Centuripe, province in Enna, Sicily, Italy
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Centuripe, province in Enna, Sicily, Italy
The Coffee Song - Cream // Coffee - Beabadoobee // Fruit and Coffeepot - Henri Matisse // Side Effects - Joseph // Three studies of hands including that of a woman having coffee - Carle van Loo // Coffee Shop - Duane Keiser // Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami // Memory for Forgetfulness - Mahmoud Darwish // Iced Coffee - Fairfield Porter
Inspired by a post by @metamorphesque
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suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just âparentâ
please note that while progenitor, guardian, spawnpoint etc are all respected titles, they are more the equivalent of mother/father than an affectionate nickname you would scream through the house multiple times a day. gimme something we can use people
I just tried to combine the words and got âdomâ and i cant-
but wait, if we reverse âdomâ you get âmodâ. I suggest we use âmoderatorâ as a gender neutral version of mom/dad
Admin and op would work makes them sound powerful and in charge of everything
Admin (respectful) Op (derogatory)
i was going to add something else to this but instead i got to thinking and i was like huh. what could you use.
in most languages the word for âmotherâ usually starts with an M, because phonetically [m] is one of the easiest sounds for a newborn to make when they start babbling, and mothers tend to be the one most around the child. so in my mind that crosses M off the list, because itâs automatically associated with a feminine figure
similarly, âfatherâ tends to start with D, T, P, or B. (phonetically these sounds are very close together; [p, b] and [d, t] are all only different because of being voiced or unvoiced.) these are also phonetically easy letters and ones kids pick up on earlier.
now the hard sounds for kids are the following: [Éč, dÍĄÊ, tÊ, Ξ, ð] or in normal speak: the English R, the âjâ or âdgeâ sound in âjudge,â the âthâ sound in âthighâ and the âthâ sound in âthe.â and we donât want kids unable to say their parentâs name for years, so those are also off the list.
additionally, itâs easiest for young kids to just repeat the same sound twice rather than figuring out the tongue gymnastics of putting different sounds together, which is why kids will say Ma-Ma or Da-Da and not Ma-Mo or Da-Po. and weâll want to stick with low back vowels like âahâ and avoid ones like the hard âiâ or âee.â
so what does that leave us? when we want a sound kids can learn easily and early but donât want to just put a funky spin on âmamaâ or âdadaâ?
my suggestions: G, K, W, L. i personally lean towards W and L. theyâre called liquids, since theyâre the consonants that kind of arenât consonants, and kids (and ESL learners) will tend to swap out the English R for a W or L until they can learn the R.
if i ever have a child, theyâll start calling me Wawa. then when they get older, theyâll call me Wala, or maybe even Wally.
and then, once theyâre finally phonetically developed, they can call me by my true title as their nonbinary guardian for their 18+ years:
Waluigi.
Every day, 1966 by Rene Magritte
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just sharing this for anyone who needs it rn
All of these are toys made entirely from consumer plastic bottles. The artist states that he did not set out with anything in mind, that he merely made what the shapes suggested.
The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India, is shaped like a fish.
These ten ducklings were found orphaned and they were brought to a pet duck called Stella who had just hatched nine of her own two weeks prior. She immediately claimed the ten as her own.Â
via @thesassyducksâ instagram
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she released those babies like a ramen flavour packet
love how stella swims over like âoh shit i mustâve misplaced these ten whole babies!â
Love how the liâl ramen flavor packets swim over like âoh shit that must be mom, sheâs mom-shapedâ
found-family speedrun
 nourishes it
keeps it warm
fills it with love
fills it with rice
refills sanity bar
grants it a blessing
i havent been able to stop thinking abt how thats paddingtonâs boyfriend
Honestly if your response to "I dont have many skills that would be useful in a post-capitalist society" is "so I guess I'll just be pursuing my intellectual hobbies as my contribution to my community" instead of "so I guess I'll be doing dishes in the cafeteria/janitorial work/manual labor" you should really reconsider how you come at the very concept of work and society as a leftist. Is socialism no longer appealing if you have to do the work you previously took for granted? Is the liberation of the proletariat not worth it if you have to contribute something besides your dream job in academia or leading support groups? Are you really "too good" for "that type" of work, even if it is for a world where no one starves?
we will still have hobbies/run d&d/learn other languages under socialism - in fact, we would likely have far more time to pursue them than under capitalism - but when we think of our future labor, we ought to consider the "menial" tasks that keep society running; loading boxes onto trucks, cooking in a factory kitchen, packaging medical supplies for distribution, building new homes as a worker and not an architect. these jobs will never disappear, and to assume that someone else will do them while you lead workshops or go to school to become a trained professional is to announce your continuing loyalty to petite bourgeois ethics. The dream of socialism is not a fantasy where you continue to do the exact same thing you want to do under capitalism, but now with a clear conscience about it. It's to build a better world as one global movement, to lift up the most oppressed and downtrodden from the muck; a task which requires, above all else, heavy and thankless work that we must be prepared and happy to undertake if we ever hope to succeed.