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Hey fellow USA Americans, here is something you can do inside of about 30 seconds to stop the current looting of our private information by an elongated muskrat

Seriously, there’s a template of what to paste into an email. It is another thing to do along with calling your reps

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imagine someone thinking of you and buying you flowers

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I just want to get dicked down again =/

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Modern things that I think Dionysus is the patron god of:

assless chaps

gnc men

mechanical bulls

television

grape flavored candy and soda

juggalos

deadheads

weed

gas station cigars

trans masc people

antidepressants

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I am going to [remembers that jokes about suicide are detrimental to myself and others] Scarborough Fair.

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One of the most frustrating things about being ADHD is the way hyperfixations and skill levels work.

So I, an ADHD person, will get obsessed with A Thing. I will research, I will practice. I'll check out library books, watch YouTube videos, seek out podcasts, all to learn everything I can about The Thing.

Thiat Thing is often a skill or hobby. Painting, writing, candlemaking, baking, mixology, tea blending.

But the thing with ADHD is that you'll be obsessed with it only to a certain skill level. Something where all the mystery is gone. It's not as fun once the learning part is over and it's just boring practice to get better.

Then abruptly, you'll lose interest and move to another fixation.

That skill level you've earned may be higher than your average person with a passing interest. But it's also lower than someone who specializes in said thing, who has put in those hard hours of practice and work.

So you start just forming this miscellaneous collection of things that you're good enough at to earn some praise, but still leave you feeling like you're just never *quite* good enough at anything because you can't just choose anything.

And you want to pick a Thing. To find Your Thing. The thing that fits, that you can finally excel at. But you just can't seem to.

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Hello, I’ts Nour from Gaza,

My family shattered between northern and southern Gaza after my husband was forced to leave us and return to the north on foot🚶

He told me: "The journey was long and tough, but I felt like my heart was carrying me, not my foot"

The devastation in the north is beyond words, The place is practically uninhabitable, but sadly, our family have no other choice 💔

We are looking for a spot to fix it up and settle, hoping to reunite soon

I urgently need your genuine support, the costs of rent and repairs are overwhelming, but together, we can find a way to reunite 🕊️

Whether you contribute through donations to reunite my family or simply share this message to reach others who can help, every action matters 🙏🏻

Thank you for standing by us 🕊️

🌟 Our campaign is vetted by 🇵🇸 @/gazavetters List at #291

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by enigmatriz

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YOU ARE A DEAD THING. MADE BY A DEAD POWER. IN THE SHAPE OF THE DEAD. ALL YOU WILL EVER DO IS KILL. YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE.

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What is a ‘wug’?

If you’ve been to linguist tumblr (lingblr), you might have stumbled upon this picture of a funny little bird or read the word ‘wug’ somewhere. But what exactly is a ‘wug’ and where does this come from?

The ‘wug’ is an imaginary creature designed for the so-called ‘wug test’ by Jean Berko Gleason. Here’s an illustration from her test:

“Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children’s acquisition of morphological rules‍—‌for example, the “default” rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/ or /ɨz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g., hat–hats, eye–eyes, witch–witches. A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity, with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it:

This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________.

Each “target” word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that the plural of witch is witches may have heard and memorized that pair, but a child responding that the plural of wug (which the child presumably has never heard) is wugs (/wʌgz/, using the /z/ allomorph since “wug” ends in a voiced consonant) has apparently inferred (perhaps unconsciously) the basic rule for forming plurals.

The Wug Test also includes questions involving verb conjugations, possessives, and other common derivational morphemes such as the agentive -er (e.g. “A man who ‘zibs’ is a ________?”), and requested explanations of common compound words e.g. “Why is a birthday called a birthday?“ Other items included:

This is a dog with QUIRKS on him. He is all covered in QUIRKS. What kind of a dog is he? He is a ________ dog.

This is a man who knows how to SPOW. He is SPOWING. He did the same thing yesterday. What did he do yesterday? Yesterday he ________.

(The expected answers were QUIRKY and SPOWED.)

