*exclaim to the tune of “Fancy” (2014) by Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX

How will the New Gender bond these aggregates? Are you hoarding the secret to cementitious mucous excretion?

THIS IS MY FAVORITE FAN VENDOR. I've never spec'd their directional fans and I don't do interiors anymore, but their giant ceiling fans are some of the best you can get.

Yeah, I think so too? My issue with the source is that it obscures the origin of the term 'semite', which has a really nasty racist history all on its own.

It should not have ANY contemporary usage imo, but as an Arab who has been told to my face that I have a ‘Semitic smile’, I can confirm for you that racists are still using the term the way that the Göttingen ‘race scientists’ who made it up originally intended.

Fully agreed that no one should be using the term ‘semite’ at all and that ‘antisemitism’ has only ever been used to mean against Jews! I think this IHRA article obscures the origin of the term ‘semite’, which predated the coinage of ‘antisemitism’ and was used to deride many other groups than Jews.

Also, I’m always a little skeptical of the IHRA in any subject that touches on Arabs as their definition of antisemitism includes any criticism of the state of Israel. Here’s an interesting interview with one of the people who helped draft it: www.newyorker.com/news/persons...

The Wikipedia article on ‘Semite’ gives sources for the earliest use of the term to refer to people (including Arabs) as occurring ~100 yrs before this IHRA article says the first use of ‘antisemitism’ occurred.

I have a kitchen island which is also a kitchen table in a kitchen which is also a living room which is also my whole apartment 🗽

Today's TRO means that the Adams administration must halt any changes to the bike lane until a court hearing in August!

But the fight isn't over: join us TONIGHT for a Bedford Safety March to the sites where people have been killed by drivers.

RSVP now: www.mobilize.us/transalt/eve...

Horned oak galls on Quercus palustris, I think! bygl.osu.edu/node/1019

:O!

anyway, today they sent us an ethics guide cleverly disguised as a tabletop RPG oneshot and I am absolutely going to run it for some of my coworkers.

I love this chapter as a snapshot of whale scholarship in the mid 1800s, maybe the treatment is more about the historiography than the biology?

First of all, yes, second of all, secret underwater bonus whale content for the whale facts chapter?

archive.org/details/mari... - I last read this when I was 11, but I still think about the part where her mom makes her sleep in gloves full of chicken fat every time I do thick lotion as self care in the night time. Caveat that it is written for 11 yr olds.

Looks like it's so expensive because it's primarily a subsurface utility renovation project with a tiny little bit of pedestrianization sprinkled on top.

Paulownia tomentosa my favorite hairy princess 🥰