Jack from Online

▪ Agedum, Berte. Indue hoc. ▪ Erneste, cur aenum ponere in capite meo debeo?

▪ Come on, Bert. Put this on. ▪ Ernie, why should I put a pot on my head?

Parent: I want my wife to take one of my infant daughters to the UK and I’ll take the other one and we will never see each other again.

Des Sikhs de la 8e Armée britannique, Nayak Nazar Singh et Sepoy Sardara Singh, aux commandes d'un fusil-mitrailleur Bren sur la ligne de front près de Villa Grande – Campagne d’Italie – Italie – 15 janvier 1944

Photographe : Lieutenant G. Loughlin - No. 2 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

Hola, i'm Calli, a nonbinary mexican parent. Both my partner and I are chronically ill, we're the main providers for our family of 9, that includes his mom, dad and sister because they lost everything in a fire back in November 2023. TW for the house after the fire.

We are poor and unemployed, all adults have some chronic condition, chronic pain and we live constantly exposed to mold, rust and other issues the house has. The landlord does jackshit but sure comes to collect rent every now and then.

To top it off i have been getting harrassed by racist unkind people here, making me suicidal.

My blog's archive proving i have been here since 2013, the first post i ever reblogged.

https://chingaderita.tumblr.com/archive/2013/5

I sometimes share recipes too!

I have been offering spanish conversation classes online for $12 usd/hr. Right now im earning $12 a week, do you think I can support a family of 9 with that?

**I tracked down comments in notes ive made through the years, as far as 2016, I did all that even before this new tumblr update showing our comments so I did all that hard work for nothing lol, you can ask for links in my dm's this is already long enough as is.**

Our goal is to get our eldest's a couple of binders, his testosterone and medication he needs for a condition he needs a surgery for but we can't afford.

$0/$500

PAYPAL KOFI THRONE

There's a water supply shortage, we haven't got water for a week and now we have to get containers so we can flush, wash dishes or shower.

We have been without a washing machine for officially a year now. We're too disabled to hand wash, we don't even have water.

Our eldest missed his testosterone shot last thursday.

I haven't had my meds in so long I don't remember.

Cats need food.

And my partner suffered a fall after his own father pulled his cane from him during one of his transphobic attacks.

We need so so much help and I haven't slept in 24hrs so if this doesn't make sense well, sorry.

We need a cellphone to access our bank app instead of having to go to the bank everytime we need to make a payment or such, please, we're super fucked.

Finding himself unable to tolerate the continuing stubborn refusal to address the real issues at hand, apartment dweller Jordan Stills has declared himself “sick and tired” Wednesday of hearing his upstairs neighbors skirt around the core conflict of their long-running argument. “Christ! Stop screaming about the dishes and start screaming about how his mother is the problem!” Stills said to his ceiling, adding in a personal aside that he could barely hear his own thoughts over the petty bickering that masks the male partner’s growing inability to be vulnerable around his romantic companion.

Chuffed link

Raneen, @a00h2, is my friend. She is trapped in Gaza, Palestine, with her family. She lost everything in the bombings and is now in poverty and homelessness. Her 1-year-old baby is in a respirator; he has very dangerous lung cancer. There is no treatment in Gaza that can save him. She needs to pay $700 more before next Thursday to get the baby out of Gaza, so he can receive proper treatment.

My friend doesn't have that money. She can't help him alone. Please, I beg you, don't just reblog. Donate, whatever you can. $40, $20, $10, $5, whatever you can, it will all be useful. Thank you so much.

Her account is vetted by @90-ghost here, by @gazavetters (#576) , and by @bilal-salah0. This Chuffed fundraiser goes directly to her; for transparency, you can dm @a00h2 if you want to confirm it.

IMPORTANT!: WHEN DONATING TO THE CHUFFED, PLEASE DO IT THROUGH PAYPAL IF POSSIBLE. Other methods are still ok, but they risk taking too long to arrive.

PLEASE, HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY FRIENDS' BABY!!

$4,700/$5,400

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world.  “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).  Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.