But, more importantly, the surrender offer the Japanese government floated involved letting them keep their army, navy and imperial possessions in China and Korea, which are...self evidently unacceptable to both the Soviet Union AND the United States, which is why the USSR invaded Manchuria.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
But, more importantly, the surrender offer the Japanese government floated involved letting them keep their army, navy and imperial possessions in China and Korea, which are...self evidently unacceptable to both the Soviet Union AND the United States, which is why the USSR invaded Manchuria.
12. Do they have any favorite possessions?
His sister gave him her old staff. It is so precious to him that he refuses to use it and will lose his mind if anyone dares to touch it.
His sister gave him her old staff. It is so precious to him that he refuses to use it and will lose his mind if anyone dares to touch it.
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
12. Do they have any favorite possessions?
His sister gave him her old staff. It is so precious to him that he refuses to use it and will lose his mind if anyone dares to touch it.
His sister gave him her old staff. It is so precious to him that he refuses to use it and will lose his mind if anyone dares to touch it.
lullaby to quell his pain.She made sure he was comfortable before he passed, and agreed to surrender his possessions to his loved ones.To this day,she still makes sure his family is doing well and gives them free check ups at her clinic.She feels responsible for his death,though it wasn’t her fault.
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
lullaby to quell his pain.She made sure he was comfortable before he passed, and agreed to surrender his possessions to his loved ones.To this day,she still makes sure his family is doing well and gives them free check ups at her clinic.She feels responsible for his death,though it wasn’t her fault.
Remember that most of the Japanese who were interred in WW2 pretty much lost all the possessions they didn’t carry with them to the camps.
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Remember that most of the Japanese who were interred in WW2 pretty much lost all the possessions they didn’t carry with them to the camps.
Refugees crossing North Africa are robbed of any jewellery they may possess. Very few genuine refugees arrive with anything of any value. In over a decade very few refugees to Denmark had any possessions confiscated.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Refugees crossing North Africa are robbed of any jewellery they may possess. Very few genuine refugees arrive with anything of any value. In over a decade very few refugees to Denmark had any possessions confiscated.
If Kyle Kuzma reverts to his Wizards Era habits, including:
-above-the-break threes
-midrange pull-ups
-playing iso ball
-taking possessions off on D
Then you can’t put up with his ebbs and flows. IN THE RIGHT ROLE he can be a quality starter. He’s in the right role so far.
STAY THERE.
-above-the-break threes
-midrange pull-ups
-playing iso ball
-taking possessions off on D
Then you can’t put up with his ebbs and flows. IN THE RIGHT ROLE he can be a quality starter. He’s in the right role so far.
STAY THERE.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If Kyle Kuzma reverts to his Wizards Era habits, including:
-above-the-break threes
-midrange pull-ups
-playing iso ball
-taking possessions off on D
Then you can’t put up with his ebbs and flows. IN THE RIGHT ROLE he can be a quality starter. He’s in the right role so far.
STAY THERE.
-above-the-break threes
-midrange pull-ups
-playing iso ball
-taking possessions off on D
Then you can’t put up with his ebbs and flows. IN THE RIGHT ROLE he can be a quality starter. He’s in the right role so far.
STAY THERE.
1st Q Possessions:
Michigan = 1.5
Northwestern = 1
We’re in for a low possession game today
Michigan = 1.5
Northwestern = 1
We’re in for a low possession game today
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
1st Q Possessions:
Michigan = 1.5
Northwestern = 1
We’re in for a low possession game today
Michigan = 1.5
Northwestern = 1
We’re in for a low possession game today
Virginia (?!?) has 61 points on 40 possessions at the half against Marshall.
Tony Bennett is on his way to the locker room to ask questions.
Tony Bennett is on his way to the locker room to ask questions.
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Virginia (?!?) has 61 points on 40 possessions at the half against Marshall.
Tony Bennett is on his way to the locker room to ask questions.
Tony Bennett is on his way to the locker room to ask questions.
Forfeiting all my possessions for getting Hannes drawn from every possible angle
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Forfeiting all my possessions for getting Hannes drawn from every possible angle
"Not many. Looking for treasure among my possessions would be worthless."
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Not many. Looking for treasure among my possessions would be worthless."
I was taking video of what possessions I put in the garage when my abuser came in and I unintentionally dove into some sort of lawn equipment.
Then he comes back in two seconds later to ask me if I am finished in the garage.
He needs to get back there! Back where my belongings are!
Then he comes back in two seconds later to ask me if I am finished in the garage.
He needs to get back there! Back where my belongings are!
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I was taking video of what possessions I put in the garage when my abuser came in and I unintentionally dove into some sort of lawn equipment.
Then he comes back in two seconds later to ask me if I am finished in the garage.
He needs to get back there! Back where my belongings are!
Then he comes back in two seconds later to ask me if I am finished in the garage.
He needs to get back there! Back where my belongings are!
Pitt has had four offensive possessions and has given up three sacks and an interception.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Pitt has had four offensive possessions and has given up three sacks and an interception.
