#spokane language

[polyglot-thought]

Critically Endangered Language Introduction:

Spokane Language

Npoqínišcn

Some information about the Spokane language:

It’s critically endangered, meaning there are very few native speakers left, who are also elderly, and young people are not picking up the language, but the Spokane Tribe website offers language classes, so hopefully things are improving! Spokane doesn’t have its own original writing system, so a modified Latin script is used. You can read more about the Spokane and Salish languages and people on Wikipedia, here, here and here.

Example Words & Phrases ↓

Provided by Spokane Tribe at this link

ʔa x̣est skʷekʷst

Hello, good morning

ʔa x̣est sx̣lx̣alt

Hello, good day

ʔa x̣est sč̓luxʷ

Hello, good evening

ʔa x̣est skʷkʷʔec

Hello, good night

n̓em heł wíčtmn

I will see you again.

kʷʔec̓ščén̓?

How are you?

hi čn x̣is

I’m fine.

čn ayx̣ʷt

I’m tired.

čn weyt

I’m sick.

stem̓ ha skʷest ?

What is your name?

hi skʷest ____.

My name is…..

____ łuʔ hi skʷest.

My name is…..

Please correct me if I made a mistake

[spokanefavs]

Paul Graves reflects on a book on progressive Christianity by John Pavlovitz, “If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk."

He reminds us that attitudes of compassion and #empathy can overcome even the most significant language barriers.

[covidsafecosplay]

This Week in Covid & Health News (Posted November 14, 2024)

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General

San Fransisco Chronicle: Sonoma County reinstates mask mandate for health care workers amid rising illnesses (Nov. 12, 2024)

NPR: What happens when a vaccine skeptic leads health policy? Ask Florida (Nov. 13, 2024)

Covid-19

The Beacon: Weathered COVID before? Scientists say every new infection puts you at risk of getting long COVID (Nov. 11, 2024)

CIDRAP: Cardiac inflammation markers show role of long-COVID symptoms (Nov. 12, 2024)

Cleveland: Having COVID-19 doubles long-term risk of heart attack, stroke, new Clinic study suggests (Nov. 13, 2024)

Avian Flu

Hawaii News Now: Avian flu detected on Oahu for the first time ever (Nov. 12, 2024)

CNN: Canadian teen in critical condition with bird flu; source of exposure is unknown (Nov. 13, 2024)

Global News: As bird flu emerges in Canada, experts urge preparedness (Nov. 13, 2024)

Stat: Canadian teen's bird flu infection is not the version found in cows (Nov. 13, 2024)

Fortune: Canadian teenager in critical condition with presumptive bird flu as U.S. official warns the virus 'seems to be gearing up for wider impact' (Nov. 13, 2024)

TIME: Is It Time to Worry About Bird Flu? (Nov. 13, 2024)

Whooping Cough

WPRI: 4 Portsmouth High School students have 'very contagious' whooping cough (Nov. 12, 2024)

ABC News: Washington state sees 'sharp increase' in whooping cough cases, mirroring rise across US (Nov. 12, 2024)

KHOU: Whooping cough cases surge in Texas, across country in 2024, DSHS says (Nov. 12, 2024)

KOIN: Whooping cough, chickenpox outbreaks hit Clark County schools (Nov. 12, 2024)

The Spokesman-Review: Six Spokane County residents hospitalized with whooping cough during outbreak (Nov. 12, 2024)

Fox KTVU: Bay Area surge in whooping cough; some counties see highest numbers in decade (Nov. 13, 2024)

CNY Central: Health officials warn of increased whooping cough spread in local schools (Nov. 14, 2024)

Walking Pneumonia

CDC: Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infections Have Been Increasing (Oct. 18, 2024)

WTOP: Urgent care centers report 'unprecedented' spike in walking pneumonia cases around DC area (Nov. 14, 2024)

[youcouldmakealife]

SOTM: Bryce/Jared, Elaine; Man of the Hour (Day, Week, Month, Year)

For the prompt: One of the articles Bryce mentions. "…like, a profile thing? How it was growing up gay in hockey, that kind of thing… A chance to establish myself as like, I am now,” Bryce says. “Kind of like — not set the record straight, exactly, but like, show I’ve matured and stuff. "

It’s the definition of a typical Vancouver day, drizzly and overcast, when I meet Bryce Marcus. He likely needs no introduction, but I will introduce him anyway: the star centre for the Vancouver Canucks who went from being the enemy while playing for the arch-rival Calgary Flames to becoming possibly the most beloved man in the city: certainly if you you asked the fans streaming out of Rogers Arena after watching the Canucks win the Cup for the third time, or the hundreds of thousands of lining Burrard to cheer on their Canucks at the Stanley Cup Parade on a beautiful sunny day this June.

The weather is anything but glamourous today, however, and at the Marcus Matheson household, the surroundings aren’t either.

Jared Matheson, husband and teammate of Bryce, apologizes as I step over a box in their hallway. “We’re kind of in the middle of a move right now.”

They’re trading their two-bedroom condo for something ‘a little more permanent’. Both have decided that wherever their NHL careers may take them, Vancouver is going to remain home, and they’ve just closed on a house nearby.

“Bryce is weirdly excited about getting to mow the lawn,” Jared tells me as we wait for Bryce to finish getting ready. In light of the hyper-competitive Vancouver real estate market it’s entirely understandable to be excited about lawncare — it means you have a lawn to care for — but one wouldn’t have expected that to extend even to Vancouver’s sports stars.

