In that example, it should have been first-hand or firsthand. When multiple words are used together as an adjective, in this case an adjective-noun pair, those two should become hyphenated. I just wrote another example – it’s ‘adjective-noun’ because the two words are used as an adjective for pair, even though they would not ordinarily be hyphenated.

For the same reason, asking “is it ‘first hand’ or ‘first-hand’” would be meaningless, because it depends on the context, unless a stylistic choice is made to write ‘firsthand’ instead

I’m in my mid 20s and a woman and I found out recently that the skinny jeans I’ve been wearing for the last decade have supposedly been uncool the whole time. I don’t care. Style is personal, and I like them.

I really wish nominally progressive media outlets would stop adopting fascist uses of language without even putting it in scare-quotes. The EHRC code of practice is not based on biological sex ((mutable) physiological elements of the social construct ‘sex’) it’s based on sex assumed at birth – no matter the language they use in the text. Every time ‘biological sex’ is used unquestioningly to mean the latter, it reifies a fascist understanding of sex, and we slide a little closer to losing the rhetorical battle.

Maximum dynamic pressure. At max q, the mechanical stress on a spacecraft stops increasing and starts decreasing. If a spacecraft is going to blow up, it usually does so before max q.

Not sure how to make that apply here 🧐

The world doesn’t (need to) run on giving only what you owe. People donate to creators not through moral obligation, but because they like what the creator has made and they want to reward them for it and/or enable them to make more of it.

Why do you think Patreon (and others) is so popular? Any cynic would surely point out that from a purely transactional outlook, the donors are getting a bad deal. And yet.