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not that either is a good thing but there is a small cosmic sort of irony to appreciate in the way that the russian invasion of ukraine and the most recent nakba happened so close together and how they through comparison made it undeniably clear how much the definition of war crime and genocide and atrocity &etc depends on the geopolitical interests of the imperial core
From The Guardian (2 Mar 2022)
putting butter on toasted bread is so good has anyone else tried this shit
intersring dish. drop the recipe
Im so glad you asked! In my family, we’re a little different. For generations, butter has been a staple ingredient in all of our recipes. It all started in 1943 when my great grandfather Jo discovered cows. As a youngster he used to churn milk while watching the family of mourning doves on the neighbors land fight over the plumpest worms each morning. The doves feeding their children inspired grandpa Jo so much throughout the years that an idea sparked in his head. He then started the family business we all know as Bo’s kitchen (changed it to Bo for the letter B from butter.)
One day a young woman named Margeryne came into our shop and excitedly declared she also enjoyed making food in the shape of a rectangle. Upon hearing this grandpa Jo almost called his lawyer to file a lawsuit, assuming if anyone else found a way to make food in the shape of a rectangle it must be a stolen copy of our one-of-a-kind melt-in-your-mouth butter recipe. But he stopped dead in his tracks when he heard her call this rectangular food a “Loaf.” We stared in awe at her creation for what felt like hours. That’s when I tried bread for the very first time. It was shockingly delicious and wonderfully fluffy.
But, even then, I had never thought about putting butter on top of bread before. In this recipe I will show you how two rectangular foods combine to make something even greater, something that will make you say Mmmmm! like you’ve never said it before.
Ingredients:
- butter
- bread
Directions:
Toast 2 slices of bread, spread a pad of butter on the tops of each, serve warm.
2 stars. it was terrible. idk what went wrong, i replaced the bread with a brick and the butter for cement paste to cut back on carbs (im on the curbs diet) and it just tasted like rocks. WTF. 😡😡
lydia davis
In the same vein:
"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)
via ThoughtCo
Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:
But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.
from "English is not normal"
This funny thing happens when you try to translate from Chinese into English.
See every language has it's own way of sounding pretentious. English speakers do it by using long multisyllabic words of latinate origin. Chinese speakers who want to sound pretentious speak in idioms derived from classical Chinese poetry/literature.
When translators (usually native Chinese speakers) convert this style of dialogue into English, they usually do so by finding an English idiom that has a similar meaning to the Chinese idiom in the original dialogue. This usually results in a very awkward translation. English idioms don't convey that same fancy/high class vibe that Chinese idioms do. In fact they often convey the opposite vibe.
The result is ... weird.
You're watching cdramas set in the 17th century where all the characters are supposed to be royals/gentry . You know they're supposed to sound over-educated and snooty and pretentions, but then you read the English subtitles the translation is chock full of corny platitudes like "a day late and a dollar short" or "when the cat's away the mice will play" or "all's well that ends well."
this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects
“why did i start this list” pleaseeeeeee this is so funny
his descriptions were extremely on-point, and frankly inspiring when writing a hurt/comfort scene
Instagram poets could never!
DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY
I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.
Unsettling update
Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!
Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?
Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.
They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.
And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:
And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that
So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad
The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder: Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.
Do not support them in any way, shape, or form.
‘Tis the season to say FUCK the Salvation Army.
Also iirc they’re transphobic and homophobic
I stayed in a Salvation Army shelter for a couple nights when I was thrown out.
It was legitimately the least safe I’ve felt in my life. Just a dark room full of old cots with barely any sheeting, and the seats in the lounge area were the most tattered things I’ve ever seen.
This was the only shelter that accepted men in the city. Sleeping behind the flower planters at the library was preferable to spending another night there. Thankfully, the Ontario Works guy I had to talk to told me about a youth shelter I just barely qualified for and I got out, to somewhere much safer with much better resources that helped me get on my feet and get a job.
That location has been closed for a few years now. I don’t know what the homeless men back home do now without that shelter, but I can’t help but think it’s a good thing it’s gone.
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SULFURIC ACID ?
Israel is one of the most racist countries in the world.
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tumblr deleted this video but i redid it with yt this time!
THEY RESTORED THE POST?! LMFAO
VIDEO WAS NUKED AGAIN 😵💫 WHAT'S GOING ON?? @staff
RESTORED AGAIN🍿
no cheating by looking but who do you think your Spotify top artist is gonna be this year 👀
real russian roulette bc i was a nanny for most of the year so it’s either like remi wolf or cocomelon
This could be my last report from Gaza by Tareq S. Hajjaj. Please read.
[ID: Screenshots from an article, titled: "This could be my last report from Gaza", with the subheader: "Keep my stories alive, so that you keep me alive. Remember that the world that pretended to be the savior of humanity participated in killing it." The article was written by Tareq S. Hajjaj, and the attached photo is described as "Tareo Hajjaj during one of his field visits reporting for Mondoweiss." The screenshots read as follows:
Today I’m telling you the news. Tomorrow, I may be the news. I’m not sure that I will be able to write another story in the upcoming days. I’m not sure that I will survive. Israel decided, along with the U.S. and European countries, to wipe out the entire Gaza Strip. They plan on turning us into refugees one more time, and now they’re putting pressure on Egypt to host us. But the majority of people in Gaza have decided to stay in their homes, even if it meant being exterminated.
Keep my stories alive so that you keep me alive. Remember that I wanted a normal life, a small home full of my children's laughter and the smell of my wife's cooking. Remember that the world that pretended to be the savior of humanity participated in killing such a small dream.
End ID]
the palestinian film institute and the palestine film platform are screening 'unprovoked narratives' — a program of 12 films celebrating the beauty of Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival
the films will be available to watch for free through october 21st
i dont fully understand the idea of 'gritty retellings' or 'realistic retellings' of fairy tales that rely heavily on shock value and explicitly include 'dark material' (for example red riding hood often gets retold with more obvious depictions of csa) not because of like a ruined childhood sense or anything but more because i always fold my hands and think Yeah What Did You Think The Original Story Was About
and to add this on to be clear: i DO like retellings or explorations of stories that expand upon or dissect the original moral of long standing folktales However. sometimes people do this in a way that feels like someone opening a grilled cheese sandwich and saying YOOOOO DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS CHEESE IN THIS?
