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🇵🇸 STAND WITH PALESTINE 🇵🇸 Claude. He/Him. Trans. Queer. Disabled. In my 50s and feel like I'm in my 80s. "Life should be full of strangeness / Like a rich painting / But it gets worse day by day"

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

Domestic abuse resources England

It's a sad fact that incidences of domestic abuse increase during football tournaments. For example, when England loses a match, incidents of domestic abuse increase by 38% - and when England wins, they still increase by 26%.

Here are some helpful links to information about domestic abuse support in England:

Support for women, men, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and disabled people: visit this link for further info.

Childline help children and young people deal with whatever is happening in their lives, including abuse of any kind.

Stay safe ❤️

[bisexualmagnum]

[ltwilliammowett]

Nautical Terms

Here are just a few terms that might be of interest to some of you.

Before the mast – refers to the sailors’ quarters, which were located in the fore part of the ship (the bow), whilst the officers’ quarters were near the stern. The term can also be used as a synonym for a common sailor.

Clap on – to increase power by adding more rigging or deploying more men. Also: to set more sails.

Deck passage – accommodation for passengers on deck when there was insufficient cabin space. Often used on short voyages.

Hail – a greeting at sea

Handsomely – slowly and carefully; particularly when handling ropes under tension.

Maiden Voyage – the first voyage of a ship that has recently been fitted out and is finally fit for service.

Salt – nickname for a sailor. Also ‘Old Salt’ for a very experienced sailor.

Slew – to turn something around its own axis: to swing a mast round.

Stand by – to be ready

Stave off – to push a boat or floating object away from a jetty or the side of a ship using a pole, a boat hook or a similar tool.

The sailor's word-book, by Smyth, W. H (William Henry), 1788-1865; Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877

The Visual encyclopedia of nautical terms under sail, by Basil W. Bathe 1978

[marisatomay]

this tweet has been rattling around my head all day like a pinball in a machine

[secondjulia]

trying to keep things appropriate in the green room but he's sitting right there

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999), La Révolution Française Part 2 (1989)

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

@secondjulia This is superb. A work of art. A thing of beauty. The campest Robespierre meets the most twink Saint-Just.

[potsdamite-morgenpost]

(explaining frederick the great to an american) okay so imagine a Shopping Mall,

[potsdamite-morgenpost]

Lafayette, FIVE GUYS, and DICK'S are inside the King of Prussia shopping mall

[softp3ach]

Gaze

[black-bloc-antifa]

[echinoderm-of-the-day]

Today’s echinoderm is Nardoa gomophia, commonly known as the bumpy sea star. I mean it sure is bumpy.

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/98519767

[sunlaire]

[jedilukeskywalkers]

Uruguayans sorrounded by brazilians and colombians hold sign “FIFA give Football back”

Honestly the mood of a continent

[sailorloneperblog]

Chain Pier, Brighton by John Constable ( 1776-1837) was an English painter . Date circa 1826.

[searcherofamroth]

my friend’s mom is out here with the real ideas

[ltwilliammowett]

Being a ship's cat is hard work – here's the mascot and presumably the chief mouser aboard HMS Hermione, WWII

[lfcrobbo]

just seen a clip of robbo from a presser. he's so red i adore that little pale scottish gremlin😭

[lfcrobbo]

likeeeeeeeeeee. boy you need to be putting on SUNCREAM

[lestappenforever]

so i just saw a video of the injury endo got earlier this season (and what i'm assuming has flared up again to keep him out of the world cup?) and oh my god. how did he even recover in time to be in consideration for the world cup in the first place?

My ankle throbs in sympathy just thinking about the moment he got injured, anon. It looked so fucking painful. And not only that; this man fucking got up and helped defend a corner immediately after. He tried to walk off an injury like that, at the age of 33. It’s an incredible feat that he managed to recover in time to be selected for Japan's squad, and play the friendly leading up to the World Cup. Which makes it all the more heartbreaking that the same injury came back to haunt him and make him retire from International football.

There are hardly any players like Endo left in the world of football, and I would lay down my fucking life for that man. In my adult life, there is only one player I've seen that matches Endo's work ethic, determination and badassery, and that's James Milner. Fucking machines, the both of them, which deserves at least as much — if not more — respect than the players that score hundreds of goals during their careers. I will never, ever forget watching Endo singlehandedly fucking dominate Manchester City's entire fucking midfield during his first season at Liverpool.

I hope he stays with us until his contract runs out next year, and I hope Iraola will use him plenty this coming season. He deserves to play on a regular basis.

[fibro-memes]