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Right wing manipulation tactics explained
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Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Zweiten Republik ist die FPÖ bei einer Nationalratswahl stärkste Kraft. Wir fordern von den anderen Par
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I think it's funny that in French the word for "unicorn" is "licorne" because:
The word "unicorne" was first reanalyzed as "une icorne"
The definite article was then added, making it "l'icorne"
The new definite form was reanalyzed once again, resulting in "une licorne"
Before any anglophones get on the French people's case on this, consider for a second what y'all did when you reanalyzed the Spanish "el lagarto" ("the lizard") as "alligator."
Reanalysis is fun.
Oh yeah, everybody does this*. Another English example is "apron", which was once "napron" until we reanalyzed the initial N as part of the indefinite article (a napron -> an apron).
A fun one in Arabic is the city of Alexandria in Egypt. Quite understandably, Arabic speakers heard the initial "Al" and thought "ah yes, the ubiquitous definite article" and Alexandria became al-’Iskandariyya.
In the opposite direction, Spanish adopted hundreds of Arabic words during the Middle Ages due to Andalusian/Islamic influence, and there are very few Spanish words that start with al- that aren't of Arabic origin (and in fact, many words that start with A without being followed by an L, as in about half of cases in Arabic the L in "al-" is elided).
Reanalysis occurs in many other places besides article-noun combos, of course, but it's an extremely common case.
*citation needed, but reanalysis is extremely common
Oh, this actually explains something I'd just attributed to a quirk of sequence constraints or something; why Alexander is realized as Iskander/Iskandar in Arabic! It makes sense to analyze it as al-Iskander in Arabic!
Same thing happened with the word alchemy! Started out as the Arab term "al-kimiya", and when it was transported to Europe, it became "alchemy". This is actually really interesting, because as the term evolved more, it became "chemistry", effectively un-reanalyzing the word!
Oh actually there's another layer of fun there: the Arabic "al-kimiya" is actually a loan of the Ancient Greek χῠμείᾱ (khumeíā), which was used to refer to the art of alloying metals. Arabic borrowed a lot of Greek terminology owing to Arabic translations of Greek classics (many of which were actually lost in Europe until they were retranslated from Arabic). So, yeah, the Greek khumeíā made a round trip through Arabic, then into medieval Latin as "alchemia," and from there we eventually do get chemistry!
Not quite the same thing, but this reminded me of one of the funniest phenomena in the German language.
So, you may or may not know that x-rays were discovered by a guy called Röntgen (or Roentgen, though the ö is the proper spelling). Because of that, they're called "Röntgen rays" in German. Now, the thing is that in the German, the infinitive of a verb is always formed with an -en at the, so, for example, "to run" is "rennen" or "to sleep" is "schlafen." And because of that, it just so happened that the verb for performing x-rays became... "röntgen."
ich röntge, du röntgst, er/sie/es röntgt, wir röntgen, ihr röntgt, sie röntgen
In the X-rayed lab, straight röntgin it
The -al at the end of the word "admiral" is also from the Arabic article, from various Arabic titles of the form amir al-_____, "lord of the ____", which was then taken as a single word "amiral" and borrowed into European languages. Later, a -d- was added influenced by words like "admirable" or "administer"
Most people will have heard or read the phrase "You are closer to becoming homeless than you will ever be to becoming a billionaire". But I think the recent flood has really put it into perspective.
I am guessing that pretty much everyone, at least everyone living in the east of Austria, knows someone who was financially secure, not in any kind of debt, had savings, maybe even "above average" wealthy. And is now facing financial ruin after having their home destroyed. Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people are in that situation right now.
For example, a family member of mine is a retired doctor - doctors are not RICH-rich, but of course, well-off enough so this family never had any money troubles or the like. A first, currently inofficial, estimation by an acquaintance puts their damage at several 100,000€ - entire basement flooded, large parts of the ground floor destroyed as well, the fancy kitchen they got only a year ago in ruins. It is a matter of if it is even possible to save the house at all or if they, people in their mid-60s, now have to rebuild or move away.
