heheh funny pictuers

mostly my career goals are to hang out with friends and do whatever is funniest in the moment. hope that helps

this is a joke but in jewish lore angels are jealous of humans for our ability to create

Image description: [ a drawing of a young woman, standing with forearm crutches which has teal tape covering them. She has brown skin, split dyed hair of red and black, and teal ribbons in her hair making two “ponytails”. She has red striped sleeves, a white sheer shirt with a red tank top under it. She has a spike necklace and star bead necklace on. She is also wearing a red and black puffy skirt, black and red thigh high stockings, and platform shoes with teal laces. She also has a nose bridge piercing, septum piercing, and lip piercing, and is smiling directly forward. ] end description.

this has a better plot than 90% of action movies

and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even supposed to mean like there’s no way a translation now in the US could be read the same way it was a couple thousand years ago in Greece when english didn’t even exist yet

Yep, in the original Odyssey, in the scene where Telemachus murders the slaves who were “sullied by” Penelope’s suiters, he refers to them with a word that roughly just means “the female ones”, however most translations will use words like “whores”, “sluts” and “creatures”, these were all choices of the translators. The original text did not refer to them that way. Dr. Wilson refers to them instead as “girls”, to highlight their age and the brutality of the action. She also fixed all the times the previous male translators dodged around the existence of slaves in the text. Where they call slaves anything but slaves (housemaid, nurse, cook, ect.) Dr. Wilson’s translation correctly calls them slaves as in the original texts. It’s really a great translation, it doesn’t soften anything, and lays bare the reality of the story. One thing she did too, was she refused to make the descriptions of the women in the story more palatable to modern western beauty standards. The original text, for example, describes Penelope’s hands as “thick”. Most male translators change this to “steady” but Dr. Wilson’s translation calls them “firm, muscular hands” to correctly portray the original intent, that Penelope, as a character who weaves every day and every night undoes her weavings, has strong hands, as weaving does make one’s hands more muscular, and that was clearly what was originally intended to be said given the context of her character and the weavings. Of Odysseus himself, the original epic calls him “polytropos” poly, meaning many, and tropos, meaning turn. Some male translators used this to say the story itself had twists and turns, other ignored the word completely to write in a way that made Odysseus seem as though a straight up hero, a man “skilled in all ways of contending”, but Dr. Wilson uses it to mean “complicated”, because Odysseus isn’t a straight up hero, he does some really shitty things. So her translation got a lot of men very very mad, because they said that her being a woman has caused her to translate with bias since her translation is so different to others. She pointed out that perhaps people should have suggested that bias in the inaccurate men’s translations. Anyway, go read Dr. Wilson’s version of The Odyssey. It’s very good.

[ID: A screenshot of three tweets. The first one is by Channel 4 News, and reads: “”A translator always makes choices.” Classicist Dr Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English - and she found that many men before her added sexist or misogynist terms that never existed in the original Greek.” A tweet by the user Shawny_B_good replies: “So, translating with a different ad hoc agenda is better? It seems that in order to make a proper translation, it takes a linguist/historian/literary scholar to make it work properly as artful, and truthful to the time it was written.” The user j_n_foster replied to the previous tweet by saying: “What do you think a classicist is Shawn.” End ID]

Hey didn’t the Bible do this with that one verse that was actually against pedophilia and translated it into homphobia and now homophobes use it to excuse their behaviour

I think it originally said “man may not lay with child” and people said it said “man may not lay with man”

"Gamer-Americans" is a new category of white American I just invented. They're distinct from other categories of white Americans in that instead of claiming a cultural heritage tied to a European country, their cultural heritage is instead the /v/ board on 4chan, and the foundational act of the culture group was gamergate, which while historically attested as a far-right harassment movement, is considered in the Gamer-American mythos to have actually been a justified act of self-defense against "SJWs taking over my videogames".

This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.

Just to add, there will also always be an itinerant part of the population that will be wandering around. Giving people homes is one side of the coin, safeguarding Rambler’s Rights like making encampments and free movement is the other. Providing resources while also making people safer from police violence in general has to be among our goals.

Happy birthday videogames

my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to

my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that

hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures