social•298 days ago

In going for the tactical gear, he’s made a strategic error.

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onezero.bsky.social•298 days ago

(Would that joke have been better if I'd gone for the typo "tacktical"?)

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cruxfat.bsky.social•298 days ago

The only thing for it is to defund education even more!

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bluememe.bsky.social•298 days ago

The updated version of “Look, Mom — Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings!”

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zyearth.com•298 days ago

Those who don't know history are doomed to make stupid fools of themselves on the internet.

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stealthisbook.bsky.social•298 days ago

I really wish the split had gone the other way. Gamer-water? Water-games?
I seriously had to look at Wikipedia for other 'gate' scandals and didn't recognize any of them as a thing. Apparently, the Superbowl Janet Jackson thing was known somewhere as Nipplegate?

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drmattyg.com•298 days ago

Soon, the water company will fuck up we’ll come full circle

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xvf17.bsky.social•298 days ago

Ridiculous. The first -gate was obviously watergate-gate.

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exys.org•298 days ago

OG Bill Gate

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catssimsbooks.bsky.social•298 days ago

Nope, Teapot Dome-Gate

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lizardky.bsky.social•298 days ago

Really, if the kind of memetic tools that we have now existed from the 1920s to the 1970s, it would have been called "Waterdome".

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7amkickoff.com•298 days ago

Boston tea gate

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eyelessgame.bsky.social•298 days ago

Caingate

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glenuendo.bsky.social•298 days ago

Now that's OG-gate. It had to be said.

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thesandwichman.bsky.social•298 days ago

Magna Cartagate

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buttbird.bsky.social•298 days ago

Ea-Nasirgate

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youkillmyfather.bsky.social•298 days ago

Dude, you can not accept the copper all you want. I've got your money already.

Blame your servant for not inspecting it beforehand.

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celticdragon1.bsky.social•298 days ago

Clovis Speargate

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lizardky.bsky.social•298 days ago

You win.

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catssimsbooks.bsky.social•298 days ago

That wins the Internet for the day.

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brennanml.bsky.social•298 days ago

This. This I love.

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alierakieron.bsky.social•298 days ago

Bona Dea gate

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thesandwichman.bsky.social•298 days ago

Applegate

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alierakieron.bsky.social•298 days ago

Footnote: let’s give major props to Clodius Pulcher, who managed to bungle into a “wife of politician” scandal SO BIG we know all the tea 2,000 years and some change later.

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bottesini.bsky.social•298 days ago

Don't forget the original - Bill!

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doughoff.bsky.social•298 days ago

-gatekeeping fail.

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bluekat.bsky.social•298 days ago

As someone alive in the '70s, I am LMAO

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andyroz.bsky.social•298 days ago

Do you guys have Google over there?

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coelliptic.bsky.social•298 days ago

Not really, no

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jeffrygonzalez.dev•298 days ago

Akshually - it originates from around 661 CE as an epithet from the Theravadin Buddhists about the new "Mahayana". It was originally "gate gate".

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partyhatsmcgee.bsky.social•298 days ago

First time I heard the "-gate" term was with pizzagate, but that was years ago.

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timothykolk.bsky.social•298 days ago

That’s amazing.

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lizardky.bsky.social•298 days ago

Reminds me of when I had to explain to someone, who had some ridiculous folk etymology, that the term "slash fiction" is from K/S... "Kirk slash Spock" and dates to the 1970s.

They had trouble believing people - mostly midwestern housewives - had sex in the 1970s, much less wrote steamy gay pr0n.

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bisk.sureis.sexy•298 days ago

i had to explain to someone once that "shipping" came from mulder/scully romance speculation.

things get lost i guess.

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lizardky.bsky.social•298 days ago

There are times when the only thing one can do is hop into a thread with a hearty, "Well, ACKCHUALLY...."

It's a tough job. But it must be done.

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weel.bsky.social•298 days ago

Few people know this but it all started with ants.

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toxicaudri.bsky.social•298 days ago

TIL: Thank you, I love learning weird and new things.

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thesandwichman.bsky.social•298 days ago

Also the trend of adding gamer- to the start of things.

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lucy.helltop.net•298 days ago

It didn’t start the trend, but there’s a significant increase in bs “controversies” using -gate as a suffix after it.

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super.metr0.id•298 days ago

Yep, the juice on bsky is flowing good and strong. We're getting more and more of these.

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danielsand.bsky.social•298 days ago

I have to assume that is a Poe because I cannot believe someone is that uninformed.

