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I’m not saying phases of the menstrual cycle aren’t real but I am saying their effects have been exaggerated by social media influencers with no medical backgrounds to the point of reinventing Female Hysteria. And all this for the purpose of selling “workout plans” and specialized elixirs and seeds and serums via Amazon storefront.
This is going to sound crazy but I think Vincent Van Gogh is so popular as a painter that it loops around to being an underrated choice for a favorite
Like if you appreciate Van Gogh for pieces that aren't Starry Night, Sunflowers or that Weed Smoking Skeleton, I think you're incredibly hot
must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason
... you know. If I could transform into someone a CEO is ethically obligated to help and then punish them for failing to do so, in such a way that they can only be accepted into society again if they learn basic moral lessons about decency, I don't think I would do anything else ever again.
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something I want to say as a personal statement, speaking for me, Shelby Donahue:
It always troubles me when people talk about trans women (like Meagan and Autumn Hill, my partners who I talk to every day) in men's prisons, describing them as "rape concentration camps" and emphasizing the sexual violence there. Both Meagan and Autumn Hill have told me, explicitly, that the vast majority of their fellow prisoners respect them and respect their gender, and while some prisoners have been threatening (particularly to Meagan), that the violence against them has primarily come from the institutional systems of the guards, wardens, etc. I know this in part because of their actions: Meagan and Autumn Hill have consistently helped their fellow prisoners, with little things like getting artwork to help a prisoner draw a birthday card for his child, or bigger things like helping someone get back in contact with their family. And a lot of prisoners have been supportive to Meagan and Autumn Hill, especially when they know about the Prairieland case. They make snacks to share, trade books, and comfort Meagan when she's feeling particularly sad.
I say all this for two reasons. The first is that prisoners are not all rapists or bigots, and in fact many of them are not even guilty of the crimes they're arrested for. They're an oppressed class of people, even the worst of them, and they deserve to be understood as individuals, not a nameless and faceless mass of violent threats. And, as individuals, a lot of them have been good comrades to Meagan and Autumn Hill. I want people to keep that in mind when thinking about prisoners. There's a lot of racial stereotypes and bigotries in the way people think of prisoners in the USA, and we need to unlearn those things and understand prisoners as people, as our equals.
The second reason is that you, and me, and everyone we know may end up in jail, or prison. I think about that a lot - getting raided by the FBI will have that effect on you. If we end up in prison, we have to understand the risks and dangers realistically, without excessive fear or unrealistic optimism. And I think it's important people know the facts about what prison is like, and what prisoners are like. Not everyone is violent in prison - but everyone there is the victim of a lot of violence. There are potential friends and allies everywhere.
I've been to prison, I am a trans woman though I was pre transition, considering my androgynous nature because of being intersex, I did have a target on my back.
Their experience may be decent right now, but prison culture is different prison to prison and state to state, fed to state as well
Acting as though violence at the hands of other prisoners isn't a problem ( it definitely was during my time, at least initially before I earned my stripes)
This being said, absolutely correct the majority of those in prison are people falsely convicted, or who had drugs planted on them.
I'd argue our legal system doesn't provide adequate defense for anyone outside of the wealthy
Prison is not a fun place to be, what you're describing is a form of camaraderie, and at different prisons I experienced different forms of this, some prisons truly are " gladiator schools" and a lot of prisons are quite bigoted. In small ways though, infact queer acceptance in prison had made leaps since the 1990s, and trans acceptance is only slightly lagging behind.
I got out of prison Feb 5th last year, I will say though that yes guards are absolutely the most violent people in prisons, they're downright evil a majority of the time. Rare that I ever saw them do good. Though there are two examples from Osceola unit RPF. That genuinely only had the job because that town is barren, one of which was a trans woman herself.
This all being said, please don't pretend we don't get V coded, that bad things don't happen to us. Your security level, where in the country you are ( I was in Arkansas which was much more violently homophobic and transphobic than say, up north or rikers)
As for preparing for the possibility of being arrested, yeah we should all be thinking of it that's for sure.
I've also been raided by police, as well as pulled out of a car given a broken rib, as they ransacked the vehicle.
I digress, this issue isn't black and white. Outside bigotry definitely reflect inside prisons but magnified
And at that, yes there's racial stereotypez around prisoners but to sit and pretend thats the only reason folks talk about the violence within, or they talk Abt bigotry is actually laughable. Prisons are very multiracial I did time with people from more ethnicities than you can imagine in varying degrees, especially at Cummins unit.
