#monitize

[raymondduggantravel]

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I Will Also Monitize You.

[petricorah]

he's definitely burning what's in the pan [id in alt]

[mune-mice]

Days 8 and 9! Hypno and Outfit swap :] Doc and Cleo switching outfits is too funny for no reason

[cicada-candy]

My tumblr is just. A 2015 internet archive right now isn't it .

[petermorwood]

"Monitory" or "Admonitory"?

A question raised by @rembrandtswife about This Post.

"Monitory" is correct here. ( @dduane uses it in this entry of the Young Wizards "Errantry Concordance".)

Both are from the same root, but while monitory / monition is a be-careful warning, as in "watch out", admonitory / admonition with its prefix ad- (to, towards) is a behave-yourself rebuke, as in "You'd better watch out."

(Links are to the on-line Merriam-Webster dictionary).

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However, when I saw the word I thought of a nugget from history which amused us both when we first encountered it and must have been pretty memorable to recall so easily, Archbishop Dunbar of Glasgow's "Great Monition of Cursing".

Oddly enough, this monition is a rebuke, so it's actually an admonition. Maybe in the 1500s there was a difference between admonishing one person and monishing the whole bunch of them, including their individual body parts, their comings and goings, their crops and beasts, their goods and chattels... (Once Dunbar got going, he didn't mess around.)

Or maybe once a furious Glaswegian archbishop had turned admonishment up to eleven so hard that the knob fell off, he got an exemption from the more pettifogging rules of grammar.

Welcome to The Fun That Is The English Language (even when the actual language in use is Scots...)

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The Great Monition is more than 1500 words of episcopal fulmination directed against the Border Reivers - lawless clans who lived along the English-Scottish Borders and ran that "Debatable Land" as they saw fit, in a manner not too dissimilar to how certain other Families ran 1920s Chicago.

This involved what I once described as "undocumented reallocation of livestock ownership by night", but also kidnapping for ransom, arson, murder, blackmail and multi-generational feuds, all the merry Romantick stuff that's entertaining to read about as long as it happened long ago and far away even (or perhaps especially) if it involves ancestors which, in this instance, it does...

Or, as I wrote about ten years back:

Is your house a smoking, blackened shell?

If it’s still intact, have you been paying to keep it that way?

Are your cattle heading for the other side of the Border?

Are all your household goods with them?

Are you expecting the ransom demand for your wife or son any day now?

Did you see one of the men who did all these things?

Congratulations, you have just Identified a Border Reiver.

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The Great Monition can be read HERE in both its original Scots and an English translation. Ignore the bit in bold, a grovelling modern prayer for forgiveness which would have made the Reivers laugh their steel bonnets off.

What's a steel bonnet? It's AKA a "burgonet", and it's one of these.

Part of the Monition was carved into The Cursing Stone, currently on display in Carlisle...

...which - stone or curse, no-one's quite sure - has since been blamed for such sundry misfortunes as fire, floods, foot-and-mouth disease and even (gasp, woe) football failures.

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People even re-enact being Reivers, with accurate costume but (probably or at least hopefully) less-accurate behaviour...

[splitshard]

POV: you are simon keyes

[upgradewater]

it's a bargain sale on namekian grandpas

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

both clark and lois believe that they're invincible but for lois it's an attitude she had to adopt to succeed when everyone tries to make her stop for clark it's a burden he has to live with knowing everyone else can so easily break. when lois is pregnant with jon she continues into run headlong into danger up until she literally can't run meanwhile clark is freaking out about her lifting things and lying on her stomach at 3 months

[muppet-hell]

Guys I love Mr House

[lobotomy-lady]

the most batshit insane traumatizing thing happened at work today & I won't know if people are dead bc of my inability to talk a man down from a mass murder until the news reports start coming out lollll

edit: it's all good there was nothing about a shootout on the news 🙏

[thisyearsgirl3]

i truly believe some people don’t even watch shows they just let their eyes glaze over until a skinny man with dumb hair and middling backstory shows up for them to project on

[a-hypnos-v]

I've been thinking a lot about some Symas ship kids lately, here's the rough design for one, still haven't decided on a name, let alone whether it should be a chinese, czech, or zaterran one, but i hope anyone shows interest

hope the stickers dont look janky, can never decide where to put what

[stateofnull]

tweaking about an object show ill probably never make oughh i hate them,, (most of it is the host character that's how much i hate it /j)

monitor would like tetris btw, just a quick fun fact

(also i just remembered this acc is a year old now, happy first birthday to my tumblr acc 😮)

[melbourneskybourne]

If you disagree, argue with the wall.

[mokeonn]

I'm gonna be REAL honest right now: is there like. ANY proof that websites are censoring "naughty words" and thus you NEED to use the childish tiktok censored replacements, or is it all anecdotal?

I constantly see people claim that they've gotten shadowbanned for not self censoring and people claiming that it's not true and that the posts just flopped and the topic is just a whole mess.

Like, I am clearly of the mind that self censorship like this is bad. End of story. I'm not going to censor the words I say with childish sound-alikes to potentially "make the algorithm happy" and I'm sure as fuck not saying those words in real life because that would just make me look like a fool. I can prove the position of "this self-censorship of difficult topics is harmful", but I constantly see the claims of "shadow bans" being tossed around with very little proof on if shadow bans are happening at all, much less that it specifically happens to people who didn't self-censor suicide to "sewerslide".

[boomclowntown]

fatality ...