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happy pride month!

can they give us back our rights now?

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everyone knows that the last person you should ask about the experiences of trans women is a trans woman. they're all biased & can't be trusted

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babe wake up, new feature length @janmisali video just dropped!

it's genuinely like a gift.

i was more hyped for this than any other movie in the last decade.

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When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

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mi sitelen a

len noka mi li walo li jo ala e sitelen. len noka mi la mi wile pali e sitelen lon toki pona.

wile sina la mi sitelen e seme?

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mi wile ala e ni! ni la jan li ken lukin e noka mi! mi jo e len noka la mi wile len e noka a a a

len noka mi li walo li jo ala e sitelen. len noka mi la mi wile pali e sitelen lon toki pona.

wile sina la mi sitelen e seme?

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Bad linguistics journalism bingo

Do you feel like crying every time you read, see or hear anything concerning linguistics & languages in popular media? Does the n-th installment of the Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax™ make you cringe? Are you tired of writing letters to editors correcting them about ling & lang facts? Then this is the game for you. 

If you have suggestions for further sheets, please contact us.

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Vivian's theme - Paper Mario: The Thousand Years Door (Remake)

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I’m glad the folks at NASA are having fun with XKCD too.

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hate 2 say it but british ppl had the right idea with saying whats all this then. like literally whats all this then

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len noka mi li walo li jo ala e sitelen. len noka mi la mi wile pali e sitelen lon toki pona.

wile sina la mi sitelen e seme?

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This week's word is...

kijetesantakalu! (toki pona)

[noun]

• Any animal from the Musteloidea superfamily (or Procyonidae family) including raccoons, weasels, otters, skunks, and red pandas.

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Timothy (c. 1844 – 3 April 2004) was a 5 kg (11 lb) Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise, estimated to be about 160 years old at the time of her death. This made her the UK's oldest known resident. In spite of her name, Timothy was female; how to sex tortoises was not properly known in the 19th century. Timothy was named after a tortoise owned by Gilbert White.

Timothy was believed to have been born in the Mediterranean shores of the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) and was found aboard a Portuguese privateer in 1854, aged around 10, by Captain John Guy Courtenay-Everard of the Royal Navy. The tortoise served as a mascot on a series of navy vessels until 1892. She was the ship mascot of HMS Queen during the first bombardment of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (she was the last survivor of this war), then moved to HMS Princess Charlotte followed by HMS Nankin.

After her naval service, she retired to live out her life on dry land, taken in by the Earl of Devon at his home, Powderham Castle. From 1935, she lived in the castle's rose garden and was owned by Camilla Gabrielle Courtenay (1913–2010), the daughter of the 16th Earl of Devon. On her underside was etched "Where have I fallen? What have I done?", English translation of the Courtenay family motto ubi lapsus, quid feci.

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does scott pilgrim literally just murder 7 people.. and then is like.. okay with that? even in a world with magic comic book powers i feel like taking lives might still weigh on his conscience a little...