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Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space, Are you a drift Sargasso, where the West in halcyon calm rebuilds her fatal nest? Or Delos of a coming Sun-God’s race? Are you for Light, & trimmed, with oil in place, Or but a Will o’Wisp on marshy quest? A new demesne for ….🧵

@datingbyblaine Lol. Would they accept a Fash-bird?

Dating criteria I hear often from wealthy matchmaking clients: • Thin, pretty, natural look (e.g. no obvious facial fillers) • Fit, healthy relationship with food & gym • Has an actual career (specifics rarely important) • Warm, playful, feminine energy • No extreme political views

@KerstinJanss @colingorrie I notice it in advertising copy or promotional materials in which “du” is more often used. In Australia pretty much the only people who are addressed as Mr/Miss/Ms/Mrs X nowadays are school teachers. University lecturers almost invariably not Dr X but given name only.

@BunyipRedux @colingorrie Yeah they do, especially when they are not on the same level of hierarchy or age. But you are right, young people go for „du“, mostly, with their perceived peers.

If I could wave a magic wand and banish one misconception about Shakespeare’s English, it would be that "thou" is just old-fashioned "you." What "thou" actually meant was: this is not a neutral relationship. You'd use "thou" with God in prayer and a criminal in the stockade.

@JillCo @Kelburn1975 People get used to what they’re used to & if they’ve had some proportion of their experiences of children in public being noxious then the fact that yours were well behaved won’t stop them being resentful of their presence. Still, it’s for the best if such folk don’t multiply.😉

My children were not misbehaving at all. A whimper and a louder laugh is "badly behaved?" The adults in the restaurant were much louder than my children. Absolutely ridiculous judgement. Anyways, this is not a post about children acting out in a restaurant. Your reading comprehension is poor. This is about the sheer contempt that exists from many childless people towards children in general.

Today I went to a chic coffee shop with my 3 children (I'm a latte addict personally). I walked in - and not even one person had a child and everyone was staring at us. I could sense the annoyance around us when my baby starting whimpering to come out of his stroller and my 4 year old was laughing just a little too loud. It wasn't imagined either - I could feel the negative energy around me. I'm noticing a lot of spaces are becoming very anti-child. It's not just restaurants at dinner any longer. It's everywhere - grocery stores, libraries, swimming pools, etc. because so many people don't have kids and don't want them (*ancestor cry*). It's like the presence of a baby or child is very off-putting for the childless - simply out of their own contempt. A society that hates children is a society with no future at all. It's a dead zone with soulless people only existing.

@JillCo Please have more!

@KerstinJanss @DPOSTS2 Both are idiomatic, although your preferrred option is more grammatically correct. “Sam denied cheating in exams” - a pattern of behaviour vs “..denied having cheated in THE exams” - a completed event

@DPOSTS2 I like „having cheated“, but since it’s not there, I go for B)„cheating“

Sam denied ______ in the exam. A) cheat B) to cheat C) cheating

@paddymacc1 @blackbird9_9 BIGOT!! 🙃

I have a problem with someone who lives in a 95-Bedroom mansion sitting on 175 acres of manicured gardens telling me that unlimited migration into Ireland is a positive thing and we must welcome all of them, even if it means reducing the State pension and other welfare supports

@NancyRPearcey This is largely true, at least in relation to agricultural work which occupied the majority of people, although men would mostly be working outside in the paddocks whilst women’s work was focused around the homestead. They might or might not have a midday meal together.

Even the concept of "toxic masculinity" grew out of the industrial revolution. Before that, most men worked with their wives and children all day, on the family farm, the family industry, the family business. Surprisingly, most of the literature on parenting and childrearing was addressed to fathers. Today if you go to a bookstore, most of them are for mothers. But in the colonial era, fathers were just as involved with their children as mothers were. Historian John Gillis writes: “Not only artisans and farmers but also business and professional men conducted much of their work in the house, assisted by their wives and children. They all ate and prayed together; they got up and went to bed on the same schedule. . . . Men “were as comfortable in the kitchen as women, for they had responsibility for provisioning and managing the house." We talk about housewives, but they also talked about housefathers. The cultural expectation on men focused on their caretaking role. Masculine virtue was defined as “Duty to God and Man.” How did we lose this concept of masculine virtue? The Industrial Revolution took work out of the home. Men had little choice but to follow their work into factories and offices. For the first time, men were no longer working with their family--people they loved and had a moral bond with. Instead, they were working as individuals in competition with other men—a very different work environment. In the literature of the time, people began to protest that men were changing—they were losing the caretaking ethos of the colonial age. They were becoming ego-centric, self-interested, aggressive, greedy, acquisitive, even turning financial success into an “idol.” This is when we first see negative language applied to the male character.

