Bess Levin, Vanity Fair
ben shapiro is feverishly attempting to find this man and cut a deal
Fool, the man was Ben Shapiro on stilts
Conservatives will be like “Kids today are too sensitive with their peanut allergies and gluten intolerances” but then will fake a disability so they can go to the grocery store without a mask
Holy shit
britney spears has lost the court case, again, to end her father's conservatorship over her, and it makes me so fucking SAD that no one is in her corner, apart from like... britney stans that the rest of public opinion and internet treats as a joke. hashtag free britney itself started as a joke. meanwhile, she's now saying that she will not perform any more as long as her father has control over her, and still, no one seems to be in her corner. she has been infantilized since the beginning of her career, and her mental breakdown added that extra ~insanity~ layer to it all, thus turning her into someone who is treated condescendingly, with pity, with sarcasm, like a lobotomized version of her former self performing for others to make fun of her. but she is not given empathy. where is the fucking compassion?? not even out of nostalgia for a pop icon formative for an entire generation, in the full meaning of the word? who is having britney's back?? she deserves so much more.
what the FUCK
HOW MANY FUCKING HERITAGE SITES DO THEY WANT TO DESTROY THIS YEAR?
Please, please, PLEASE help sign this petition! You can sign even if you’re outside the UK!
If you are in the UK, sign this and then see if there's an official petition on the government website that you can sign as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-54919205
Sadly unless we can change Grant Schapps’ mind, this has been approved.
You know what's strange. I thought this was fake. And not because I don't think people are greedy but because I thought this was meant to mirror the many many sites of Indigenous peoples like the Directions Tree or the verry ancient cactus that only started fruiting after some odd hundred years, that have been or are slated to be bulldozed.
I thought someone was making a point with these images to say "look see, you'll care when it's European. When that heritage site brings in money and is recognized world round because of its constant appearance in movies and TV."
Except I googled it to double check.
I'm floored. Money grubbers have no respect for anything.
what the FUCK
HOW MANY FUCKING HERITAGE SITES DO THEY WANT TO DESTROY THIS YEAR?
Please, please, PLEASE help sign this petition! You can sign even if you’re outside the UK!
If you are in the UK, sign this and then see if there's an official petition on the government website that you can sign as well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-54919205
Sadly unless we can change Grant Schapps’ mind, this has been approved.
You know what's strange. I thought this was fake. And not because I don't think people are greedy but because I thought this was meant to mirror the many many sites of Indigenous peoples like the Directions Tree or the verry ancient cactus that only started fruiting after some odd hundred years, that have been or are slated to be bulldozed.
I thought someone was making a point with these images to say "look see, you'll care when it's European. When that heritage site brings in money and is recognized world round because of its constant appearance in movies and TV."
Except I googled it to double check.
I'm floored. Money grubbers have no respect for anything.
Anonymous asked:
in case you did want to know, at least in my experience, that's not always how mask is pronounced in america. i've never heard anyone not pronounce the k unless they were speaking really fast.
radley-writes answered:
dlkhjsfh THIS IS RELIEVING because like… I would not be able to hear that in any context and keep a straight face
and as someone who adds glottal stops to every other word, I can’t judge any accents for dropping consonants lmao
ok so here’s the thing. moving from the K (unvoiced, velar) to a d (voiced, dental/alveolar) and they’re BOTH stops (plositives) is like trying to balance on a bicycle that isn’t moving. It’s tricky. You basically can’t. Because to properly say them, you need to have air moving before and after the sound. So you’re running into problems where they’re both trying to stop things. (think like… popping the clutch too early and the car doing that jerky thing you see in movies. It’s a traffic jam in your mouth.)
When you speak… you don’t actually put spaces between your words if you’re speaking fluently (the brain just automatically sticks them in, this is also why it feels like people speak other languages so quickly, because you’re having to manually break up the sounds in a process you’ve been automatically doing for your native language(s).)
So. You end up with something that is maskdebate an your brain (tongue) is going “d-k error” and we have a few things we usually do in these cases. You can over-enunciate which ends up being stilted so you won’t do this unless you’re trying to actually enunciate an speak clearly… it also requires you to say “mask” pause “debate” so that the k an d each get their own little space to start an stop. (news people talk fast, they don’t pick this option). Or you can do what happens when saying the work “asked“ you just kind of toss out the k so it sounds like “Asst/assd‘ (d an t are basically the same one is just voice/unvoiced an it’s really fucking common to realize them as each other in various places, don’t think too hard) (coincidentally this is also why asked became aksed in some dialects because phoneme inversion is a common thing an again k an d don’t get along so their mutual friend s got in the middle an made them all get along.)
Anyway. We just kind of skip over pronouncing the k so maskdebate ends up being masdebate (which I immediately parsed as “mass debate” until I saw the comments an realized that was not what everyone else was hearing) which people are actually processing as something like “masdabate” which thanks to the previously mentioned t/d thing sounds like something entirely nsfw.
Basically: what you’re hearing in the video is something really common for people to do when faced with that specific combination of sounds. we usually don’t register the change, process the words as usual and go about our day. the problem is mask debate is an unfortunate combination of words to have that sound.
anyway, wear your mask
okay thats one heavyass borderline spell of a song
where the hell is it from?
We All Lift Together - Warframe
This genuinely makes me feel better about going to work.
#song tinged with sadness because this is a robot debt colony :(
-from @titanicus-mechanicus
The video also cut off the start and end, which are the best parts:
Much better!!
This is an excellent song, but may I offer this as a companion?
Ya know how in Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan exists in all times at the same time? That’s what watching this felt like. I am both in 2020 and 2005. Who is this intrepid time traveler???
Someone on Twitter pointed out that apart from all the different elements, this is a master class in story telling and comedic timing.