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Ever wanted to know how to pronounce the name of our favorite Ur copper merchant, Ea-nÄᚣir? If you haven't looked it up, I can almost guarantee that you are saying it wrong, but fret not. I will share the secret with you (or at least the buest guess modern experts have).
The reconstruction of how to pronounce his name currently looks like this in the IPA:
[e.a.ËnaË.tÍĄsĘźiĘ]
If that looks daunting, keep reading.
While Ea-nÄᚣir may be remembered to us as a Sumerian, he did not speak Sumerian. The Sumerian language was all but extinct in his day, and Sumerians now spoke an unrelated language called Akkadian.
The infamous complaint tablets are written in Akkadian Cuneiform, which is a complicated writing system that it is difficult to figure out the pronunciation of after the fact. Pronunciations have shifted considerably during the time that modern people have studied it. All the same, we have a "buest guess" at pronunciation.
The first thing to note is that Akkadian has phonemic vowel quantity, which is a fancy way if saying that the length of a vowel is really important. Ea-nÄᚣir's name has four vowels, and three are short and one is long. The long one is the A with a bar on top (called a macron, pronounced MACK-ron or MAKE-ron). If you see that symbol in other languages it is probably also a long vowel (you'll see this in Arabic, Latin, and many other languages).
This also tells us where to stress the word. While Akkadian has somewhat complicated rules for stress, Ea-nÄᚣir's case is simple: stress the syllable with the long vowel.
The vowels themselves are the vowels you would find in Spanish, Japanese or Swahili: the E is closest to the English vowel in dress, the As are between trap and palm, just like Spanish gato, and the I is somewhere around sheep or fear.
So far, intuitively, you're probably pronouncing it something like "e-a-NAW-sir", which is getting closer to the accurate idea, but we haven't looked at the consonants yet, and unfortunately they are the hardest parts (for an English speaker).
The N is just a regular N. This isn't too surprising since N is one of the single most common sounds across all spoken languages (perhaps only beaten by M).
The R, while contested among scholars, seems to be leaning towards a "back R" or "guttural R", the way French people and some Germans do it.
That leaves the ᚣ. Oh boy. It is, first of all, an affricate, like the Z in pizza. "e-a-NAAT-sir" would as such be a good try. It is, however, also something called an ejective, which is a notoriously tricky type of consonant where you block the airflow while saying it, only to release it immediately after.
You know the T-dropping that some brits do, or the way you rapidly close off air flow at the back of your throat when saying ah-ah-ah (and perhaps wagging your finger)? Try putting an air release like that right after the ts sound. If the closest you get is "e-a-NAT-suh-ir" then you are already doing a good job.
If you are a perfectionist, here is an old youtube video of a person making the noise, with decent audio.
And that's it, really. That is a complete breakdown of the best guess we have at how Ea-nÄᚣir's name would have been pronounced.
i'm here again to hype Nanni of Ur, who was the one Ea-Nasir tried to rip off and who is the author of the complaint letter. Having worked in customer service, i know it is tempting to pick Ea-Nasir's side, but listen.
Ea-Nasir is basically Big Copper of ancient Mesopotamia. He started his career buying and selling copper for the palace at Ur, and then he moved on, selling wholesale/industrial ingots, as well as finished copper products.
In the second half of his career, he has clearly become shady and kind of an asshole. We also have a tablet from one of his business partners, who tells him, basically, "hey, i'm sending you a customer that will be good for business, please show him actual good copper. Also, don't be a dick for once"
In fact, there have been found many complaint tablets to him. It basically seems like, with leads based on his previous position with the palace, he was taking a lot of people's money, promising super great copper, the best! and then not delivering the copper when he said he would.
The people who already paid for this great copper would try to chase him down through their mutual market contact, and after a lot of "it's in the mail, i swear" kind of bullshit, Ea-Nasir would send a bunch of really shitty copper and be like "whatever, it's copper, either take it or i'll find someone else to sell it to."
