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‘is fheàrr gàidhlig bhriste na gàidhlig anns a’ chiste!’

[better broken gaelic than dead gaelic]

Not my usual post but the fact that Reform is attempting to put forward proposals to disallow the use of Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Cornish on election leaflets is quite frankly a baffling concept.

These are native UK languages. And whilst I absolutely agree that other languages (such as Scots, Urdu and Punjabi) should also be allowed on leaflets, the fact that Reform thinks Celtic languages that have existed longer than ENGLISH on this island shouldn't be on political material is fucking telling of how supportive they allegedly are of the United Kingdom as a whole.

These people don't support 'the British people'. They support the ENGLISH, and a very specific group of English people at that.

People in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall deserve to be represent in every aspect of their lives. That includes the language.

The only reason Farage hasn't been able to go after Welsh is because it's legal protections are stronger than the others and he physically can't. But I PROMISE that would have been on there too if he could have done it.

It won't be the first time Celtic cultures have been targeted or treated as an 'other'. It won't be the last. All it takes is reading any article about Gaelic revitalisation, Cornish roadsigns, or making Welsh compulsory in school to know that. A large percentage of the English don't get why these cultures want to celebrate their own culture. They don't want it.

Remember folks: Reform is never on your side if you're not one of them. And if you value your own independent culture, you're NOT one of them.

butt-rice

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

cat-skull

imo the term "walkable" in "walkable cities" should be understood to mean "wheelchair accessible" as well, not just literally "possible to walk in". the act of walking in a city doesn't automatically make it walkable

homunculus-argument

Libraries are sneaky, because once you go in, it's soo easy to get a library card, and once you have one, you can pretty much grab one of everything of all the stuff they have there with no consequence, and take it home. But then once you're home and you've read all the stuff you'll have to go back to the library to return the stuff, and once you're at the library again, you're at the library again, so might as well pop in to see what they got, and then you're hauling half their shit home again, and then you'll need to return to the library to return them, so you're at the library again

And the next thing you know you've read 3000 books, your crops are clear and your skin is watered, an angel descents from the heaven to suck your dick twice a week, and also you've got some books to return so you've got a perfectly valid reason to go pop in to the library. Just a little bit.

closet-keys

I think at bare minimum all medical professionals need to make sure they are treating patients with more kindness and respect than grifters. if you go to a doctor and they treat you like shit, humiliate you, and send you home without any information on your body or access to treatment, then health-grifters' offers will start to feel more tempting by simply giving the most basic performance of taking you seriously and caring about your well-being. grifters should be condemned for manipulating and exploiting sick people, and doctors also play a role in whether grifts thrive or are successfully identified and rejected. genuine baseline human respect, and beginning a relationship with a patient by earning (rather than demanding) trust, goes a long way.

helenvaughans

📢📢📢

hiithink802

Historically, in many places, the monarchy and institutions in power allowed a small group of elites an education while most of the population remained illiterate. That structure perpetuated the hierarchy because those at the bottom were clueless about their own situation and the world outside of their little cottage. Even if they were dissatisfied there was not much they could do to change that. The ruling class kept "peasants" uneducated because that protected their interest.

Modern literacy is what allowed for things like social mobility, activism, the strive for better policies, better quality of life, better future for all.

Workers can't fight for workers' right if workers don't know how to read and write

rorywonder

hey so filming people without their consent is weird. you know that right? filming people you don't know and they aren't aware of what you're doing is creepy. posting strangers online is fucking weird. we're too comfortable with doing it now for shits and giggles, chasing some sort of viral hit instead of reckoning with the fact that you posted someone who did not consent to their body and face being publically used.

we're being pushed these Meta Glasses as if mass surveillance of strangers is fun and normal! it's weird!!! there are already reports that people are using these to film women without them knowing and sharing it to communities who get off on this shit. who else knows who people are filming. these glasses with cameras are not obvious and that is dangerous.

swagophile

jf i was vladimir nabokov and i was writing lolita i would make her an adult becaude then it would t be dark problematic media and instead a sweet romabce between two adults (woke and pure)

briannyssey

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

socialpants

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

cyberpunkpavlichenko

The moral of Death Note is that cops raise evil children

yourrottingwife

SIMPLE GUIDE:

Body Horror: Things that cannot happen in real life. EX: The Thing, stomach mouths, eyes on hands, etc

Gore: Fresh injuries, often severe. EX: Severed leg, gutspill, deep gashes, etc

NEITHER: Healed injuries and burns, congenital differences, missing appendages, etc. If I could theoretically go to the store and see that character browsing the isles- It isn't body horror or gore. That's just a person. *AND the amount of people that tag, not just fictional characters, but real human beings as body horror is staggering. Its not solely a fandom issue, ableism and bigotry against anyone that looks sufficiently "different" is prevalent in real life and has devastating consequences.

(Modified) from my comment left on this post.

yourrottingwife

Adding:

Self harm scars are not body horror.

Pregnant people are not body horror.

Burn scars are not body horror, that includes chemical burn scars.

Prosthetics are not body horror.

NOT having prosthetics is also not body horror.

There is no disability aid that is body horror.

Congenital differences + disabilities are not body horror.

AND acquired differences + disabilities are also not body horror.

Real people are not body horror.

If you are uncomfortable or scared because someone looks different than you that is YOUR PROBLEM. It is your responsibility to get over it, or at the very least not make it everyone else's issue. Play the quiet game.

strawberry-crocodile

for real tho it feels exhausting that ive seen this whole "woman should be allowed to abstain from X beauty standard" -> "i perform X beauty standard, am i evil? do you think im evil? please forgive me i came up with a dozen excuses 🥺" since like 2015 (and i know its been going on longer than that) like girl thats not the poiiiiint

strawberry-crocodile

look me in the eyes. repeat after me. "i face societal pressure to perform this beauty standard. i should not face that pressure. i conform to this standard. i am rewarded for performing to this standard. i need to respect women who do not perform this standard. this is not about whether or not i am a sinner for wearing makeup."

ryan-sometimes

This makes me feel like such a boomer, but I hate it how all media has been TikTok-ified and algorithm primed. Songs are shorter, designed for short viral clips rather than a full listening experience. TV shows and movies are sloppier, dragging on and on, assuming you’ll be on your phone and have it only in the background. Even books have been chewed up and spat back out as easily consumable tropes, with bite-sized chapters and mannequins for characters. This late stage capitalism hellscape we’re in has made art into something you snack on rather than savor.

antifainternational

Scottish Antifascist Callout!

On July 25th, Scotland's largest fascist group plan to come to Glasgow. They plan to intimidate migrant communities and to call for mass deportations of our neighbours. We will not accept this. White supremacy is not a legitimate political position. Not in Glasgow, not anywhere. We'll be gathering on the Green at 11am to oppose them and to ensure they don't come back to our city in a hurry. Bring friends. Don't talk to cops. Wear a mask.

- Anti-Fascist Action Glasgow

northern-punk-lad

Exclusive: Work and pensions secretary signals possible reform to welfare as ministers await key reviews

I Said they where gonna do this the minute they said pip was inhumane I hate these fuckers

ayeforscotland

“Instead of benefits we’ll provide jobs support instead.”

*Proceeds to do nothing to support disabled people getting into work. Offers no legislation to protect disabled people from employers. Capitulates to property investors and discourage working from home.*

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