oh by the way, in Danish, “fag” means “subject” and “slut” means “end” so on library shelves you will see “fag slut” to note where the break in book topics is
why is “mummies are so rare bc the british ate them” always presented as like a morbid fun fact and not an example of heinous racism and dehumanization of people of colour to the point of cannibalism. a little bit odd if im honest.
statement from OP presented as fact without sources
OP elaborates with no sources provided
further statement made as fact with no source provided
OP doubles down, in spite of vaguely acknowledging that there is a chance they may be wrong about the entire pretext of the post
and again. the post is NOT ABOUT whether it’s true or not that mummies were consumed as medicine. the post is about the way people perceive this idea, whether it’s true or not, as a fun fact rather than one of the clearest and most obvious cases of dehumanizing racism. it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. there are records of this happening (not much, and definitely a minority of the cases of desecrated egyptian graves, but even in the last link where an egyptologist is saying how overexaggerated these claims are, she does say it did happen a little) but again thats NOT the point. i was referencing a “fun fact” that i see spread around whenever people talk about morbid/unsettling facts or whatever, and the point isnt if it’s true or not, but the way people act in response to this concept. i really don’t know how i can make this any clearer.
This loser straight up made a sideblog just for this
This post is the only thing on their blog lmao. Imagine being this petty.
gonna start talking about skinny characters the way some of yall talk about fat characters
they look like they give terrible bony hugs 🥺 theyre so brittle >w< i love how you drew him so tiny youre so brave 🥺🥺 theyre so confident wearing that bikini i could never ÚvÙ omg their body type is so unique!! theyre probably so cranky and malcontent with their bony little limbs 🥺🥺
An apparently unpopular opinion: disabled people can have and do their hobbies. They deserve to have fun. They deserve to live their lives.
Their inability to do some things (like work, for example) does not mean they should be judged for… idk hanging out with their friends or to going outside. After all, having interests outside of work is often essential to our mental and physical health OUTSIDE of our disability.
And also *you might want to sit down for this* disabled people know what’s disabling for them (unless they people-please or push through due to necessity or survival of some sort). Disabilities don’t have to be visible or persistent to be disabling.
So yeah - my declaration: if an activity you want to do feels good and you’re able to do it, then do it. REGARDLESS OF YOUR DISABILITY WITH OTHER THINGS.
I got to see mom do this once. It was… terrifying. I was moving into my first apartment, and my buddy had just moved into a place about half a mile away, and he was almost crying with rage because of some of the safety issues the apartment had with the wiring. There were a whole host of other problems, but that one was about safety and it should not have been a thing. Mom gathered us up, and drove to the leasing office. When we got there, she informed him (not asked. She’d walked his apartment, noted everything she disliked (she had much higher standards than he did) and she was PISSED) that he was to keep his mouth shut, make whatever expressions she cued him on, and pretend he understood whenever she and I switched languages and we’d fill him in afterwards. (I have been used as a complainant prop before. I know what my job is when she’s on this warpath; thankfully she does not use her powers for evil.)
It took her all of twenty minutes to have a promise in writing from the son of the owner for everything to be fixed by a specific date and also to install a ceiling fan at no cost to my friend. In that meeting, she managed to leverage his church, his family, his reputation, the concept of a gentleman, the biblical concept of how to treat the poor, how people would treat his children, once they were grown, and the concept of a self-made man (which my friend is trying very hard to be), Christian morality, what it means to be a community institution, real estate law, and honestly, I forget what else. She’d never met him before. She does not live in our city -or state, for that matter. We’re not Christian. She did a cold-read of him based on his office, face, clothing, and posture (he didn’t give us his last name -the ‘related to the owner’ was a guess that turned out to be lucky), and hit every point of pride or insecurity she could find. When some things still hadn’t been taken care of a week later, she *called his father* and implied that he’d failed as a man and a parent since his son hadn’t yet honored his word. My friend had the fan that day, and the remaining safety issues were taken care of on top of it. No yelling, no threats, it was just a calm, ‘friendly’ conversation. My friend does not do subtext; he knew the social chess game was going on, but not how it worked.
tl;dr: I’ve seen my mother do this and holy shit this really should be a thing.
my momma is a retired union lawyer. you should see her tear into landlords and rich people. it’s like watching a lion devour a zebra.
Comrade Karen
I see now…“Karen” is a power that can be used for evil or good…
Listen you are all gonna lose your shit once you find out where there’s a company where that is literally their whole business model. They are called “Karens for Hire” and their whole thing is helping out exploited people get justice - essentially complaining to the right people and making themselves heard.
I think people who consider aromanticism as “basically straight” underestimate how noticeable absence can be to those around you.
Whether you’re a kid in school with classmates who won’t take “no one” as an answer to who you have a crush on or an adult whose coworkers have picked up on the fact that you’ve never mentioned a romantic partner; after enough time, a lack or insufficient amount of romantic interest will raise the antennae of friends, family, coworkers, etc… They will notice and they will speculate and they will ask.