When Bryce emerges, five minutes after my arrival, he announces himself by swearing as he trips over a box of his own, and then apologising, both for his language and his tardiness.

“He was doing his hair,” Jared says.

“I was not,” Bryce scowls, but doesn’t offer an alternative explanation.

After a quick tour of their condo, which is currently half in boxes, Bryce and I hop into his Audi S8 — naturally courtesy Capilano Audi, whose ads featuring him are inescapable during Canucks games. We drive to Richmond so he can show me his old haunts: elementary, middle, and high school — though he finished high school in Washington while playing for the Spokane Chiefs — his home rink, the Dairy Queen his mother took him after hockey games. He’s a capable, if slightly aggressive driver. I mention this because from the dire warning I received from Jared on the way out the door I genuinely believed I might not survive the drive.

Bryce finally pulls into the driveway of an unassuming but cheerful house on a quiet suburban street. The morning drizzle has faded, and the weather is now just as bright and warm as his childhood home, and the mother who raised him there. Already waiting for us on the porch, his mother Elaine Marcus offers me a glass of lemonade. “Store bought, I’m afraid,” she says with a smile. “I’m not much of homemaker.”

Over lemonade and cookies — “Also store bought,” Elaine admits, “but this bakery is very good!”, and she’s right about that — she shows me an array of childhood and teenage photos while Bryce complains to his mother that she’s ‘embarrassing’ him.

The photos are more inspiring than embarrassing: photo after photo of a beaming little boy in an equally small Canucks jersey, proudly brandishing a plastic mini-stick (Canucks branded, of course). A true example of someone who grew up to live his childhood dream.

Sadly, as he gets a older the smile disappears, as does the man beaming in the background of so many of those happy photos. His father, Ben Marcus, was killed by an impaired driver at the age of 32. It devastated Elaine and Bryce, who was only four at the time.

“It was hard,” Elaine says. “He didn’t understand. I didn’t understand, when it came down to it. It was a hard time. He wanted to play hockey all the time, it was the only thing he wanted. He was really only happy on the ice.”

“I just wanted him to be happy,” she says, smiling tearfully, and as Bryce wraps a protective arm around his mother's shoulders, I offer to give them a moment.

“It was a long time ago,” Elaine says in dismissal, wiping her eyes. “It’s just hard sometimes. Ben loved hockey, loved watching the Canucks with Bryce — he’d have been so proud to see Bryce lift the Cup for them. I am too, of course, but it was always Ben and Bryce’s thing. He would have been so proud.”

I do give them a moment then, and when I return, my lemonade has been refilled and both are all smiles once again, though Bryce's doesn't last. He cringes as we go through photos of his teen years. There’s a sullen look on his face in every picture.

And what was Bryce like as a teenager?

"I'll let him answer that," Elaine says diplomatically.

“I don’t really know,” Bryce says, looking thoughtful. “Angry, I guess. I was an angry kid. And confused.”

About his sexuality?

“Everything was confusing,” Bryce says. “But yeah, definitely that too.”

“Bryce cared so much,” Elaine says. “About everything. He still does. The world’s hardest on the people who care most about it.”

Like so many hockey players who’ve come out since Dan Riley and Marc Lapointe did in 2010, he credits their coming out as a major influence on his journey of coming to terms with his identity as both a gay man and a pro hockey player.

“You don’t really put it together,” Bryce says. He turned sixteen the summer the Leafs won the Stanley Cup, and Riley and Lapointe subsequently came out. “Like, okay, sure, you can be gay and play hockey. Except nobody thought that. I didn’t think that. If you said that, maybe I’d say okay, but I didn’t believe it.”

How, then, did he reconcile being gay and playing hockey?

“That's the thing,” Bryce says. “I didn’t, you know? I was playing hockey, so obviously I wasn’t, right? Because if I was gay, then I wouldn’t be playing, would I?”

“It sounds so ridiculous saying it now,” he reflects. “But that’s what I thought. And I wasn’t the only one.”

But even more than Riley and Lapointe blazing a trail before him, he credits meeting his husband Jared at a hockey skills camp in Calgary. In the year before he met Jared, then twenty year old Bryce was arrested twice, for assault and DWI: the latter in particular shook his mother, considering how his father died.

"I was worried about him," she says. "That's probably an understatement."

“I don’t know where I’d be if I hadn't met Jared,” Bryce says. “I genuinely don’t. I don’t think I’d be out. I know I wouldn’t be happy. You know, everyone says it isn’t like in the movies. Falling in love, I mean. That love at first sight and all that is b******t. But that’s pretty much what it was for me.”

Was it mutual?

Bryce laughs. “You’d have to ask Jared, he tells it better than me,” he says. “But no, not really. I wasn't good enough for him. I'm still not good enough for him, but I try to be."

Another warning I’d received from his husband before my tour around town? That Bryce was an incurable romantic. This warning certainly seems more warranted than the one about Bryce’s driving.

And what does Bryce think about Jared’s warning, and his additional suggestion to take anything Bryce said about him with a healthy grain of salt?

“[Jared]’s just modest,” Bryce says.

“He lights up when Jared’s around,” Elaine says. “It’s just like when he was a little boy — every time he stepped onto the ice, he beamed. It’s the same thing with Jared. He’s so happy. It’s so wonderful to see him like that.”

