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NEW ACHIEVEMENT!
You read the first Dungeon Crawler Carl! Reward? Your brain will now be infected by worms that will gnaw holes into your gray matter as you think about putting your blorbos into a World Dungeon of your own!
Yeah. Good luck with that, buddy. Don't you have more important things to be doing?
The IGA Extra Famille Duchemin supermarket in Montreal features a 25,000 square-foot rooftop garden. Established in 2017, it produces over 30 varieties of organic vegetables, herbs, and even honey from on-site beehives. This produce is harvested and sold directly in the store, providing customers with ultra-local, fresh options.
Softwar - Hardwar
October 2017.
‘Industrial Nature’ series, at Makersplace.
No object is good or bad by itself, it all depends on the use you give to it. The same stone that was used to kill was also used to scratch art on the walls of caves. Something very similar is happening with the internet nowadays. Technology is becoming our natural predator.
reblog to give prev some of that good writing mojo
somehow all these good vibes have washed back on me and it's great. y'all are manifesting writing mojo for each other and me and I love it. keep going. don't stop.
So, let me guess– you just started a new book, right? And you’re stumped. You have no idea how much an AK47 goes for nowadays. I get ya, cousin. Tough world we live in. A writer’s gotta know, but them NSA hounds are after ya 24/7. I know, cousin, I know. If there was only a way to find out all of this rather edgy information without getting yourself in trouble…
You’re in luck, cousin. I have just the thing for ya.
It’s called Havocscope. It’s got information and prices for all sorts of edgy information. Ever wondered how much cocaine costs by the gram, or how much a kidney sells for, or (worst of all) how much it costs to hire an assassin?
I got your back, cousin. Just head over to Havocscope.
((PS: In case you’re wondering, Havocscope is a database full of information regarding the criminal underworld. The information you will find there has been taken from newspapers and police reports. It’s perfectly legal, no need to worry about the NSA hounds, cousin ;p))
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Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy
Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE
Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted
Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative
Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying
jump, v.
Origin unknown, first attested in the 1520s. There are three main theories of origin for this word:
The first is that it is somehow onomatopoetic, similar to bump, but evidence for this theory is slim and difficult to find.
The second is that it derives from Gallo-Roman, citing the Hundred Years' War as the likely point of contact for borrowing (compare Gallo-Roman jumba, "to balance, swing, or rock").
The last is that the word is Germanic in origin, from some rare Proto-Germanic root word and possibly borrowed from a daughter language of that family. Swedish and German each have a similar dialectal word for "to jump or hop": gumpa in Swedish, and gampen in German, but no clear link between these words and English jump has been found.
Previously, this concept was expressed using words like leap, bound, and spring, which covered most senses of the word. The noun form is first attested in the 1550s.
just casually not knowing where words came from kind of freaks me out. did "jump" just randomly appear like a brownie out of the fae realms. do i want to know
I love talking to kids about disability bc
1. they often just Get It, and
2. they have 0 concept of disability as a tragedy or something pitiable.
I've watched kids get into an argument with a teacher bc they thought wheelchairs were cool. I told a kid that I can't stand for too long sometimes and they replied, "That's okay, I can't do cartwheels sometimes, but I just do other stuff then. You can sit down with me if you want". Today a girl asked me what the headphones on a classmate's desk were for and I told her that headphones are important for some kids because noises bother them, and she said she wished she had headphones at home, because her baby brothers make a lot of noise and it makes it hard to think. The idea that different people could use tools at different times is intuitive and simple and when accessibility aids are explained neutrally, kids don't see them as bad or unfortunate, they're just things that are useful.
Even mental disability!! In Kindergarten the other day one of the kids asked me why his table partner got stickers when nobody else did. I started off by saying, "Well, when you do your work well, it feels good, right? That's your brain giving you a reward," and the kid just right away went, "Oh, and the stickers are like his reward?" YES! You are 5 and have a better grasp on ADHD than most adults! Kids blow me away every day.
Those am him leafs
#leaf him alone
am taking perverse pleasure in reminding people it's 2025. that's a star trek year. silly little science fiction number. except it's happening, and DANG ain't it underwhelming!
for Gen Z folks who didn't live through it:
the late 2000s to mid 2010s were culturally, a time of a resurgence of hope. I don't think we seriously realized it at the time (for all the Obama campaign posters), but it honestly was the last period in recent history where it was assumed the future would be better.
that was a big thing, that many millennials didn't realize was a big thing, until it was torn away. we honestly thought it was over, the fear and uncertainty of the Cold War and the Nuclear Age (and Bush 2.0). we were born in an era of reprieve. things were bad, yes, the world was insane and unfair, but it was better than it was before. the world had been at the brink of ultimate disaster, and then it stepped back. (And we honestly thought we had escaped our parents' legacy, by sheer virtue of being born in the correct decade.)