It is impossible to meet the societal bar for straightness through inaction.
meeting up with someone with the explicit goal of figuring out whether or not you want a relationship with them spoils the dynamic. it sucks. it’s terrible. fall in love with your friends like normal people.
as expected this one is a hit with the autism website
you guys Need to start seeing bugs as animals im not even joking anymore. the second u start seeing them as tiny animals the more your world opens up and the more you accept different types of life Into that world. youll begin accepting that even life you cant understand is still worth living. and itll legitimately make you a better person. fuck
Reading this makes it seem like she achieved her goal of being struck by the HRT lightning bolt in 1995
in Beijing.
The Chinese have HRT lightning now it’s so xiover for Joe Biden’s America
Reminder China has better trans rights than the USA.
IIRC shortly after this in early 2023 China made a policy to make it harder to get HRT, and there’s not comprehensive protections against discrimination based on sexuality or transness. certainly many lgbt activists in China still report a lot of discrimination and opposition from the government which is increasingly taking a conservative “traditional family values” approach to social issues.
none of this is to say like oh rah rah usa. Just that, in both the USA and China, the struggle for lgbt rights is far from over. portraying China as a monolithic yaass unproblematic trans-friendly utopia minimizes the discrimination chinese trans ppl face and the massive effort of lgbt activists in china. the fight for human rights isn’t over in the usa or china
kamala harris’ official pride merch being just pictures of her in different colored suits is arguably the funniest thing a politician of any level has ever done, much less a presidential candidate. the trans one isn’t even the full flag. was there not enough in the budget to duplicate the pink and blue kamalas to the other side
some other questions i have for her merch team include why they didn’t just use photoshop to get the missing colors. they could’ve just made that fuschia suit lighter for the trans flag and darken the purple for the bi one. there’s not even an orange suit it’s just her shirt. surely they could’ve photoshopped something into orange. there’s just enough effort missing from this to make it absolute comedy gold
I would detect trees but like genuinely what the fuck is wrong with you?
also where are the trees?
WDYM? :(
what is THAT??? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE WATERMELON???
YOU HAVE DESTROYED IT’S DIGNITY AND TURNED IT INTO THAT INSULT TO MOTHER NATURE’S GORGEOUS GIFT OF LIFE, YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE DUG UP THE EARTH’S SOUL AND USED IT AS A JESTER’S TOY LIKE THE UNGRATEFUL HEATHEN YOU ARE, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS???
WHA
I JUST DRANK WATERmelon
USE TAP WATER LIKE A NORMAL PERSON????????
I DON’T LIKE WATER UNLESS IT IS MELON
THEN DON’T DO THAT, THAT IS HORRIFYING, NEVER DO THIS AGAIN, I AM SOBBING AND CRYING AND SCREAMING AND SHITTING AND THROWING UP AND VOMITING AND PUNCHING THE WALLS BECAUSE OF THAT IMAGE, NEVER DO THIS, PLEASE.
I saw this last month on twitter and took a screenshot! Heres an addition
Sometimes real life beats the shit out of movies can you imagine LIVING THIS
[id: tweet by Mika: Yuletide Era 🎄: “don’t let movies mislead you “can I kiss you” is like one of the cutest things you can say”
Dissident/Despondent replied: “I was too nervous to say that. Instead, my hook was “so, how may I tell you goodnight?” She replied, “Any way you want to.” “May I?” “You may.””]/end id.
[id: Dissident/Despondent’s tweet, with replies. 연연: “Please tell you said the last part after your marriage vows 🥺”
Dissident/Despondent replied: “It’s how I asked her to marry me. Me: *down on one knee, holding ring* “…May I?” Her: *sobbing* “You may!” I also said it after each of our daughters were born, when I waited patiently to hold them for the first time.”]/end id.
[id: the meme of the cat crying and leaning against the wall saying “wait. hold on a minute. i think i need a moment…”]/end id.
are donuts and bagels convergent or divergent evolution ?
Convergent, their doughs are different, they’re baked different, but they evolved to scratch the itch of wanting to eat something with a hole
is that historically correct ? because they could have come from a common ancestor which split to have two different doughs. so what I’m asking you is: which came first, the dough or the hole ?
The dough, there’s others like those (sorry I’ll have to mix german words in here)
Deep fried Hefeteig (doughnut dough) has always been a long standing tradition (Kräppel, Fastnetsküchle, und weiteres Siedegebäck)
The more bready bagels probably followed the footsteps of the popular doughnut while staying true to the original dough.
so did they originally have the hole, or did they evolve to have the hole ? are you saying bagels were inspired by doughnuts and were just pieces of bread before ? if one did not exist without the hole, and did not exist before the other, then such would imply a divergent evolution
It’s more like when a harmless insect evolves colouring to look like a hornet.
The doughnut is just one in a long, long line of fried doughs and came first. And also not all doughnuts have holes. I mostly only see them in American media. Most doughnuts where I live are bun-shaped with a jam or custard filling. They’re still doughnuts.
