happy bread

"Not beating the ___ allegations" is such a 'now' turn of phrase, implying as it does a world where everyone's behavior is always on literal trial by a guilt-presuming judge and jury that consists of anyone who happens to be paying attention.

Not beating the panopticon allegations

Esther scroll from Italy, 17th century.

A little girl in my 4th grade class came up to me after recess and said, “I got married at recess!” and I said “Oh? I didn’t know anyone was ordained under the age of twelve.” and she asked me what ordained meant and I explained and then she said “Oh, well, no, my wife and I were married by the slide, but we’ll be happy together anyway.”

So apparently on school playgrounds, slides are already legalizing same-sex marriage.

They warned us it would be a slippery slope.

One of the things I resent most about being Animal Brain Apex Predator trapped in Maximum Productivity Society is that I have to work when the weather is gross, instead of following my natural instinct to burrow myself into something dry and soft and sleep until Optimal Foraging Conditions

It is dark and cold and wet and miserable and I have a warm dark quiet hideaway full of food and drinking water that is safe from interlopers and for some ungodly reason instead of holing up there to conserve my energy, I am standing up in a brightly lit beige room for several hours. A possum wouldn't put up with this shit. I'm going to bite someone

I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent

It’s from the Old English word feng, which can mean “to take”, or also “to grasp, hold, or embrace”. So something that’s newfangled is something that was taken up recently.

The reason it’s using this pretty archaic root is that it’s an older word than a lot of people think. Here it is in the Canterbury Tales.

Minutes after posting: "Why did I write archaic when I could have gone with old-fangled?"

Reblog to fangle this post

i was talkin with some europeans about their healthcare and i realized like, even if i had the means to immigrate, i most likely would not be allowed to in most countries as a single person because I am disabled. This is another major aspect of ableism I don't see talked about often, the way immigration systems across the globe are designed to keep disabled people (who would be 'burdens' on the welfare system) out.

I think the single biggest lesson of my thirties has been "usually if something seems like an obviously super broken thing that no one is fixing, it actually is really hard to fix. but it's still worth trying anyway."

Seriously. Understand what's going on. Take stock of the actual barriers between you and your actual goals, not the automatic more measurable proxies for those goals we make up in our heads.

(For example, if our actual goal is "more children in loving households with at least two adults looking out for them and caring for them, fewer children living in homes where they are neglected or deprived," we sometimes talk about measuring "children in two-parent households."

But that's not the actual goal: it's the proxy we're using to approximate the actual goal in any given moment, because you can't directly measure real net child social support in the moment very effectively. We need to use proxy measures to help us find out how complex phenomena are linked, but it is crucial to remember that they are tools and not blueprints.)

And if something seems so simply broken and easy to fix "over there," consider that probably there is a snarl in the knot that you can't see, hiding part of the so-simple problem from view.

It may be really hard to fix, or it may be that fixing it would make the rich and powerful sad.

That still means "hard to fix," because the rich and powerful people have this nasty tendency to commit resources to making it hard for things that make them sad to exist.

If your solution is "easy! just kill all the rich people!" I invite you to consider the history of a number of real-life attempts to do that. (Spoilers: some of the poors always seem to wind up seizing control of resources and enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else, and usually a lot of other poors get slaughtered in the mixture. It turns out that when blood is running in the streets, lots of people panic and you tend to get less equitable distribution of power, not more.)

Think deeply. What would it take to fix this problem?

I love how often people on this site call random things which they disagree with but don't have any actual argument against either puritan or catholic, regardless of the subject in question's actual relevance to either puritanism or catholicism. it's like 17th century england in here

"Saying that bread gets mould is a puritanical lie" "revenge is good cos disliking it makes you CATHOLIC" yous would have thrived as popular pamphlet writers in the 1690s

incredible how much housework you can get done if you take a chance and believe in yourself and also have fifteen other much more pressing responsibilities

✨✨ Congratulations to Sega of America and our INDUSTRY LEADING union contract ✨✨

With a gratifyingly massive vote in favour we ratified our contract guaranteeing worker protections, increased wages, credit for all games worked on and more!

We are the largest and only multi-department video game union, and hope this joyous news will encourage others to organize and fight for their own employee rights in our beloved, but layoff-plagued industry.

I'M SO PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF AEGIS 💙💙

no one ever warns you about this about adulthood but no one tells you how important surfaces become to you. like it's a perpetual struggle to get enough surfaces in your life and then in turn keeping those surfaces clean

I hate public transit so so so much, why is it taking me two hours to go 5 miles, fucking fuck

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It's post on tumblr or start screaming on the bus

Sorry man I have to dress up in a costume and go to the synagogue to be in a play and eat triangle cookies and read from a scroll and make booing noises whenever we hear the name of the guy who tried to commit genocide against us in ancient Persia. Yeah it’s gonna be all day sorry.