@Juliet E McKenna Probably didn't have to cope with OU word limits! (Just took a quick look at In Verrem. Quite pleased to find that I can still make out a fair bit of it in spite of my last properly using Latin three decades ago!)
It is more than a single sentence, much, much more. It is a gateway to another world: an abstract world of symbols and relationships. It is a single thread of Inrda's net, interfused with reflecting jewels, containing within it ripples of the whole history of symbolic thought.
Nay! [always a good word in situations like this]. Verily! [even better] I put it to you, [forgot this was a law assignment for a moment] your worships and honours, taking into account the principle of totality [adjusts headgear] that indeed, no sentence can ever be singular.
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
Reminds of Palestinian resistance. Or Algerian, or Vietnamese. In the sense of the impossibility to defeat the invaders, but the capacity to survive and keep heads up for decades and even centuries.
By the way: is there any reference in your book to Al Andalus as predecessor of Renaissance by protecting and translating of Greek-Latin and Indo-Persian heritage for the rest of Europeans?
Interesting observation. When talking one-to-one to a woman I don't know well my brain flips into the before-transition mode, where I'm hyper-aware I pose a threat.
@Alexandra Lanes That’s not that novel. Nearly all lesbians think that speaking to another woman is basically sexual harassment. We’re a bit crap like that.
Today's cursed analysis: does someone posting underwear photos on their own fedi instance, with public visibility, trigger Part 5 (the porn rules) in the UK's Online Safety Act?
(I mean that they are wearing the underwear; I don't mean photos of pants etc.)
How will Ofcom draw the line between art and porn? How will Ofcom determine if the poster posted it for the purpose of sexual arousal (theirs? Someone else's?) or just body positivity?
@russss It's a staggering amount of work to try to make sense of this. Yday I got nerd-sniped into trying to figure out who needs to do a "children's access assessment". I blew 45 min chasing their cross-references and the bottom line is that it's too vague to know. lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lo…
The gist I've reached is "everyone who provides a user to user service needs to do a children's access assessment", to determine if they need to do a "children's risk assessment".
I haven't updated my post with the latest guidance yet but the bar for "not likely to be accessed by children" seems to be set very high. Their page even says "Unless they are already using highly effective age assurance and can evidence this, we anticipate that most of these services will need to conclude that they are likely to be accessed by children within the meaning of the Act."
@grimmware @russss Feels like right now there are probably quite a few techies sending another reminder to management about "those user support forums we run" and suchlike. Also, is a review on an e-commerce site user-to-user comms? One that lets you maybe... upload photos? <ducks and runs>
@russss kind of low-key want all of the UK tech scene to take this all very seriously and suddenly you can't hire anyone any more because their CV is hosted on their website which won't serve any content to a UK IP address.
I seem to remember there was somewhere off the coast of Norfolk or Suffolk at some point where new mothers went to register their births as it was unparished, so they didn't have to acknowledge the father. The memory is a bit of a muddle, but I can't find any reference to it.
The wonderful folk over at @trans_rescue@mastodon.social have been working their butts off with a very limited budget to help get trans folk out of dangerous places.
I've pulled together a collection of my stories. These were first written on twitter, some I've reposted here over the years but this is the first time a collection of them has been available.
If you want to acquire a copy of this collection all you have to do is send me proof of a £5 or more donation to Trans Rescue in a DM. (Please for the love of all that is holy redact any bank details) and I'll send you a link to the file with 60 stories and more than one hundred pages of kinky smut.
Note: trans rescue have nothing to do with this, do not hassle them about it, I'm doing this entirely on my own and if they ask me to stop I will.
yeah, guess it just mails them out. forgive our clanky donation system. our web dev is done by volunteers who are awesome, but are working in their spare time.
Feeling proud of myself. I contacted a therapist who should be able to help me with my fun new anxiety issues, and also started some work on them on my own, of which I may say more at a later date.
So you're speaking a sentence in Portuguese, are you? Well you have 0.5 seconds to decide between a subordinating conjunction or a preposition/naked adjective, AND IT WILL DETERMINE THE COURSE OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
Weird anxiety episode day 3. Seems to be receding somewhat. Heart pounding and adrenaline rushes keep happening a bit but maybe less severely? Got sleep in a couple of three hour batches from what I remember. Have attempted to contact a therapist to process some of this.
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Sometimes we sleep, or may as well. The world of possibilities that contains and is contained by a day too much and too overwhelming to be but observed slowly through a fog. What shall I do today? Toss a coin.
Sometimes we remember, or remember feeling. To fetch from the vaults of memory is to remember afresh, and to remember afresh to feel afresh. To feel afresh is to reason afresh and it is all still true: this is still was still am still me I, feeling. But nevertheless afresh.
Sometimes we reach out. So fortunate I, who can be held without holding and still feel the warmth. Waves over waves.
Bit sad not to be able to join in the general trans Dorley Hall love-in but I read maybe 300 pages and the non-consensual and imprisonment aspects of it seem to trigger a lot of anxiety, so it's perhaps not the book for me. And that's OK.
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This is an official translation of the law allowing Greenland self governance. Under it, for Greenland to become independent (to do with that independence what it may) it requires a majority in a referendum of the people of Greenland, an independence agreement with Denmark, and approval of that agreement by the Greenlandic and Danish parliaments. english.stm.dk/media/10522/gl-…
A drunk sailor might fall in, but fall over when they fall out, and as they fall down, fall overboard, it falling to their solicitor to whom their estate would fall.
He never enjoyed snow, unlike his brother. The first time we had deep snow Bilbo spent 10 mins diving forward and skidding headfirst into it. Benji has arthritis now so is a snow/ice wimp like me.
If you played Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum as a kid you’ll be aware of the notorious Attic Bug. It meant that if you entered the Attic in a game, various rooms became instakills.
Today I read an explanation of the bug: bits of non-screen memory are being written to when one of the monsters in the Attic is “drawn”.
@rvedotrc @iris It's probably been a few decades since I read the story originally, but in my hazy memory he was gripped with a sudden doubt that his wife was actually following him and turned back to look.
the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire
icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at...
not sure about that. If "luke" and "yuke" rhyme then "luke" and "nyuke" also rhyme, almost by definition. Different previous phonème (/j/ rather than /n/) doesn't matter.
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