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    Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 17 Sep 2019
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    Apparently it is not well known that in 1988 rms creeped out a bunch of Texans so severely that they refused to deal with him, he still wrote about it! ... framed as them being too sensitive, and trying to claim "nasal sex" and "perverted" ironically. Took it down later though.https://twitter.com/colmmacc/status/1174029882004652033 …

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    This is somehow worse than you think, in that it is a reference to RMS's self-confessed habit for "nasal sex" (his term) with plants, rather than an aversion. From the wayback machine, because it's gone from his website: https://web.archive.org/web/20020204031846/http://www.stallman.org/texas.html …
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      2. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 17 Sep 2019
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        I remember reading that story when it was published (2002 I think), @noirinp getting super weirded out, and vetoing RMS from several subsequent conferences. Took me days to re-find it!

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      3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 17 Sep 2019
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        Turns out it is still up - https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html … - he didn't take it down. The URL changed when it moved to https I think.

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      2. Nathan Peck‏ @nathankpeck 17 Sep 2019
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        I feel like RMS is what happens when a socially awkward, maladjusted person gets coddled and allowed to act however he wants instead of being gently told "Your behavior is unacceptable, fix it." It's a shame people let him act like this for so long

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        Even in this story they just paid him off, didn't really censure him, and then he somehow gets someone to participate in a weird fetish in public to please him. Crazy....

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      2. Paweł Krawczyk (@kravietz@social.privacytools.io)‏ @kravietz_ 17 Sep 2019
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        Completely abstracting from RMS paedophila comments, do you really find *that* "rhinophytonecrophilia" story offensive?

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      3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 17 Sep 2019
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        More like chilling. It takes a lot of creepiness for people to disown you and not give you ride to the airport. It's eerie to read the perpetuator's perspective, so blithely minimizing their own sociopathy and thinking it's funny and eccentric.

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      1. Tim Caswell‏ @creationix 17 Sep 2019
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        One of my UT Dallas professors used to work at Texas Instruments and told us the story since he was there. He did lots of weird stuff during his lisp/emacs training, not just the flower thing. They tolerated it for a while, but in the end, sent him packing.

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      1. Richard H. Boyd‏ @rchrdbyd 17 Sep 2019
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        "I required him to demonstrate nasal sex in public with a plant as a condition of meeting him."pic.twitter.com/0VZtjtKF2F

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