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I will add, the Murderbot Diaries are also great in translation, except the German translation made the WRONG choice of pronoun (sie!!!!! When "es" is right there!!!!!)

I know a lot of people read Harry Potter in different languages to practice/read something familiar and fun. I’m pleased to announce three languages later that The Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik fills this niche nicely, for those folks who want fun (murder) magic school vibes! pros: you’ll know a lot of good vocab for mass destruction and murder, and vocab about systemic injustice

also excellent are Becky Chamber’s The Wayfarer Series, which are gentler and more space opera vs fantasy.

Pros: you’ll know a lot of good space exploration and alien description vocabulary!

cons for both series: there’s a lot of made up words in both books, so unless you have great memory (and they didn’t change the word in translation), you might spend some time being like “is this language X, or in universe?”

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I'm starting a manager role soon and I told all my direct-reports-to-be that as a low level manager, I will have almost no power, except the power to complain, slightly more loudly than them, and I will wield this power on their behalf happily.

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fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!

Your mom and aunts aren’t on tumblr.  Please warn them about this as well. 

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Today's Doonesbury cartoon.

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metrics of success

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+1 and adding:

immigration status/visa tied to a job

health insurance coverage tied to a job

parental/pregnancy benefits tied to a job

All of the above (and more I’m forgetting) can be mitigated somewhat with money, but they can raise the bar for how much money you need for it to not be a disaster by a LOT

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A Texas judge last month ordered Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who practices north of New York City, to pay the penalty for allegedly breaking that state’s law by prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine. The Texas attorney general’s office followed up last week by asking a New York court to enforce the default civil judgment, which is $113,000 with attorney and filing fees. The acting Ulster County clerk refused. “In accordance with the New York State Shield Law, I have refused this filing and will refuse any similar filings that may come to our office. Since this decision is likely to result in further litigation, I must refrain from discussing specific details about the situation,” Acting Clerk Taylor Bruck said in a prepared statement.

This is what we're talking about. This is the resistance someone can do in their everyday job. Judgement gets passed down and you're just supposed to dot the i's and cross the t's? Don't. Just refuse.

Now, I know an acting county clerk isn't just anyone - this man had a very unique opportunity to do some very serious blockading in his everyday job - but that's kind of the point! Nobody's just anyone. You never know when you'll have an opportunity.

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Reductress really taking no prisoners today

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Cats getting caught doing crimes

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Once you start thinking about humans as a species in a biome, it affects your entire way of looking at normal things.

The other day I referred to female morning joggers as an 'indicator species' in that if you see women jogging in the dark it means that the environment provides migration pathways (sidewalks, clear signs) and doesn't have any known predators of female morning joggers (guy with knife, bear, BigTruck, male morning joggers).

Though, I think that people consider framing humans as animals reacting to their environment as rude.

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consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

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Also, adding to the bit about extension lines, in rural areas sometimes a few homes would share a line, so if someone got a call, you could often hear your neighbors picking up and listening in on your phone call for that juicy hot goss. Sometimes people would tell everyone else to hang up.

Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

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May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

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legitimately my first feminist awakening as a ten year old child was realizing that girls were expected to respect “boy stuff” but boys were never expected to respect “girl stuff”

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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@staff our identities aren’t nsfw and we will not stand for them to be treated as such