Much love, but please, if you want to actually understand prisons. Don't just listen to this post, talk to people like me. Please. Thank you.
something I want to say as a personal statement, speaking for me, Shelby Donahue:
It always troubles me when people talk about trans women (like Meagan and Autumn Hill, my partners who I talk to every day) in men's prisons, describing them as "rape concentration camps" and emphasizing the sexual violence there. Both Meagan and Autumn Hill have told me, explicitly, that the vast majority of their fellow prisoners respect them and respect their gender, and while some prisoners have been threatening (particularly to Meagan), that the violence against them has primarily come from the institutional systems of the guards, wardens, etc. I know this in part because of their actions: Meagan and Autumn Hill have consistently helped their fellow prisoners, with little things like getting artwork to help a prisoner draw a birthday card for his child, or bigger things like helping someone get back in contact with their family. And a lot of prisoners have been supportive to Meagan and Autumn Hill, especially when they know about the Prairieland case. They make snacks to share, trade books, and comfort Meagan when she's feeling particularly sad.
I say all this for two reasons. The first is that prisoners are not all rapists or bigots, and in fact many of them are not even guilty of the crimes they're arrested for. They're an oppressed class of people, even the worst of them, and they deserve to be understood as individuals, not a nameless and faceless mass of violent threats. And, as individuals, a lot of them have been good comrades to Meagan and Autumn Hill. I want people to keep that in mind when thinking about prisoners. There's a lot of racial stereotypes and bigotries in the way people think of prisoners in the USA, and we need to unlearn those things and understand prisoners as people, as our equals.
The second reason is that you, and me, and everyone we know may end up in jail, or prison. I think about that a lot - getting raided by the FBI will have that effect on you. If we end up in prison, we have to understand the risks and dangers realistically, without excessive fear or unrealistic optimism. And I think it's important people know the facts about what prison is like, and what prisoners are like. Not everyone is violent in prison - but everyone there is the victim of a lot of violence. There are potential friends and allies everywhere.
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nothing physically incestuous ever happens between leto and ghanima but nevertheless incest is written all over their relationship. for one thing they're husband and wife, obviously, but it's more than that. it's the way they casually discuss, though quickly reject, the idea of continuing the atreides line through themselves, with each other (ghanima telling her brother, "i won't bear your children"), and the way leto refers to her tenderly as "ghani." even long after her death he does this. stuff that makes you raise your eyebrow a little.
but most of all for me it's that exchange that leto has with farad'n at the end of children of dune. he emphatically, even triumphantly reveals that there will be no betrothal between farad'n and ghanima as farad'n had been expecting there to be, because "[his] sister will marry [him]." and then, even while telling farad'n that he (farad'n) will father the continuing atreides dynasty, he makes an explicit point to knock farad'n down a peg: "note this, cousin harq al-ada. this is the way it will always be with [ghanima and i]. we'll stand thus when we are married. back to back, each looking outward from the other to protect the one thing we have always been." / "remember that, cousin, when you're face to face with my ghanima. remember that when you whisper of love and soft things, when you are most tempted by the habits of my peace and my contentment. your back will remain exposed." oh and also he is described to smile "mockingly" at farad'n in between those two sentences. idk. he shows such a... possessiveness, for lack of a better word, toward ghanima during this scene. it comes across as him wanting to set clear boundaries with farad'n regarding ghanima, a la "you will be her paramour and father her children because i no longer can, but i am her husband and i am her brother and i am the other half of the single whole that she is part of." like i do not think we are at all intended to read leto and ghanima's relationship as purely brother/sister
Incest-baiting is Frank Herbert's fav thing. Yes the twins are incredibly weird about each other: they speak their own language, they share their preborn condition, they know what the other is thinking at all times and they love each other deeply. Is it incest though? The marriage between them certainly is, except it's politically motivated and ofc never consummated. If you put aside the marriage, what's left? Siblings who are weirdly close. Family that's more than family. Paul and Alia. Jessica and Paul. Jessica and Alia. Leto and Ghanima. Too close. Too deeply connected. Part of each other's flesh and soul. Uncomfortable to watch. Pretty hot tbh. But not incest, not in canon. The Baron and Feyd, that's incest, Frank went all in there. Not with the Atreides though, they are just little freaks.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, but I don't think there would be a single soul complaining about Carol's "likeability" if she were Carl instead. Fandom loves characters like BBC Sherlock and Dr. House who genuinely are misanthropic assholes with superiority complexes who are rude to people on purpose because hurting people's feelings is fun for them. Carol complains IN PRIVATE to her wife about her book tour, but it's not funny because she ought to be showing humility and gratitude and keeping her complaints to herself. A male character could say the jokes she made to her wife to the fans' faces and people would think it was hilarious and #relatable. The male cast of Succession can lose their shit and it's funny. Carol loses her shit and it's disgusting
Carol is rude to the entity that killed her wife, which makes her a bitch. Manousos is rude to the Hive, which makes him a badass. Carol is selfish for asking for the grocery store back, while Koumba is a fun and silly guy for making the Hive play out his James Bond fantasy
It's just very exhausting what a double standard there is for female characters, and extremely depressing that apparently a lot fans would prefer a show where Carol behaves like a proper lady - obeying the Hive, showing gratitude, never complaining, and keeping sweet
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With respect, Carol doesnt even seem to like being around people before the shit hits the fan. That obviously doesnt mean she deserves random insults for how she is coping with trauma but like, she really did seem like a person who would rather be at home with her one favourite person. Shes a quality over quantity person who has to deal with crowds as part of her job and hates doing it.
