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heart - shaped scallion found In pho . reblog for good luck & yummy soup 500000 forwver
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Can you please send the link for the YouTube vid? I can't see the name or use the link on my device, it's fine if you can't but I'd really appreciate it if you did!
Sure! Sorry that you've had difficulty seeing it.
Here it is written out just in case: https://youtu.be/F2gByQP2n6c
For real, I must apologize 2 every follower I got. Boy, you've seen me post about this thing Quite Persistently. 2 times in one day, sometime. Nonetheless, I'm quite proud of it. It's funny, it's personal, and it's funky and experimental in a way I'm excited to try and continue in future videos. Even if it takes 600 centuries, I'll keep asking you to watch it, because I don't think you'll regret it. Also, every bold letter in this paragraph spells out the code that you can type after "youtu.be/" in order to access the video, just in case!
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like english, some akkadian verbs take two direct objects. heuhnergard comments that "a rare English verb that takes two objects is 'to envy', as in 'I envy him his knack with languages'."
which is amusing to me because double-object constructions in english are common both in number and frequency, including such classic verbs as: give, show, make, bake, cook, write, sing, pass, throw, toss, mail, wire and send (which j. h. actually even uses in a double-object construction in the foreword)
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even if people voted for the leopards-eating-faces party. even if they went, "surely the leopards won't eat my face!" it is still bad, for people's faces to be eaten by leopards. you shouldn't gloat about people's faces getting eaten. that is not a good thing. you get that right
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the author’s barely-disguised stigmatized mental health condition
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man. i'm gonna need to ask tumblr for help covering my HRT appointment aren't i
okay yeah i've got less than 100$ in my bank account right now because groceries are stupid expensive all the time so i'm just gonna plug my kofi and my itch page VVV go buy my music so i can get HRT on the 5th next month thanks i love you forever
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One of the stranger things about training brand new nurses is explaining how to min max small talk. It feels very weird to coach people on how to chat.
if I make and post an insanely detailed powerpoint on the twenty different equations I run mentally during casual conversation to make it flow better, everyone has to say that it's sexy and cool and not weird at all
remember, everyone promised to be cool! also disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer assume I said all the things you'd say to be like "i know human interaction is complicated, i know some of what i listed here would be very annoying to some people," and all that
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So I was reading a book on the history of double-entry bookkeeping in early-modern Britain today ("A History of the Modern Fact", by Mary Poovey), and the author mentioned offhand that numbers, far from being afforded universal respect in the late 16th century, actually carried pejorative associations with necromancy and black magic. Can you comment on this?
So, for most of human history, math has kinda been associated with magic. The fact that you can write a bunch of shapes on paper, and then manipulate those symbols to make a really good bridge, is kinda fucking crazy when you think about it.
"England in the late 16th century" is right about when John Dee died. It was after his death that his wizard notebooks were discovered and published. The fact that one of the queens most trusted confidants was actually literally trying to talk to angels with magic, was kinda the story of the century. It was around this time that Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, which featured a heavily John Dee inspired Prospero.
Dee's most significant contribution to England was actually his skill at cartography. Simply by correcting some astronomical math and pouring over charts, he figured out how to shortcut weeks off trade routes to India. The relationship between astronomy, mathematics, and Dee being a wizard, was not lost on English pop culture.
So, if you were an old guy in 1626 with a beard who spent all of his time cloistered in a big castle, and all you did was weird math, people might half-seriously speculate that you might be doing some wizard shit.
Additionally, this is a period where many mathematics texts from the Islamicate world were making their way to England. And you've gotta understand that like 25% of these Arabic math textbooks straight up had spells in them. Any English collegiate mathematician at this time would at least be tangentially aware that Islamic polymaths were doing some pseudo-religious stuff with mathematics. But that doesn't mean it was taken seriously beyond commonplace orientalism.
So I'm not sure if I would go so far as to say that numbers themselves had a negative association with magic. Like, accountants had normal boring math to do all the time and nobody cared.
I would say that mathematics were occasionally regarded with suspicion under specific circumstances.
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uhm… pleased to bleat you? 🐑
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Heather bun bun
(she/her)
(alter art)
cooking her into a rabbit stew(affectionate)
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t-shirt that says i <3 when fictional characters make shortsighted and selfish decisions that will certainly make things worse and lead them to ruin
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first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store
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i dream of the dissolution of the indian nation state and the establishment of the soviet union of south asian nations, which results in the unfortunate, but mildly amusing acronym S.U.S.A.N.
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wonder if the longstanding frequency of terms like “decadence” in marxist rhetoric and organisational imperatives means anything about those theoretical discourses and organisational histories. probably nothing to worry about, right? right ?
idk its hard to take seriously a rejection of rhetoric that makes u look bad when u (a) accept the substantives of an argument happily juxtaposing pleasure on the one hand to “real” politics on the other - where does that go btw? the subordination or repression of pleasure to economic ends? does that discursive dichotomy describe our only options? - and (b) are happy to play a game where one prominent transfems blogpost becomes evidence of some basic social frivolity, superficiality, license, demanding discipline or expulsion by some more muscular position self-identifying with the pursuit of power
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yeah sorry we took your canon male character and made him a butch dyke. no yeah it didnt change his appearance hes just a butch dyke now. sorry. hes infinitely cooler now if that makes u feel better
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i'm feeling cruddy so i am taking this excuse to post some of my better stream selfies >:Y