To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.
Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.
Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.
To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.
Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.
Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.
It’s very possible that the only way to ensure you don’t become a conservative old person is to keep checking whether you’re wrong. Every time. Genuinely mull over the opposing viewpoint even and especially when it’s uncomfortable. You absolutely cannot a) consider yourself safely incapable of terrible principles because you’re a good person, or b) treat a your disgust reaction to something as a moral truth. You can’t get comfortable. Tiring! But you’d rather be tired and choose the right path, you know?
Going to reblog something incredibly horny and having to stop myself “YOU’RE NOT A FUCKING PORNBLOG YOU HAVE COMPLETELY NORMAL MUTUALS, INCLUDING ASEXUAL ONES”
but also hehe porn
On the other hand, it’s genuinely, and honestly, wonderfulwhen I reblog an absolutely fucking degenerate post and I see a mutual, who I’ve never interacted in a horny context with, fucking likes it or, even better, reblogs it.
I cannot stress enough that being open about your sexuality with others is incredibly fucking healing and I’m so glad I have a lower filter now. Every time I see one of these mutuals do this, it genuinely makes me so fucking happy. Honestly.
A lot of people keep reblogging this fundamentally misunderstanding what I’m saying, so allow me to clarify.
It is funny. Recently I had a transphobe argue to me, that “well, it is all made up! Animals will still not know that you identify as a man”. Which to me is so funny, because while there has never been extensive research done on this topic, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence showing the exact opposite.
As someone who has done a lot of work with animals, I can tell you, that those animals that for one reason or another like one gender more or less than another often show the same loving or hostile behavior towards people completely depending on the gender the people actually identifies as.
“Sure,” some people might say, “because if you take hormons you gonna smell like the gender to an animal.” But that is the funny part. Animals often act according to that with trans adults who are still in egg mode. Who have not come out yet. And nobody knows why and how they can tell.
But some of the harsher animals with a “gender preference in humans” are like the best trans indicators. You have not admitted to yourself you are a guy? Yeah, this cat is gonna hate you anyways. Because this cat hates men.
Sincerely the guy who got attacked by this one fucking bunny, who didn’t like dudes, several times
how do conservatives think talking to children works? if a four year old came up to me and said “i’m a cat!!” i would say “really? what makes you a cat?” and they’d say some shit like “i have claws >:)” and i’d be like “oh wow, you do have claws. but wait, i thought cats had pointed ears!” and they’d say “they DO!!!” and then i’d pull up a picture of an elf and ask “is THIS a cat?” and they’d yell “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
u wouldn’t say “fucking hell, Emily, get it together. this is the real world”
I keep seeing the “chat is a fourth person pronoun” post and it’s getting increasingly hard to avoid starting discourse in the notes of it. chat I don’t think they know what these linguistics terms they’re using mean
it’s literally just a noun. the reason it grammatically doesn’t feel like it means the same thing as any existing pronoun and must be in a different category is that it’s not a pronoun. it’s in the same class of word as “gang” or “folks” or “ladies and gentlemen”. there’s nothing new going on here it’s just an ordinary noun being used like a noun.
I know I am way, way too invested in this post and the discussion around it, but this kind of shit makes me fume.
The fluidity of language is about new words being created and accepted into the language. It’s about words acquiring new meanings. It could even be about new sentence structures forming. And, yes, it could even possibly be about the division of the English grammatical persons into four, in the distant future.
It is very much not about people completely butchering word classifications, not knowing the difference between a noun and pronoun, not knowing what a grammatical person even is or creating a new, impossible one out of thin air. That’s just ignorance, and you know what else? It’s a whole lot of disrespect for language studies, is what it is.
If you said “new math concepts are being discovered to this day, so if enough people say 3² = 6 it becomes true”, you would be considered a fucking idiot.
If you said “our notions of history change every day, so I can make up anything I want to and you can’t tell me it’s not real”, you would be considered a huge fucking idiot.
For other sciences, it’s generally understood that sometimes people just have no clue what the fuck they’re talking about. The ever-changing nature of knowledge does not mean preconceived, hundreds of years old notions about the area of study suddenly become untrue because you decided so.
Yet, when linguistics enters the picture, we can all do whatever we want. I guess the fact that the general population has control over language also means they have control over its studies and classifications, right? Fuck the rules and everyone’s an expert, because it’s so easy and simple as to be common sense, right?
Well, apparently not, as a single read through these notes would make abundantly clear.
No, chat is not a pronoun, no matter how you spin it. No, “we” is not a fourth person pronoun, it is first person plural and you are mixing up grammatical person with storytelling POV. No, the fourth person does not exist as a separate person from the more common three, and any references to it are just different divisions of English’s (and most languages’) three persons, because those already cover literally everything possible. No, a potential fourth person has absolutely no relation whatsoever to the theatrical concept of a fourth wall. No, “chat” is not unique for being simultaneously singular and plural, this is true for many collective nouns, such as “group”. No, chat is not unique for not requiring an article despite not being a name either (“Congress decided today…”). And no, the kids aren’t literally speaking to an imaginary chat anyway, they are just citing a meme, which is functionally completely identical to “girl, help” or “oh, Ariana, we’re really in it now”, and therefore nothing new.
Anyway, I’m sure I’m being pedantic or whatever, but what I’ve learned the past day is that this site is absolutely full of people who say they want to be writers and love reading, but don’t know basic, 5th grade concepts of grammar and have no respect for linguistics as a science. Shouldn’t be surprising, but oh well.
Australian Federal Election 2001: Pranksters follow around Prime Ministerial contender Kim Beazley in an attempt to sneak fake microphones into news footage
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Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest
Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind
Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone
A picture that says “A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization? The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon.
Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.”
The second picture is a news headline. It is bolded and a much larger font. “27-year-old who couldn’t afford $1,200 insulin copay dies after trying cheaper version.”
The third picture is the same font and size as the Margaret Mead quote. It’s a continuation. It says, “A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend.”
The fourth picture is another headline. It is in a large and bolded type. “Dying man who couldn’t afford to go to hospital after vomiting blood"
The fifth picture is a screenshot of the Margaret Mead story.
Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.
The next screenshot is of a slightly different font. The letters are pointier and the lines are a little curvier. It says, “Susan Finley returned to her job at a Walmart retail store in Grand Junction Colorado, after having to call in sick because she was recovering from pneumonia.
The day after she returned, the fifty three year old received her ten year associate award — and was simultaneously laid off, according to her family. She had taken off one day beyond what is permitted by Walmart’s attendance policy.
After losing her job in May 2016, Finley also lost her health insurance coverage and struggled to find a new job. Three months later, Finley was found dead in her apartment after avoiding going to see a doctor for flu-like symptoms.
A screenshot of a bold, bigger headline. It says ‘The house always wins’: Insurers’ record profits.
A final screenshot of smaller text with a slightly gray background. It says “We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.” /end ID.]
This year, we’re calling Hanukkah what it really is:
Judean Independence Week.
It’s our celebration of 164 BCE when the Jews of Judea kicked the Seleucid Greek army out of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. It’s the time Judah Maccabee rededicated and purified the Temple after the Greeks intentionally defiled the Altar with pigs’ blood. This rededication took 7 days, with one day off for Shabbat – hence 8 total days of Hanukkah.
Under PENALTY of INSTANT DEATH do NOT make blackout poetry of my posts. It is improper behavior and makes me wanna explode. You will receive 80 concussions. Don’t make me spell it out again
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