#disambiguation

[tealin]

I've heard two otherwise intelligent people get this wrong on Radio 4 in the last week. Don't let it be you! Choose your own mnemonic – alphabetical? ascend/descend? – and don't confuse ancestors and descendants in polite company, or anyone with glancing experience of history or genealogy.

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

DISAMBIGUATION LINK IN YOUR MOST RECENT REBLOG! For shame!

You'll never catch me alive!

[joehills]

Me: I was too busy knowing myself to actually know my enemy. Better google dreamsimp real quick.

Also me: wtf, there’s like a lot of these.

Dream (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

[gallup24]

Image is from the pre-S2 promotional studio contest tours.

You might have seen it around in promos/articles. The two red motorbikes on the right appear throughout S2. I might have written crackpot meta on them.

I'm pretty sure the white bike on the left doesn't appear in the series.

Ever

It's weirdly intriguing. Intriguing because of its <shrugs> license plate.

The license plates in GO S2 are unique little Easter eggs. They use a combination of Strong's Concordance and acronyms or abbreviations that need puzzled out. It's a clever use of the Word of God telling a story within a story.

The license plates seem to show a snippet of the scene they're in, but Strong's Concordance is used on all manner of props in S1 and S2.

The bike's plate is PK16ZBW

PK could be peak or pastor's kid, which can mean a child from the house of God. It's interesting with the whole Warlock/Greasy Johnson mystery. What happened to those 2 after the notpocalypse?

Back to the plate>>

PK - pastor's kid

16 - doing what is right

ZBW - is the code for Boston's Air Traffic Control Center

What might Adam have changed? What GO characters are in America? Boston? Maybe Anathema. Warlock and his mum. Is it a hint about him?

Or....

PK - peak

16 - doing what is right

ZBW - is Z code, a radio communication code for change to backup frequency

The license plate may actually be a spoiler for the end of S2. That's why it's never seen in the show. It predicts what's coming.

At the end of S2, Gabriel is going off to live his heaven. A new Archangel is needed, a backup.

Enter the ethereal being that's peak at doing what is right.

And that motorbike itself is a 2016 AJS Modena 125, which "recreates the golden era of scootering." The perfect ride for an angel that doesn't like to go fast in love, literature, music or fashion.

With all the licences that Aziraphale has collected, do you think he ever got a motorcycle license?

Putputputputput

Thought for a moment the mystery bike could be Madame Tracy's. In the book, it's an elderly scooter whose speedometer hadn't worked since 1974. In the Script book it's an ancient scooter, like a Triumph Tina.

Here's some other crackpot license plate meta. I totally haven't made a spreadsheet of license plates used in S2.

[daily-wikidata]

[janmisali]

best way to distinguish between an artist/writer and their self-insert with the same name (part two, The Character)

call them their name. the real person is the one who needs to be disambiguated

the character is called something familiar-sounding (ie. first name only)

the character is called an even more formal thing than the real person

"[name] from [title]" (or similar)

"[name], like the character not the real person" (or similar)

a description of their role in the work

literally just the same thing as the real person. allow it to be confusing

other (specify in tags/replies)

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Voting ended onFeb 20, 2023

[wildlifegermany]

[bixbythemartian]

I deleted the thing I reblogged about dates on student loan debt relief stuff, because I got a few more corrections. I feel bad about having accidentally contributed to misinformation, and there seems to be a lot of confusion, so I'm going to do my best to disambiguate.

All information comes from the studentaid.gov website, linked here.

This is all accurate, as far as I can tell, as of September 2, 2022. Changes may be made after.

The payment pause on federally held student loans has been extended through December 31, 2022 (this year)

The payment pause is automatically applied to all federally held student loans, you do not need to sign up for it.

The deadline to apply for the student debt relief program is December 31, 2023 (next year)

This may be automatic for some, but you will likely need to apply for the student debt relief program.

The debt relief program is expected to take 4-6 weeks to process and apply your relief.

If you apply before November 15, 2022 (this year) you will be likely to receive your debt relief before payments on federally held student loans resume.

You will be best served by applying before November 15, 2022 (this year) but the hard deadline to apply for student debt relief remains December 31, 2023 (next year).

If you believe you qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSFL) you need to apply by October 31, 2022 (this year).

This is because there have been temporary changes to qualifications for PSFL that will expire on October 31, 2022 (this year). The program will persist afterwards, but you may be less likely to qualify for forgiveness once the changes drop.

You can read more about PSFL and apply for the program here.

You can sign up for email updates on the Federal Student Loan Debt Relief stuff at this website.

sorry for contributing to any confusion, I hope this helps straighten things out.