More Strike Tweets I've Collected But Hadn't Posted Yet
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That chart:
The strike is into its 6th week. Fuck those directors and producers.
HEY I LOVE THE SCHEHEREZADE PARALLEL ACTUALLY?? trapped with a capricious tyrant who must be entertained through the night, and you don’t know how long you yet have to live but all you can do is keep trying to be pleasant, to be interesting, to talk yourself hoarse if that’s what it takes and pray that it’ll be enough
#dracula daily#especially given the epistolary framing of this novel! jonathan is writing down the story of what happens to him#in hopes that it'll keep him sane#in hopes that someone may yet somehow read his tale and learn the truth from it#in hopes that the story may outlive him#and it does!! we're reading it now all these years later!#<<<#i'm reading dracula now and this is so true
despite staff's recent changes, we're... winning??????
The blue eyes mark this crow as young, not a full adult.
You’ve been pranked by a teen hooligan.
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You’ve been pranked by,
You’ve been sticked by,
A teen hooligan
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Looking at the grey cheeks, this is an adult jackdaw not a young crow!
which just shows that hijinks have no age restriction
Source: twitter.com
starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is
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The picture in the background of the second one
Tama is boss
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THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM
Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
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For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.
Beautiful.
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Now I’m crying thanks
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and a new cat was hired right?
yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy
she works very hard
Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.
I’m crying at 11pm over train cats
Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016). There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.
^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama
Yontama.
a legacy
okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back
“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.
Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better
You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.
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The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.
Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)
you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.
You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)
So, fun fact- the manga Noragami has an arc where the main character, Yato (a minor kami/God that is down on his luck but trying to make it big time) goes to a council/conference for all the Gods in Japan.
And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.
But no-
ITS TAMA!
Always reblogging this.
are there any known ancient egyptian jokes? sorry if that's a stupid question.
It’s not a stupid question!
There are many known Ancient Egyptian jokes and puns, just the reason you don’t hear of them is that they require a lot of background cultural and linguistic knowledge for someone in the present day to a) get the joke and b) understand why it’s funny. Their jokes are very involved sometimes, often making words that sound the same as a pun in a sentence, but if you don’t know that those two words have the same consonantal value (i.e. two words both sound like ankh) then it doesn’t make any sense.
So let’s start with an easy one. This one is from the Instruction of Ankhsheshonq, and is a Ptolemaic text (c.100-30BC) that sets out maxims/proverbs for the way one should live their life through a fictional narrative, as do many older Sebayat texts, but largely strikes a far more humorous tone:
“If a crocodile loves a donkey it puts on a wig." (page 24, line 7)
An instruction about how someone dangerous will disguise themselves in order to get close to someone, but gives the humorous image of a crocodile in a wig.
“Man is even more eager to copulate than a donkey; his purse is what restrains him." (page 24, line 10)
The ancient Egyptian version of ‘dating is expensive’, but also refers to men being hornier than donkeys and unable to do much about it.
You can have this one from Late Ramesside Letter no.46 (c.1095 BC) between a unknown family members:
“I say every single day to Amun Re Harakhty when he rises and sets, 'Give you life, prosperity and health, long life and great and good old age, and very many favours in the presence of Amun, your lord" As follows: I heard that you are angry. You have cause me to swell up with insults, on account of this joke which I told the chief taxing-master in this letter, when it was Henuttawy who suggested to me, “Tell some jokes to the chief taxing-master in your letter.” You are like the story about the woman blind in one eye who was in a man’s house for 20 years and he found another one, and he said to her, I will divorce you, for you are blind in one eye,” so the story goes, and she said to him, “Is this the discovery you’ve made during the 20 years I’ve spent in your house?” Such am I; such is the joke I have played on you”
The joke here is two fold; one in the original joke for the man pretending to only notice his wife was blind in one eye when it was convenient for him, and two the second implied joke that the recipient is as foolish as the man in the story for conveniently ruining his relative’s time with the chief taxing master. Then you have the much more involved jokes, which often occur in ‘magical’ or religious texts, that require more explanation than I’ve just given for the ones above. Take some examples from the Chester Beatty Dream Book, which is a document that was supposed to help the Egyptians interpret their dreams:
If a man is eating the flesh of a donkey (aA.t): Good. (It means) he will become great (aA.t)" (recto 2, line 21)
If white bread (HD) is given to him: Good. (It means) something at which his face will light up (HD) (recto 3, line 4)
If a man is seeing his penis stiffen (nxt): Bad. (It means) the stiffening of his enemy (nxt) (recto 8, line 2)
All three of these are linguistic puns, which, without the use of the transliteration in brackets, most people wouldn’t know were even puns. Here you can see Donkey (aA.t) and Great (aA.t) (pronounced ah-aht) being juxtaposed as a aural/visual pun because both words sound the same and are spelt the same (donkey has the added ‘donkey’ determinative, but essentially they are the same word). Same goes for HD (hedj), because it’s a pun on HD meaning silver/white/light, so the white (HD) of the bread will light (HD) up his face, and nxt (nekhet - stiffen) can also mean strength, which means as your virility increases so does the strength of the enemy. Basically, don’t fuck too much or your enemy gets stronger.