Luckily enough my parents can help them out financially if needed, but that will not be the case for everyone. Insurances pay out about 5,000€ for flooding. With sums like several 100k, that is not even a band-aid. I don't know much about the relief funds but to my knowledge, they pay a maximum of 20%.
If Mark Mateschitz lost his entire house, it would suck, but he would just pay some people to clean it up and financially would not even notice if he had to build five new ones. The money that disappeared from Rene Benko's hands could pay for everyone's flood damage several times over.
A "normal person" with a "normal job" - even if it is a well-paying job like a doctor or someone in middle management or a local business owner or anything like that - a regular, working citizen can never be truly financially secure. You are always at most one bad natural catastrophe away from financial ruin. And unless you can somehow work 1000 hours a day for 1000 years at your normal person job, you will never even come close to the wealth of a Swarovsky, Johann Graf, or Glock's heirs. And these people are still very small fish compared to international billionaires.
Tax payers supporting unemployed people are not the problem, taxes paying for catastrophe relief funds are not the problem, taxes bailing out rich scumbag grifters are the problem, and rich scumbag grifters who know every trick in the book to avoid paying taxes are the problem. But the rich scumbag grifters will still bleed everyone dry without batting an eye while families who have worked honest jobs their entire lives are sitting in their ruined basement, crying over destroyed photo albums and losing sleep over how they can afford to rebuild their home.
I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?
Nim Chimpsky.
Fucking monkey pun.
And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But
BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.
Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.
There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous. The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs. And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.
Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.
And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.
Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”. We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.
The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.
Half a byte of data is a nibble.
Particle physicists went out of their way to call a particle a WIMP (weakly interacting matter particle) just because its weak so now you have physicists saying stuff like “one of the candidates for dark matter are wimps”

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Nationalratswahl 2024: Wen soll ich wählen????
Austrian Sweeties, in etwas mehr als einem Monat ist es soweit und wir dürfen unseren Nationalrat wählen. Wahltag ist der Sonntag, 29. September 2024. Alle, die am Wahltag mindestens 16 Jahre alt sind, dürfen wählen - also auch all jene, die am 29. 9. ihren 16. Geburtstag haben. Wer am Wahltag verhindert ist, kann natürlich auch schon davor per Briefwahl bzw. Wahlkarte wählen, also no excuses!!!
Die Basics
Gewählt werden 183 Abgeordnete zum Nationalrat für die nächsten fünf Jahre. Die Zahl der Stimmen, die jede Partei bekommt, wird in Mandate umgerechnet. Normalerweise zieht die Person als erstes ein, die den ersten Listenplatz hat, also der Spitzenkandidat bzw. die Spitzenkandidatin. Aber Vorzugsstimmen können insgesamt drei vergeben werden: für die Bundes-, Landes-, und Regionalparteiliste. Parteien werden bei der Verteilung der Mandate nur dann berücksichtigt, wenn sie im gesamten Bundesgebiet mindestens vier Prozent der Stimmen oder ein Direkt- bzw. Grundmandat in einem Wahlkreis erreichen. Dazu braucht die Partei in mindestens einem Regionalwahlkreis ganz besonders viele Stimmen. Unmöglich ist es nicht, dass jemand durch Vorzugsstimmen ein Mandat bekommt, obwohl sie bzw. er auf der Liste niedriger gereiht war - jedoch eher selten. Aber bei der EU Wahl 2024 hat z.B. der zweitgereihte Thomas Waitz die Spitzenkandidatin der Grünen Lena Schilling durch Vorzugsstimmen überholt und ist nun Delegationsleiter.
Der Nationalrat übt, gemeinsam mit dem Bundesrat, die Gesetzgebung des Bundes aus. Nicht direkt gewählt werden in Österreich Bundesregierung bzw. Bundeskanzler:in. Aber nach der NR-Wahl bietet die Regierung dem Bundespräsidenten ihren Rücktritt an. Der Bundespräsident vergibt dann den Auftrag zur Regierungsbildung, üblicher Weise an den Vorsitzenden bzw. die Vorsitzende der mandatsstärksten Partei - diese:r wird dann üblicher Weise Bundeskanzler:in. Dann beginnen die Koalitionsverhandlungen, bei denen natürlich auch die Mehrheitsverhältnisse im Nationalrat eine große Rolle spielen. Denn prinzipiell sollten die Regierungsparteien insgesamt die absolute Mehrheit haben.
