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“Cook at home to save money” sounds all well and good until you get a little too into it and suddenly you’re bookmarking recipes that call for The Preserved Grace of God and that shit is $13 at the specialty store

akaanir-of-starfleet

#in my experience the tipping point isn't the preserved grace of god but - well. when you start branching out into other food cultures. #suddenly you've got to source the grace of god and also the mercy of allah and also a jewish conception of repentance #that's really only sold at small local grocers. and then you're trying to translate websites written in bengali or cantonese #and attempting to figure out whether you can use butter instead of ghee to achieve dharma. #don't even get me into woks vs. censers. (via @notbecauseofvictories)

cricketcat9

All true

#canned grace of god

indigosfindings

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

mortalityplays

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

3liza

i am losing my fucking mind

avocado-moon

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

avocado-moon

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

onbearfeet

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

squeeful

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

chaumas-deactivated20240115

to be fair even children’s media that goes out of its way to establish characters as using Ms. still mispronounce it half the time. Ms. Frizzle gets called Miss Frizzle as often as “mizz” even though it’s supposed to rhyme with her surname

cricketcat9

Obscure fact, and obscure pronunciation I've learned back in Poland sometime in the 70ties. SMH....

#learn your own history

reneesociety

cricketcat9

Yes, you WOULD think....

#not happening

charlesoberonn

Art by u/reachling

melyzard

Update March 2026:

A New Jersey homeowner may face fines nearing $2 million for cutting down 32 mature trees on a neighbor's property to improve their view.

cricketcat9

FINE HIS ASS into OBLIVION

#tree killer

tompodowski

being manipulated into place against the trembling strain of your body and fighting to maintain that position under the appraising eyes of the man who put you there. unbearably sexy rope bottoming scene without any of the rope. just eyes and hands.

cricketcat9

Now i have even MORE respect for my competitively ballroom dancing friend

#10dance

omgthatdress

ily, menswear guy

cricketcat9

☝️☝️☝️

#what your clothing says about you

This is a map of Poland posted on a FB page "Discover Poland", presenting a New and Improved Poland. My native country has now TWO Krakóws, and a number of mysterously named places I never heard of, like Gillette. I can't find Slovakia, that's probably because the second Kraków swallowed it? Also Byelorussia and Lithuania are gone. The Tatra Mountains are in some liminal space where Slovakia used to be? Congrats to the AI for producing this masterpiece, and to the entity running " Discover Poland" page, who/which posted it. It was a pleasure discovering it! My old country, brand new! I really like almost realistically renderd European Bison in the Bialoweea Forset, just not sure about the appendage hanging from its side.

To compare, the old, boring Poland map.

#discover poland

Today: drizzle, rain

more rain, drizzle, fucking rain, downpour, thunderstorm, rain. Fabian and Yolanda went home after half a day on the roof in a light drizzle. They couldn't apply the anti-bug liquid on the bamboo, because, rain. As Fabian said, "asi es la vida"...

BTW, I didn't know that these thin strips of bamboo are so strong. They both walk on them, and, nothing

#adventures in construction

thesamlee-deactivated20120430

cricketcat9

And, conversely: the fact that something has a name you can't pronounce (too many syllables!) and was made in a factory once making cyanide DOES NOT mean it will kill you.

#use you brain

Progress is happening

and the work should be finished, fingers crossed, Monday. Fabian and Yolanda want to work tomorrow. I should go and order windows and doors, and wait for 2 weeks until they are done.

Apparently, the loophole allowing me to build with no permit was closed, and, in theory, I could be fined. I'm 99,9% sure I won't. The Municipality workers are venturing into my neck of woods only when dragged by the wild horses.

Meanwhile, the visions of the ginormous lumber yard I visited to buy the bamboo are plaguing my dreams. Mountains of pallets, unstained, pristine and brand new, of different sizes! Piles of beautiful planks! Firewood! Should I buy a circular saw and make a few benches? (no I shouldn't, because now I have no money, and need to recover, oh and also no time). Should I make a coffee table for the cabaña out of pallets ( the answer as above).

I need to rein myself in.

#adventures in construction

captainragtag

Can we include darebee.com with ao3 and wikipedia on our list of really good nonprofits with excellent services that we stan?

It's a free, no sign-up, no ads fitness resource created by professionals who view this as activism (fitness should be accessible to everyone), and it's very thoughtful and thorough.

Features I really like:

- all instructions for workout routines are diagrammed on single pages with a clean, easy to read layout

- there's 30 or 60 day programs you can follow if you, like me, don't know what to do. they take you through a rotation of workouts so you're working different muscle groups on different day for a specific purpose

- there's so much variety and there's a filter so you can find the level and your goals and type of workout you wanna do

- you don't need any equipment

- some of the programs are RPGs or adventure stories! How's that for motivation. There's also badges and achievements or something but I haven't looked that closely at how that works yet

- they're nerds. they name workouts after D&D classes. There's a Lannistrr workout, a batcave workout, a witcher workout

- I've only scratched the surface

I'm doing this really easy one to start out

Darebee, darebee, fitness, visual workouts, workouts, fitness challenges, fitness motivation, training tips, recipes, nutrition

bisexualshakespeare

If you don't understand from the picture they have an Exercise Library playlist in YouTube so you can see what all the moves look like in motion!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSMS0J6JbrKdSOSbyJXaQ_zN_HSSp7zZ

pmamtraveller

Feelings about AI generated art by Veronika Kozlova

cricketcat9

I'm with you Veronika

#ai generated #art

cricketcat9

My cabaña is

advancing. The bamboo is mostly on the roof. The "other side" has to be treated with the stinky anti-bug liquid. Then the actual roof goes on the bamboo. Then after everything dries and seasons I'll have to treat it with the teak oil. The team, consisting of Fabian, son of my gardener Sr. Pedro, and his wife Yolanda, says it will be three days more. BTW, they work so well together, I did not see/hear an argument once. Looking at you, ex-husband 😡, I should ask you how well your new, ahem, partner passes you the hammer 🤨 *

ex-husband is bouje now, probably has minions dealing with the hammer and never touches it

tumblinbean

What a cool roof! I know literally nothing abut this style, why is bamboo used? Does this keep the elements out?

Also, I'm slowly turning green with envy over that brick patio/veranda/deck

cricketcat9

Aww, thanks. No, the bamboo is (going to be) the ceiling...and it's used because it's cheap! An actual impermeable ( or so I hope) roof will be installed over the bamboo, with a semi-transparent part in the middle, because i want more light. There will be windows. I intend to liberate my living room from all my painting and crafting crap and move it there. It was an open covered space, but I need to keep the dust (a lot of it) and bugs out.

The best part is, I live, technically, in the rural area; the town starts from across the road, maybe 100 meters from me. Because I'm a country bumpkin, I can do things without the city permit! It's a very nice feeling.

#adventures in construction tbc

My cabaña is

advancing. The bamboo is mostly on the roof. The "other side" has to be treated with the stinky anti-bug liquid. Then the actual roof goes on the bamboo. Then after everything dries and seasons I'll have to treat it with the teak oil. The team, consisting of Fabian, son of my gardener Sr. Pedro, and his wife Yolanda, says it will be three days more. BTW, they work so well together, I did not see/hear an argument once. Looking at you, ex-husband 😡, I should ask you how well your new, ahem, partner passes you the hammer 🤨 *

ex-husband is bouje now, probably has minions dealing with the hammer and never touches it

#adventures in construction #yes im petty