And how was it, not only getting to play with his husband, but to raise the Stanley Cup together?

“It’s a dream come true,” Bryce says. “Really. I know that’s such a cliche, but so is love at first sight, right? And the hometown boy winning it all for his childhood team. They’re all cliches. But they’re my life.”

“I know just how lucky I am,” Bryce says. “Winning with Jared, with this team — it’s been such a whirlwind of a year.”

I tell him to enjoy it.

“I do,” he says, smiling so widely I have no doubt he’s telling the truth. “I really, really do.”

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Louise Perry

Published: Jun 8, 2023

When we get home from the supermarket, our two-year-old likes to assist with taking the groceries out from underneath his stroller and carrying them to the kitchen. He will pick up a carton of milk and heave it towards the fridge like an atlas stone. “Well done darling” I say to him in a pitch slightly higher than usual, “you’re being so helpful.” 

Of course he isn’t actually being helpful. In fact, he’s slowing down the process of unpacking and risking an enormous milk spillage all over the kitchen floor. But my goal is encouragement and kindness – he’s only two, bless him, and that carton is awfully big and heavy. 

My husband regards these exercises with more of a gentle briskness. “Thanks mate” he’ll say in his usual tone of voice, excising my white lie. In this, I’ve learnt, my husband is typical of other men. In a 2015 study led by Mark VanDam, a professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences department at Washington State University Spokane, researchers outfitted preschoolers and their parents with recording devices to monitor social interactions over the course of a normal day. The mothers, they found:

… used higher pitch and varied their pitch more when interacting with their child than with adults. The fathers, on the other hand, did not show the same pattern, and instead talked to their children using intonation patterns more like when they talked to other adults.

As an instinctive speaker of so-called ‘motherese’ – that is, baby talk – I find that when our son mispronounces a word (‘tawtah’ for ‘water’ or ‘mulack’ for ‘milk’) I will automatically echo it back to him, while my husband will automatically respond with the correct pronunciation. These differences persist despite the fact that we share childcare almost exactly equally within our family. 

It turns out we’re not alone in this sex difference, and that it may well have some adaptive purpose. "We think that maybe fathers are doing things that are conducive to their children's learning but in a different way,” writes VanDam, “the parents are complementary to their children's language learning.” Mothers speak down to children, while fathers speak to them like equals – in combination, these two kinds of stimuli promote the development of adult language. 

The adoption of motherese is an instinct that, in its correct context, is both comforting and developmentally useful. But it can also, in some circumstances, be dysfunctional. And, as I have become more and more fluent in it, I have started to notice that motherese is no longer confined to the nursery or the classroom, but is now to be found also in public life. Not in its full expression – “have you got a boo-boo, honey?” – but in a more subtle form. 

I heard a lot of motherese, for instance, in the responses to philosopher Kathleen Stock’s appearance this week at the Oxford Union – a political event considered significant enough to attract commentary from the Prime Minister and rolling updates on the homepages of several national newspapers.

Students at risk of being traumatised by Stock’s mild-mannered, centre-left brand of politics were ushered towards ‘welfare rooms’ offering ear plugs, bottles of water, and snacks. “The Union has made the choice to amplify a voice that actively harms trans students, trans people and the trans community at large” wrote one student politician, “we’re tired of [the Union’s] refusal to listen to the communities they hurt” insisted another. It was as if Stock was a rampaging bully on the playground, knocking other children to the ground, and her critics were leaping to the defence of the persecuted toddlers. 

Witnessing the backlash against her, you’d never guess that Stock’s only sin is to offer a careful academic critique of the doctrine of gender identity – that is, the claim that one can become a member of the opposite sex (or some other identity category in between) merely by force of will. As she reiterated in her Oxford Union speech, to reject this doctrine is not to deny the humanity of trans people, but rather to balance their interests against those of other people, particularly women. 

But I am by no means the first to notice an unexpected feature of the crowds that formed outside the Oxford Union this week, and indeed all of the crowds that congregate in support of trans activism (now a regular occurrence, and not just in the Anglosphere). While the occasional acts of outright aggression are overwhelmingly committed by men, the crowds in general are mostly composed of young women. 

Polling reveals this to be a wider pattern. In the UK, women – and particularly young women – are far more supportive of trans activism than are their male counterparts. The same gap can be seen in US polling. The public figures who have received the most flak for their criticisms of trans activism are disproportionately women – I’m thinking not only of Kathleen Stock, but also of JK Rowling – and yet so, too, are the movement’s most devoted allies. This is, in the main, an intra-female conflict. 

But if trans activism poses a threat to women’s interests – as Stock and Rowling insist that it does – then why have so many women come out in support of it? I want to propose two explanations for this seeming paradox. 

Firstly, in socioeconomic terms, the women who have the most to lose from the disintegration of female-only spaces – prisoners and domestic abuse victims, for instance – are not actually the same women who are draping themselves in blue and pink flags outside the Oxford Union. This is a textbook example of what Rob Henderson has termed a ‘luxury belief’ – an idea that confers status on the rich, while causing harm to the poor. 

But then I am begging the question, because why on earth would trans activism confer status on the rich, or indeed anyone? This is where we come to the second factor: the extraordinarily well-documented differences in personality that have been observed between male and female populations cross-culturally. 

Note that there is a crucial distinction to be drawn between average and absolute differences. It is not true that all men or all women exhibit only masculine or feminine personality traits, in the same way that not all women are short and not all men are tall – rather, average differences between the sexes are obvious only at the population level. 

