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eating disorder recovery is just getting angry over and over again because food is treated like some horrible necessary evil instead of one of the great joys of life. eat some nuts because they taste good and you are a living thing that thrives on pleasure and calories. you need both.

Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Elizabeth Hinton, America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

Mariame Kaba, We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transformative Justice

Colin Kaepernick (ed.), Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons

Robin DG Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Victoria Law, "Prisons Make Us Safer" and 20 Other Myths About Mass Incarceration Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health

Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Whistleblower on Reddit rage-blogs about how the food delivery company he worked for as a developer is ripping customers AND drivers off.

Main post screenshotted here in case it gets yanked; the whole thread is worth a read.

In 18th century America there was a trend of finding nicer ways to say curse words so they could shout exclamations without committing blasphemy. “Heck” and “gosh” originated at this time. “What in Sam Hill” was just a censored way of saying “What the hell?”

Damn and damnation became darn and darnation

At the time the word eternal was mostly associated with God and heaven, so the slang term “tarnal” was created to speak about eternity without invoking God

The new soft-curse word darnation sounded a bit like the slang word tarnal so people mashed them into tarnation (source)

“Crikey”, made popular by Steve Irwin, is short for “Christ kill me”.

“Gadzooks” came from “God’s hooks”, referring to the nails used to crucify Jesus.

It’s very antiquated but you used to see “’snails” as a minced oath, also meaning “God’s nails” - not the mollusk.

Similarly, “ods bodkins” came from “God’s bodkins”, a bodkin being a type of arrowhead - possibly a reference to the spear used to pierce Christ’s side.

“Zounds” came from “God’s wounds”, relating to His stigmata and the aforementioned wound in the side.

“Cor blimey” is a mangled pronounciation of “God blind me”.

“Gadsbud” is “God’s body” or “God’s blood”, depending on who you ask.

Another antiquated one, “byrlady” is a contraction of “by Our Lady”, referring to the Mother Mary.

And then, of course, there’s the wealth of minced oaths created to avoid saying “Jesus Christ”, including (but not limited to):

Cheese and rice

Gee whiz

Judas Priest

Jesum Crow

Jiminy Cricket (that’s my mom’s favorite)

Jebusites (that’s not on the list above, that’s just the one I use)