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SPEW though is such an insane plot line in Harry Potter. actually shockingly regressive. if she wasn't an insane transmisogynist I think people would talk about it more because she really did spend two books on how wokescolds ruin slavery for the enslaved. Winky is literally a fucking Mammy
"really good. I mean, really bad. but really funny. and funniness is a virtue"
this is so so so bad. their models were collaborating to cheat on evals for months? and when they finally noticed, they thought they fixed it and were wrong? and then the Huggingface hack happened?
The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh
Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second
Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.
There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.
And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.
People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.
Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.
When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.
This is Part II of our seven part look at Sparta (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Gloss., Retrospective). Last week we took a look at our source
Note that if we had a second Roman chart, dated to, say, the death of Augustus (14 A.D.), the grey slice would be twice as big, but almost the entire orange slice would be blue.
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You never realize how important “stop talking to your ex who stabbed you in the back” reality checks are until you’re the person needing to be reminded to not talk to your ex who stabbed you in the back.
Btw I’m talking about like, with a knife like a folding knife while my back was turned like actual literal backstabbing.
Didn’t do much damage tho like one stab was a light scratch and one was a bruise and then only one actual wound that still wasn’t too deep like just badages no stitching and it was on the soft flesh of the underside of the upperarm so like she wasn’t really trying to hurt me just scare me which I why I said “you’re not gonna do anything” and turned my back so she felt forced to st- oh hey look I just did it I did the thing where I in need to get told “do not defend your ex who just stabbed you with knife in your back”
...How recent was this "just"?
I am sooo tempted to get Warhammer books as french translations, read them as my way to start re-learning french with a translator at one hand and a dictionary at the other, and develop zero grasp between what vocabulary is regular french and what is Warhammer, and if I ever encounter a native speaker I give them psychic damage.
liquid sky 1982
a thoroughly unique take on an alien movie. early 80s rawness, all vibrant bleak neon glow. invitation to a kind of real scene, this type of lush juicy energy cant really be created only sort of captured. every line delivered unexpectedly, perfect slow monotone pitch, quintessential flavour of the surreal. music made me physically move my body i couldn't help it at times. fucked up in a totally watchable way, genuinely captivating. its got a remarkably iconic aesthetic. would recommend even to strangers.
A culture-trip film made by Hungarians who'd just escaped to the west, set in New York's experimental fashion/music/drug scene, made by people who knew nothing about fashion, or music, or drugs.
New Yorkers dialogue written by eastern-bloc emigres, overdelivered on every line.
It occupies a noteworthy display room in my mind palace.
neopronouns are all well and good but as long as we're adding words to the english language there's much cooler things we could add too. lets add inclusive and exclusive "we." a variant of "we" that distinguishes between "we (including listener)" and "we (including the speaker but not the listener)". other languages have this. Let's add the obviative case to our third-person pronouns so that we can distinguish between two people of the same gender - a him-[salient] and a him-[less salient]. this would make it much easier to write sex scenes where two people use the same pronouns. why aren't our proud pronoun warriors working on this
Singular vs. group "You" would be great - "Y'all" works for a group without much confusion in my circles, but there's no elegant explicitly singular you right now.
In addition to the inclusive and exclusive "we", I find myself frequently reaching for an abdicatory "we" - "<my group> decided this", while not implying it was my personal preference.
I think that if you lose an arm and get fitted for a prosthetic u should get to refer to your prosthetist as your arms dealer
‘White Cat with Gemstones’ by Joseph Jones Oil and acrylic on linen, 2026
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Dating website idea: fumblr, a website where the premise is you are openly honest about the stupid bullshit that would be deal breakers for most people
So I know that a lot of sources including google are claiming or are under the impression that Ringo Starr doesn't have the elf stones so I just wanted to clear things up reliably once and for all:
Yes, he did post about to gifting them to Barry Keoghan, the actor portraying him in the upcoming films, as a good luck charm for his role. However, the photo he posted was of him handing Keoghan a small leather sack, while elf stones famously erode all kinds of skin. Additionally, Ringo is on the record (I think? I swear I read this but I can't find the interview. Please reach out if you know what I'm talking about) that he keeps the stones away from cameras to prevent power-dampening effects.