Eventually it all caught up with him, there are signs his wealth declined, and it even appears he had to sell part of his home to the people next door to be walled off from him and connected to their own house. Around this same time, it seems he was forced out of the copper business altogether, and sort of desperately tried to start several other businesses like real-estate and produce, and finally ended up selling second-hand clothing.
Despite there being a good number of tablets upset at Ea-Nasir for his shitty business dealings, we all know of Ea-Nasir primarily through that one strongly worded letter from Nanni, who says "Who am I that you are treating me in this manner -- treating me with such contempt?" and "You will learn that here in Ur I will not accept from you copper that is not good." like, he's heated, as well he should be, because as i read it, he and one of his colleagues basically had to provide the royal palace with a bunch of copper out of their own pockets because Ea-Nassir didn't come through on his promises.
So, while i think it is fitting that we remember what a shitty copper merchant Ea-Nasir was, I think it would be nice if we also recalled Nanni of Ur, the customer who wrote the angry letter which made him infamous in modern times.
other authors of complaint tablets to him include:
Arbituram
Nigga-Nanna (some kind of a middle-man between Ea-Nasir and his customers)
Imgur-Sin (who in one tablet writes "do you not know how tired of you I am?")
Appa
Ili-idinnam, and
Ilsu-ellatsu, seemingly the exasperated business partner he took on when his business began to fail
As much as I love an exasperated foil trying to rein in sun-skirting girlboss (Ilsu-ellatsu, get in my blorbo gallery!), Ea-Nasir will never not be iconic to me, for the simple reason that he kept his hate mail.
As a person who framed and displayed the *extremely* detailed custom handwritten notice she got from bylaw for her (many, many) failures in suburban lawn maintenance, I feel a great kinship to this ancient man.
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Rebecca Blake could also put temporary tattoos on any part of her skin that IS exposed. That way, if ever the police tried to identify her through photographs or footage, she would be able to point to the tattoo in the image and say "well that can't possibly be me; that person has angel wings tattooed on the back of their neck, but MY neck is un-tattooed."
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I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.
My mom was telling me about this YouTube video she watched (I can't remember the name, sorry) where the person shared a screenshot of some MAGA voter from Florida asking for help, because his wife had been hired for a nursing job with the VA in Texas, so they sold their house and were preparing to move. But they rescinded her job offer after Trump's executive order. The post from the guy was basically like "I already contacted Senator Ted Cruz's office, and they said they couldn't do anything about this. Please help me get this story to President Trump, we love him! We voted for him 3 times! And we know this was just a mistake and he'd help us!"
Just.................a part of me laughs, and another part of me thinks about how cult followers genuinely believe that the cult leader cares about them
This is the part about believing in universal human rights that can be a bit difficult: they're universal, and should never be denied anyone, no matter who they are or what they have done.
You can be â you should be â furious with people who voted for Trump, for wilfully trying to sabotage those rights and make them conditional, a privilege for the "deserving", a privilege they can deny the "wrong" kind of people.
And when the MAGA crowd are hit by the consequences of their actions, and denied basic human rights because it turns out their Great Leader doesn't actually include his followers among the privileged, it's tempting to say that they deserve to be denied those rights, because that's what they wanted to do to others.
But if you do that, you don't truly believe that those rights should be universal; you just have a different idea than the MAGA crowd about who should be included among the privileged.
You can still tell the MAGA who's crying that the leopards ate their face that you're angry with them for letting the face-eating leopards loose. But you shouldn't be fine with their face being eaten.
The key here, IMO, is the distinction between your emotional reaction to hearing about it and how you consciously believe people should be treated.
Having a positive emotional reaction, enjoying the schadenfreude or whatever, doesnât mean youâre bad and isnât something you need to suppress. You just need to also be able to say, âbut that shouldnât happen, not to them, not to anyone.â
This is a good articulation! I'm going to reblog this addition because I think it might be helpful for some people who are sorting out their feelings to see this stated so plainly!
Okay yes, this is hilarious. But âheâs just a hamsterâ over and over rubs me the wrong way. We should have just as much care and concern for our hamsters, rats, goldfish, and lizards as we do for our dogs, cats, horses and whatever other animals people are deeming most worthy these days, but it really does seem like a lot of people have a category of animals they consider less important, and it ainât right. If youâre not going to care about a hamster as much as you would about a dog, you probably shouldnât be responsible for either one. Poor, stressed out Padre had the right idea.
GrĂśning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested.
it's easier to apply for jobs than ever! so what if you lost your insurance, anyone can get a job these days, even without meds. everyone is hiring! there's a "good employee" shortage!
well you just need to revamp your resume, here's a paid app subscription that can read it for you. rewrite the cover letter they won't read. google jobs in my area and then scrawl through Monster/Indeed/worbly. did you want to save the search? this was posted 98 days ago. over 1 billion applicants! this position is trending.
jobs i actively like doing and get paid for. your search returned no results. easy-apply with HireSpin! easy apply with SparkFire! easy apply with PenisFlash! with a few short clicks, get your information stolen.
watch out! the first 98 links on google are actually scams! they're false postings. oopsie. that business isn't even hiring. that other one is closed permanently. find one that looks halfway legit, google the company and the word "careers". go to their page. scroll past brightly-lit diversity stock photo JOIN US white sans serif. we are a unique, fresh, client-focused stock value capitalism. we are committed to excellence and selling your soul on ebay. we are DRIVEN with POWER to INNOVATE our greed. yippee! our company has big values of divisive decision making, sucking our dicks, and hating work-life balances. our values are to piss in your mouth. sign here and tell us if you have gender issues so we can get ahead of the sexual harassment claim. are you hispanic although let's be real we threw out the resume when we saw your last name.
sign up to LinkHub to access updates from this company. make a HirePlus account to apply. download the PoundLink app. your account has been created, click the link we sent you in 15 minutes. upload that resume. we didn't read the resume, manually fill in the lines now. what is your expected pay grade. oh actually we want hungry people, not people driven by a salary. cut a zero off that number, buddy, this is about opportunity, and we need to be thrifty. highest level of education. autofill is glitching. here is an AI generated set of questions. what is your favorite part of our sexy, sexy company. how do you resolve conflict. will you get our company logo tattooed on your person. warning: while our CEO is guilty of wage theft, we will absolutely refuse to hire a nonviolent felon.
thank you for your interest at WEEBLIX. we actually already filled this position internally. we actually never had that posting. we actually needed you to have 9 years of experience and since you have 10 years we think it might be too many? we'll be texting you. we'll email you. we'll keep your resume. definitely absolutely we won't just completely ignore you. look at your phone, there's already a spam text from Bethany@stealyouridentity. they're hiring!
wait, did you get an interview? well that's special, aren't you lucky. out of 910 jobs you applied to, one answered, finally. and funny story! actually the position isn't exactly as advertised, we are looking for someone curious and dedicated. it's sort of more managerial. no, the pay doesn't change - you won't have any leadership title. now take this 90 minute assessment. in order to be a dog groomer, we need you to explain cell biology. in order to be a copyeditor, write a tiny dissertation about the dwindling supply of helium on the planet. answer our riddles three. great job! we just need to push this up to Tracy in HR who will send it to Rodney who is actually in charge. and then of course it's jay's decision and then greg will need to see you naked and if you survive you'll be given a drug test and a full anal examination.
and of course you'll be hungry this whole time, aren't you, months and months of the same shit. months of no insurance, no meds, no funding, barely able to afford the internet and the phone and the rent - all things you need in order to even apply for our thing. but do it again! do it again and again and again, until you flip inside out and turn into a being of pure dread!
you're not hired yet because you're lazy. there's over one million AI-generated hallucinated jobs in your area. don't worry. with zipruiter, hiring and firing is easier than ever. sign up. stay on-call.
in the meantime, little peon - why don't you just fucking suffer.
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As we see a barrage of evil executive orders come in, they are not immediately enforceable and will takes months or years to implement.
Thatâs still not great, but donât let these pile up to the point of hopelessness. Take a breath, and look community leaders who will fight it every step of the way.
Reminder that when Trump was in office before a LOT of his orders got overturned or held up in lower courts for long enough that they became irrelevant. It also does not mean they WILL be enforced. Stand with your community where you can. The fight is not over. Do not obey in advance.
ITHACA, N.Y. â The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure
If you have ever been tempted by a Paleozoic Pal, like a a stuffed trilobite or a full size eurypterid body pillow, now's the time to buy one, before they and a really lovely little museum are gone for good đđđ
Paleozoic Pals⢠Paleozoic Pals⢠are the Paleontological Research Institutionâs line of plush fossils. The Paleozoic is the era before dinosa
This was the museum I went to often in my childhood. I'm no longer able to visit unless I visit family, but this place holds a special place in my heart.
As stated in the article, they hold around 7 million artifacts- many of which are orphaned fossils, with the museum taking in collections that otherwise would have been trashed.
Please consider buying a Paleozoic Pal, but I'll also leave a direct donation link as well.
This stupid joke was so funny to me I tried to translate it into Korean to tell my family and when none of them laughed I was like "Oh my translation must not have been very good" and I tried rewording it like 90 times before my mom was like "No, no. The problem isn't lack of understanding"
1) This isn't a math problem man I get tired and slow down after a bit
2) Maybe we live at the top of a hill and I have to bike up to get back. You don't know. You don't know my life
2) When people work together, their combined efforts go beyond simple arithmetics. Two people holding each other up will go more than twice the distance they could alone. Three will go farther than thrice the distance. When all of us work together, the sky is our limit
3) my girl's strong as fuck she's got thighs like cannons
Angela Davis actually touches on this in her novel Women, Race, and Class.
Essentially, she says that Black women may have been considered genderless because we did all the same work as men but then werenât considered men when it came to sexual abuse, suddenly being forced into these feminine, submissive roles that we clearly didnât fit into. Once the Atlantic Slave Trade was banned, Black women were then seen as breeders to provide for slaves since they couldnât be imported. Despite this, Black women, even if we were pregnant, still had to work in the fields and suffer the same punishment as our male counterparts.
Angela Davis goes on further to say that since Black women were never seen as housewives, Black men were in turn never seen as family providers or heads of households. By this point, Black women had acquired an abundance of traits that didnât fit into 19th century perception of what it meant to be a woman. Also, with the rise of industrialization, white women never experienced that same intensive labor which further pushed them into the housewife stereotype. Essentially, there was this white feminist movement to erase the housewife stereotype but it didnât include the struggles of Black women because we were never seen as housewives to begin with.
All of this to say: We were genderless and outside of any gender norm within the white supremacist framework.
Reminder that we offer the novel mentioned above, Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis, as a free PDF for anyone to read under our social justice resources. Please share so everyone has equal and equitable access to education and activism!
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there are many reasons to reject AI but one that goes underadressed is that imagination is a powerful political tool. to create a better world, to strive for change, you must first conceive of its possibility. everything around us, every single thread woven into the fabric of society, was an idea before it became reality.
becoming increasingly reliant on a machine that can only regurgitate, to use technology that is at its core unable to create something new, will slowly but surely strip us from the ability to constructively imagine the different realities possible for the world around us. condemned to stagnation by the lack of ability to think of an alternative.
maggie smith is right - this place could be beautiful. we could make this place beautiful. but radical change requires the creativity to see its good bones and the imagination to create that beauty. don't let AI take that away from you
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