One trait on which men and women differ substantially is agreeableness. To put it bluntly, women are usually nicer than men – that is, they are “more nurturing, tenderminded, and altruistic more often and to a greater extent than men,” as psychologist Professor Yanna Weisberg puts it. 

This nurturing instinct often finds its way into polling on political questions. For instance, a typical study from 2017 asked 3,014 college students the following question: “If you had to choose, which do you think is more important, a diverse and inclusive society or protecting free speech rights.” 61% of male students chose to prioritise free speech, compared with only 35% of female students – exactly what you would expect from two populations that differ in this most crucial of traits.  

Don’t think that I’m bashing agreeableness per se –  it’s one of those personality traits that really does offer advantages and disadvantages all along the spectrum. Disagreeable people are often rude, but they can also be refreshingly honest; agreeable people are often pleasant, but they are easily taken advantage of. Think of agreeableness as motherese: soothing and lovely in the right circumstances, cloying and foolish in the wrong ones.  

The problems arise when an agreeable style of politics gloms onto a group that seems to offer plentiful opportunities for babying. Right now, it is trans people who have found themselves in the hot seat (or the high chair). For just one example of this babying tendency in action, observe the progressive response when then-66 year old Caitlyn Jenner came out as trans (a response parodied exquisitely in a South Park episode titled ‘Stunning and Brave’). When Glamour honoured Jenner as the magazine’s 2015’ Woman of the Year' – despite the fact that Jenner had not yet lived as a woman for a full year – I couldn’t help but hear the high pitched notes of motherese (“you look so pretty sweetie”, “well done that was very brave.”) 

Observe, too, the trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney’s recent appearance on Drew Barrymore’s talkshow, which culminated with Barrymore kneeling on the ground, looking Mulvaney straight in the eye, and offering a heartfelt pep talk on self-love. Some gender critical feminists looked at this scene and saw a woman prostrating herself before a man. What I saw was a mother kneeling down to reassure a young child – for some bizarre reason, Barrymore was speaking motherese to a grown adult on national TV. 

At the risk of stating the obvious, trans people are not babies. Nor are they pets. They do not need earplugs and snacks to withstand an academic discussion, and they do not need to be spoken to like toddlers. Real two-year-olds may benefit from the gentleness of motherese. The rest of us need to grow up.

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https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-Politics-of-the-Culture-Wars-in-Contemporary-Britain.pdf#page=57

Women are more likely than men to say a trans women should be able to enter a women’s refuge, favouring this by a 36-32 margin while men oppose it 40 to 30. In fact, across all 6 questions pertaining to the trans issue (Stock, Rowling, refuges, gender identity, pronouns, teaching biological sex), women are significantly more supportive of the trans rights position even when ideology is taken into account. Women even exceed LGBT identifiers in their support for the pro-trans position on many questions.

Why? Is this not against the female interest? The likely answer is that women are more likely to be cultural leftists than men across most of the 25 attitudinal items in the survey. The inclination to empathise and care for groups perceived as vulnerable best accounts for the pattern. The result of the empathy dynamic is that the gender-critical feminist position, while intellectually prominent, is still a contested view among women. Indeed, the largest source of opposition to greater trans access to women’s spaces comes from cultural conservatives.

This isn't a war between men and women, as some would like to assert.

It's really a war between different denominations of feminism. Like Catholicism vs Protestantism. Or Sunni vs Shi'a Islam.

One thing that's hilarious and worth pointing out: gender-critical feminists will sometimes say things along the lines of, well that agreeableness was socialized into women by "the patriarchy" to make them compliant. Which means they're denying the same evolved sex-based differences that they started off defending. Like claiming to be a Catholic while denying transubstantiation.

Either sex-differences are real, and can explain different participation rates in physics and kindergarten teaching, different career priorities and trajectories (and thus, the mythical "pay gap") and different work patterns as readily as they explain differences in swimming, cycling and weight-lifting performance, making "the patriarchy" as unnecessary as a god is to the existence of the universe... or they're not, and the gender-critical argument goes up in smoke in the flames of social constructivism. God can't be both good and unknowable.

[mydaddywiki]

Blase J. Cupich

Physique: Average Build Height: 6′ 0″

Blase Joseph Cupich (March 19, 1949-) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal who serves as archbishop of the Latin Church Archdiocese of Chicago. Once named Bishop of Rapid City in South Dakota in 1998, then named bishop of the Diocese of Spokane in Washington State in 2010, Cupich was chosen by Pope Francis as Archbishop of Chicago in 2014. He was subsequently also appointed to the Roman Curia's Congregation for Bishops, which plays a role in advising the pope on episcopal matters, including appointments. Named to the College of Cardinals in 2016, Cupich was additionally appointed to the Congregation for Catholic Education.

He’s cute. Adorably cute. Given his position as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, it’s unlikely that we’ll be fucking soon, but I can dream. And I do… A LOT!

Lets see… born in Omaha, Nebraska, Cupich was also ordained a priest there in 1975. He speaks six languages, including English and Spanish.

[virtie333]

Get to know your moots

Thank you, @randomfoggytiger!

What's the origin of your blog title? Virtie has been my internet name for over 20 years. It came about thanks to the horse I rode at my job at a hunter/jumper barn in Spokane, WA. She was a palomino Appendix Quarter Horse and her registered name was Virtuesandvices. Virtie taught me dressage and jumping and we had a lot of late evening summer trail rides, too.

