! wear a sombrero now, sombreros are cool

Shut. The. Entire. Fuck. Up.

I’ll tell you who is responsible for antisemitism. Antisemites. Violent, hateful racists who have chosen, of their own free will, to abuse and attack a minority and their institutions and their places of worship because they can and because they want to. Bigots who decided to get into their car and ram it through the gates of a sacred space or set it on fire or shoot at it because they hate the people inside.

In every living Germanic language except English, the word for 'turtle' incorporates 'shield'

Many of them are literally 'shield toad'

English borrowed from French instead

The French word is related to the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc words

One might expect these to derive from Classical Latin. One would be wrong.

The Classical Latin word does survive in the scientific name and in a second Italian word for turtle.

That word (testudo) is built on 'testa' which can mean 'fragment of earthenware' or 'shell or covering'

So the Germanic languages are calling it shield-thing and Latin is calling it a shell-thing! Very nice.

But, you ask, if not from Classical Latin, where do the Romance Language (and also English) words come from?

Medieval Latin 'tortuca'

And where did that come from?

Wiktionary says the origin is disputed but one of the options given — which Merriam-Webster on my phone seems fine with — is that is was derived from a Late Latin word derived from Tartarus

"because it used to be thought that tortoises and turtles came from the underworld and they were commonly paired with such infernal beasts"

Excuse me

Turtles

Did some early pope have a run-in with a snapping turtle and never got over it no, snapping turtles are Western Hemisphere

TURTLES

Putin

The Kims

Orban

What happened at Nova can happen (has happened) in Australia. What happened in Australia can happen (has happened) in England. What happened in England can happen (has happened) in LA. What happened in LA can happen (has happened) in San Diego.

There are so many more places I could add to the list.

All over the country. All over the world. Jews have been attacked. Have been murdered.

And all over the country. All over the world. Non-Jews have largely chosen to turn a blind eye. A deaf ear.

Those who've done more, we see you and we appreciate you.

But those who have done more are such a small portion of the larger population.

What will you have to say when it happens in your community? What have you said when it did?

If you cared enough to post and shout about the lives of any other group, but are silent when it comes to Jews, whether it be because it's "unpopular" to speak up, or because it doesn't seem close enough to you. The blood is on your hands too.

If you found it in yourself to speak about anyone else, why are Jews not enough for you to speak?

Our lives are on the line.

Remember Paul Kessler. Remember Matilda. Remember Benjamin Harouni. Remember Alexander Kleytman. Remember every victim of anti-Jewish violence.

And remember your silence.

That’s quite a costume. I love this woman’s hair, and her energy…

The baby names talk that Chim has with Buck and Eddie obviously gave us the biggest, cutest Buddie moments of the ep (with that leaning together against the truck as Eddie talks about naming Chris, those shared knowing looks and laughter at the end, even the way they walk off together). What I really like about it is the choice of who’s in it. Hen is right there on the scene, she’s a parent, she might have been a part of naming Denny while she was still with Eva. Buck is def not a parent and has no experience naming children (and we all, clearly including Chim, remember his not so imaginative suggestions in ep 404), he really shouldn’t be a part of this conversation. Yet the writers didn’t make it Eddie that Chim consults or Eddie and Hen, they chose to make it Eddie and Buck. Because Buddie are a unit. Invite Buck and you’ll be inviting Eddie. Consult Eddie and you’ll be consulting Buck, too. It is known.

If you’ve read my weekly meta posts before, then you know I always take a second to scream about Buddie being battlefield boyfriends. We get that here, too. When Bobby gets to the driver’s car, Buck and Eddie are already working on it together, and later when extricating Albert, we get to see not only the two of them doing it together, but also the looks and the reassuring non-verbal communication they share as they do. Bestest firefighting husbands ever!

I find it interesting that right after Bobby narrates in the background about someone being at the bottom and finding there the clarity needed to pull themselves back up, we see a short scene of Eddie hugging Chris. Obviously Eddie was affected by having to rescue Jacob, the kid from the accident. But Chris wasn’t featured in any other way in this ep. It felt very similar to me to the way that we got a short, lovely scene with Eddie and Chris at the end of 402 with Carla narrating in the background, after Chris wasn’t a part of that ep at all, nor of 401 (which 402 is the direct continuation of). BTW, it’s not the only parallel between the openings of 4a (402) and 4b (409): both also have a climax which is a birthing scene intercut with a scene where a life is in danger and that ends up being saved. In 402, that birthing scene involved Chim and led to him being able to step up as a future dad, and in 409, Chim was there at the birthing scene and it’s when he finally got to meet his daughter. I’m saying, these eps were built to parallel. So it’s no accident we got in both of them those little added Chris and Eddie scenes showing the love between the Diaz boys, seemingly out of nowhere at the end of the ep, with the meaningful narration, about unbreakable bonds in 4a and about the need to fight to get out of a low spot in 4b. I feel like this is a part of the build up towards whatever conclusion Eddie’s arc will have in season 4 overall. I’m really looking forward to seeing the rest of it play out. 

It’s not quite the same, because Albert is an adult, not a kid, plus he wasn’t Buck’s responsibility at the time of the accident, yet I couldn’t help thinking of how much more devastated Buck was when he had to tell Eddie that Chris was missing (to the point of almost being in denial about having to face Eddie) than when he had to tell Chim that Albert was in an accident and unconscious. Albert is Buck’s friend, current roommate and family through Madney’s bond. Buck is obviously upset when he hears Albert was in the pile up and does everything possible to help him. But when he tells Chim the news, it’s still not the near breakdown he had over Chris. And the show chooses to cut off without us seeing how Buck tells Chim the news. This show tends to frame the off-calls drama within family units. Bobby and Athena will have to deal with his alcoholism, Karen and Hen have to deal together with the possibility of losing Nia, and so on. Buck is a part of the extended Madney clan, but his biggest drama played out with Eddie and Chris. Much like Buck was framed with them as a family unit in the Xmas dinner scene in ep 310, and even though it’s not official, they’re a family, too.