The problem with interpreting puns such as this, is that there’s a massive cultural gap between us and the Ancient Egyptians. This means that some of what the Egyptians intended with these puns is now largely lost to us and forcing our own understanding onto the texts distorts it from the original intent, thus we can only really give surface interpretations. This is why, although there are more puns, I’m not going to show them here, as they’d require more knowledge about Ancient Egyptian culture and linguistics than is feasibly possible to write about in a blog post. But I hope I’ve at least enabled you to see how the Egyptians went about jokes and puns.
So, I know absolutely nothing, nada de nada, about Ancient Egypt (except the usual cultural osmosis things), but I have something to add to this.
Hi, I have a degree in philology, I work in translations and I kinda love world literature and old(er) literature (but not, like, Ancient Egypt old).
So, a few things come to mind here regarding these jokes:
1. If you’re not really laughing, that’s to be expected. The stuff above is scholarship, aka, “we will dissect this to the best of our abilities to see what makes it tick”.
This makes you understand jokes, but not necessarily laugh at them. Because an explained joke is no longer that funny. Fascinating, maybe. Funny? Eh.
2. This is not what those jokes sounded like to Ancient Egyptians. You know, this one might go without saying if you think about it, but... if you don’t think about it, it’s not that obvious.
Languages are fascinating because they’re way, way different from each other than you’d assume if you only know one, or even a few that have the same roots. Grammar is different, the numbers of homonyms are different, the underlying assumptions are different, the euphemisms are definitely different.
But no matter what the language is like, the people who speak it natively will always be fluent in them. They can be witty, funny, clever without the slightest hesitation, and their language will feel perfectly natural to them because it’s their own and it thus comes naturally to them. It’s not archaic or exotic if it’s what you use at home.
Not a joke, but let me show you the reverse of this - what happens when you give English a similar treatment:
Everyone Swing* your body [* A pun with a type of music; but also with the idea of excitement and energy] Everyone Swing your body correctly* [* This is probably inserted for rhythm purposes, rather than an indication of how to swing] The back alley* has returned, for sure [*This is the name of the band, but it contains the word for “return”, thus creating a pun] Wow* we've returned again [* This literally translates as “My divinity!”, but the expression has lost its religious connotations, becoming an interjection of shock or excitement] Male and female siblings, everyone sing
Yes, this is the broken down and annotated “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys, now with synonyms to reflect what happens when translating. It sounds very different in the original.
3. In your standard translations, there’s a lot of adaptation happening.
The reason why the novels and poetry you read in translation sound much friendlier isn’t that modern languages are somehow special in this regard, or that we’ve come a long way since Ancient Egypt, or what have you.
It’s because:
- we know a lot more about them, generally speaking, and we can have bilingual people and natives checking them out
- our assumptions of what those books should look like are different
- or purpose in reading those books is different
If I read a Japanese novel, I want to know the story, the characters, the style. It’s pretty much the same desire as if I read an English novel. But when I read about Ancient Egypt, which isn’t easily comprehensible or close to me, I expect a distance and difficulty in the text. And also, maybe I want to understand how their language and jokes were, because they’re so far away.
Now, there’s a lot that can be said about what translators do when the author Speaks in Funny Ways even for their own language (for reasons of poetry, for example), but generally, and we won’t get into that.
But what I wanted to say is that if we had time-traveling Ancient Egyptians who spoke English and became, I don’t know, jaded detectives watching people in a bar, you could have one of the lines in their noir novels read, “I gulped down some gin and thought it’s like the Instruction of Ankhsheshonq says: Men would fuck around even more than donkeys do, but they just don’t have the money for it.”
Reblogging some excellent commentary on why these are jokes, but you might not understand why they're funny.
Some Truest Truths about Publishing
Being a published author is a lifelong dream of mine, and many aspects of it are indeed awesome. I love telling stories and sharing them with the world. Seeing my books in a bookstore or a library will always be thrilling! Meeting new readers from all over the globe is huge fun. But there have been a bunch of “being a published author is bad for your mental health” threads lately, and I think part of why this is true is that people don’t understand how the industry works before they get into it. So, here are some things about how publishing functions that I did not know before I became part of the machine:
1. You can know your book’s likely trajectory at the time you sign the contract. The publisher decides how well your book will sell. Large publishers sell more books than mid-sized publishers, which sell more books than small- or micro-publishers. A large publisher doing minimal publicity for your book will probably still sell more copies of it than a small publisher, simply because they already have the machinery in place. But, if your large publisher does not offer you a large advance at the time of signing, they are not going to do much more than their basic-level publicity for your book. They are going to focus their efforts on books they paid a lot of money to acquire because they want to get that money back. So, if your large publisher is not offering you at least a quarter of a million dollars to acquire your book, they aren’t going to be gunning to make it a NY Times Bestseller.
2. Books are a hit-driven industry. Most books lose money so everyone is counting on the few bestsellers to finance the whole industry. This is why big names like Stephen King or Danielle Steele suck up huge amounts of the publicity budget. Publishers need their books to sell sell sell, which means reaching fans who only buy Stephen King and Danielle Steele books. These fans aren’t paying a lot of attention, so publishers need to get that “GO BUY NOW” bat signal into the sky to wake up these fans. They pull out all the advertising stops. This is why big-name authors eat up so much of the publicity budget despite being household names. Publishers need to reach those fans for each new book to ensure the book makes the $$$$ that the publishers are counting on.
3. Everyone who is in the industry is riding the same train. So when the large publishers decide which books to push (because they have paid a lot to acquire them and/or the author is already a household name), booksellers and librarians have to get on board too. Yes, librarians and independent booksellers can also promote smaller titles that they really love, and that’s GREAT, but they mostly have to march to the tune set by the large publishers. Bookstores are usually operating at razor-thin margins. They need to sell the books that people want to read. Which books do people want to read? The ones they have heard of! How did they hear about them? The big publishers spent the $ to advertise! See how it’s all connected? Libraries, too. They need to stock the titles that will rotate well; books people want to check out and read. Which ones will they stock? The ones that the large publishers are pushing, because these are the titles that people will ask for.
4. Almost nothing good happens to your book without your publisher paying for it. Often, even things that look like awards or editorial decisions involve money changing hands.
5. Because of points 1-4, the author can do very little to influence the sale of their book. Giants like Amazon or Barnes and Noble already know which books are going to be the lead titles because the publishers told them so. Outlets like the NYT know too. Libraries, indie bookstores…they all know the signs of big publisher investment. For example, if the publisher says they are going to print 250,000 copies of your book, then everyone knows the title is going to be pushed HARD. If they say they are publishing 10,000 copies, then the author has no hope of competing with the lead title. So, the author can’t, on their own, do anything to change the fate of their book. However, the author is held accountable when their book doesn’t sell, despite the fact that everyone in the industry does understand that publishers sell books, not authors.
6. Because of points 1-4, how well a book is written or how talented the author is has not much to do with how many copies the book sells. Often bestsellers are really great and the authors are extremely hardworking…but not always. And there are zillions of hugely talented, diligent authors whose books don’t sell well at all because a large publisher has never shone that kind of spotlight on them. To exist in an industry where talent and hard work don’t influence the results is maddening, and a big part of why authors go a little insane.
the thing nobody fucking warns you about is that once you know literally anything about sewing or how clothes are constructed it immediately becomes impossible to buy clothes because 90+% of newly produced clothes that you can actually look at in a physical store are just hot fucking garbage. like what is even the point of buying something made of thin polyester blend with a shit ton of exposed lazily serged seams on the inside and weirdly large armscyes? its completely unrepairable and also not worth repairing because it’s designed to be disposable and half its flaws are unfixable without essentially re-sewing the garment from scratch and the other half are a ticking time bomb where no structural element is expected to last past the first failure. no fucking wonder nobody bothers learning to sew buttons or darn in this day and age!! theres no damn point because the rest of the garment is totally fucked by the time it becomes needed! *i am gently escorted out of the department store, frothing at the mouth*
but you watch enough historical costuming videos and its just like. “+1 skill acquired: making your own clothes! good luck, you’ll definitely be using it from now on :)”
#in hindsight if i had known this would get 12k notes i would have put in a sentence or two about sweatshop labor #its not 'lazily' serged its people with an incredibly difficult and taxing job trying to get as much piecework done as they can
#i dont know if people know this bc i sure didnt until i got into sewing but: industrial sewing machines are #the height of sewing automation. every seam on a $15 t-shirt or a $25 Something from shein was fed through a serger by a human person #which is BONKERS but also kinda… makes sense. #car mfg is easy to automate bc car parts are rigid and easy to reliably and consistently grasp and they dont change that often #clothes are being CONSTANTLY updated and theyre made of FABRIC which is a robot arm's natural enemy #but people want cheap clothes!! and so the thing that is being relentlessly optimized away is paying the humans involved in the process
#similarly you know how theres knitting machines? #crochet machines arent a thing. every ~boho crochet top~ made of granny squares was made by sweatshop labor #a lot of mfg processes are STUNNINGLY manual in countries where the time and labor of humans is cheap
(via @gender-trash)
one very easy way for people from the West to find out what garment factory work looks like is just go on tiktok and type in "garment factory life". you can get country-specific too.