Der Bundespräsident ernennt, wenn die Koalitionsverhandlungen erfolgreich verlaufen sind, die Bundesminister:innen gemäß der Vorschläge der/des Bundeskanzler:in.
Die Ergebnisse der Nationalratswahl 2024 haben also maßgebliche Auswirkungen auf die Politik in ganz Österreich - für die nächsten fünf Jahre, und auch darüber hinaus. Denn Gesetzgebung wird ja in der Regel nach einer Legislaturperiode nicht wieder Rückgängig gemacht!
Parteien
Aktuell bereits im Nationalrat vertreten sind die Parteien ÖVP (71 Mandate), SPÖ (40 Mandate), FPÖ (30 Mandate), Grüne (26 Mandate) und NEOS (15 Mandate). Diese Parteien treten auch wieder zur NR-Wahl an. Außerdem hat aktuell ein Mandat eine parteilose Person (zuvor FPÖ).
Es treten zusätzlich noch einige kleinere Parteien an. Österreichweit sind das:
Die Bierpartei (BIER)
Keine von denen (KEINE)
Kommunistische Partei Österreichs - KPÖ Plus (KPÖ)
Liste Madeleine Petrovic (LMP)
In Niederösterreich, Oberösterreich, dem Burgenland, der Steiermark, Tirol, Vorarlberg und Wien tritt außerdem die Liste GAZA - Stimmen gegen den Völkermord (GAZA) an. In Niederösterreich, Oberösterreich, Salzburg, der Steiermark, Tirol, Vorarlberg und Wien tritt außerdem die MFG - Österreich Menschen - Freiheit - Grundrechte (MFG) an. Und im Burgenland noch Die Gelben (BGE).
Entscheidungshilfen
Das sind mal insgesamt 12 Parteien. Natürlich wäre es am gewissenhaftesten, sich von allen Parteien, die für einen potentiell in Frage kommen könnten, das Wahlprogramm durchzulesen (Links unterm Cut). Aber seien wir uns ehrlich: Wer hat dafür die Zeit und/oder Motivation? Es gibt online ein paar Tools als Hilfestellung.
Die Wahlkabine ist zurück! Den Parteien wurden 25 Fragen gestellt. Man kann zwar angeben, wie wichtig ein spezifisches Thema für einen ist, allerdings die Fragen nur mit Ja oder Nein (bzw. keine Angabe) beantworten.
Ein bisschen mehr Nuancen lässt bei der Beantwortung der Standard-Wahlkompass zu. User:innen können bei 30 Statements anhand einer siebenteiligen Skala angeben, wie sehr sie damit übereinstimmen und anschließend bis zu drei Statements als besonders relevant kennzeichnen.
Beide Tools ermöglichen es, nach Beantwortung die eigenen Antworten mit jenen der Parteien zu vergleichen. Die meisten haben auch zu jeder Frage ein kurzes Statement eingereicht. Und das ist eigentlich das Nützlichste daran. Denn nur mit Ja/Nein bzw. einer Skala von 1 bis 7 kann man sich ja kein komplettes Bild machen.
Und beide Tools sollen natürlich keine Wahlempfehlung sein, sondern eine Möglichkeit, halbwegs unkompliziert die Ansichten der Parteien mit den eigenen zu vergleichen.
Ansonsten ist es natürlich immer empfehlenswert, die Nachrichten zu verfolgen, die aktuelle Politik zu beobachten - nicht nur, was im Programm steht, sondern auch, was die Parteien in der letzten NR-Periode auch tatsächlich getan haben. Viele Politiker:innen sind auch auf den Sozialen Medien vertreten. Nicht immer, aber oft, ist das eine gute Möglichkeit, sich über die konkreten Ansichten und Ziele einer Person zu informieren, vor allem, wenn es darum geht, an wen eine Vorzugsstimme vergeben werden soll.