honestly maybe i just have a different definition of unpersonable/rude/curmudgeonly (real word the piracy site i use used in the description btw) than the average individual because i genuinely don’t think most of these traits make you unpersonable.
for your first point, i think we have to keep in mind that we’re seeing carol in very limited situations, even before the joining. in the first episode she’s on the very last day of a book tour for a book series she doesn’t even like writing— not a fun situation! she could’ve easily been rude to her readers or brushed them off, trust me a lot of authors do, but she doesn’t! she carries on full conversations with everyone who comes to the book signing, she takes a group photo with a lot of them afterwards, she just generally gives them the time of day and presents her best self. sure, once she’s in private she shuts down a bit, refers to her novels as mindless crap, etc., but does that really make her unpersonable? i think this is just… average. above average, even! how many people go to work every day, present themselves as friendly, are cordial to their coworkers and even chat with them from time to time, and then go home to their family and complain about how much kevin from two cubicles over sucks? she’s doing her job that she doesn’t particularly like. that’s just part of life for some people, i don’t think it makes you rude to admit that in private. would you… genuinely rather her be all smiles all the time…..? sure she’s a bit of an introvert, she’d rather spend time with helen than go out to a party, but if that’s what people were referring to they would, you know, use the word “introverted” or something similar. people don’t say introverted. they say rude, or mean, or antisocial, or unfriendly, or curmudgeonly, or unpersonable. i genuinely do not think any of those adjectives describe her. “hating crowds” does not make you unpersonable. being a “quality over quantity person” does not make you unpersonable. i’m genuinely becoming convinced this must be a semantics issue more than anything because i feel like if everyone is sharing my definition of these words there’s no way in hell carol fits them.
Also I don’t even think she dislikes writing her books. And I don’t think she even actually hates the tours. Her books seem so lore rich and she’s so excited to talk about them with Zosia and as you said she talks with every single fan seems to have full conversations. I think she enjoys that part. I think what she hates is being closeted. But she’s too afraid not to be. And thats what she hates. She has to spend the entire book tour dressing very feminine and pretending Helen is just her manager and pretending like Raban was always supposed to be a man and probably answering questions from fans that are all about Raban’s maleness and Raban and Lucasia’s heterosexuality and it’s probably fuckin miserable to do that. She’s in a prison of her own making and she knows that but she’s too afraid to step out of it and that makes her miserable.
it’s so crazy how nixon had to resign after watergate and now every single month 1 million watergates happen and no one cares
they were threatening to KILL two random assholes from the newspaper for asking questions about like, mishandled money and light wiretapping. in 2026 you can be spoken out against by other government employees establishing a surveillance state and using public taxpayer money to fund golf courses and outright stating your intentions to go against multiple constitutional amendments and nothing will happen
Most accounting classes at my school are only online so this semester I decided to take an in person Spanish class to get some human interaction.
Anyways on the first day of class a student asked if it’s okay to use Duolingo to study and the professor made an involuntary disgusted face
Do not ever use duolingo pls I would rather you learn off La Casa de Papel than off duolingo 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
can i order an essay long rant about why you ahouldn’t use duolingo
Yes. Absolutely.
1. Duolingo is an AI shit hole. They fired all their real, human translators and replaced them with AI
2. All the features that made Duolingo a good app are now hidden behind a paywall
3. The translation is just overall deeply unnatural? Very few people ACTUALLY use the things that they teach you there everyday and how to properly pronounce it.
4. It falls into the 'universal' spanish, leaving you with a knowledge of many accents and words that just aren't used everywhere. Understood? To an extent, very few people truly says 'Quiero un café con leche, porfavor' in a casual setting, learning from real people (or movies! That's how I learnt english) is a much more reliable source. For example, I would say 'me das un café con leche, porfa?' Or 'Me pones un café largo de leche? Gracias' because I use a mix of Venezuelan spanish and Spainish spanish.