I cannot overstate how much that shapes your worldview, growing up in a time where the recent present is better than the recent past. we had reason to believe the world was getting better. because it was, actually! for a good while there! progress was slow, but it was real, and we could feel its grit on our fingertips.
and now we're in an age of regression. because you were robbed. we were robbed. a great global era of robbery (of housing and food and time and health and body and freedom and fundamental human rights), has blossomed, and is happening everyday today.
be furious. they will steal the teeth from your gums.
SO BITE WHILE YOU STILL CAN
shut up
This man is actually willy Wonka and he needs to be stopped. Someone needs to stop him. This is out of control.
I'm just amazed at the sheer amount of excess detail. Like, I've been watching his videos a lot but THIS ONE OMFG
I think it’s the smiling that makes him seem so otherworldly. I know these videos are highly edited but the fact that we never, ever see him express frustration at tools or material is what makes him magical (and lowkey aggravating).
Feeling rough lately.
speck, n.
There are two English nouns of this spelling, one meaning "a small spot or fleck", and one meaning "lard or fat". Since they do not share an origin, tonight's word is a double feature.
Speck, "a spot or fleck", is a native English word of uncertain origin. In Old English, the word is specca, and it is probably related to Dutch speckel. It may be a borrowing from Middle Dutch spekelen, "to sprinkle", which might also be the source of the English verb speckle, which is first attested in the 15th century. Spekke, the Middle English form of speck "a spot or fleck", may also be the source of that verb.
Speck, "lard or fat", is a more complicated case. Both the Oxford English Dictionary Online and etymonline.com list this word as originating in the 1630s (1633 first recorded use, according to the OEDO), and the OEDO lists it as a borrowing from Dutch spek and German Speck, both meaning "animal fat or lard". Etymonline.com, however, despite listing the origin date in the 1630s, identifies Old English spic, "bacon or lard", as the source of this word. The OEDO listing for that word, under spick, "lard or fat", has the word identified as obsolete, with its last recorded use in 1529, where it is spelled spycke. That word is also identified as having a common Germanic ancestor with Old Norse and Swedish cognates.
Now, while it is certainly possible that Old English spic fell out of use and was reborrowed a century later from a different Germanic source with only a very slight vowel change to distinguish it, I personally think there may be a simpler explanation. I believe speck "lard or fat" is simply a variant of spick "lard or fat".
Here is my reasoning:
The very slight vowel change in question is a lowering, from /ɪ/ to /ɛ/. These two vowels are very close, and in some dialects of English are interchangeable (look up the "pin/pen merger" for more information). English spelling was also not standardized in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and vowels were the most variable elements in early English spelling. It is not difficult to imagine that spick, spycke, and speck are all the same word.
The word spick was common, as a cooking term, and was used often. Words like this are unlikely to suddenly fall off unless there is another word which just as suddenly rises to replace them. The two words which may have done this are lard and fat. Lard is attested from the 14th century, and is therefore unlikely to have pushed out spick. Fat is a native English word, but only gained the sense of "animal fat, lard" in the 1530s. It is therefore possible that fat replaced spick, but with lard already a synonym used specifically as a cooking term, it is unlikely that fat would have been used to push spick out of that particular lexical niche, especially since there is no indication of fat being used specifically as a cooking term the way spick and lard were. Therefore there is no clear reason why spick would have suddenly become obsolete, only for a very similar word with the exact same meaning to have been borrowed a mere century later.
It is not uncommon for there to be centuries-long gaps in the written record of attestations for any given word. A gap of 100 years in the written record is not necessarily an indication that a word has become obsolete, especially when the word in question is less likely to be attested in the written record at all. While there are some cookbooks and recipes that survive from this era of English, the majority of the surviving records we have are of a more erudite nature: music, philosophy, political writings, legal documents, poetry, etc. Words like spick/speck are unlikely to appear in such writings. Combined with the variable spelling of the time period, it is not unreasonable to assume that the word survived in the spoken record and was simply absent for a while from the written one.
Therefore, I believe that etymonline.com's suggested origin of Old English spic is in fact correct. If this is the case, however, their origin date of the 1630s is quite incorrect. If speck "lard or fat" is indeed a variation of Old English spic, then the word ought to be listed as native to English with an unknown Proto-Germanic source word, which was probably something like *spek (reconstruction my own).
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Sources:
https://www.etymonline.com/word/speck
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/speck_n4
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/spick_n1
https://www.etymonline.com/word/lard
https://www.etymonline.com/word/fat
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how to donate an eSIM
if you are unable to go through this process, you can also donate directly to crips for e-sims for gaza, run by trusted disability justice leaders alice wong and leah lakshmi piepszna-samarasinha and poet jane shi. read their statement on wong's blog, disability visibility project, here
#i've been donating to crips for esims bcus i know personally i can't keep up with topping up #so donating there is also helpful bcus it gives them a pool of funds to keep esims topped up with if u can't afford it urself ^ yes!! very important note!!
