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“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

Hi everyone, so I had to go to ER this morning because of really intense pain in my side. Because I’m uninsured it cost $2,200 for these people to tell me that I had a kidney stone.

If you’re able to, I would really appreciate any assistance 😩

https://gofund.me/b7f50742

I don't normally post personal stuff on this blog but this is a super important thing that I really need to ask for help if possible.

Recently, my girlfriends cat (Mao) has been showing signs of what we can only describe as seizures. And it's very worrisome because Mao is usually very healthy. This last time was very scary and awful and super stressful for us.

Mao is my gf's emotional support animal and means so much to both of us. We've set up a GoFundMe page to try and raise money for a vet visit, as money is tight right now. If possible, I am asking you to donate. If not, that's absolutely alright and I'm begging you to share the post instead

Thank you all so much and I hope you have/are having a wonderful day,

Angie ❤️❤️❤️

Next, banning black swimmers from bigger wearing swim cap that are designed for Afro texture hair

Next, not allowing swimmer to use a Black owned brand of swim caps

Next, forcing Caster Semenya, an African Woman with a natural higher testosterone level to either compete with men or get put on hormones to compete with women

Next, this BS with Sha' Carri and their over punishment of Black athletes

Next, Playing all these mental games with Simone Biles to try and fuck up her confidence

Next, underhanded comments over Serena choosing to not compete this year

Next, all the mfs tryna strong arm and criticize Gwen Berry for not acknowledging the flag on peaceful protest

I want to create a multicultural and diverse classroom library for my students. It’s so important to me that students have access to reading material that represents them, but also so they can learn about cultures and information beyond themselves.

I have a good start, but expenses add up and I’ve exhausted all of mine. I’ve created a gofundme for my classroom library and would appreciate any and all support!! The goal is $400–a number I based off of my Amazon wishlist. However, classroom libraries can add up to well over $1000 especially if you want more than one copy of a book. Please message me if you have any questions :) also message me if you have any book recommendations!

TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).

Bonus:

In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…

…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…

…even though most writers now use monitor /  keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.

In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.

The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.

The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…

And of course the Save icon is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.

Why it wasn’t a 5¼ floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.

Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.

So what a lot of people may not know is that the Torah is mostly like. a farming manual. A day-to-day life guide for 6,000 years ago. And so it has instructions for harvesting, of course. But it says specifically that you shouldn’t reap all the way to the edge of your field, and that you should leave that for the poor. It also says that you shouldn’t take the fallen grapes from your vineyard, and to leave that also for the poor. And a lot more little things like that.

So why is it encouraged? Why doesn’t it count as stealing for the poor to take the food you grew?