(୨୧• ꒳ •)=:♡

They like to say Ofcom has no single creator, as if it simply materialized. fully formed, by some grace of the heavens that was bestowed upon the companies that comprise it like some sort of prophetic absolute. But everything has authors. Nothing this structured, this bureaucratic, happens to just POOF, and simply drift down from the sky to settle itself into the law by accident. I say they must have had some very, very, rich friends.

I would be perfectly fine with ID requirements and the separation of age groups if not for the endless cycle of massive data breaches and the fact that we are expected to entrust multi million dollar, often opaque corporations, with our most intimate information. The issue is not the concept of safeguarding minors... It's the mechanism. It's this unilateral assumption that consolidation of personal data is harmless simply because it is framed as 'protective!'.

And you might say to me, "Well, Mari, they already knew you existed from the moment you were born. At birth you are assigned a number, and then you're entered into their system." And yes, that's true, i never denied that! But baby, honey, love, dear, you're missing the point!! There is a difference between existing as a statistic in a ledger and existing as a fully mapped profile because now there is a face attached to your anonymous searches, your embarrassing late-night questions, your strange curiosities, and your private adult indulgences. But! More importantly, there is a clearer category to slot you into, a sharper marketing profile, a more refined method to influence what you buy, what you click, and what you believe. The individual becomes product and consumer simultaneously, you're effectively reduced to yet another cog in the machine that we call 'capitalism'.

So in any case, absolutely, there could very well possibly be some good intentions and good reasoning behind these policies that are supposedly designed to intercept those who deliberately seek out violent or exploitative material like snuff or anything under the 'Barely legal' category. No one normal defends that content or any of the predatory exploitation that goes on by the individuals who do, I'd hope. (Unfortunately my hope is limited, as I've come to find that many people right now genuinely only want to abolish the ID requirements so that they may meet with children or because they seek out such content.) But when massive databases of ordinary citizens' identities are assembled and inevitably breached as history suggests they often are (As was the fate of Discord) then the consequences fall not on the corporations or the lawmakers, but on us as individuals. Regular people. WE the people. If that data leaks, it does not become a "mOrAl LeSsOn", as again there's nothing to hide. It just becomes leverage. It becomes humiliation, harassment, or even worse, your blackmail.

The question, then, is not whether or not harm exists online, because uh, it clearly does! I mean... You know it, i do, everyone does. But rather, whether the cure risks creating a different kind of vulnerability. Protection that requires surrendering autonomy absolutely must be scrutinized carefully. No questions about that. Systems built with good intentions can still expand beyond their original purpose. And once privacy is finally surrendered at scale, it is rarely returned in full.

whatever you say bro

Ok for those who are interested or if you're interested and want to read instead of just saying words to say words (LMFAOO) then please, go ahead, keep reading The 'do be' appears as early as the 1580s, especially in England around London, and only became widely used by slaves in the 16-20th century. It's thought to be derived from Irish Gaelic grammar so yes, once again, that is more proof that it was used before the Atlantic slave trade. In Irish Gaelic, the habitual aspect is expressed with a construction like: bíonn sé ag obair (“he habitually is at working” = habitual action). And then, when English was imposed, bilingual Irish speakers carried over this same structure. Enslaved African peoples a lot of the time learned English from Irish/Scots-Irish indentured servants and poor rural English speakers because school was NOT an option for them due to systematic oppression. This was because giving slaves the ability to learn would make them free-thinking people with the ability to escape and have rights for themselves (Which i should state they should were a free-thinking people, but you get the point). Anyways, This overlapped with African habitual aspect systems, producing the habitual be structure. Like, i don't think you truly understand that this kinda thing is and was discussed by people like McWhorter, Michael Montgomery, and even John Rickford, who was quite literally a black man himself so ermmmmmmm…. Irish indentured servants were transported to Barbados and other colonies beginning in the 1620s and 1640s and worked on plantations alongside African slaves before African slavery became dominant, which you can literally learn about on the Irish indentured servants wiki yourself, and even about how they worked in the same gangs before racial slavery here. Linguistic studies of Caribbean creoles even note similarities between Hiberno-English (Irish English), Irish Gaelic structures, and features of Caribbean creole languages, which you could have read about at the cmchealthcentre page (which is unfortunately under maintenance at the moment, also i know that it's kind of odd that the cmc had/has a page on indentured servants but hey when you're scrolling endlessly for things to research you always come across the weirdest websites for info and sources i shit you not). But yes, enslaved Africans in 17th-century Virginia lived and worked alongside British indentured servants and learned English from the vernacular speech of the British Isles, which included dialectal influences that were not standard English. Bam bop bam, badda bap boom POW 👊 Extras:

