For the last few days I've been trying to limit the amount of time I spend looking at my phone. That includes tumblr. Hopefully this will continue. Just wated to let yall know I'm ok as of early february 2026
You should live. You should alive yourself NOW. That's right I'm sending alivebait. I hope you see a rainbow and find 20 dollars on the ground. Uh huh. And I hope your pain is less today than it was yesterday :)
lmao god, english upper class people... I was reading Mathilda, and there's all these monologues about the protagonist going insane from loneliness and not knowing how to act when she finally strikes up a friendship again; she has retired to a cottage in the woods and is essentially in hiding. All this time we're given the impression that she is utterly alone in that cottage. Much woe about the completeness of her loneliness. and then.
what do you mean your servant ...? in your cottage in the woods where you were so utterly alone? that one?
pt 2, this time Frankenstein by the same. Said Frankenstein is greatly relieved when he returns and the 'apartment was empty' because this means his monster has fled. but then
...did that servant materialise out of thin air to bring him food in his room. The place not actually empty, just empty of people of his own class. he just left the servant and his monster with each other while he was out.
Eventually the monster was like "well this is awkward. I'm out." and the servant presumably just filed the encounter under "weird shit upper class people do" and went on with his life.
I remember taking this college elective on film adaptations and we talked about the controversy caused by the PBS adaptation of Emma, which made a point of putting servants in every. single. scene, confronting the audience with the reality that the main characters are surrounded by servants constantly and are choosing not to acknowledge their presence. Emma is consoling her "poor" friend Harriet over her misfortune and the entire time a servant is standing there silently brushing Emma's hair or some shit.
Virtually every other adaptation of Emma does a very good job of invisiblizing the constant presence of the working class labor force that allowed these people to live the way they did.
A quote from Mary Shelley's Mathilda: '[...] arrived and quite incapable of taking off my wet clothes that clung about me. In the morning, on her return, [highlighted] my servant [end highlight] found me almost lifeless, while possessed by a high fever I was lying on the floor of my room.
A quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: [...] hands for joy and ran down to Clerval. [highlighted] We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; [end highlight] but I was unable to contain myself. It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.]
BREAKING: Democrats in Virginia now control all three levels of state government—and they wasted no time putting that power to work.
In just days, Virginia Democrats have moved to:
— End state and local police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration
— Advance new electoral maps aimed at undoing partisan gerrymandering
— Enshrine LGBTQ+ protections in the state constitution
— Enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution
— Expand and safeguard voting rights
— Remove Republican appointees from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors
— Restore and strengthen diversity and inclusion initiatives
— Fast-track a minimum wage increase
— Push new housing construction to ease rising rent costs
This is what unified governance looks like when a party actually uses power instead of tiptoeing around it.
Virginia didn’t wait. Virginia acted.
Now the message is simple: replicate this everywhere. November matters.
tumblr: constantly be aware of your own privilege. constantly be aware of your capacity of be evil. hey i know you really like that new piece of media but make sure you're aware of all of the problematic elements all the time. hey i noticed you reblogged a post from a designated Bad Person so please make sure you do a thorough background check on everyone you reblog from to make sure they're not bad, otherwise people might get the wrong idea about you. always be aware of everything bad that's happening in the world all the time because silence is violence. i see you not reblogging this post btw. activist burnout is a privilege so be aware of that. xyz people are required to reblog this post. if you're not constantly fighting against designated Bad People you are inherently complicit and therefore a Bad Person.
for the record if you picked no I expect you to prove it. it is more likely that you don't know what "pronouncing things differently" means than it is that you actually say them the same way
surprising number of people in the notes saying things like "yeah they're the same, my tongue is in the same position for both of them" which is wild because I've been assuming that most people are aware that there are other muscles involved in speaking besides the tongue
for the 8% of you who claim that you say both of these words with the same consonant at the start and that you actually checked how you say them, what same consonant is it? (you should know, because you said you checked.)
(I did not say "no, and I checked" for the previous poll)
[θ] voiceless interdental fricative
[ð] voiced interdental fricative
[f] voiceless labiodental fricative
[v] voiced labiodental fricative
[t] voiceless alveolar or dental plosive
[d] voiced alveolar or dental plosive
[s] voiceless alveolar fricative
[z] voiced alveolar fricative
okay I'm realizing now I did not actually check. they are different, sorry
something else (PLEASE ACTUALLY CHECK. DO NOT ASSUME)
okay, so in response to the first poll in this post hundreds of you have told me that you pronounce these two words with the same TH sound. just to be clear, the two words in question are an adjective that means "skinny", T-H-I-N, "thin", which usually starts with a θ sound, and a function word that means "next", T-H-E-N, "then", which usually starts with a ð sound.