The kind of man who used to call Lakemba home...

@I32621242 @KerstinJanss @colingorrie Newspeak.

@KerstinJanss @colingorrie For any language that has the difference: French, Russian etc But that has its downsides, I think modern English is more convenient for talking (introduction at least): no gender, no need to ask the question you mentioned - everyone is called you, you can't mess it up

@KerstinJanss @colingorrie It seems to me that “du” has become the default form, at least when dealing with people under forty. Do people really still ask this question & if so do they have a preliminary period of using “Sie”?

@colingorrie Reading Shakespeare comes quite naturally to Germans, for a familiar (not polite) „you“, we have „du“, „dir“, „dich“ and „dein“. And with strangers, we first ask wether we can „thou“ (duzen) them.

@colingorrie Neutral relationships didn’t exist. “Thou” was used in both familiar relationships & when speaking to a clear subordinate or pupil. The formulation was abandoned in English during the 18th century but persisted in Europe until v. recently. Marxists deem it counter-revolutionary

@maybern1 @michaelcurzi @koo_doo2 I said two CENTURIES from 1945. What I meant is that in 120 years time the man of the future looks set to (ie will probably) inhabit Europe. Of prominent Afro-Asian descent he will be nothing like the Europeans of Vercingetorix’s nor of Napoleon’s time.

@BunyipRedux @michaelcurzi @koo_doo2 1945 Add 2000 years Are you in the 3945 year writing ?. About Europe ???.

I'm listening to Plutarch & he starts the life of Pericles with a basically unrelated ramble about how certain women buy 'puppies and young monkeys' instead of having children. Truly nothing is new under the sun

@Ethosrevival MOTHERS ORGANIZE family life and CARE for the development of the next generation, meaning THEY ARE major CONTRIBUTORS to the continuation of culture and tradition.” You used THEY ARE to refer to the singular MOTHER. This is Newspeak.

@BunyipRedux What is the plural of she?

Traditionally, the European man represents the household in external affairs, and additionally provides material support for the family. The mother organizes family life and cares for the development of the next generation, meaning they are a major contributor to the continuation of culture and tradition. Man and woman have two different, but interconnected, roles which must be recognized in a healthy society.

Meet Brandon. Brandon gave a patriotic, anti-mass-migration speech in Australia on Australia Day. He was immediately arrested, with no bail, a fast-tracked 23 day justice process (no time to prepare a legal defence), and 12 months jail at the end of it. He started his prison sentence less than 2 weeks after his arrest. His crime? He called a certain group "enemies of Australia". He used some hurty words. He was arrested by an ethnic Indian police officer. Meanwhile, a non-white trans lunatic detonated an actual bomb at the Melbourne Exhibition & Conference Centre. He had 28 more bombs at his home when they searched it. He got bail, a 15 month legal process, and no jail time at the end. This story is the story of Australia, Canada, and the UK. The Anglosphere has descended into anarcho-tyranny, with the tyranny enforced by foreign police.

@Resist_05 Just 1 month ago, Brandan Koschel was given a year in jail in Australia for saying "Jews are the greatest enemy to this nation". Today, a Jewish paedophile, who pleaded guilty to raping a 10yr old boy, walks free from an Australian court with no jail time. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…