Dies soll ein möglichst neutral gehaltenes Service / Infoposting sein. In einem Reblog folgen meine Meinung und meine Ergebnisse bei Wahlkabine und Wahlkompass.
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NR 2024: Meine Meinung
Die Nationalratswahl ist der Höhepunkt des Superwahljahrs 2024. Erst mal möchte ich an alle meine Follower:innen apellieren, auf jeden Fall von ihrem Wahlrecht Nutzen zu machen. Von der politischen Lage in Österreich, und seien wir uns mal ehrlich: weltweit, frustriert zu sein, ist verständlich. Wenn man sich ansieht, wie in den letzten Legislaturperioden in Österreich regiert wurde, dann kommt man schnell in Versuchung, einfach komplett aufzugeben, die Tagespolitik zu verfolgen und lieber einfach gar nichts mehr mitzubekommen, als ständig nur Frust und Enttäuschungen.
Aber bei der Nationalratswahl können wir - die Wähler:innen - das ändern. Und das ist dringend notwendig. Vor allem ist es für unsere Zukunft - für die Zukunft unserer Umwelt, unseres Klimas, unseres Sozialsystems und unserer Gesellschaft - wichtig, dass sich die Politik in Österreich grundlegend verändert.
Gerade entwickelt sich die politische Landschaft in ganz Österreich in erschreckende Richtungen. Bei der EU-Wahl war die FPÖ mit volksverhetzenden Botschaften und maßlos geschmacklosen Wahlkampfstrategien Wahlsieger. Wir müssen verhindern, dass diese Partei bei der Nationalratswahl ebenso gut abschneidet. Vor allem müssen wir eine Regierungsbeteiligung der FPÖ, und gar, dass sie den Bundeskanzler (muss in diesem Fall wohl nicht gegendert werden.... ) stellt. Jede Regierungsbeteiligung der FPÖ hatte verheerende Folgen. Für die meisten großen, bundesweiten Polit-Skandale der zweiten Republik ist die FPÖ verantwortlich.
Die Causa Ibiza ist sicher allen hier ein Begriff. Aber viele andere, viel ältere Affären sind noch immer nicht restlos aufgearbeitet. Bawag Affäre, BUWOG Affäre, Eurofighter Affäre, Hypo Alpe Adria, Telekom-Affäre - das sind alles Wörter, die sicher alle schon mal gehört haben. Aber googelt das mal. Es ist absolut crazy shit. Und irgendwie hat es Karl-Heinz Grasser (FPÖ, später parteilos), der ja "nur" von 2000 bis Jänner 2007 Finanzminister war, es geschafft in so unendlich viele Affären verwickelt zu sein, dass es eigentlich jenseits von skrupellos ist. Dann sollten wir natürlich auch die BVT-Affaire durch Herbert Kickl nicht vergessen. Und, und und... Solche Menschen darf man nicht regieren lassen.
Die, zumindest bei der EU-Wahl 2024, nächststärkste Kraft, die ÖVP, ist, wenn überhaupt, nur marginal besser. Die ÖVP ist in Österreich viel zu lange an der Macht, war seit 1987 an jeder Bundesregierung beteiligt (mit Ausnahme von Bierleins Expertenregierung). Da haben sich Strukturen gebildet, die nur so vor Korruption triefen. Sebastian Kurz, bzw. die vielen Vorfälle um ihn und seine Regierung herum, war da sicher nur die Spitze des Eisberges.
Aber Skandale und Korruption sind ja nur das eine. Politisch ist die ÖVP mittlerweile genauso untragbar, wie die FPÖ. Bei manchen Themen beziehen sie sogar noch extremere Positionen, vor allem, was Privatsphäre und persönliche Freiheiten betrifft. Die FPÖ tritt offen volksverhetzend auf, wettert gegen all jene Menschen, die nich in ihr Weltbild passen, sie schürt Panik und schämt sich nicht, die Gesellschaft zu ihrem eigenen Nutzen zu spalten. Die ÖVP tut's ähnlich, aber unter einem gut-bürgerlichen, "anständigen" Schein. Aber egal ob die Österreicher:innen am Stimmzettel Blau oder Schwarz ankreuzen: bekommen werden sie die gleiche braune Gülle.