What’s funny is it’s not even that much of my possessions 😂 but yeah otherwise I have to wonder if I didn’t just piss some puritan off
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
What’s funny is it’s not even that much of my possessions 😂 but yeah otherwise I have to wonder if I didn’t just piss some puritan off
I assigned a little of Marvelous Possessions to high school sophomores and the idea that writing could be a weapon blew their minds.
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I assigned a little of Marvelous Possessions to high school sophomores and the idea that writing could be a weapon blew their minds.
Where in West Africa was the term 'obeah' first used? I don't know, but it came to have multiple definitions and associations across what is now Ghana and Nigeria. Highly recommend this essay on the subject (transcriptions of excerpts in alt text) jeromehandler.com/wp-content/u...
![Wherever the term was first used in the Caribbean, linguists and other
scholars agree that the term itself ultimately derives from some African
language or languages. Cassidy and Le Page tentatively note that the
derivation of ‘Obeah’ is ‘probably multiple’, and give words, with
malevolent meanings, in Efik and Twi as possible sources. A Twi (Gold
Coast) origin, with its implication of witchcraft/sorcery, is more commonly
given, and this etymology, with its negative implication, is often accepted,
albeit uncritically, by scholars who rely on secondary sources in the British
Caribbean literature for their information.13 Yet, as Richard Allsopp has
recently noted in his Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, ‘no precise
origin [for the term] has been determined, but some items esp[ecially] in
W[est] Afr[ican] lang[uages] suggest a connection.’ Deriving his
information from English dictionaries of several African
languages/language groups, he gives words in Twi, Efik, Igbo, and Ibibio
that refer in one form or another to evil magic or sorcery/witchcraft
although the term means ‘practitioner, herbalist’ in Ibibio.14](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ualtmkmubirc6wdgtqnyq6pb/bafkreih7sc5c6zgqzj5pir3k5zqura3ixpgqwmb2xschjzd35nbharz4wm@jpeg)
![With the exception of the Ibibio word, virtually every discussion of the
etymology of ‘Obeah’ traces it to a root with socially negative or
malevolent meanings. In an earlier study, Bilby offered a very different
perspective of the etymology of the term and the variety of meanings
attributed to it. Although agreeing that the term derives from an African
language, Bilby rejected most conventional interpretations and made a case
that there is simply insufficient historical or linguistic evidence for
assigning an original meaning in which ‘we can have reasonable
confidence’. More significantly, Bilby argued that the meanings often
attributed to ‘Obeah’ derive from assumptions in the primary written
sources that it is ‘essentially malevolent witchcraft; [thus] it is not
surprising that etymologists looking for parallel words in African
languages have focused their search on terms that are usually translated
into English as “witchcraft,” “sorcery,” and the like.’ But, Bilby’s
argument continued, ‘what if the search had started from a different initial
assumption?’ Since etymologists have started with the assumption ‘that
Obeah denotes evil sorcery’, they ‘have predictably succeeded in finding
words in a number of African languages that are phonologically somewhat
similar to ‘Obeah’ and have meanings related to witchcraft or sorcery’.
However, if etymologists were to view Obeah ‘to begin with as a kind of
neutral or positive spiritual force’, then etymological discussions might go
in another direction and find the roots of ‘Obeah’ in other linguistic
contexts and languages.15](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ualtmkmubirc6wdgtqnyq6pb/bafkreibeqvnorkwrxmirwswrx27hltuopelhty4gt34h673arfmle4k2qe@jpeg)
![13. Cassidy and Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English, p.326; Orlando Patterson, The
Sociology of Slavery (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1967), pp.185–6; cf. M.J. Field,
Religion and Medicine of the Gã People (London: Oxford University Press, 1961), p.137.
For acceptance of this etymology, see, for example, Bailey, ‘Obeah’, p.551; Morgan, Slave
Counterpoint, p.620; Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting Zion (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp.56–7, 224 n.112; Alan Richardson,
‘Romantic Voodoo: Obeah and British Culture, 1797–1807’, in M. Fernandez Olmos and
L. Paravisini-Gebert (eds.), Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah and the
Caribbean (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997), p.190.
14. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p.412. The specific African terms given as
possible etyma in Allsopp’s entry are: Twi o-bayi-fo ‘witchcraft man’ (also given in
Dictionary of Jamaican English); Nembe obi ‘sickness, disease’; Igbo obi a ‘this
(particular) mind’; Ibibio abia ‘practitioner, herbalist’; and Efik ubio ‘a charm put in the
ground to cause sickness’ (also in Dictionary of Jamaican English). Other published
etymologies proposed for Obeah include: Edo obi ‘poison’ (Webster’s Third New
International Dictionary of the English Language, 1963); Twi abia ‘a creeper used in
making charms’ (Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, 1967); Ga obeye ‘entity
within witches’ (Patterson, Sociology of Slavery, p.186); Akan abayide ‘sorcerer’ (Ian
Hancock, cited in John A. Holm and Alison W. Shilling, Dictionary of Bahamian English
[Cold Spring, NY: Lexik House, 1982], p.145); KiKoongo (o)b-bi ‘evil’ (Hazel Carter,
cited in Dictionary of Bahamian English, p.145); Awutu obire ‘charm’ (George Huttar,
‘Sources of Ndjuka African Vocabulary’, New West Indian Guide, 59, 3 & 4 [1985], p.59).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ualtmkmubirc6wdgtqnyq6pb/bafkreiespa2igx7yjkzp6ss5cqs2ksx746fim3dshlhhpntdkfve3hn54a@jpeg)
![15. Bilby, ‘Strange Career of “Obeah”’, pp.24–6. The challenges presented in Bilby’s paper to
a number of conventional assumptions in modern scholarship concerning Obeah, and the
larger perspective it offers are, we believe, also fully supported by the ethnohistorical data
from Barbados examined by Handler. One modern author who early recognized and
emphasized the largely positive functions of Obeah, as well as the way the term and its
referents have been negatively redefined by those in positions of power in the Caribbean,
is Kamau Brathwaite. Going against the most commonly held views at the period of his
writing (in the early 1970s), he noted how ‘Obeah ... is an aspect of [healing and
protection], though it has come to be regarded in the New World and in colonial Africa as
sorcery and “black magic” ... The principle of obeah is, ... like medical principles
everywhere, the process of healing/protection through seeking out the source or
explanation of the cause ... of the disease or fear. This was debased by slave
master/missionary/prospero into an assumption, inherited by most [West Indians] … that
obeah deals in evil.’ See Edward Kamau Brathwaite, ‘The African Presence in Caribbean
Literature’, in Sidney W. Mintz (ed.), Slavery, Colonialism, and Racism (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1974), p.75](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ualtmkmubirc6wdgtqnyq6pb/bafkreie7vbnnpayex3jusde2boulqxpmnwjje4vrzjhc7uorkuw7gsrhey@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Where in West Africa was the term 'obeah' first used? I don't know, but it came to have multiple definitions and associations across what is now Ghana and Nigeria. Highly recommend this essay on the subject (transcriptions of excerpts in alt text) jeromehandler.com/wp-content/u...
Nope — I’m depressed enough already. Total a-hole whose current claim to fame is he can imitate Trump. Which I suppose is a slightly better look than gleefully trashing the possessions of unhoused folks…
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Nope — I’m depressed enough already. Total a-hole whose current claim to fame is he can imitate Trump. Which I suppose is a slightly better look than gleefully trashing the possessions of unhoused folks…
Yep and everybody named with evidence should go to jail. Lose all their possessions. Don’t care who it is.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yep and everybody named with evidence should go to jail. Lose all their possessions. Don’t care who it is.
Word, I went to Australia and the mozzies were total assholes even in the start of winter. It was then I realized, spiders are my friends (as long as they stay away from my possessions they’re cool)
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Word, I went to Australia and the mozzies were total assholes even in the start of winter. It was then I realized, spiders are my friends (as long as they stay away from my possessions they’re cool)
Trying to find the original post of this for the non-skeeters in my life and …
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Trying to find the original post of this for the non-skeeters in my life and …
The only thing I can think of is that mass selling off of possessions can be a suicide warning sign.
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The only thing I can think of is that mass selling off of possessions can be a suicide warning sign.
This is appalling. What will they take from refugees with no jewellery or possessions to seize to cover their costs - hair, gold fillings...organs? Who could vote for this pretty good imitation of a far right party?
This argument that we need to adopt fascism-lite to prevent electing fascists is a big ahistorical lie, and it has a lot of currency in Canada too. This will not solve any problems fascists blame on refugees, while it concedes the idea that they're correct to blame them. This is how you get ICE.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This is appalling. What will they take from refugees with no jewellery or possessions to seize to cover their costs - hair, gold fillings...organs? Who could vote for this pretty good imitation of a far right party?
That's why I wish they would increase the length of possessions instead of going for those speculative shots from distance. The eleven today is not ideal to suffer and defend.
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That's why I wish they would increase the length of possessions instead of going for those speculative shots from distance. The eleven today is not ideal to suffer and defend.
It wasn't enough to pardon the J6 rioter.
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It wasn't enough to pardon the J6 rioter.
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
It wasn't enough to pardon the J6 rioter.
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/trump-re-pardons-a-jan-6-defendant-to-erase-unrelated-gun-conviction-five-year-jail-term-00653425
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/trump-re-pardons-a-jan-6-defendant-to-erase-unrelated-gun-conviction-five-year-jail-term-00653425
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It wasn't enough to pardon the J6 rioter.
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/trump-re-pardons-a-jan-6-defendant-to-erase-unrelated-gun-conviction-five-year-jail-term-00653425
A SECOND pardon was needed to exclude the illegal gun possessions.
(Illegal gun possession is OK now)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/trump-re-pardons-a-jan-6-defendant-to-erase-unrelated-gun-conviction-five-year-jail-term-00653425
Does he think it’s because homes will be empty and available for purchase? What happens to their possessions? Is anyone talking about banks scooping up those mortgages and car loans, repos galore. It’s a sad omen of things to come now to North Carolina, time to make a no ICE sign
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Does he think it’s because homes will be empty and available for purchase? What happens to their possessions? Is anyone talking about banks scooping up those mortgages and car loans, repos galore. It’s a sad omen of things to come now to North Carolina, time to make a no ICE sign