Saint Patrick was in fact a roman icon, its literally the first few sentences on the wiki about him. His birth name was likely Maewyn Succat, only for him to later adopt the name Patricius which just means i thinjk 'of the patrician class'. "Ériu has been derived from reconstructed Archaic Irish *Īweriū, and further from the Proto-Celtic *Φīwerjon- (nominative singular Φīwerjū). This suggests descent from the Proto-Indo-European *piHwerjon- ("fertile land" or "abundant land"),  from the adjective *piHwer- ("fat") – cognate with Ancient Greek píeira and Sanskrit pīvarī, ("fat, full, abounding"). The Archaic Irish form was borrowed into Greek." (That was a little excerpt from Wikipedia for you) In short, im once again right. Plus the Vikings played a part in the name too. The English word Ireland comes from Old English Īras, Īras comes from Old Norse Írar, and THEN Írar descends from Latin Hibernia, which is itself adapted from Greek Iernē, so ultimately it kind of all ties together anyways. Also while orange hair was present thousands of years before the Viking invasions in the proto-Celtic isles, it was a smaller population. In Scandinavia though MC1R (the gene that causes red hair, as well as others like the R151C, R160W, and D294H) was good for absorbing UV rays where there is/was little due to all of the snow (The sun reflects onto the snow, which is why the Sami have developed mono/hood eyelids, and orange hair absorbs that for essential vitamin D). The Vikings settlement in areas like Dubh linn, Waterford, Limerick, as well as coastal Leinster & Munster would have in fact raised the rate of the gene being passed on, i fear, as the people living in those affected areas STILL have scan ancestry to this day.

If it did come from hiberno-english, which I actually think would be very cool and interesting, "stolen" in this context would be an inaccurate and inflammatory choice of words, which you of course decided to use in your attention-seeking meltdown of a post. What's funny is that my response to you wasn't because of what you said about the habitual be, it was because you said AAVE as a whole comes from Irish indentured servants. This is wildly false, utterly ridiculous, and is exactly the kind of statement I'd expect from a colonizer.

Breaking news: a stranger on the internet didn’t word something perfectly on the first try. Oh nooo, disney villain levels of pure EVIL!!! LMAOOO if there is a god up there i can only hope he gives me the strength to deal with this today Big talk ahead so read if u want to or don't, i get its a lotta words so like umm go enjoy ur evening queen/king there is more to life than arguing on a linguistics post on tumblr.com

I in fact said "stolen words," I already cleared that up so that was your as far as your short victory dance falls, congrats! Here is your obligatory cookie, bae. Also, calling my post an "attention-seeking meltdown" when YOU were the one that opened with "username checks out"? Glass houses, king/queen.

And im soooo sorry I didn't edit it in the pico-second you snapped your fingers or when i said i would. I wasn't aware I was on a timer or that i HAVE to stay on tumblr while studying for a test on a goddamn Monday. Have patience, people have shit to do like fuckkk ándale ándaleee

"No supportive do = independent origin" is not the win you think it is. Irish bilinguals dropping 'do' when speaking English to Africans is quite literally exactly the mechanism. 'I DO be working' (London 1580s) = 'I be working' (creolization). Brother that's the SAMMEUH grammatical evolution. As for you just learning about the word "jawn" ? you genuinely could’ve saved a lot of words by just admitting I made you google something and now you're defensive. Have some humility pls LOL ☠️☠️☠️

You know what was insane though? Calling me "Colonizer".. Hm. Wow. Like damn I really couldn't give 1 fuck 2 fuck red fuck blue fuck??? You calling a random 18-year-old bisexual a colonizer… for citing historical linguistics… during a convo about Irish indenture and forced Anglicization on top of Viking invasions is certainly um, a behavior choice.. LMAO. Like babe if you're gonna call me a colonizer, at least take 2 seconds to learn world history..?? Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe ALL had empires. Your "Black people as helpless baby angels with no governments, no power, no cities, no corruption, no agency" mindset is actually racist because its entirely infantilizing. Africa wasn’t this poor little meow-meow continent, like it had kingdoms, trade networks, gold wealth, and yes, rulers who sold their own people for guns and gun powder. Not to mention that north African pirates literally raided British and Irish coasts and enslaved people too. You watered the word "colonizer" down so badly you aimed it at a random 18-year-old bi girl on tumblr who's whole interest is anti-colonial politics and has a track record of attending protests for migrants. Be serious. I don't think you understand just how funny it is for me to open tumblr and see you calling me words just to speak. With all that reaching to call me a "WRA" you'd think you'd have REACHED the part where i was an anarcho-communist since its like the first thing you see anyways, i fear. At this point im begging you to read what im putting down because someone can only handle so much of erm.. This, but go off, literacy queen. You probably watch both sides of a no-entry road before crossing anyways so idek what im really mad about

Also the "original insult" being windex huffer is so tired. I’ve been called glue sniffer like 4 times before. Yall need new insults, Pleasseeee be more creative. Or new detergents to inhale since that seems to be a theme. Projectionist final boss for real, yall are starting to sound more and more like those people on my strange addiction who sniff and eat that starch

The whole "your post flopped" thing… girl be honest, you found this through a tag search. This post hasnt been touched for months, I don’t post for likes, it’s not that deep. Is the concept of self-fulfillment really that foreign to yall? Yeah I posted about linguistic history, woe is me, not what's popular. It's totes fine if it took you seven months to notice since you know, reading must take more time for you and all

whatever you say bro

Ok for those who are interested or if you're interested and want to read instead of just saying words to say words (LMFAOO) then please, go ahead, keep reading The 'do be' appears as early as the 1580s, especially in England around London, and only became widely used by slaves in the 16-20th century. It's thought to be derived from Irish Gaelic grammar so yes, once again, that is more proof that it was used before the Atlantic slave trade. In Irish Gaelic, the habitual aspect is expressed with a construction like: bíonn sé ag obair (“he habitually is at working” = habitual action). And then, when English was imposed, bilingual Irish speakers carried over this same structure. Enslaved African peoples a lot of the time learned English from Irish/Scots-Irish indentured servants and poor rural English speakers because school was NOT an option for them due to systematic oppression. This was because giving slaves the ability to learn would make them free-thinking people with the ability to escape and have rights for themselves (Which i should state they should were a free-thinking people, but you get the point). Anyways, This overlapped with African habitual aspect systems, producing the habitual be structure. Like, i don't think you truly understand that this kinda thing is and was discussed by people like McWhorter, Michael Montgomery, and even John Rickford, who was quite literally a black man himself so ermmmmmmm…. Irish indentured servants were transported to Barbados and other colonies beginning in the 1620s and 1640s and worked on plantations alongside African slaves before African slavery became dominant, which you can literally learn about on the Irish indentured servants wiki yourself, and even about how they worked in the same gangs before racial slavery here. Linguistic studies of Caribbean creoles even note similarities between Hiberno-English (Irish English), Irish Gaelic structures, and features of Caribbean creole languages, which you could have read about at the cmchealthcentre page (which is unfortunately under maintenance at the moment, also i know that it's kind of odd that the cmc had/has a page on indentured servants but hey when you're scrolling endlessly for things to research you always come across the weirdest websites for info and sources i shit you not). But yes, enslaved Africans in 17th-century Virginia lived and worked alongside British indentured servants and learned English from the vernacular speech of the British Isles, which included dialectal influences that were not standard English. Bam bop bam, badda bap boom POW 👊 Extras:

Saint Patrick was in fact a roman icon, its literally the first few sentences on the wiki about him. His birth name was likely Maewyn Succat, only for him to later adopt the name Patricius which just means i thinjk 'of the patrician class'. "Ériu has been derived from reconstructed Archaic Irish *Īweriū, and further from the Proto-Celtic *Φīwerjon- (nominative singular Φīwerjū). This suggests descent from the Proto-Indo-European *piHwerjon- ("fertile land" or "abundant land"),  from the adjective *piHwer- ("fat") – cognate with Ancient Greek píeira and Sanskrit pīvarī, ("fat, full, abounding"). The Archaic Irish form was borrowed into Greek." (That was a little excerpt from Wikipedia for you) In short, im once again right. Plus the Vikings played a part in the name too. The English word Ireland comes from Old English Īras, Īras comes from Old Norse Írar, and THEN Írar descends from Latin Hibernia, which is itself adapted from Greek Iernē, so ultimately it kind of all ties together anyways. Also while orange hair was present thousands of years before the Viking invasions in the proto-Celtic isles, it was a smaller population. In Scandinavia though MC1R (the gene that causes red hair, as well as others like the R151C, R160W, and D294H) was good for absorbing UV rays where there is/was little due to all of the snow (The sun reflects onto the snow, which is why the Sami have developed mono/hood eyelids, and orange hair absorbs that for essential vitamin D). The Vikings settlement in areas like Dubh linn, Waterford, Limerick, as well as coastal Leinster & Munster would have in fact raised the rate of the gene being passed on, i fear, as the people living in those affected areas STILL have scan ancestry to this day.

Like, yes, they know. The conservatives know. That’s the plan. Because women are an oppressed class. Yes, even the white ones. It’s actually pretty widespread.