Ein bisschen hipper inszenieren sich die Neos - gute, zukunftsfähige Politik machen sie aber nicht. Wer auf Pride Paraden Wahlwerbung betreibt, aber die Wirtschaft statt der Menschen an die erste Stelle stellt, der betreibt einfach nur Pinkwashing. Passt ja zur Parteifarbe...
Sowohl die SPÖ als auch die Grünen sind akzeptable Optionen. Beide Parteien haben in den letzten Jahren allerdings so einiges an Sympathie verloren. Teils klar selbst verschuldet, natürlich. Aber die Grünen haben leider als Junior-Partner der ÖVP in der Regierung einfach nicht so recht die Chancen, wirklich starke, grüne und zukunftsfähige Politik umzusetzen.
Aber bei der Nationalratswahl müss man sich ja nicht nur zwischen den größeren Parteien entscheiden. Es sind auch einige sehr interessante, neue Player mit dabei. Damit meine ich natürlich nicht MFG oder Petrovic. Wer die wählt, ist halt einfach nur jenseits von lost. Aber die KPÖ zum Beispiel - ich bin mir da nie sicher, was ich so konkret von der KPÖ halten soll. Prinzipiell stimme ich dem Großteil ihrer Positionen zu. Die Frage ist da eher, wie Realitätsnah die Umsetzung dann ist. Ähnlich natürlich mit BIER und KEINE. Wobei mich die Bierpartei überrascht hat, in der Hinsicht, dass sie gar nicht mal so komplett ultra linke Positionen vertritt.
Es ist bei einer Nationalratswahl wie dieser auf jeden Fall wert, auch den kleinen Parteien etwas Aufmerksamkeit zu schenken. Ob eine Stimme verschenkt ist, wenn die Partei dann schließlich an der Vier-Prozent-Hürde scheitert, und man doch lieber SPÖ oder Grün gewählt hätte, das weiß man erst nach der Wahl. Aber nur mit Unterstützung kann eine Kleinpartei jemals zu einer starken Stimme im Nationalrat werden. Vielleicht klappt es noch nicht heuer - aber auch nur 3,5 Prozent der Stimmen sind ein starkes Signal, und kann den Kleinparteien helfen, Resourcen für die nächste Wahl - nicht mal erst die nächste Nationalratswahl - zu sammeln.
Ob man sich als Wähler:in auf dieses Risiko einlässt, ist einem selbst überlassen. Allerdings ist das Wichtigste, überhaupt erst mal wählen zu gehen. Selbst wenn man eine linke Partei wählt, die es nicht in den NR schafft, ist es immer noch besser, als man wäre gar nicht wählen gegangen. Wählt die Partei, die eure Interessen und Ansichten am besten repräsentiert, egal ob rot, grün, oder klein. Aber wählt. Wählt links, bringt eure Freund:innen dazu, zu wählen. Setzt ein Zeichen gegen den schwarzblaubraunen Sumpf, in dem Österreich sonst zu versinken droht.
Demokratie ist in unserem Land ein wichtiges Gut und wir müssen davor Gebrauch machen. Denn die rechten Volksverhetzer wissen, wie sie ihre Wähler:innenschaft mobilisieren. Und wenn wir uns nicht dazu durchringen, ein Kreuzerl für eine linke Politik zu setzen, dann überlassen wir ihnen die Zügel für unsere Zukunft.
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Bug (4) is going to start school now so we’ve been doing literacy practice. One set of exercises was about “opposites” and I drew a card reading “fat”. Ok what’s the opposite of fat.
Bug thought about it and then said dreamily: “meat.”