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buttbird.bsky.social•298 days ago

It's not. Checked out his timeline.

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lizardky.bsky.social•298 days ago

Keep clinging to that last, desperate thin thread of hope for humanity, kid! When it snaps, it's a long, long fall.

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danielsand.bsky.social•298 days ago

I shall cling to my delusion until my last breath escapes my body.

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activeoppressor.bsky.social•298 days ago

Have you met Americans?

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toxicaudri.bsky.social•298 days ago

As an American, this hits true, there's far too many of us, especially in the older gens, who are comfortable in their ignorance and outdated information they were taught growing up.

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ramsandhoosiers.bsky.social•298 days ago

You’d think an older Gen would remember Watergate though.

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toxicaudri.bsky.social•297 days ago

When it comes to the gamergate stuff its not the older gens typically, its the younger ones who are having their brains rotted by conservative propaganda thats stuck in the past with bigotry. "Woke" as a prejoritve is a dog whistle.

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toxicaudri.bsky.social•297 days ago

The folks going on about gamergate typically are just mad that it includes diversity, they want games that cater to THEM and no one else.

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alierakieron.bsky.social•298 days ago

Nah, this is a teenager who hasn’t had 20th century history yet.

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toxicaudri.bsky.social•297 days ago

Lol you assume people never forget things as they age.

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alierakieron.bsky.social•297 days ago

Forgetting 20 solid years of references is an Alzheimer’s level of forgetting things, and an unlikely demographic to then remember gamergate.

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drdarkeny.bsky.social•298 days ago

I AM an American.

It sound completely believable to me.

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mvario.bsky.social•298 days ago

Made me laugh

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jacklint.bsky.social•298 days ago

OK, it is an interesting question: What was the first scandal after Watergate to get the -gate treatment? I swear it's been a constant stream of gates over the last fifty years, but hell if I can remember many of them.

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clearspark.bsky.social•298 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_-gate_scandals_and_controversies Apparently there is a list.

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clearspark.bsky.social•298 days ago

https://theconversation.com/how-gate-became-the-syllable-of-scandal-177314 "Volgagate" is the first one according to two sources and from National Lampoon magazine the August '73 edition. https://www.marksverylarge.com/issue-index/1973-08/

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clearspark.bsky.social•298 days ago

Go to page 27 and you can see the first one in context. https://ia600706.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/8/items/NationalLampoon_201812/National-Lampoon.iso&file=1970%27s%2F1973%2F1973_08.pdf

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robfromchicago.com•298 days ago

JFC youth.

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osmote.net•298 days ago

I can almost guarantee you'd be shocked how old that person is

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robfromchicago.com•298 days ago

Oh… 🫤

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allengarvin.bsky.social•298 days ago

It's true!

I believe most historians now prefer to refer to CREEP's burglary of DNC documents, and the ensuing scandal that brought down Nixon, as "Waterghazi".

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orpach.bsky.social•298 days ago

Finally, the return of gategate!

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ijspurcell.bsky.social•298 days ago

it was the first thing that was really polarizing and divisive

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scooterbones.bsky.social•298 days ago

What do they think the Gamergate was referring to? An actual gate?

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deweycat.bsky.social•298 days ago

Okay, I feel old, even though I was a child when the OG Gate happened...

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celticdragon1.bsky.social•298 days ago

Same

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schwa.bsky.social•298 days ago

Is dude like 14?

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eonity.bsky.social•298 days ago

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nickmohoric.dev•298 days ago

#gaming #politics

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cynthianevil.bsky.social•298 days ago

OMFG.

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rumpole-brief.bsky.social•297 days ago

Dude thinks Nixon was some weird Futurama character.

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ungoldman.com•298 days ago

It’s like they don’t even know who Bill Gate is

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bjbloom.bsky.social•298 days ago

Until now I didn’t realize that brainworms are contagious…

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nimelennar.bsky.social•298 days ago

Fun fact: the word "gate" for a door or other opening in a fence also got its name from GamerGate.

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warrenterra.bsky.social•298 days ago

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kipwilliams.bsky.social•298 days ago

Greetings, Gate!
How's your pate?

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jymbob.bsky.social•298 days ago

My stance for a while on the -gate obsession has been that if you can't succinctly explain what Watergate was (not even the scandal) you don't get to use it.

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egall.bsky.social•298 days ago

it's the hotel whose basement I did my grocery shopping in when I was a student at GWU; the scandal must have been all the extra plastic bags that they'd use when bagging

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