tiktok is a very democratising app in my country, Sri Lanka - beyond the influencers everyday people just post snippets from their lives. and a lot of them are garment industry production workers just filming their jobs. it's incredible to watch.
edit: if you can use the local language to search tags, do so. E.g. to find noncorporate accounts from Sri Lanka you need to type ගාමන්ට් in Sinhala. [Thanks to @hussyknee for flagging this.]
A lot of the TikToks are young people having fun at work, very Milennial memes about the overwork and underpay, anger about the way people look down on them for working at a garment factory despite it being an arterial industry, and sadness at how it affects their marriage prospects. Girls especially are angry that they're stereotyped as promiscuous and the notion that "garment girls" sell their bodies on the side. "If you hate garment girls so much take off the clothes we make and go naked on the street" is a running theme (one adorable kid told these guys off with so much sass, sneering at them back for shaming her for earning an honest living. I love her 💗). The ostracization leads them to a defensive pride and commitment to their work, even though sexual harrassment is a huge problem within the factories.
The factories themselves meet international regulations, which is why we're attractive to multinational companies like Nike, Victoria's Secret, Addidas etc. who are keen to avoid bad press. The industry is a backbone in our economy. And they really aren't sweatshops. You can see how dehumanizing it would be to flatten the narrative into "slavery" like the West loves to do, and how that strips them of agency and dignity. For a lot of women, this is their only means of gaining a measure of economic independence and helping their families. International press that sensationalizes the fact that they earn less than USD 60–100 a month, don't factor in the the purchasing power parity, as in how exponentially less a basket of essential goods costs here than in the West.
The trouble is that, exactly like the USAmerican workers Tumblr posts regularly about, garment workers aren't paid a living wage and don't have adequate worker protections. Their quality of is life poor and most leave within a few years because it's just not worth it. I keep talking about this, but our govt can't put tighter labour protections because we're at the mercy of multinational companies, who will drop us like a hot potato and move to Cambodia or somewhere that does have sweatshops if ethics start cutting into profits. And of course are politicians are exploitative ghouls too. The workers under some companies arent allowed to unionize, in a country with a socialist political bedrock and robust union culture (this is because "Free Trade Zones" used to prop up the industry was a neoliberal invention). Their level of vulnerability was brutally highlighted during the pandemic when factories refused to close and send the workers home, and during the lowest point of the economic crash last year, when they could barely afford to eat and had no gas to cook food. With the hyperinflation going strong, I imagine the situation hasn't improved a lot. Ironically, our third world workers and the US's minimum wage workers seem to be in much the same boat. And the final product that these women try to take pride in apparently isn't even worth any of it. So it's all just basically just a pollution machine. ✨
Anonymous asked:
What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?
.. i’m palestinian
same energy
there’s more
SIGH
here’s another one
IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION
how does this get even worse
I think about once in a while…
We have another one…
This is the internet now tho 😭💀
Omg so many additions since I last saw this post! 😂😂😂
It’s funny but incredibly telling how entitled/ignorant/insensitive some of these people are… idk if it’s an education gap or purposeful ignorance.
The really bewildering thing to me is that I remember when you needed to get up and pull a dictionary off the shelf, or visit a library to look up the facts you needed. Now people have all kinds of information literally at their fingertips and they can’t be bothered to use it.
malicemanaged
Oh dear gods, it’s gotten worse
When you know politics but no facts
don’t take people too seriously on the internet
This hits different when combined with that “Americans don’t learn other countries exist till they’re in 5th Grade” post from the other day.
Demily recently got another one lads
Also, I love that, in the sign language one, it seems like the last image might’ve been a gif of “fuck you,” screenshot at the perfect time to let you know they were about to sign “fuck you”
As a romanian person I gotta add this one too
This is my favourite post on this website
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I have literally had people tell me that I’m a gross appropriator for learning sign language while not deaf.
I sometimes cannot speak, but leaving that aside, what the FUCK lol
I still remember the guy who got mad at me because I spoke about the cultural role of the Norse gods in my life and my culture and insisted that I should be “proud of my Christian heritage instead” and quite simply would not believe me when I told him I was from Scandinavia because “that doesn’t exist anymore.”
someone please edit that map of europe with the spain void to also have a void for the whole of scandinavia
Every now and then I just have to reblog this.
(while particularly loving: “Gender of the Day: Wales”)
(also “Port O’Rico”)