OTP(s) + Shipname: Poe x Rey (Damerey), Han x Leia (Scoundress), and Mulder x Scully (MSR)

Favourite colour: Blue, specifically Royal Blue

Favourite game: I haven't played a video game in over 20 years, so... Trivial Pursuit or Uno!

Song stuck in your head: While I was at the barn, Bla Bla Bla was going through my head.

Weirdest habit/trait? I have too many. I think a big one is that I cannot stand getting into bed if I haven't showered/bathed, especially if my feet are dirty.

Hobbies: Writing, reading, horses, hiking (I hope to get back to that this summer!), cross-stitch

If you work, what's your profession? I work in retail! Never thought I'd say that ever in my life. But, my area is animal oriented, which has been my livelihood for all my adult life.

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be? No job. I wish I was independently wealthy and could afford to adopt and care for senior/special care animals of my own, and write on the side. I despise having to have a 'job.'

Something you're good at: Writing (so people tell me). Reading body language/emotions from both animals and people. This is why I was both good as a vet tech and suffered horribly as a vet tech.

Something you're bad at: Confrontation. Asking for help. Team sports.

Something you love: Horses. Nature. Music. My family (including furkids) and friends. Late nights knowing I don't work the next day. That guy that was meant for me and I missed recognizing him so we never met.

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: Star Wars and horses

Something you hate: Frigid cold, fascists, rudeness, thieves in my store (just had two horse bits stolen yesterday morning)

Something you collect: Breyer horses and movie soundtracks (CD format). Haven't gotten many new of either thanks to being broke.

Something you forget: Uhm, everything. My short-term memory sucks. Always has. I've read it's mostly likely due to my migraines.

What's your love language? I really think it's time. I've never felt like I'm important enough for anybody that they would take time out of their life just to spend it with me. But even if they did, I would probably feel guilty about it.

Favourite movie/show: The X-Files for show. The Black Stallion for movie.

Favourite food: Bacon cheeseburgers and fried chicken.

Favourite animal: Horses of course.

What were you like as a child? Very shy, anxious, emotional, imaginative, spoiled (almost an only child), demanding, withdrawn. (Undiagnosed autistic)

Favourite subject at school? I always did best in English subjects (reading and writing), but I enjoyed History the most.

Least favorite subject? Math. I still have trouble with numbers.

What's your best character trait? Kindness. If I hurt you, it was NOT intentional.

What's your worst character trait? Anxiety, which leads to passive aggressiveness and depression

If you could change any detail of your day right now what would it be? Maybe warmer out so I could open windows. At least it's sunny and not sub-zero.

If you could travel in time who would you like to meet? Abraham Lincoln and/or Robert E. Lee

Recommend one of your favourite fanfics (spread the love!): I have been revisiting @sperastella's The Last Flight to Alderaan lately. Hot, hot, hot! (and yet the emotion and the yearning and the... they are so obviously in love!)

Tags if you want to play~ @jewelsrulz, @my-secret-shame, @diplomaticprincess

@oscar-isaacx, @ophelialoveshandsomemen, @phoenix-rising-starbird-one

@soft-girl-musings, @ivystoryweaver, @electricbluebutterflies

@lunar-ghoulie, @omgbarbiegurl

And anyone who sees this and love to fill out surveys and stuff like me!

[bleue-flora]

"skungly art porj" could refer to a "skungly" (likely a distorted or playful word) art project. Porj could also mean portal or port

"polik pill" could potentially be "polik pill" (as in "political pill" or a decision-related item).

"ark Inc" likely refers to "Ark Incorporated" or an ark-related structure."lin p12" might be a line or page number, or a coordinate on the map. Maube page 12 on the revival book

"skinlgt" could be "skin light," potentially referring to something visual or an item related to light."aldbnot" might be an anagram. If we unscramble it, we get "not bald." Or "bold ant" or close to "bandit" or "abandon" "alink ponaks" could be "a link tokens" or "a link spokan," it could be "abandon a link spoken" perhaps a connection to the other universes or to a spell or person.

"L____" could be a placeholder for a word starting with "L.""LinkedP0l 00" might hint at something "linked" to a location, possibly "Pole 00" (could mean a coordinate or a specific place on the map).

Then again I think it's a in lore language like how game of thrones had their own language

[context]

Hmm…. good stuff and true it could just be another language, though ender being up there would be fitting and yet it isn’t…

c!dream or cc!dream? ;D lol jk… please do let me know what he says though…

Welp our solving develops :)… though perhaps for the the left side I think “L____))))___” could be “Limbo 3 lives die” and “linkedPOL XD” could be “linked Power Of Life XD” 🤷‍♀️… but I don’t know…

[erebusvincent]

It’s uncanny how nothing is a bridge to far for proponents of gender identity ideology, not even placing male rapists in women’s prisons. It’s a sure sign of the cult-like nature of the ideology.

The deference shown to trans-identifying males by prison officials is quite striking, especially in contrast to nearly complete disregard for the feelings and needs of incarcerated women. In California, a law passed in 2020 (SB 132) requires state officials to place trans-identifying males in female prisons upon their request. It explicitly prohibits denial of requests based on “any discriminatory reason” including “the genitalia or other physical characteristics” of the inmate. In other words, the law blocks consideration of the biology-based implications of females being confined with males.