I don't need to tell you that these are two different sounds, because it's obvious just from listening to them that they are qualitatively different. one of them is a voiceless fricative so it's higher pitched and sounds breathy, θ, and the other one is a voiced fricative so it's lower pitched and sounds tonal, ð. "thin", and "then". for most English speakers, the fact that these two words begin with different consonants is the most obvious difference in their pronunciation, and for English speakers with the pin-pen merger it's literally the only difference in their pronunciation.
but that doesn't matter, hundreds of you told me that you checked and you personally pronounce these two words with the same TH sound, so you don't say "thin" and "then" with a θ and a ð like most English speakers or "fin" and "den" like many people who speak varieties of English without dental fricatives, or any other pair of different consonants. you checked, and you pronounce these two words with the same TH sound, so what same sound is it?
is it a voiceless interdental fricative, θin and θen, so you say the word that means "next" like "θen", like "what will we do θen"?
is it a voiced interdental fricative, ðin and ðen, so you say the word that means "skinny" like "ðin", like "bread cut into ðin slices"?
or maybe your English doesn't have interdental fricatives at all, that's fine and normal, so in that case what other sound is it?
is it a labiodental fricative? voiceless, fin and fen, or voiced, vin and ven?
is it a plosive? voiceless, tin and ten, or voiced, din and den?
is it an alveolar fricative? voiceless, sin and sen, or voiced, zin and zen?
or maybe it's some other sound for both words, but probably not because I covered all the ways I'm aware of that English speakers pronounce these phonemes.
or, the final possibility, none of these were accurate for both words, because one of them is the consonant you use for the TH in the word that means "skinny" and a different one is the consonant you use for the TH in the word that means "next", which means that you actually do pronounce these two words with two different TH sounds, which would mean that if earlier you said that you checked and that you say them with the same sound you did not actually check how you say these two words, because you say them with two different sounds.
anyway, hope that helps, sorry if this sounded too mean, I'm mostly just frustrated with how hard it is to convey this information through text. I don't wanna like make fun of people for not knowing things, I'm aware that the fact that TH in English makes two different sounds isn't exactly common knowledge, but I would like to believe that the average person who doesn't already know that TH makes two different sounds can, when shown two words that contain the two different sounds, observe on their own that the sounds are clearly different without needing to be told explicitly what the difference between them is.
Out at 11 to keep the water trough from slushing up. This time I took Pity on Rosalie and put her coat on. K bought it in the fall, and I don't think she has ever worn it before. She was not thrilled.
She said, "I - can just stay on the porch? Right?"
As a matter of fact, no, Rosalie, you cannot.
I can't even.
She did eventually get the hang of moving in it, but continued jumping into the air and shaking vigorously, trying to get rid of it.
Meanwhile, Hero and the gang are just hanging out by the haybale. Enduring stoically.
The part where I had to climb the damned apple tree, in my winter layers and boots, to force the idiot chickens to go in their coop does not bear talking about. There was hostile language on both sides.
😅 sometimes, one chooses to get err... a less modern breed of chicken. Like, say, Icelandics. And chooses to let broodies hatch out chicks because chicken is tasty, and hey, I got these birds in part because of their reliable brooding and mothering instincts.
Unfortunately this means that come mid to late summer, the cockerels are ready to strike out on their own ie. Stop sleeping with those silly grownups (alternate version as reported by the adult chickens: parents kick those absolute idiot teenagers out of the coop perches due to a serious case of Excessive Hormones and Unruly Behaviour) (a pattern that does seem to match with their jungle fowl ancestors)
Then, when one goes out to lock up the coop at night, one is faced with the tree nearest the coop being filled - up to a height of about 30' - with chickens who are convinced this is the Best and Only place to sleep. (To be clear there is significantly more indoor perch space than actually needed, they could and do all comfortably fit inside)
Choices at this point are:
a) feed the raccoons (not ideal on many levels including but not limited to that's *my* future dinner dangit!)
b) shake the tree (at best resulting in confused and irritated chickens landing on one's head, also not ideal)
c) get out the leaf blower because I have yet to meet a chicken that enjoys its butt fluff being suddenly blown backwards
So C it is. Which thankfully after a few days does result in being able to run the chickens out of the tree just by turning it on for a few seconds. They aren't stupid birds. But those first few days I do have to stand around under the tree (or on the coop roof) causally leafblowing my chickens.
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time.
Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.
This is such stunningly good news. To be reaching a point where you can actually imagine AIDS getting treated like cancer. That AIDS could be cured in my lifetime on a large scale.
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