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hey no worries lol that just hurt my feelings forever
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sasuke in the higher up hokage meetings after naruto pardoned him even though everyone in the village hates his ass making eye contact with shikamaru glaring holes in him across the room
hold on I gotta watch all 220 naruto episodes
i still donāt get it
oh hold on thereās naruto shippuden lemme watch all 500 episodes of that rq
yeah this is funny
i read CS Lewisā A Grief Observed one time years ago and iām still not recovered from it
ā A Grief Observed: part i-ii, C.S. Lewis x
Todayās highlights in my ongoing project to read through and transcribe the letters of Rachel (a wealthy Victorian girl at boarding school on the East Coast in the 1890s) includeā¦
Rachelās cousin Will and his Yale roommate Allen both have the measles. Rachel shows limited sympathy (āPoor boy!ā), before immediately mocking them and calling them āchildishā for getting a disease only little kids get.
Rachel and her roommate āBā (It stands for Bertha!) attempted to steal a sign (what sort idk) from a fair they went to but found they āwere carefully guardedā. She wishes Will could have been there to help.
Will has a crush on a girl named Jenny, who Rachel knows, and is constantly asking Rachel if Jenny has mentioned him.
āBā often sits next to Rachel as she writes and suggests things to add to the letter or just generally distracts her.
Will and Jack, who are brothers, donāt write to each other. They write to Rachel and tell her to write to the other and pass on a message for them. Rachel keeps asking why they do this, but goes along with it anyways.
Rachel always explains why there are ink blots or areas of sloppy writing in her letters. Explanations so far include such classics as: the dinner bell just rang, itās after lights-out and Iām writing this in the dark, āBā is shaking my arm, āBā is kissing me, this pen is broken, the postman is almost here, and there was a bee.
For her 18th birthday Rachel received: a new Kodak camera, eighteen white rosebuds, silver manicure scissors, a pair of shell side combs, a silver pencil, and a vase of pink roses. However her favorite present was from her father who wrote to say she could just buy her own present and he would pay for it.
Rachel is always mentioning the pictures she takes with her Kodak. I wish I knew what happened to them.Ā
In addition to CalvĆ©, Marlowe and Sothern, Rachel has now also gone to see performances by Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, John Philip Sousa, Ignacy Jan Paderewski (playing the piano, not governing Poland), and freaking Sarah Bernhardt!Ā
Rachel likes to put question marks in the middle of sentences to denote sarcasm; i.e. āI am very ? sorry for you.ā and āMen were not excluded and we had the pleasure ? of meeting several.ā
Your 1890s slang word of the day: āsquelchā (verb) - to be lectured or punished for something. Example:Ā āI expect to be squelched unmercifully by mama and papa.āĀ Can also be used as a noun as in: āThis term we have had nothing but squelches.ā
āRachel is always mentioning the pictures she takes with her Kodak. I wish I knew what happened to them.ā
Update: It took eight years, dozens of emails, an unbelievably kind invitation from Rachelās granddaughter (also named Rachel) and 16 hours of travel butā¦
OH MY GOD.
WHAT A DEVELOPMENT!
shit man this got me emotional
left: the Nebra sky disc, circa 1600 BCE, showing the Moon, Sun, and stars in gold on copper - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world
right: the Webb Space Telescope, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankindās deepest look into the sky
Hereās some extra photos of the disc from when it was exhibited just in case
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That article where a law professor argues that battered women are morally entitled to kill their abusers has an interesting quote: ā Men can kill women with their bare hands, and they do. Women almost never kill men that way. They canāt. [ā¦] While very few women kill abusive men who are asleep or passed out, itās āunfairā to charge them with first degree murder, Sheehy argues. āItās not fair to characterize it as the most heinous form of murder, because it may be their own route to survival. ā There have probably been feminist analyses of this already, but itās worth discussing how the concept of self-defence, especially in domestic violence cases, was designed by men to benefit men. In my country at least, your attack is only considered ālegitimate self-defenceā if it is a) necessary, b) immediate, c) proportionate. A concept of self-defence that only applies if you hurt or kill someone while they are attacking you, and if you hurt or kill them using the same weapons as them (your bare hands, if thatās what they are using) only benefits people who are likely to be attacked by people of similar size and physical strength, and is utterly useless to women.