The California Inspector General noted in a report that SB 132’s broad language “may prohibit the department from denying the person’s transfer request based solely on the prospective transferee’s history of raping women.”

Similarly, a Washington Department of Corrections policy makes clear the state’s commitment to serving trans-identifying prisoners, while including virtually no references to the needs and rights of female prisoners who are forced to cohabitate with males. Prison officials are instructed to treat trans-identifiers equitably, to consider their views about personal safety, to subject prisons where trans-identifiers are moved to “a cultural awareness course facilitated by a Gender Affirming Mental Health Specialist and/or Gender Affirming Program Administrator (GAPA)”, to keep the trans-identifier’s sex secret, and to get the trans-identifier “gender affirming medical care.” (In 2022, the DOC paid for a male inmate’s breast implants, and three members from the prison’s specialty emergency-response team drove the inmate multiple hours, on multiple trips, from Purdy to Spokane for appointments and surgery.) In contrast, the DOC policy is silent about the needs and concerns of females in the prisons males enter.

Female prisoners in Washington State and elsewhere report heavy bias on the part of prison officials in favor of trans-identifying male inmates, to the exclusion of women’s needs. Males have more say over who their cellmates are, for example. By contrast, when women file complaints about sexual harassment or assaults, they are often ignored or even punished for doing so.

When incarcerated women allege rape, they are frequently not believed. When a woman prisoner in Illinois reported that her new cellmate had raped her, prison officials claimed that the sex was consensual. They punished the woman for alleging rape, suspending her privileges like use of the gym and the ability to make phone calls. The male involved was large and strong. He had previously strangled a male cellmate to death.

It is extraordinary that this woman’s allegation was so cavalierly rejected, given the violent record of the man she accused. It is even more extraordinary that prison officials don’t acknowledge that the concept of “consensual” sex is problematic in a setting where a woman is locked in a cell with a violent man. The woman’s lawsuit against the prison officials was dismissed on procedural grounds.

[nightsidewrestling]

D.U.D.E Bios: Zinnia Turner

Geia's Eldest Step-Daughter Zinnia Turner (2020)

The daughter of Byron and step-daughter of Pelageya, Zinnia. She lives in Hawaii and is married to a lifeguard, she lives a mostly laid-back lifestyle.

"Hawaii or Florida, Hawaii for sure."

Name

Full Legal Name: Zinnia Melba Turner (Née Winter)

First Name: Zinnia

Meaning: From the name of the flower, which itself was named for the German botanist Johann Zinn.

Pronunciation: ZIN-ee-a

Origin: English

Middle Name: Melba

Meaning: From the surname of the Australian opera singer Nellie Melba.

Pronunciation: MEHL-ba

Origin: English

Surname: Turner (Née WInter)

Meaning: Occupational name for one who worked with a lathe, derived from Old English 'Turnian' 'To Turn', of Latin origin. (Winter: From Old English 'Winter' or Old High German 'Wintar' meaning 'Winter')

Pronunciation: TUR-ner (WIN-tar)

Origin: English (English, German, Swedish)

Alias: None

Reason: None

Nicknames: Zin, Nia, Mel

Titles: Mrs, Ma'am

Characteristics

Age: 30

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: American

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: September 3rd 1990

Symbols: None

Sexuality: Straight

Religion: Christian

Native Language: English

Spoken Languages: English, Spanish, Russian

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Theme Song (Ringtone on Geia's Phone): 'Come A Little Closer' - Cage The Elephant'

Voice Actor: Rashida Jones

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Spokane, Washington, USA

Current Location: Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA

Hometown: Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA

Appearance

Height: 5'5" / 165 cm

Weight: 145 lbs / 65 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Brown

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) None

Piercings: Ear Lobes (Both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: Vegetarian

Relationships

Allies: N/A

Enemies: N/A

Friends: Judith Ibarra, Sabina Volkov

Colleagues: N/A

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Patrick Turner

Mentor: Caprice Winter

Significant Other: Patrick Turner (31, Husband)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Byron Winter (53, Father), Caprice Winter (R.I.P, Mother, Née Thorne), Pelageya Winter (33, Step-Mother, Née Volkov)

Parents-In-Law: Paul Turner (50, Father-In-Law), Maya Turner (51, Mother-In-Law, Née Aiken)

Siblings: Nathan Winter (33, Brother), Laurence Winter (27, Brother), Xanthia Winter (24, Sister), Joseph Winter (21, Brother), Venetia Winter (18, Sister), Isaiah Winter (15, Brother), Uliana Winter (12, Half-Sister), Emil Winter (9, Half-Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Genesis Winter (34, Nathan's Wife), Osbert Turner (27, Patrick's Brother)

Nieces & Nephews: Quincy Winter (13, Nephew), Hadley WInter (10, Niece)

Children: Bethany Turner (10, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: N/A

Trainer: N/A

Managers: N/A

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Trivia: Noting of Note

[vague-humanoid]

What happens when you combine a Christian nationalist musician and a disgraced former state representative-turned-pastor accused of domestic terrorism? According to local lawmakers and faith leaders in Washington state, it’s a recipe for “bigotry” cloaked “in religious language.” 

Controversy has erupted in Spokane after Mayor Nadine Woodward appeared at a “Let Us Worship” event on Aug. 20, hosted by Christian singer Sean Feucht with special guest Matt Shea, a former state representative in Washington accused of domestic terrorism. The mayor’s appearance alongside Shea, as well as comments made by Feuch about a religious “wildfire” ravaging Spokane — while actual fires destroyed parts of the county — has angered members of the community.  

