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The moment Senator Cory Booker found out he beat the record for longest Senate speech
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Senator Cory Booker has been speaking about Trump, America, how Democrats have failed and what they need to do to be better, and more on the Senate floor for over 20 hours. Over 20 hours!
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A patient, explaining what their relationship is to their new visitor who was headed up to see them, said, “he’s my guardian,” and I said “oh I didn’t you had a legal guardian,” and the patient said, “he’s not my legal guardian, he’s my spiritual and physical guardian. He is also my brother. Well, I say he’s my brother. He’s like a brother. He’s my husband.” And I say this with genuinely no judgment, just pure curiosity, what
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Source: reddit.com
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Posting this everywhere til im not obsessed with it anymore
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YouGov did a whole official poll on Americans' views of the middle ages and I’m obsessed
I'm in the 9% of respondents who think that the black death was based
the views on historical figures from the middle ages one is this 90s onion bit irl
Here is a link to a pdf of the poll results:
The results also divide answers by demographics: gender, age, race, politics, and self-reported knowledge of the middle ages.
The middle ages and medievalism became a bit of a cultural-political flashpoint in America in the 2010s, as well as in Europe. Game of Thrones, D&D, and vikings are all huge. Conceptions of race, gender, and multiculturalism in the European middle ages (and in Westeros) are used in arguments about race, gender, and multiculturalism today and how they 'naturally are' or should be. Right-wing memes, logos, and costumes appropriate medieval and viking language and imagery. Fascists throw fits over black people in fantasy fiction. Leftists I've spoken with keep claiming that modern workers have it worse than medieval peasants.
I'm glad to see polls like this are being conducted, and I really want to see more research into all of this.
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This list was created consulting Year in Reviews, Fanlore articles, user feedback, vintage pinterest posts, and my own knowledge. Don't worry about not seeing the shows in their entirety, vote based on your judgement. Enjoy!
I'm grumpy about having work tomorrow, so here is what I did over break to remind myself that the week was pleasant and I did get things done, even if I didn't accomplish the BIG thing I wanted to do:
- Visited relatives in Colorado, including cousins I hadn't seen in over a decade!
- Started and finished a book I'd had forever
- Did a cherry blossom outing with a workfriend
- Saw Tick Tick Boom! for free with a theatrefriend (and emerged even more resolute in my dislike of that other, more famous musical lol)
- Got a massage for the first time in years so my neck doesn't hurt!
- Went to the dentist (ugh)
- Got taxes done (UGH)
- Took 50% of possible cats to the vet
- Saw Monteverdi's Poppea (ft. A+ gender-blind casting) with longtime friends done by the local opera company I like a lot
- Finished most of my grading (a week ahead of schedule!)
- Got to wear the bangles one of my friends got for me and found that they match my salwar kameez perfectly
CHALLENGE FOR UPCOMING WEEK: Finish the last six LBFAD episodes before ABOSAS arrives on Thursday and I inevitably shift back into Hunger Games mode after mainlining that and SOTR.
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Fucked up that we got monday tomorrow
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WHATS HAPPENING
Catching up on grading and 90% of 11-year-olds agree: sometimes violence is the answer.
#one of the questions re: Nelson Mandela was about his switch from nonviolent to armed resistance and whether they agreed or not#and most kids were like ‘yeah if nonviolence isn’t working then you gotta change it up’#and the one dissenter was ‘no bc other people might get hurt’ which I can get behind#hilariously this kid is thee MOST combative kid in the class and the kid most supportive of the switch is the most mild-mannered
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People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I’d pass it on.
I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?
These people seem to get it, though. It’s very simple in places. It’s basically the cookbook for people who think, ‘I’m really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can’t think of anything else to cook that won’t exhaust me’. And it’s free!
SPREAD THE WORD THIS IS FUCKING GOD TIER OH MY GOD, SOMETIMES I HAVE SPOONS SOMETIMES I DON’T BUT NO COOKBOOK OFFERS LEVELS IN THEIR RECIPES THIS ONE DOES!
I got a zine with a similar premise from a local bookshop! There’s a lot of overlap, but this book is missing one of my fave recipes from the zine: Chocolate Pudding (made with tofu so it has PROTEIN for you):
Ingredients:
-Block of uncooked tofu
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/4 cup cocoa powder
Blend it, put it in a container, and refrigerate it. Voila! Breakfast for later! (Blender can be cleaned by putting water and dish soap in it, letting it run for a bit, and then rinsing out the soapy gunk water.)
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Princess Mononoke (1997, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)