Noa

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

It means treating housing as essential infrastructure, making time a basic right, and dismantling systems that force people to depend on landlords, bosses, or distant politicians just to survive.

o7

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@pronouns.diy

An image of a masked young woman holding a cheesecake topped with strawberries. A news chyron reads: BREAKING NEWS: PROTEST TURN DESTRUCTIVE - DOWNTOWN SEATTLE. A screen shot of a tweet from Black Ginger (@norallens) in the righthand corner reads: WHOEVER STOLE A WHOLE CHEESECAKE FROM THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY IN DOWNTOWN SEATTLE I HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY

Shavuot is not going to observe itself...gut yontef!

something something torment nexus

editing the Wikipedia page for the Amtrak Michigan Line while on the Michigan Line

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bluesky is an amazing website for seeing opinions i agree with written in such moralizing and irrational ways and justified with so much misinformation that it makes my own beliefs sound like the 2016 Clown Panic

ok but what's the pope gonna do about the price of eggs??

*gym shoes

nevermind about "feller for fella 'recently'", actually, feller seems attested as far back as 1899. fascinating. "Variant of fellow that reflects the reduction of the last vowel to a schwa and its conflation with the endings -er/-ar." en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feller#...

when actually, fella is more like how East Coast accents from the first half of the 20th century do it, e.g. think of "yellow" being said in a transatlantic accent as "yella" - reducing -ow to schwa, not -er. fella seems to be much older than the 20th century, thought

I unironically think this is why some people have been saying "feller" for "fella" recently. a final schwa usually implies a final R vowel from a non-rhotic accent, and it's much weirder that -ow would be reduced like that, so it's literally "the word fella implies the existence of the word feller"

maia your geiger counter is going off

for a while I was going back and forth about whether I had the cot-caught merger but ~a year ago I realized I definitely don't, mainly bc of how I interpret people who do. the person in a YouTube video I'm watching just now said "moss [mɑs] green", and I literally thought she said "mosque green"

I hate when I'm having trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television. I'm always trying to read that newspaper but can just never stay focused.

Graph of childhood blood lead levels

We're almost out, we just have to hold on for a few more years and we can fix things

It’s alright to cancel plans, it’s alright to flee into the desert after killing a man, it’s alright to witness god and accept your destiny as the liberator of the Israelites, it’s alright to unleash ten horrible plagues on all of Egypt until Pharaoh agrees to let you go. Do what you need to cope

Oh, yup. A cousin of mine brought the tradition to my seder like 15 years ago and I only found it was inaccurate in the past few years

My mom is from Deerfield, and I always found it very archetypically suburban, and so figured the politics would probably match -- it's heartening to see that's not the case :)

Incredible comment from an eighth grader at Shepard Middle School here in support of his classmate.

"Empathy. What a word. What has been empathetic in the way that we have shoved this girl and the entire community into the spotlight of national scrutiny?"

Cannot emphasize enough how badly the M4L group is outnumbered here. They've got maybe two dozen people eclipsed by at least a hundred.

Caruso middle school cafeteria filled with people

In Deerfield, IL tonight for a District 109 school board meeting.

A small crew from Moms for Liberty is here, supposedly to give public comment. Community members in support of trans students also here in large numbers with many signs and flags.

ID.me

trying to use irs direct file for taxes - why does the federal government have a service that uses a .me ccTLD (id.me) ?? isn't there concern with ccTLDs that the territory with control could use that in a bad way? at least i've seen people mention it with crates.io and docs.rs

disableable is a word entirely composed of 3 affixes

i'm bringing back the word "appension". it sounds a bit weird but that's what you get when there's not a standard noun form of "append" for some reason

so far every language i've put effort into learning has had the alternative conjunction be some variant of /o/ (english ⟨or⟩, spanish ⟨o⟩, hebrew ⟨או⟩) and i feel like that's setting me up to fail hard if i ever learn a language where that's not the case