[huntedvideo]

legal name. finley joshua stevens. nickname(s). fin, josh ( in college, we don't talk about it much ), that youtube guy. gender. masc leaning he / they, but he doesn't really mind any pronouns. he's a cool old person. place of birth. port townsend, washington. currently living.  he has an apartment in bellingham, washington, but he's mostly traveling and doesn't stay in one place for that long. spokane languages. english, spanish, asl, and some latin. hair color. dark brown. eye color. green hazel. height.   6'2. weight. 170 lbs.

FAMILY INFORMATION: siblings.  sawyer dunn, estranged half brother. parents. janette stevens, deceased ; marcus stevens, whereabouts currently unknown. CHILDREN.  canonically? no. verse dependent, however, he has a daughter named hunter with cassie, his ex fiance ( now deceased ), and a daughter with sadie, his current wife, named jessie ( who he didn't know was his until recently ). pets. he had a chocolate lab named natasha ( who he called nat or nattie ), but she died of old age. he had her since she was a puppy.

RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION: sexual orientation. pansexual and panromantic. he loves everyone, baby. relationship status.   verse dependent. since when. canonically he's been single since he lost his ex fiance.

i stoled it from @sovereyn xoxo

[insipid-drivel]

This also applies to local geographic names within the States, as well. It's easy to see silly-looking towns, county, and street names and want to make fun of them, but please be conscious that this is a heavily overcolonized country where some of the ONLY household words USAmericans ever hear from the original Indigenous peoples that lived here before they were forced out are in the form of place names.

I live in Washington (top left), and while the state itself is named after George Washington, many of our names for cities, roads, parks, and landmarks are either directly taken, or mistranslated, from Indigenous names and words. We have place names like, "Olalla", "Puyallup", "Sequim", "Yakima", "Spokane", among many, many more. Seattle, Washington, is one of the very few USAmerican cities that's actually named after an Indigenous chieftain: Si'ahl, who was a leader to both the Suquamish and Duwamish peoples. Today, Seattle geographically sits largely in what was mostly Duwamish territory.

Here's an actual Wikipedia page that lists how many geographic locations in WA alone are entirely derived from Indigenous words and names, and there are similar pages for other USAmerican states, too!

My favorite name is Olalla, which is a bastardization of "Olallie/Ollalie", which roughly translates to the shared jargon for "berry/berries" from the Salish and Chinook languages. Olalla's very first non-indigenous settlers were mostly Scandinavian that saw the landscape as being the most similar to their homeland they'd ever seen since leaving it.

Olalla once boasted forests of such enormous and ancient evergreen trees that some regions were said to be so densely forested that, even at noon in full sunlight, the Salish people still had to maintain a system of oil lamps along their pathways and roads, because no sunlight EVER reached the forest floor in those places where the trees were the oldest and densest.

It's said that the first Scandinavian travelers to reach Olalla encountered a small group of Salish people, who, upon being asked (in a language they did not speak), "What's the name of this place?", replied in the their given language, "I don't know what you're saying, but have you tried the berries out here?"

With how unique the biome around pre-colonial Olalla was, one of the local food staples for the Salish people were reportedly strawberries, which were said to grow to truly amazing sizes in the ideal setting around Olalla before logging and deforestation destroyed the last of the old-growth forest around it. It's not very clear if the legendary strawberries around Olalla were the same strawberries as the ones we know from Europe (which may have been brought to North America by even earlier visits from Scandinavian explorers and Vikings), or were actually a separate, but related, subspecies of strawberry endemic to the region.

i do desperately need everyone on this website especially people who arent american but want to rag on america to familiarize themselves with the basic romanized spelling conventions of native american languages because every day i come on here and i see people making fun of massachusetts or connecticut or mississippi or passamaquoddy or mashpee or nipissing and its like PLEASE. PLEASE THEY ARENT ENGLISH WORDS. PLEAAAAASEEEEEUUUHHH. USE YOUR MINDS TO IDENTIFY WHEN A WORD LOOKS LIKE IT MAY NOT BE ENGLISH. I DONT CARE IF YOU MAKE FUN OF AMERICA JUST PLEASE STOP BEING RACIST WHILE YOU DO IT

[alisonwonderland13]

Yesterday Saúl and I had a long talk, about 3.5 hours. The talk was regarding our relationship. I told him that I don't know if I have what it takes to move forward with the relationship.

(when I was in canada in August and was talking to Keith, I had told my husband that I didn't want to live in Canada, I never wanted to and that I didn't want to be with him anymore. Of course this was fueled by keith and what he was saying to me- basically saying he would be the man of my dreams and travel buddy. Because of that, Saúl met someone and started a relationship with her)

After talking for a while and much crying he told me that the girl he had been seeing (Evelyn) and had subsequently stopped seeing because she couldn't handle him still trying to be with me and we had decided to try... He had started seeing again and in fact spent the whole weekend with her. He says although she says that she hates him, he can see the love in her eyes. He says that she has the same type of sex that he wants and so he wants to continue to have sex with her and he feels that he loves her. He even mentioned the situation to one of his friends (Checo) and checo said why don't you just leave Alison and be with Evelyn.