Other fun opposites to teach kids include that the opposite of "white" is "yolk", the opposite of "up" is "asleep", the opposite of "down" is "happy", the opposite of 'in" is "unfashionable", and the opposite of "fast" is "eat".
When I was a kid I had a book of word puzzles (well, I had a bunch, but this one in particular stands out to me), and one of the puzzles was exactly the above - it just gave a bunch of words and asked for opposites of specific lengths, like "Opposite of fast (3 letters)".
And I was absolutely stumped. The puzzle text assured the reader that they were all common words - no archaic lost words or anything like that - and I spent FOREVER trying to figure out a three-letter word for "slow". The book had Will Shortz's name on it, so there was no way they'd accept something as sloppy as "slo", and obviously the opposite of "fast" had to be something that meant "slow" so... what could it possibly be?
Eventually I gave up and looked at the answer in the back the book, and saw "eat", and I was like
Like my third eye just blew the fuck open and I could suddenly see that language is sounds and symbols and they have no meaning except that which we assign and agree to, and a word without a context is just a noise I make with my face, and the opposite of "fast" is a reflection of it across an axis, and it's is "slow" when you talk to a driver and "eat" when you talk to a dietician and "loose" when you're holding a screwdriver and "unfaithful" when you're telling your new best friend about your former best friend and "impermanent" when your laundry is now pink and "sedate" when you're talking about how people live and "lightly" when you're talking sleep and "feast" when you're celebrating Ramadan and all of these are just thoughts that people before us wanted to share and so they gave sounds and letters to them and "fast" could be a kind of refrigerator or the feeling of pain in your gallbladder or a dance with a carp if people wanted it because words aren't things, there's no platonic ideal of "fast" there's just my "fast" and your "fast" and his "fast" and their "fast" and a million million other "fast"s and we even each have many "fast"s ourselves and a lot of the time they mostly align but nothing is ever perfect and "a language" isn't a thing it's just a map we each made up on our own to try to understand the territory and we made up the territory too.
Thank you for telling me this story!!
i'm not gonna name names but i think it's a linguistic bias of a lot of the scifi authors i read that when there are aliens and humans in contact that have very different body plans or sensory apparatuses, that they need to create a common language that both parties can fluently use that has the same vocabulary used by all.
there are spoken languages where people with different social identities have different vocabulary words they use, mutually intelligible but women say this word and men say that one (for example).
multilingual families and mixed Deaf and hearing communities develop their own informal idiolects that combine different languages and modalities as needed.
it seems obvious to me that aliens and humans could develop a rich joint language in which the vocabulary items differed between species but the meanings and grammar are the same.
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!
i can not tell you enough how much i fucking hate that me and everyone else who lives in a country that isn’t america have to actually be concerned with their stupid fucking clown show of a government nonstop because everything they do effects literally everyone else it’s so fucking exhausting to have to be concerned about my own government AND theirs like some fucking kid who just shows up at my house unannounced especially when americans literally never have to give a shit about any other government in the world unless they’re actively at war with that country why does america get to be the fucking protagonist country!!! why do they get to fucking damage everyone else in their crossfire to themself!!!!!
it’s also so fucking annoying that america also has the most dogshit electoral system i’ve ever seen so each time im forced to have to care about that stupid thing i have to watch two clowns throwing pies at each other in the dumbest fucking way

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I'm collecting these. where is this damn kitchen
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"I'm eating ancestrally!" I chirp in my hyper-modern white kitchen as I pour borax into sour milk and chug it
Does the bovine tuberculosis also reverse pharma damage or
The straight woman's version of Andrew Tate and "retvrn to tradition"
Bingo!
I came across a book recently looking at the connection between feminine, traditional lifestyle influencers and the far-right. It's not perfect, it's somewhat chaotic and superficial, but here it is - The Women of the Far Right, by Eviane Leidig.
On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help p
If you think about it, it makes sense. The far right is always going on about women these days "riding cock carousels" before growing undesirable, without realizing they're no longer fit for men. Of course the flip side is female influencers who want to go the pure, "clean" route and who condemn "hookup culture" and promote femininity, claiming that modern life makes women unhappy (babes, modern life makes everyone unhappy; it's not the sexual liberation that's the issue, it's whatever's going on with corporations, consumerism, capitalism and stock prices mattering more than real products or services).
