Laura Eppinger

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

You can collab with Lars Von Trier all you want, Shia LaBeouf. You can do as many street theatre gigs as you'd like, and argue with Francis Ford Coppola til the cows come home. But when I want a good actor who is legitimately insane, I will still be taking my business to Robert Pattinson.

At least the people who talked like this in A Clockwork Orange had the decency to kill you.

one reason we don’t need more data centers is we have a whole lot of data and most of it is just not good. increasing the available data will only make the situation worse

Antibiotics are one of the greatest discoveries of the modern medical age (along with vaccines)

Read this in one sitting while I had a fever and I have never been the same

I do think it’s funny that the USA broke from England to get rid of the monarchy so that no one would be above the law and yet only one of these countries has arrested a senior political figure in relation to Epstein and it wasn’t the USA

The Federal immigration policy being enforced by ICE slave patrols is “fuck you I got mine”, and fuck them and fuck that!

I repeat:

I demand a Federal immigration policy of “None of our business!” because that was the policy in place when all my ancestors showed up.

All wHales Are Bastards

I mean everyone aboard the Pequod is sperming ecstatically every day and our narrator enjoys sharing a bed with Queequeg so much that they stay up all night talking like a loving married couple.

And frankly, same.

Very wide for me! Some might say too much at once:
- Murderbot Diaries #5
- Book about Jungian shadow work through tarot cards
- biography of Kathy Acker
- The Clerk's Tale chapter of the Canterbury Tales
- Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar
- Academic articles about queerness in late 19th Cen American West

But those children, the tiny number who because they are trans will only be happy being allowed to transition and grow up to be trans adults, have to be subjected to gatekeeping around FUCKING HAIRCUTS AND PREFERRED NAMES, in order to protect some cis queer kids from haircuts and preferred names.

Pure moral panic. How, precisely, would a child who experiments with a different haircut or pronouns get “locked in” to a trans identity?

The parents who had no problem letting her identify as trans suddenly restrict her from identifying as cis? It makes no sense.

when life gives you demons, make demonade

a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution ALT: a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution

Roses are red
Violets are blue
If you’re born here
You’re a citizen too

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Lindenwold is a Philly suburb and a stop on commuter rail!

150 Valentines ago, half a lifetime before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker sent Walt Whitman this extraordinary love letter he had been keeping in his desk for four years www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/09/b...

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest

THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

Get in, losers. We're going to fight.

Will we get this whole list? Even most of it? No. Will we get some of it? MAYBE. If we fight like hell for it. Will we get any of it if we do nothing? Hell, no. Do we HAVE to get some if not most or all of it to safeguard our actual democracy? Yes. So what are we gonna do? Give the fuck up?

No.

Strip US reps and senators from the right to trade on the stock market, invest in crypto, or bet/gamble through any platform other then penny stakes kitchen table poker.

Repeal Citizens United.

Defund corporations that push consumer-facing "A.i." Zero government contracts. Extreme, business-destroying penalties for disinformation, falsehood, and fraud.

When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.

A few suggestions...

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….

📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

i think nominating Gavin Newsom will lose the White House again for Democrats. The party's left flank will stay home again because he's an empty corporate shell. The age of Democrats punching left to appeal to the center is over and it's now a matter of if the party as a whole realizes that or not.

You know who is calling them concentration camps? George Takei, who lived in one and has spent literal decades campaigning against them.