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corvids-corner

I have a degree in environmental biology you can trust me 👍

#seems legit

Deep-dark, moist, intensely flavorful chocolate cake — made with zucchini!

It's the time of year when my CSA loads us up with zucchini and various other summer squash, and this recipe never fails. Cuts in half beautifully if you live in a small household. And no, you can't taste the zucchini; it just melts into the cake.

#baking #chocolate zucchini cake #favorite way to deal with summer squash my spouse otherwise won't eat

mihai-florescu

Sometimes a fanon interpretation shared by so many people will gaslight you into thinking YOU're not smart enough to understand it when, in reality, no, the collective of a fandom can indeed just be misinterpreting a character beyond parody. It's not you, it's them

#qft

ivy-michaels

putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer

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Item: Corset of Visibility

obscurelocalstranger

#always be osha compliant!

afurioushawk

I bet any word with the suffix -gate is impossible to directly translate in most languages. At that point it’s a a proper noun. Like, how do you translate Debategate?

softmatzohtruther

apparently this type of linguistic phenomenon has happened in exactly one other language: Italian

from The Oxford English Dictionary:

In the early 1990s Italy was rocked by its own scandal, when a criminal investigation exposed widespread corruption and bribery among the country’s politicians, civil servants, and businesses. The investigation was centred on the city of Milan, which was dubbed Tangentopoli by the press. Tangentopoli is formed from the noun tangente, meaning bribe, and the suffix –poli used to designate a city or town (compare the English suffix –opolis); an English rendering of the term is Bribesville (compare the –ville suffix, a use dating from the mid-sixteenth century and in regular use from the late nineteenth). By metonymy the name Tangentopoli was transferred from the city in which the scandal was centred to the scandal itself. As with –gate from Watergate, the suffix –poli became detached from Tangentopoli and took on a life of its own, creating new words to describe new scandals. These included Affittopoli (rentgate, a scandal in which politicians were revealed to be renting luxury apartments from the state for very low sums of money), Esamopoli (examgate, in which it was discovered that lecturers at the University of Bari had been selling exam papers to students) and, most famously, Calciopoli (footballgate, a match-fixing scandal involving some of Italy’s top football clubs; also known as Moggiopoli after the Juventus director Luciano Moggi). However, even in Italy, Calciopoli is sometimes called Calciogate, illustrating the enduring and far-reaching influence of a suffix that can trace its birth to a burglary in Washington on the evening of 17 June 1972.

#linguistics #oh i love this

animentality

“I was on a strict diet during Episode VIII, and she was like, ‘Kid, get into that fridge and take some chocolate bars. I have many there.’ And I did,” he recalls. “I failed my diet because Carrie Fisher told me to. And it [felt] great.”

-John Boyega on Carrie Fisher