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let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

wileycap

what-even-is-thiss

It can either be an herbivore or a herbivore depending on if you want to pronounce your H sounds today

what-even-is-thiss

A hotel and an hotel are similar sometimes.

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The tricky thing about a and an is that it doesn’t matter whether or not there’s supposed to be a consonant at the beginning of the next word. It matters whether or not a consonant is being pronounced.

So depending on how fast you’re speaking you may live in a house or an house

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also consider: a european

what-even-is-thiss

Europe/Euro/European despite starting with an E actually makes a Y sound so it actually starts with a consonant

twentybrokenipodclassics

cats are small, simple, radially symmetrical creatures with no skeleton or brain. they survive off of whatever detritus happens to find its way to them, typically chunks of plastic and a bowl of wet food.

hornetdlc

In the first Hades game by Supergiant, we play as Zagreus (male) and we are able to dash to avoid enemies attack.

In its sequel, Hades II, we play as Melinoe (female), Zagreus' sister, and we are now able to not only dash, but sprint by holding down the dash button, which allows us to gain new moves associated with sprinting.

In the first Hollow Knight game by Team Cherry, we play as an unnamed protagonist commonly referred to as the Knight (agender at creation) and we are able to dash to avoid enemies attack.

In its sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, we play as Hornet (female), the Knight's sister, and we are now able to not only dash, but sprint by holding down the dash button, which allows us to gain new moves associated with sprinting.

From this we can infer 2 things:

Only women can sprint, everyone else can only dash

Sprinting may also be exclusive to sisters of their previous games' protagonist

#WHEEZES #it made me feel very warm and fuzzy to see the knight listed under the wikipedia page for agenderism. notable agender character in fiction.

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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theramblingvoid

Hit "view post" and lost it

gingik

grocki

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

grocki

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there

kropotkindersurprise

July 22, 2026 - People around the USA are taking down Flock AI surveillance cameras. [video]

noneedtofearorhope

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

markscherz

OKAY BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE SKELETON OF A RAIN FROG? [X]

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WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THEY DON’T HAVE RIBS

HUH

markscherz

Yeah frogs don’t have ribs. It’s a quick way to identify the bullshit ‘info’post about the ‘correct way’ to hold a frog. They seem to constantly mention hurting their non-existent ribs.

fuckyeahchinesefashion

Chinese wushu technique, shuang-jie-gun. (CR 楚儿霸王)

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girl-detector

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KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

visibun

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

drtanner

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

prokopetz

Something I see getting overlooked a lot when discussing queercoding in historical media is that in many cases it's not evidence that the writers secretly shipped it; it was aimed at straight dudes specifically to freak them out. Depicting a male villain as sexually interested in a male hero reads as horror to the cishet male audience. Like, Venom didn't spend years and years being blatantly characterised as Spider-Man's creepy stalker ex because Marvel's writers were all closeted yaoi fans. That was meant to be scary – which of course doesn't mean you can't read it differently, but don't give them credit they don't deserve!

beaft

me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

hihuddy

Artist: Tim Brierley

Posting this for my soul cat Kenzie (she passed a few years ago but I still think of her every single day) and for everyone else who has lost someone they love. ❤️

teaboot

Ollie's been chatting than usual lately, and it wasn't until today that I realized that his chatty moments coincide with the times I have the front window open

Now I have no way of being certain, but seeing as this started around the same time the neighbor's free-roaming tabby started coming around, I *think* he's been yelling outside to get his attention

The last several times I've gone to investigate I have found the cocky orange bastard sitting on the other side of the screen growling at him- not spitting, just quietly revving his engine- but Ollie never growls back, he just stares

.....I think he thinks they're friends?

teaboot

Now the only other cat Ollie has ever met was his great-great aunt who hated him, so there IS a chance that he's simply fascinated by the novelty

Which...

Wait.

This is just Rapunzel but Hostile

#ALDJALJDKAJDKAJ

dailyhistorymemes

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

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I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

dresshistorynerd

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.