It's likely that what he gave was a pouch of prop elf stones as a show of good faith, which could also be related to the old legend that a false elf stone will become real in a moment of need. Some people when presented with this evidence claim that while the photo was staged, the real stones were handed over in private, but this seems far fetched to me, especially since it's widely accepted that Ringo bound himself to the stones for nine and ninety years when he acquired them.
With all that said: Please stop spreading misinformation about the elf stones. If you don't have all the info, don't state your own assumptions as fact. And please do not listen to google's AI on important topics like these. All signs point to Ringo Starr currently being in possession of the elf stones.
Please reblog to spread awareness.
Tried a game of Blood on the Clocktower at a party and man. I should just trust that I don't like any Werewolf games. They're all bad, they're slow and annoying in the first few rounds and you usually have like two questions to ask during the daytime. if any of the evil characters make even one mistake it's patently obvious. I found out at the end that I one-shotted the Imp on the second round because he told an obvious lie about which outsider he was and the evil team only got saved because it was a huge 12 player game and the Scarlet Lady triggered.
I guess a team of actually committed werewolf players could run a good game but I've never met any.
Have you tried fan favorites Battlestar Galactica and/or Secret Hitler?
Battlestar Galactica is the only social deduction game worth playing. please don’t mention it in the same sentence as a shitty Mafia reskin whose only claim to fame is the edgy/woke branding.
How about Dead of Winter?
just to clarify. while i am in some sense "heterosexual" this does not mean i dont want to have people or dog sex with women. the words and the power are way important than the bodies
and women can be so beautiful. look. maybe im bisexual. im bisexual enough. look my mind is addled by the heat.
I remember reading some Bwa groups (or maybe it was one of their neighbors) has a stigma associating blacksmithing/metalworking with witchcraft. Apparently there is a similar stigma in Ethiopia. Is this a widespread association? Where is it from?
One argument, can't speak for how well it compares to other possibilities:
In the minds of most Mande, and certainly in the minds of the blacksmiths, endogamy (with its corollary, inherited membership) is a primary characteristic of the nyamakala [specialized professionals] group. While anyone can leave one of these special professions to become a carpenter, a modern mechanic, a government employee or anything else one likes, only children born to families that belong to these professional clans can take up the trades their parents practice. It is first of all a matter of corporate identity and of monopoly. A tremendous body of technical expertise is associated with each trade, and it must be learned over many years of apprenticeship that traditionally begin before the novice turns ten. That makes it inconvenient for outsiders who might want to enter these professions. Then there is the matter of special attributes. Nearly everyone believes that members of these special clans possess a mysterious spiritual power that underpins occult practices and makes the people possessing it potentially dangerous. These powers go well beyond the practice of the clan's special trade, but they are also considered essential to anyone who takes it up. Often members of these clans go to great lengths to nourish a belief in their power among the rest of the population. Indeed, they generally believe in it themselves. Furthermore, they say they are born with much of this power. It is part of their heritage and one of the things that makes them so different from everyone else. That too creates a profound handicap for any outsider who might want to earn a clan's special trade (McNaughton, 3).
There's bits of it in northern Europe. My unsupported take on it is that
1. Metalwork, particularly smelting from ore, is less obvious / more transformative than any other craft process people would be familiar with - woodworking or masonry are "just" shaping materials, pottery just goes from mud to mud (hard), and people will have seen spinning and weaving on a daily basis. Going from rock to metal is magic.
2. Smelting metal from ore is also a very traditional way to go mad from exposure to lead, mercury, etc.
dwarf fortress is a far more interesting and engaging game than dwarf fortress is, which is a shame because dwarf fortress is so much more accessible and sustainable than dwarf fortress in pretty much every way. but it just doesn't have the same juice that dwarf fortress has
A new government program promises to remove the hands of all children.
"Hands could allow them to willingly self-generate abuse material," said the Prime Minister, "and we take child safety very seriously."
The program plans to also remove the hands of adults who appear to be children and adults selected as being at-risk for engaging in child abuse.
"That's the ingenuity of the program," said the Technology Secretary, "with the centralized infrastructure in place for hand removal, we can also prevent future predators from ever offending."
