Oioi

Phoebe. Tea fixes everything. Disabled disaster, policy analyst, accidentally turned our house into a jungle 🪴🌱

[shoyohnt]

sorry for how I acted when there were multiple noises happening at the same time

[lost-fish-in-a-big-pond]

We did it!

[unclefather]

[adastra121]

[ladyshinga]

[maplebunie]

[fairycosmos]

nostalgia will have you thinking delusional crap like "i miss being 14." no the fuck i don't!!!

[resisteverything]

One time I heard a dude online compare new and obscure LGBT terminology to newspeak. This I think is one of the biggest examples I have seen of people with their whole chest ignoring the basic themes of 1984.

In 1984 the whole point of newspeak was that it shrinks. Ideas that could once be communicated now cannot. Everything is simplified as much as possible. You cannot explain complicated ideas of freedom or equality because the words no longer exist, or they don’t mean what they once did.

More specifically, there is canonically no word for “gay” in 1984. There are only two words for the entire spectrum of sexuality. “goodsex” and “sexcrime”. If you’re gay it’s the exact same as being a pedophile. And those are is the exact same as cheating on your wife, which is the exact same daring to fuck your wife just because you feel like it. Which is no different than literally any sex act that might offend big brother.

Do you see what’s happening? In 1984 can no longer ask your wife to peg you or something because the word for pegging is the exact same word for pedophile. And you can’t come out as gay because all you can say is that you did a criminal sex act, which means you cannot make a case for your rights either.

Inventing made up words to describe obscure things that previously lacked words would literally be a perfect remedy to newspeak. This language would counter every barrier to communicating the necessary concepts. Because it’s what literally every normal non-dystopian language does.

[atopfourthwall]

Keep this in mind especially in regards to what's happening in Florida right now. They associate LGBT+ content with grooming, define it as pedophilia or child abuse or sexual crimes or etc. Then they pass laws calling for sex offenders to be executed. Bigots or morons claim "Oh, why are you against these anti-child abuse laws?!" Because the state is trying to redefine LGBT+ activity and individuals as being the same as child abuse. For all the bluster and anger over "Grrr, words don't mean anything anymore! These terms I grew up with don't matter anymore!" the truth is THEY are the ones trying to limits what words mean because they want to associate certain groups of people with evil people to make more innocent/ignorant individuals be okay with hurting those groups of people.

[vergi1ius]

In linguistics, we have a concept called The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The basics of this concept are some degree of "If you don't have a word for it, you can't conceive of it."

Now, there are several degrees of this. The conception above is the strictest example of it, which is generally not accepted among linguists. A looser definition might be something like "It's much, much harder to talk about concepts you don't have words for." (For example, people who speak a language with more color words distinguish colors more quickly/easily than those who speak words with fewer color words).

Newspeak is weaponized Sapir-Whorf. To purposely restrict vocabulary to eliminate any thoughts of rebellion.

As pointed out above, progressives have been consistently adding vocabulary to the world, to better voice the thoughts and feelings of the oppressed and non-mainstream.

[ranidspace]

reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.

[ranidspace]

Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn't over. They're shifting from "world health emergency" to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO's announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1654477334139863041

of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do

[goldyke]

Ok but like actually DNI if you support the death penalty. Yes there are people who deserve to die for their crimes. No there isn’t a court in existence that should be given the power to decide who those people are

[robjectionable-content]

Especially the court of public opinion.

[9d6problems]

One round of Among Us should be enough to convince anyone that the court of public opinion should not have the power of life and death.

[czesca]

one thing about ME is that i WILL be LACKING IN SLEEP

[revanchistsuperstar]

JRR Tolkien: writes three thousand-page books taking place in a fantastic world which takes a whole book to detail the history of with interesting, developed characters

JRR Tolkien: invents a whole language

JRR Tolkien: mount doom

[schistcity]

i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren't allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.

[7l7l7l7l7l7l7l7]

i always be so hard on myself for no reason like chill tf out bitch we on the same damn team

[creekfiend]

I hate the fact that if I wanna plug my ears I gotta use some kind of foreign object designed specifically for that purpose. I can close my eyes why can't I close my fuckin ears? I GOT EYE LIDS WHY AINT I GOT ANY DAMN EAR LIDS. MASSIVE DESIGN OVERSIGHT

[guiltyidealist]

[jellypis-deactivated20240308]

you're an older sibling ?? and what for ??? your younger sibling becoming taller than you ????

[thrillingtales]

Kaz Brekker single handedly is destroying ableism by using his cane to murder people. Disabled people can be criminals too!

[neil-gaiman]

Happy Easter