They might think on some level that they're actual housewives or that being housewives is what they want, but the fact of the matter is that they're influencers and marketers for, indeed, an audience that's very similar to Andrew Tate's.
That viral video from last month of a giraffe pushing a tortoise was interesting to me because I saw it in French & Spanish corners of the internet and everyone was referring to the animals in the video as 'she' since giraffe & tortoise are feminine words, meanwhile on the English-speaking internet I saw a minority of people referring to them as 'it' or 'they', an overwhelming majority using masculine words, and almost no one use 'she'
Similarly romance language speakers humanised these animals using women's names while English speakers used men's names:
And of course it would have been different had the giraffe been an elephant (masculine word) but yeah I find it interesting that when it comes to personifying animals and things, speakers of gendered languages will go 50% masculine 50% feminine due to grammatical gender, while speakers of a non-gendered language with a neutral pronoun will go like 80% masculine 18% neutral 2% feminine.
It must feel weird to learn a gendered language and have to accept that a door is 'she', but it also feels weird to learn a non-gendered language like English and then scroll down hundreds of comments under an animal video and all the animals are 'he'. I'm reminded of a cartoon I saw on tumblr once with a speaking lightbulb, and all the comments referred to it as 'he' and a 'guy' (in french & spanish, people would call it she.) I wonder how it affects the way you frame the world in your mind? you ask a French kid to personify a spoon or a mouse or a raindrop, it's going to be a female character by default. I feel like that's something English speakers rarely consider—that compared to languages that are 'visibly', officially gendered in a 50/50 way, English is less neutral, and more masculine-gendered. When anglophones learn about grammatical gender they tend to react like "why is a chair a 'she' that's absurd?", but when the context calls for it they'll call a lightbulb 'he' without thinking about it
I turn to Ares.
Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK
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wake up babe new IE language dropped
An excavation in Turkey has brought to light an unknown Indo-European language. Professor Daniel Schwemer, an expert for the ancient Near Ea
Yoooooo????
Seems to be most closely related to Luwian, but specialists can't read it yet. It survived because the Hittites wanted to record religious rites in the original language. Thank you, Hittites.
Thank you, Hittites.
Very glad to see the Hittites getting the respect and admiration they have deserved for 3650 years. If anyone has any further questions about the Hittites please know that you can always come to me, I have a literal PhD in Hittite. That is not a joke! That is a real thing that I have!
@frostfire-17 I would love to hear some interesting things about the Hittites if you feel inclined. :)
Interesting things about the Hittites! Here are four.
They were Aggressively Ecumenical. When they conquered, which they did a lot, they schlorped up everyone else's gods and added them to their own pantheon (hence the multilingual ritual texts). They called themselves the People of A Thousand Gods. They were not exaggerating.
Their first king, Hattusili I, has an official royal edict where he whines forever about how his family was super ungrateful and didn't support him. His son? Gave him a vassal state, rebelled. His daughter? Left her home at the capital, she incited rebellion there. His nephew? Conspired with his mom, Hattusili's sister, against him. We don't know the sister's name because he just calls her "the snake."
There's a Hittite letter to the Mycenaean Greeks which indicates that they could maybe stand to cool their tits about Troy.
The first attested treaty between equal international powers was between the Hittites and Ramses II of Egypt, ~1270 BC-ish. The Hittites had been developing the treaty for several generations prior to this, from border agreements to vassal treaties, and ended up with a six-part template including a historical preamble and lists of witnesses. There's a copy of it on the wall of the UN in New York.
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dark green is a nice color. underrated
ladies and gentlemen, Phtalo Green
This is literally my favorite color. 😩 Smaragd green is another dark shade of green that I’m absolutely obsessed with.
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This makes me cry, actually.
Just to add on. Libraries in many cities have 3d printers you can use that charge you only the price of materials. So if you can't wait for the shipping from the engineers, try your local library.