I am newly reminded that I'm sad that modern English has largely eliminated six of its nine major prepositional locative adverbs. Each had a prefix indicating the place and a suffix indicating the direction:
h-: "this place"
th-: "that place"
wh-: "what place?"
and
-ere: "in such a place"
-ence: "from such a place"
-ither: "to such a place"
The surviving forms, of course, are "here" ("in this place"), "there" ("in that place"), and "where" ("in what place?"). But we used to have
hence: "from this place"
hither: "to this place"
thence: "from that place"
thither: "to that place"
whence: "from what place?"
whither: "to what place?"
and I think our language is poorer for their elimination.
how not 2 guns safety, injury, laughing at the poor decisions of others
So idk if y'all saw but a while back, but there was a whole thing about guys pointed loaded guns at their junk w/ safety off and finger on the trigger, trying to own the libs and make fun of gun safety culture I guess?
Well, in a shocking twist, one of them appears to have shot himself in the nutsack.
https://twitter.com/moeguns_derrick/status/1293310032533245952
asking for help with bills, medicine, groceries -- boosts needed!
hello! i'm broke
in five days i'll need $126 for my phone bill
and later this month i'll need $284 for my schizophrenia meds
and in general i am running dangerously low on money to like buy groceries with
me and DD are gonna be looking at state jobs for me soon so hopefully i won't have to do this much longer
my paypal is https://paypal.me/v33b33
thank you so much for keeping me alive fediverse
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Thoughts on the "Wait For Me" time-travel journalling game, also old relationship trauma (~+)
Prompt #1 yesterday was "10 words to yourself as a young kid". Ten words isn't much. But it's enough to warn your past self about the single most traumatic relationship they'll ever experience.
Ten words is also enough to tell your past self that they're trans.
It wasn't even a cold calculus, thinking "if I change my past enough early enough I'll probably never meet him", it was just the thought that the gender stuff was the more important thing to say to a younger me. "You don't have to be a boy, hormone therapy - estradiol" would have been enough to set my young mind on fire years early.
I might have still met my horrible ex, I might have not. But to think of something else as more important to me than preventing my past self from falling in love with That Monster.... I must be healing?
SEA/PDX protest medic donation request
Hey so a medic crew here in Seattle that has been showing up for the spiciest shit had several of their members arrested last night, and they estimate that replacing gear, bail, legal, and ancillary costs are gonna end up being as high as $3k.
So, if you're able, a donation would be really appreciated right now 💜
North Seattle Local: Want to help some folks build a housing fair to help displaced queer folks?
Signal boosting!
"Are you impacted by COVID? Do you live in North Seattle and LGBTQ+? As more of us are displaced out of central Seattle, we need to claim more safe spaces in other Seattle areas. Join us in planning the 2nd Annual North Seattle Housing Fair! We are looking for a few more LGBTQ+ advocates who want to make a difference! Email info@allyship.org!"
fundraiser: Afro-Latina mother's college transcript on hold in collections
"I currently hold a 4.0 G.P.A at Bunker Hill Community College and was pregnant the entire time. I had a baby a month early and drop all of my classes because of the difficult recovery and living as a single mother in a shelter with a newborn and sick toddler.
Without knowing, I didn’t drop a class and it went into collections, my transcript for bunker hill is now on hold for 2k. I’m asking for help with funds for this as well as funds for 3 classes at Deaf INC in Allston... Lastly, funds would also be going to College application fees and scholarships applications fees to Northeastern University, Boston University, Northern Essex Community College, Bristol Community College, Gallaudet University Online, and Framingham State University."
$843 raised of $4,000 goal
https://www.gofundme.com/f/transcript-on-hold-in-collections
This is the best and only way to carry groceries
RT @Punipaws@twitter.com
* opens muzzle, emits the first six seconds of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX7BjONzUL0
LGBT rights in Poland, police brutality
Please fucking boost this as far as possible. Please, PLEASE.
A Polish trans activist named Margot was arrested. Her "crime" is minor destruction of property (she cut up a tarp on a truck covered with vicious anti-LGBT propaganda).
Her pre-emptive arrest for two months was authorized by a court, despite the fact that such arrest, by Polish law, are meant to be used for people who are a flight risk or an immediate danger to others.
But wait, there's more.
Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.