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This has just been playing on my head in a loop as I watch these protests

hey um are you guys seeing that columbia is threatening to bring in the national guard?

for those of you who don’t know, there were protests in the 1970s on us college campuses against the Vietnam War. At Kent State University, they called in the national guard, who massacred the protesting students.

This is an eerily similar chain of events. It’s mind-boggling that the US is so committed to imperialism that they would rather kill their own citizens than stop killing foreigners. More than that, that they would do so multiple times over, decades apart.

I hope I’m wrong and that the students will be okay. My thoughts are with them, just as my thoughts are always with the people of Palestine.

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#SoundCloud

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is it gay to spar with your enemy. aaaand post

#fratt #frank castle #matt murdock #daredevil #the punisher

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Cyclops gets such a rough deal man. imagine having brain damage that caused you to uncontrollably shoot laser blasts out of your eyeballs destroying everything in sight that you had to worry about literally 24/7 and also you had to supervise teenagers throwing cars at each other because your father figure and his ex are taking leftist infighting to the streets and also on top of that whenever you show any amount of concern over this situation people are like "jeez what a buzzkill. loosen up control freak. why can't you be all chill and cool like wolverine" meanwhile wolverine is having his amygdala forcibly removed by the us military for the third time this month

#x men #scott summers

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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the way sam broke the cycle by having one single kid and instantly having a vasectomy. the joys of only-childhood be upon you my child you're not going through what i did

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#this is my easter

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I re-watch Pearl Bailey's propaganda videos every time I see one of the posts for her, and they crack me up every time! Anyway, here's her fantastic song in Carmen Jones, which is the first thing I ever heard or saw her in: https://youtu.be/88rRu4F1WK0?si=M7lKst47lek8vdIW

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when people say "western lens" and they mean "white lens" but they don't wanna say that

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just so u all know. if i ever run into misha collins (actual possibility (i live in LA)) i do plan on giving him an official pass to say faggot. purely because i think he might be the funniest possible person To give that to. the unbearable weight he would feel.... on his heterosexual shoulders......

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

#oh my god... #this is incredible

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the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window

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people wonder why i spend so much time buddying up with the elderly folks at church but what they don't understand is that i'm racking up good will and shenanigans points to be used at a later date

anyway the minister said i can play a rage against the machine music video during the service sunday we are CASHING OUT

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This actually has to do with what linguists call "open class" vs. "closed class" words! Certain parts of speech in different languages may be more "open" or "closed" than others. Open class parts of speech readily accept new words. Closed classes do not. Generally, open classes are more content-oriented and closed classes are more grammatically oriented.

Take conjunctions for example (and, but, or, etc.) and try to think about inventing and introducing a brand new conjunction to the English language. Doesn't sound likely, right? But we add new nouns all the time, like "deepfake" or "rizz."

English also adds verbs easily, which is how we easily get verbs like "googling" or "doomscrolling," but verbs are a less open class languages like French or Spanish. This makes sense when you consider the grammatical complexity of verb conjugation in those languages compared to a language like English. Turning "bike" into a verb is pretty simple in English and only generates four verb forms of the word: bike, bikes, biking and biked. In Spanish, for example, verbing 'bicicleta' would generate dozens of new forms of the word through 16 tense and mood variations multiplied by five or six different forms (first, second, third person + plurality), depending on dialect.

That's where words like "faire" (French) and "hacer" (Spanish) come in. Instead of generating a new verb and all of the conjugations that come with it, those languages are more likely to use the preexisting verbs faire and hacer as verbifying auxiliaries. As a result, you can stick them in front of any non-verb to make a verb version.

So actually the best English equivalent to "Je fais mes valises," would be "I'm suitcasing."

So I've been learning French for a while and 'faire' is actually an incredible word. Like what a fucking breakthrough in economy of language.

Faire is a verb that is usually translated into English as "to do/to make," but it covers way more actions than that, which is very confusing for new speakers. because (I have realized) that's not really what faire means.

Faire is actually a word that just gestures vaguely in the direction of the object of the sentence and goes "you know." "Je fais du velo." "Je fais du courses." "Je fais mes valises." I'm biking. I go grocery shopping. I'm packing my bags. You're just sort of pointing at a bike and going "you know, the obvious thing you'd do with it."

English: "You mean RIDE it??"

French: "Sure whatever."

Like idk I just really enjoy the concept of a catch-all verb that you can just slap onto almost anything because who fucking gives a shit, you get the idea. There's a bike. what do you think I'm going to do with it.

#linguistics

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#hayward williams #he was my camp counselor as a kid and i bought his first album at the camp store #been listening to him ever since and he's only gotten better #maybe if you listen to the pretenders album that'll fix you

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bru & dee's friday movie night — nope (2022)

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they make the bottom of the coffee pot wide like that to trick you into thinking the rest of the pot will all fit in your coffee mug. this is because Big Coffee Maker and Big Burn Cream are in league with each other. stay tuned for more hot conspiracy news.