Message from a German friend: Germany is over. If you have time, read the following post from Reddit. Bear in mind, Germany's only resource was always education and good institutions. r/DePi Experiences as a teacher at a school with a high proportion of refugees - it is even worse than you think Hello everyone, I studied mathematics and am currently working as a secondary school teacher in the Ruhr area, partly due to the current precarious labor market situation. The proportion of refugees at my school, as at many other schools here in the region, is quite high. Most refugees are taught in separate integration classes, as integration into regular classes is simply not possible due to the desolate level of education. I teach two such integration classes several times a week and just wanted to share my experiences with you here. Even before starting my current job, I was extremely critical of the current migration, but my experiences in the teaching profession make my worst fears at the time seem like a benevolent utopia. For context: A large proportion of the integration classes consist of Marrocans born in Spain, but Syrians, Afghans and Roma are also strongly represented. The rest is a wild potpourri of Ukrainians and refugees from other Arab or Muslim countries such as Lebanon or Somalia. One class consists mainly of younger students between 11 and 13 years of age, the other class consists mainly of teenagers around 16 years of age. Now a small summary of my observations: In about half of the classes there is no significant literacy in their own language, just over half understand, even after years in the local school system, in about as good a German as I understand Mandarin. At least in math (I can only judge the other subjects to a very limited extent), the level of education is an absolute fiasco, even among older students. Truly the simplest arithmetic problems (5+6 or 7-4) are already very difficult. The cause often seems to be cognitive, because even if I illustrate the numbers with objects, many students are unable to solve corresponding tasks. It is currently Ramadan. Ukrainian students who do not fast must leave the room if they want to have a drink or eat. On the one hand, this is a rule imposed by the classes themselves, but on the other hand it is also tolerated or even actively supported by large parts of the other teaching staff and the social worker. Some male students refuse to sit next to female students for religious reasons. This is also tolerated. Fights are commonplace and that is no exaggeration. In fact, there is at least one fight almost every day. There are no properly maintained school folders or generally a careful handling of school materials. Most come to class wearing only the clothes they wear on their bodies. About half of the class with the older students is always delayed by at least 10 minutes at the first lesson, or sometimes 20 or 30 minutes. Even after the breaks, the class is actually only 10 minutes late each time. During Ramadan, also tolerated by other school staff, a good proportion sleep regularly in class by placing their head on the table. Female students are regularly labeled with highly obscene terms. The punishment of such statements either does not take place at all or is so restrained that repetition is encouraged. On parent-teacher conferences, 90 percent of parents, even after several years of residence in Germany, can only communicate via interpreters. A few days ago, some students proudly told me what new cell phone models their siblings and parents have, which, mind you, receive almost exclusively transfer payments. Female colleagues generally have it more difficult than my gender counterparts, who are usually at least rudimentarily respected. Some students often do not show up at school for months without apology. A rejection of other religions is very clear in many situations. For group work in other subjects that spans weeks, the results have a scope that can be achieved by those with normal abilities within five minutes. There is no mixing with other students. You like to keep to yourself. Even among refugees, groups usually form according to their respective origins. With all the negative impressions, there are a few positive experiences. A handful of students are actually making an effort and progress. These students are also the only reason why work doesn't seem completely pointless. I myself try to counteract this to the best of my ability, but this is hardly possible if there is no support from the staff and the school administration. I have already capitulated on some points because a corresponding commitment only breaks your nerves without changing anything. Many of the older students are leaving our education system anytime soon, and with that, the state is losing pretty much the only way to exert any influence. I fear that the situation in other schools often looks little better. This leads us to send school leavers into the wild year after year who neither write, read nor master the most basic primary school mathematics. Such people are not fit for any kind of work and are doomed to languish in our welfare system for life. Muslim and African students, in particular, often have an absurd number of siblings by German standards. If one assumes that this reproduction rate will not break with the current generation, but perhaps even increase given the fantastic conditions here in Germany compared to their countries of origin (not for locals, but certainly for people from countries with a per capita GDP of $800), the problems are compounded exponentially. I lack any imagination as to how the catastrophe that lies ahead could be averted in any way, and this is increasingly frustrating me. Just wanted to share this with you. Thanks to those who stuck with it until the end of the text and gave themselves my whining.

@ClarkeMicah @BigThickSlices m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzkbou…

This is pure delight and for me especially so, as Elizabeth Jane Howard's manner of speaking has now entirely disappeared, and (though it couldn't survivve in this age) I remember people speaking in this way in the normal course of things, and miss it so much.

Israeli Rabbi- YOSSI MIZRAHI: “Less than 3 Million Jews were killed in the Holocaust”. Most evidence points to less than 1 Million & most died of Louse-borne typhus in the camps.

@SussexHenryVIII Mistresses are a royal prerogative as you should recall.

I don't know who needs to hear this - but Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip lived in separate palaces for the last 20+ years of their lives and Philip's alleged longtime mistress was one of the 30 guests at his funeral. Oh and his will is sealed for like 200 years.