5. Any language, not just spanish, is too vast to be learnt through a single app. You have to inmerse yourself in it if you want to truly learn it
6. Duolingo lets you mess up only a certain amount of times before you have to wiat to get more opportunities. Which, yeah, plays part in its whole 'learn through games' advertising, but it doesn't really help in my experience, it only frustrated me further because if I WANT to learn I'm going to mess up, and I want to fix my messing up Now.
7. Relating to the last one, it doesn't really mix the questions much, so I just memorized the ones I messed up on and already knew the answer by the time it rolled up, so it didn't really help me learn.
8. Look me in the eyes and tell me you remember anything you learnt off there. You can't. Because its shit!!!!! It just lets you play without ACTUALLY retaining anything, its all about speed and memorization, no actual learning.
Anyway those r my reasons to why Duolingo is shit!!! Watch movies and slowly learn through multiple mediums, there is no rush when it comes to learning something as changing as language, and what better way than through its media and people?
if duolingo sucks, what alternatives would you suggest?
Well no matter what you do a lot of listening and reading will be required if you wanna be serious about it. Likely thousands of hours. If you can find the correct resources listening and reading may be all you have to do. Search for comprehensible input videos, listening practice videos, and graded readers for this kind of thing. There’s a lot of free resources on YouTube and the wider internet these days especially for more popular languages like Spanish or Japanese. Watching kids tv or watching stuff you already know the plot of dubbed into your target language or rereading books you’ve already read but in your target language can also be helpful. The key to listening and reading practice is to have fun because fun helps your brain retain the information better so don’t force yourself to watch overly boring stuff if you don’t have to.
Some folks prefer to supplement their listening and reading with vocabulary flashcards. This is especially useful if you prefer to jump straight to watching or reading content meant for native speakers. Anki is a flashcard app that is free on desktop and is a one time purchase on mobile phones. It’s very popular with language learners and you can search for free decks to download already made by other learners, many of which also have audio, pictures, or example sentences.
If you prefer a more traditional study regimen in addition to your listening and reading or if there’s very few listening and reading resources for absolute beginners in your target language, apps like lingodeer don’t use AI and there’s language specific apps like Hello Chinese. There’s also a lot of free textbooks available online and a lot of free lecture courses on grammar provided by language teachers on YouTube. Once you get better at listening and reading you can also usually find resources for learners in the language and read grammar explanations in the target language instead of in English or your native language.
I have a list here of free or cheap resources for some popular languages. I haven’t updated it in a bit due to life being busy but I do plan on adding more in the future.
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Sometimes you cautiously crack open the door for a second and watch alien conspiracy theorists talk and they’re like “this ancient drawing is a diagram of DNA” and then they show the drawing and it’s of two snakes fucking
There’s drawings all over the world of snakes doing a fuck because fertility symbolism and whatnot and a spiral makes for a good design but alien obsessed grandpas who have never seen snakes having sex before in their lives will point very hard at the snake sex and say it’s a double helix or whatever it must be aliens.
No my friend. You just need to get out more. Maybe you’ll see some snakes in the wild making some sweet twisty snake love and get some perspective on the world.
Twisty twisty it is not a DNA strand
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Hello friends we need to talk about this twitter account:
You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.
Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:
He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.
Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:
And this:
He is not cute or funny. Stop platforming him.
The chips and salsa thread went viral in June and his website seems to have gone live in July. This confirms what I suspected which is that said website with it's explicit disclaimers was made in response to the big viral hit.
Consequently, back when he first blew up it was potentially a bit harder to figure out that his stories are fictional. That said, the New York Times worked it out so I'm comfortable accusing outlets who ran the story describing him as a Japanese world cup tourist of legitimately terrible journalism.
Regarding some comments in the notes:
Yeah this is also the guy from the truck thread going around. That's what prompted this post and in retrospect I should have said so explicitly.
He claims he just uses AI to translate his posts from Japanese. He also says the art on his website isn't AI generated. I think he is full of shit on both counts.
I only gave a couple of examples but even on a brief look through his twitter it was apparent that he posts a LOT about UK politics to the point where he's quite patently British. He is a Restore supporter which is a party that split away from mainstream far right party Reform due to feeling they weren't right wing enough.
It might not surprise you to hear he does not seem to know shit about Japan? Both the salsa story and the truck story failed the smell test for people who are familiar with Japan. There's also a story about going to a potluck where he seemingly couldn't come up with a single Japanese dish for the character to cook??
Yeah his whole bit is racist and it is troubling that so many people took a guy badly roleplaying as a medieval samurai to be a 21st century Japanese tourist.
