the sluttiest linguist

Emily/Abby | she/her | 26 | Language nerd and octopus fun fact collector | fuck 🧊

[pixiecaps]

big fan of whatever the youth is doing to torment scientology buildings

[leebrontide]

Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".

They want to control our elections.

I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.

They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.

Source

[rederiswrites]

How interesting. How very interesting. They rejected my Blaze of this post.

Well, y'all. Make of this what you will, eh?

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?

[megpie71]

Boosting signal. AGAIN.

[wolverina2002]

German here. This is, essentially, what happened in 1939. The Nazis got the majority in parlament through democratic process and then applied terror until the rights of the people to vote them out again were taken away. I should add that they did, among other things, send out their paramilitary to provoke fights and also took advantage of the Reichstagsbrand. (It should be noted that I´m currently unclear on whether or not the Nazis caused that fire and blamed someone else, or if they indeed only took advantage.) Back then, the enemy was the communists and jewish people. The SA was on the street, terrorizing people. Abducting people. Taking people around the back of a house to be shot. Until they got what they wanted: absolute power.

That´s what this is. Trump tried it the soft way in his first term, and the people voted him out of office. This time, his cabinet isn´t fucking about. (I´m saying his cabinet because I shit you not, I highly doubt Trump could find his own ass pockets at this point.) This is, essentially, a terror campain. They hope you´ll grow tired of caring. They hope that if they disappear enough people, you´ll grow too scared to fight. They hope to find the right enemy to present to you as the cause of all your problems. They hope that they can somehow prevent the midterms from going to the democrats.

Here´s the important bit: Do. Not. Stop.

It´s tiring. It´s scary. Giving in will feel easier at some point. Your brain is wired to keep you alive, and going out every day to fight the Gestapo isn´t very in line with that goal. But it must be done. You´re scaring them. The fact that people of so many different backgrounds are deciding they hate ICE more than they hate each other is killing their entire spiel.

They have, ironically, succeeded splendidly in giving the nation a common enemy to unite against. Unfortunately for them, the enemy is their off-brand Gestapo and the pumpkin in chief.

Keep fighting. Don´t let history repeat itself. Get loud. Don´t ever let them silence you.

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[saywhat-politics]

CALL YOUR SENATORS!!!

[reading-writing-revolution]

[blignick]

[wordfather]

collecting these

[wordfather]

HOW could i forget this classic

[jehovahhthickness]

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

[jehovahhthickness]

Okay inflation is crazy.

We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.

[redstonedust]

tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.

[ladyshinga]

[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

[bobby-luv]

[deadgenerations]

PrEP definitely goes high on my list of "most significant and undersung inventions". its borderline a miracle drug, its cheap as piss and it has basically no side effects and 'it just works'

[deadgenerations]

PrEP has less side effects than the birth control pill. I know it's stigmatised but you really, really should be on PrEP if you are having anal sex or sex with anyone who has anal sex, or if you otherwise engage in 'high risk for HIV' sexual behaviours or have sex with anyone who does. You really will not notice any side effects after the first two weeks. americans, you should be able to get it for free if you can find a clinic in the know.

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

heymistr.com will mail you prep for free. And you can do all the testing by mail if you don't have a clinic nearby

[tonguesalt]

free in Denmark too, get in touch with Aidsfondet via one of their Checkpoints

https://aidsfondet.dk/checkpoint/prep

[girls4losers]

i gotta remember this

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[moniquill]

[mousegirlheart]

[mousegirlheart]

[adventures-in-mimesis]

this format is fucking horrifying

[mousegirlheart]

[shrewdbunny-art]

[andhumanslovedstories]

Now that I’m studying bio, may I just say how fervently I wish my primary association with the words “alpha, beta, omega” was literally anything other than what it is

[andhumanslovedstories]

My nutrition professor was talking about vitamins and said, “the only reason you all even know the words alpha and omega is because of sororities,” and I wanted so badly to raise my hand and be like “if you’re gonna be a dick for some reason, please let me explain to you in depth my immediate connotations for those words”

[birdthany]

I’m in training to become a phlebotomist and at my last class we did blood typing and let me tell you when I walked into the lab to see A/B/O written in massive letters on the whiteboard I felt six years come off my lifespan

[realitycheckbounced]

once I used a phrase alpha and omega of something during a lecture and one of the students giggled so hysterically I *knew* and I looked at her and she looked at me, and let me tell you, this was the most profound moment of horror and understanding I have ever shared with another person

[tucsonhorse]

That moment when you recognize someone from the Devil’s Sacrament

[the-haiku-bot]

That moment when you

recognize someone from the

Devil’s Sacrament

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.