I don’t know about the history of bagels, but there are others dense cake-like breads that are similar, but serve a very different purpose here.
I’d guess that the bagel is native to the US, and the American sub-species of doughnut started to converge on form in order to mimic the indigenous stock, but then found it’s own niche and diverged radically in terms of colouration and topping.
bagels are native to poland and date back long before the Americas were known about to the rest of the world
I stand corrected. I will have to do more research.
My prof was like ‘yeah there was this experiment where they like made a casino for rats with mini slot machines n everything and made those rats into gambling addicts it was so cool’ n i looked up the article n hes the lead fucking researcher
I’ll do you one better op, i was taking an american history class of the early 1990s to 2000s and upon our final, which only took two hours max (the class was 3) our professor said we could watch some americana stuff if we needed to wait for more finals in the building (i did). The classroom was a huge lecture hall with a projector. He puts on stuff about cryptids, which, that’s a surprise but hey, nice light mood for a sobering look at what amounted to pre and post 9/11 america. And when the man on the video introduced the world expert on the jersey devil who do we see grinning at the camera, giant on the projector, but our professor. We turn to see him making the exact same face. We went wild.
My engineering 101 professor put on a documentary once about some renovations the government did on the Hoover Dam and it was more or less interesting even though I couldn’t tell you now what actually happened in it. But like maybe a little more than halfway through when they got done with the history and introducing The Problem they interviewed the top engineers working on the project.
And you’ll never guess who was up first. You’ll never guess whos face (albiet, maybe 20 or so years younger) was projected up on the screen for the entire class (maybe 8 or 9 in total of us) to collectively point at. And my professor (This old guy who’s doing this teaching intro to engineering as part of hisretirement), doesn’t even look up as he continues to grade our latest assignment to say: “that was a fun project.”
“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)
This is a really good example of how we can just make up words that work. “Luft” is a perfect word for this it feels correct and we understand and can feel it.
Like it would’ve necessarily work with other words but “luft” is a combination of sounds that means luft (air equivalent of wet).
Thank you but the reason it works is because it is a deliberately chosen word!
The closest word we have in English for ‘wet but with air’ would be ‘aerated’, which is the past principle of the verb ‘aerate’. As a multi syllable Latin derived word, aerated wouldn’t feel equivalent to wet even if you just used it as an adjective in a sentence- so to have something that feels like ‘wet’ I looked for a monosyllabic air-related word with a German root.
As many have pointed out in the notes, ‘Luft’ means air in a lot of languages, because it comes from the proto-Germanic word ‘luftuz’. It’s also used in English as a chess term, and is a doublet of ‘loft’. Because it’s rare in conversational English but has the right etymology to evoke the idea of air and the texture of ‘wet’, it is very easily appropriated for the concept of ‘air equivalent of wet’.
voidpet community on Tumblr is so small everyone knows everyone, btw reblog this post with a picture of your silliest voidpet if you play voidpet garden
Also despite the small size of the fandom on here we do have a gimmick blog. And I love it. Best thing ever.( @assigning-voidpets-to-posts I love you dearly/p)
What’s voidpets? (<- intrigued)
you reblogged on the wrong blog at first :) I saw :)
anyways, GAME. it’s fun, you can download on app store, it’s free
I’m not sure but I think I stress the third syllable?
Also the R is part of the second syllable
CA-ra-mel.
Because that’s how it’s spelt.
Me too. Also it’s pronounced like that in every language I know, so…
American-centric polls…
hi, the options i presented here are based on ipa transriptions i could find, which all include the rhotic r at the end of the first syllable, including some attested british pronunciations. in general, deciding whether or not a consonant phoneme is at the end of one syllable or the start of the next is not an exact science, so i went with the option that was listed when i looked up these transcriptions, which has r at the end of the first syllable. it also makes it easier for me because unambiguously transcribing the various vowel phonemes in the first syllable would be harder if i couldn’t compare the pronunciation to ‘car’ or ‘care’. not everyone knows the ipa so i had to make some sacrifices to make a less confusing poll.
this is where, from my point of view, the issue with your transcription ‘ca-ra-mel’ ‘how it’s spelt’ arises. i don’t know which vowel you mean for either of the ‘a’s in that transcription. i could easily see either being an attempt at representing /æ/ or /ɑ/.
this poll does have more usamerican pronunciations on it than ones from other regions, due to a combination of a) those being what inspired me to make this poll, b) that i am from the us, c) the fact that the us has substantial variation in pronunciation of caramel compared to other major english-speaking areas, and d) that the online transcriptions i found were mostly usamerican ones.
@specialkindofidiot’s claim of stress on the third syllable is very interesting and i would love to know more, but i suspect what they are referring to is a secondary stress, where the third syllable is stressed more than the second but less than the first. i believe this is common to most three-syllable pronunciations of ‘caramel’ but i chose not to transcribe it for ease of reading.
