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i’m not claiming this is homophobic to do in and of itself, but i am pointing out that a man who method-acted a psychopath couldn’t bring himself to play a queer role in a script he himself helped write and produced
Joaquin Phoenix has dropped out of a gay romance movie five days before filming was set to begin, with a source telling Variety that he got “cold feet.”
Sources tell Variety that his role cannot be recast, the crew is now out of work, and losses could exceed seven figures.
y’all need to start bringing the “if he wanted to he would” sentiment to uncle sam. bc, y’all, if the gvmt can move this fast to ban tiktok, then they just don’t want us to have access to healthcare, education, child care, etc.
i don't think straight ppl understand that queer ppl celebrating pride in the US this year are up against a growing crowd whose response is "we will kill you"
pride might be a party to you, or a festival, or whatever, but for queer ppl it's celebrating life in the face of death
i'll add that pride has a long history of being precisely this kind of celebration. through the queer lib movement, through the AIDS crisis – and it will persist now too
Trump is openly calling for states to take up arms against the federal government, which is as close to calling for civil war as you can get without actually using the words. This is an alarming escalation and this situation could spiral out of control very, very quickly.
so conservatives have as many weapons as they want and it’s 2A but as soon as trans people want to have a gun to protect themselves from a legitimate threat, y’all’re scared of gun rights? get fucked.
stop telling your students that “in the real world…”
they live in the real world. just like you. in fact students are experiencing such an insane about amount of cynicism about the world that they see no value in ANY education 6-12 grade. they don’t see the point.
Destandardization is a critical process for anarchist linguistics.
Many incorrectly chalk it up to "oh, so anyone can spell anything anyway they want?"
But in reality, destandardization works to reverse the co-optation of language by the State as an oppressive weapon.
🧵
i was about to comment about how India, the Philippines, and the Caribbean aren’t on this list but then i realized they explicitly exclude them from being native speakers for… reasons???
(we know the reasons.)
id say this is a result of predictable sound changes within germanic and romance languages and not an epiphany had in different places separate from one another
Today, me and 5 of my coworkers (including our lead organizer) were fired for cleaning and stocking our store in preparation for normal operations following a strike. We all know that’s not the reason. It was a chance to retaliate against workers fighting for their rights.
My daughter got a label maker from a relative for Christmas and it is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Not sure what I'm going to do when she actually learns to spell properly.
@stupiddumbdo
@profit_is_theft
well abbott is saying he can break the constitution bc the executive is breaking the constitution so i see the SC more as being the mediator
Most ppl's current frame of reference for literacy is either "illiterate" (unable to read text) and "literate" (able to read text). However, Freire points out that people are not capable of self liberation if their literacy is confined to text.
Enter complete literacy 🧵
capitalism requires a subjugated class of workers to remain impoverished and undereducated for it to operate and both major parties continue to support its existence
a phenomenal connection between linguistics and autism, and how what we know about it is changing
tl;dr: it’s possible (even likely) that autism is less of a “social deficiency” disorder, & more like “were speaking two different languages and you’re expecting me to learn yours”
The answer to my “guess the langauge” game was 🥁🥁🥁🥁
Friulian!
A Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the northeast of present day Italy.
Ppl may make the mistake of assuming the multitude of languages spoken in Italy are basically the same! I’ll demonstrate how they’re not.
Guess the language?
Bonus points if you guess the translation.
(Correct answers will be in hidden posts)
"Ei, ce stâs fasint?
O vadi al cafè.
Vuelîs vignî cun me?"
Guess the language?
Bonus points if you guess the translation.
(Correct answers will be in hidden posts)
"Ei, ce stâs fasint?
O vadi al cafè.
Vuelîs vignî cun me?"
@QueerXiChisme
not to mention the “transgendered life” lyric which explicitly misstates transgender as a verb not an adjective and implicitly states that being trans is a choice
important to remember that transphobia, sexism, AND racism are at play here. concepts of “traditional femininity” are inextricably linked to white supremacy.
Imane Khelif was born a woman from Algeria, where being gay or transgender is a crime. She was cleared to fight at the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee.
The amount of hate and transphobia she's facing is vile, baseless, and harmful to her life. She's a woman.
<Cholmondeley> (pronounced “chum-lee”) comes from Old English <Ċēolmundelēah> meaning “Ceolmund’s clearing”.
<-leigh> / <-lea> are common descendants of <lēah> in English, while <-ley> / <-le> are common in Scots.
“Ceolmund” is a name meaning “protector of ships”.
@ValerieComplex
yes, many of these states committed national guard troops in 2023 and apparently several have announced a commitment to renewing that now
do you ever stop and think about how bc vowels are made from a lack of obstruction of airflow and not places of articulation that every vowel distinction we make is a result of a slight change measuring in millimeters? and how that can change a meaning drastically?
🇫🇴Faroese is now on
@Google
Translate!
Today, there is a new update to the translation service Google Translate. The update includes an expansion of languages - including Faroese!
🇫🇴Lær teg føroyskt! (Google it 😉)
<Marchioness> (see also: marquise) is the wife/female equivalent of a <Marquess>, the English version of the French <Marquis>, coming from Old French <Marchis>
a <marche> in French is a frontier, coming from the Latin <marca>, and a <Marchis> ruled these lands.
it’s literally so funny to me that literal governments are filing official requests for taylor swift to come to their cities
i know it’s likely the economic effects the tour will bring that motivate it but i like to imagine world leaders being in dire need of a TS tour stop
I don't agree with Mitt Romney on mostly anything, but every Republican voter should see this:
Mitt Romney: “I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump. And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn't want us to
@mdpntr75
i agree except “not flaunting it” is pretty antithetical to pride. being proud for pride means being loud about your pride specifically because we shouldn’t have to hide
@sambaamx
> Texas put barbed wire on the border in 2023
> Fed says “can’t do that”
> Texas does anyways, states send additional state guard to texas for ‘border protection’
> Supreme Court says “can’t do that”
> Fed sends national guard to go cut the wire
> Texas says they won’t comply