After this, we talked more about our situation and I admitted that I know it's going to be a long difficult 3 years and although I want to do everything it takes, I don't know if I'm strong enough. Finally Saúl said, although he didn't want to say it that he doesn't think I'm strong enough for all of it. He's been concerned that I'm going to back down especially after recently finding out that Tijuana is on the reconsider travel list and also listed in the top dangerous cities.

I feel like I want to do everything it takes. How can I leave him? How can I lose my marriage? How can I walk away? But also I'm questioning if I can travel to Tijuana every 6 weeks for a year. Will I be able to live in Tijuana for 2 years after that knowing my family is just a flight away? Or could we live in San Luis Potosí and I could get a job there? But then there is the issue of still needing to work in the US at least 2 months of the year. And I know how hard it was for me to live there before- not speaking the language and not being able to communicate with people, feeling so isolated, missing my family. My friend Laura said she cried the first year she moved away from Spokane with her husband so would I just have to accept that but also try to fake happiness for my husband's sake?

I know how hard the last year was and when I was out skateboarding recently, I had a thought about my city and family and the comforts of home and I had a thought that I didn't know if I could leave that for 3 years of difficulties. Of course there is the what ifs- that I could end up loving living in California, I always wanted to and Tijuana is at the beach and being in Mexico sounds absolutely wonderful because I fell in love with Mexico while being in SLP with Saúl. But if I'm questioning it, doesn't that say something? If I felt like I could do it, wouldn't I be moving forward? And doesn't it say something about our relationship too that Saúl went back to Evelyn?

I had a dream last night that I was with Saúl and there were people at this house and people were going to stay the night. I remember Jesse was there (Michael's old friend) with his girlfriend and they had gone downstairs to have sex and later Saúl and I went to our bedroom and it had a lock on the door but the lock was on the outside of the door and I commented that it had previously been a kids room so that was why but anyways we weren't able to lock the door but we decided to have sex anyway and while we were having sex, people kept coming into our room. We kept having sex but people kept interrupting us.

I don't know how my relationship can end but I also don't know if I can do what it takes to keep it going and I know that although Saúl was willing to live in TJ for a year for me so i could keep my job and visit him, I know it would be hard for both of us and I'm also considering too that he has a new relationship which may or may not work out. Saúl thinks it's too much for me. But I know we don't want this to end because we love each other so much.

December 9 2024

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[cielsosinfel]

I forgot, but yesterday I managed to get to the public library branch and pick up that fuck-off huge binder about radiation exposure and its lasting health-effects caused by the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. This was a nuclear plant in Benton county, Washington state, the site of the first plutonium production reactor in the world, which provided the plutonium to build the first nuclear bombs in the Manhattan Project. It expanded significantly post-WW2 and affected scores of people in Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia. Not least the Indigenous communities in the immediate areas around the nuclear plant(s).

While the focus was on how these regions of the Pacific Northwest and immediate neighbors were affected, the binder also has a lot of documents and archival material about nuclear sites and their health impacts in other parts of the United States, Canada, as well as in the United Kingdom, and some few documents mentioning Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (There might be more, I've mostly skimmed so far.)

It was put together in 1995 by the Hanford Health Information Network, which according to Journal of American Medical Associations:

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY in Spokane, Wash, the health agencies of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and 9 Indian nations have collaborated to establish a unique repository of health and other personal information from the Hanford downwinders, individuals who were or may have been exposed to radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation plutonium plant (known as the Hanford Site). The Hanford Health Information Archives, which opened July 24, will collect, preserve, and make available to the public unedited health records, questionnaires, and other personal information provided by the downwinders.

Apparently you can search these archives on Washington State Digital Archives portal, but I haven't actually checked yet. But if you wanna give it a shot, follow that nifty link up there.

I wasn't sure what to expect after placing this on hold to borrow, because the library does not include any kind of summary description or catalogue details about its government documents. I just had the title to go off. But it's pretty interesting. A lot of the documents are 90s-published fact sheets from the "Technical Steering Panel of The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project," which seem to have been available to the public and to medical providers in areas immediately affected by nuclear testing and pollution? I'm not 100% certain.

Here's an article providing an overview of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project: "The Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project was initiated because of public interest in the historical releases of radioactive materials from the Hanford Site, located in southcentral Washington State. By 1986, over 38,000 pages of environmental monitoring documentation from the early years of Hanford operations had been released."

The language in the fact sheets is pretty soft on government responsibility and some of them have a very clear assuaging tone, like civilians shouldn't worry too much about the health impacts they're suffering from government nuclear experimentation.

It also has a lot of government documents regarding the Hanford plant, include some government investigations into human experimentation at Hanford.

But besides that it had scans of articles in local newspapers covering the issues of locals impacted by radiation exposure, and government silence on the matter.

And some anti-nuclear articles published by the Committee of Nuclear Responsibility, which was a educational anti-nuclear non-profit founded in the 1970s and spearheaded by several Nobel laureate scientists calling for an end to nuclear power and research, & government transparency on the effects of nuclear testing.

Downwinders mentioned:

Anyway it's all very interesting ! To me!!! IDK about the rest of you having to scroll past this long-ass post lmao But this is a part of US history we are NEVER EVER EXPOSED TO or taught about, unless you happen to have a personal stake in this history. So I'm like obsessed with all the information in this binder and all the avenues of research being opened up for me, all these governmental and community organizations.

Anyway. I'm very grateful this is readily available at the local public library, and that I can take it home to flip through (my arms nearly fell off carrying it uphill to the train, though.)