Gleason’s major finding was that even very young children are able to connect suitable endings‍—‌to produce plurals, past tenses, possessives, and other forms‍—‌to nonsense words they have never heard before, implying that they have internalized systematic aspects of the linguistic system which no one has necessarily tried to teach them. However, she also identified an earlier stage at which children can produce such forms for real words, but not yet for nonsense words‍—‌implying that children start by memorizing singular–plural pairs they hear spoken by others, then eventually extract rules and patterns from these examples which they apply to novel words.

The Wug Test was the first experimental proof that young children have extracted generalizable rules from the language around them, rather than simply memorizing words that they have heard, and it was almost immediately adapted for children speaking languages other than English, to bilingual children, and to children (and adults) with various impairments or from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Its conclusions are viewed as essential to the understanding of when and how children reach major language milestones, and its variations and progeny remain in use worldwide for studies on language acquisition. It is “almost universal” for textbooks in psycholinguistics and language acquisition to include assignments calling for the student to carry out a practical variation of the Wug Test paradigm. The ubiquity of discussion of the wug test has led to the wug being used as a mascot of sorts for linguists and linguistics students.”

Here are some more illustrations from the original wug test:

Sources: 

Wikipedia, All Things Linguistic

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what's he dreaming about?

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If i dont [experience pathologically concerning sex act] within the next [arbitrary time period] im going to [federal agency watchphrase]

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I have been wondering if the reason the violence in the West Bank has not received much attention even from advocates who were rightfully vocal about Gaza is due to a lack of understanding of what and where Jenin is in relation to the West Bank. So here is a very, very quick run through that barely scratches the surface:

All of Palestine has been divided by Israel into three main parts.

Historic Palestine, referred to by the Zionist entity as Israel, where Palestinians (referred to as Arabs) live as second class citizens.

The West Bank, occupied by Israel and where Palestinians live in an ever shrinking landmass, continuously being chipped away at by violent Israeli settler mobs. This area is theatrically governed by Israel’s puppet, the Palestinian Authority (the PA), with an apartheid wall running through 80% of it and settler-only roads that render the territory into tiny, isolated bantustans. This is where Palestinians fight two fronts: the PA and Israel.

Gaza, where Palestinians are cornered into a small area and placed under an 18 year total siege by Israel, where even calorie intake is controlled by Israel. This area, likened to a concentration camp, is periodically used as a testing ground for weapons and is where Palestine's worst episode of the ongoing genocide took place between October 2023 and January 2025.

The West Bank and Gaza are not connected geographically. People in the West Bank can’t drive to Gaza and vice versa.

Now, the West Bank itself is also divided into three parts. For a visual representation of this, check out The Palestinian Archipelago but the three areas are:

Area A: comprised of 18% of the land of the West Bank, where administration and security matters are lead by the Palestinian Authority.

Area B: comprised of 22% of the land of the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority leads administratively, but share security with Israel. Riddled with Israeli checkpoints, this area sees the most dangerous examples of restriction of movement.

Area C: comprised of 60% of the land of the West Bank, where most of Israel’s illegal settlements are, and where Israel has full control, both administratively and security.

Understand this deliberate fragmentation; understand it from a settler colonial mindset of divide and conquer. Understand it as a way for Israel to fragment the Palestinian identity, to make it an almost impossibility for a Palestinian body to act as a sovereign. Understand it as Israel manipulates laws, including occupation law (!) to cast Palestinians and their situation as sui generis; a unique situation due to this fragmentation, which permits Israel to create new, unfounded laws to "control" the native population.

Jenin is in Area A of the West Bank; it has been under a brutal Israeli military assault that has intensified over the past few weeks, with dozens being killed, including children. Definitely not the first assault against Jenin in recent history (watch the documentary Jenin, Jenin for that), but extremely daunting as it emerges in the aftermath of Israel’s accelerated genocide in Gaza where a minimum of 180,000 Palestinians were brutally murdered in the span of 15 months.

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this fucking movie and the essence of living felt in spock taking death to reach the stars