When a bigger, stronger male beats up his much smaller wife, itās almost impossible for her to kill him in self-defence (immediately and proportionately ie with nothing but her fists), and yet itās the scenario through which she can hope to be acquitted or get a light sentence. Thatās not a coincidence. The other two scenarios (and she will be despised if she picks either) are for her toĀ 1) kill him later (when he canāt use his physical advantage, eg when heās asleep or has his back turned on her), but it wonāt be self-defence because it wonāt be immediate. (In the Jacqueline Sauvage case, one of the main arguments against her was that she shot her husband in the back at a time when he wasnāt actively beating her up) 2) use a weapon, but it wonāt be self-defence because it wonāt be proportionate. Obviously this condition also benefits men, because when a woman gets punched by her husband and she punches him back, itās seen as a proportionate response but it shouldnāt be, because her punch (typically) wonāt do nearly as much damage as his. Anything else she does (like use a weapon) to try and hurt him as much as he hurt her will be considered a disproportionate response and will mean it wasnāt self-defence.
The idea that killing your abuser in a honest face-to-face fight with your bare hands is honourable and forgivable, but killing your abuser in any other way is shameful and wrong, utterly benefits men and protects men. Itās also why poison was historically reviled as a āfemale weaponā and as the most cowardly way to kill someone. Poison has been described asĀ āa great equalizerā - no wonder men hated it. Men have always hated, and will keep hating, shaming, and outlawing, any form of attack through which women can compensate our disadvantage in strength and size, and they will keep praising as the only valid method of self-defence, the method that presents the smallest risk of being effectively used by women against them.
Holy fucking shit
I love this analysis. Itās very sound.
if she responds āproportionatelyā then itās āmutual abuseā anyway
all werewolves are female coded. males have no business relating to werewolves. there is no secret animalistic form you transform into in order to go crazy. thats just you all the time you dont have to hide it. werewolves are all girls
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attributed to Lily Tomlin; Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky; ilene_cecelia, reddit; Pratchett, Night Watch; Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky; Pirkei Avot 2:21; Ursula K. le Guin, Tehanu
āāThe gods have no hands in this world but ours. If we fail Them, where then can They turn?āā
ā The Hallowed Hunt (World of the Five Gods) by Lois McMaster Bujold
"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.
wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them
see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L
ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молоГŃŃ ŃŠµŠ±ŃŃŠ° ŠæŃŠ¾Š“олжаем в ŃŠ¾Š¼ же Š“ŃŃ Šµ.
colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.
and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania
the other day the vet referred to me as my cat's mum, as if he's my son and not literally my noble eunuch advisor and most trusted vassal smh
some of my beliefs get described as anti-kink, but this is inaccurate. i'm fine with kink. really, i'm anti-"all the shit i've already expressed finding immoral and abhorent" and i refuse to make exceptions just because it turns some people on.
to give a fuller, more honest response here, i do really think that for many people (myself included) 2016 felt like the last time the world seemed relatively "normal." to explain with a personal example, as a 31 year old in january 2026, i have voted in a total of four us presidential elections. of those four, three of them have had donald trump running as the republican nominee. and for many fully grown adults now, donald trump has been a dominating presence throughout their entire adult political life. if you are currently 30 years old or just turned 31, there has never been a presidential ballot without his name on it since you were able to start voting.
i think we sometimes forget now how unbelievably ridiculous and far-fetched it seemed pre-2016 that donald trump would get anywhere near political power, much less win two terms as president and bend the entire GOP (and frankly all of american politics) to his will. the idea that someone like him, as crude, vulgar, and unhinged as he is, could be taken seriously as US president was inconceivable. i think 2016 was a real "through the looking glass" moment for a lot of people and now, 10 years on, it's hard not to look back and see what a complete fucking trainwreck this has all led to.
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iāve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.
as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. itās just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. weāre small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, āiām not here to hurt you. hereās something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know weāre on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. iām being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.ā
small talk isnāt to get to know a person. itās just a greeting to affirm youāre buddies in the universe.
i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.
"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights
āBut I didnāt and still donāt like making a cult of womenās knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men donāt know, womenās deep irrational wisdom, womenās instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior ā womenās knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?ā
ā Ursula K. Le Guin
Jo in Little Women: "I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country."