Chad Vindin

@RokoMijic Singing in my Peter Allen voice: "Wales is deprived, it's a thrice-conquered straggler, turn your head..."

(Trigger warning: Minor Infohazard for people from the UK. You can't unsee this once you've seen it) Almost nobody in England actually knows this, and those who do wouldn't put it in such crude terms but the ethnogenesis story of Britain is basically that the Welsh invited the Anglo-Saxons into Britain to help them kill the Scots but the Anglo-Saxons decided to stay, fought the Welsh and ended up taking the Eastern Half of Southern-Central Britain and now we call those people The English, confining The Welsh to Wales and Cornwall (and yes there was a decent amount of mixing along the way). Oh and then the whole lot of them got conquered by the Normans, who we think of as "French" but they're not actually French they're a type of Viking (Norman = Norseman = Northman), likely from Western Norway. There were also some less successful Danish raids along the way that resulted in substantial Danish settlement in the North. England (and later, Britain) is a Scandinavian country created from the ashes of Roman-Celtic Britain. The chaddish Normans kind of became the upper class, the Saxons became the middle class and the Celts and assorted stragglers are the chavs. Of course it all got mixed over time so these distinctions are very blurred. You can put this viewpoint on like a set of x-ray vision goggles when you walk through England (and least the parts of it that remain somewhat white) and things make more sense. - Why is Wales always deprived? -- Because the Welsh are thrice-conquered stragglers, once by the Romans, once by the Saxons (English) and then finally by the Normans. - Why is all the money in the Southeast? -- Because that's where the Romans and then Normans set up their regime. - Why did the government pass laws in the 1950s to make it illegal for Birmingham to grow? -- Because Birmingham is a Saxon place. Brummies are Saxons. The Nobility/regime live in London and they don't want any other region (=ethnic group) to threaten the dominance of London - Why is Cornwall kind of like a different country even though technically it's just as English as Bicester or Essex? -- Because Cornwall is full of Celts. The Saxons never really colonized that part and of course the Normans didn't - the Normans were only ever about 1% of the population. It's like Wales' Southern half. Hence it is full of these thrice-conquered people, lower class, unconnected, and until surprisingly recently with their own language. The Celtic elite were slaughtered by the Romans in AD60, then the Anglo-Saxon Elite escaped to Byzantium after William The Conqueror conquered England in 1066. So most of the people in England, Wales and Cornwall come from these conquered populations, leaving only a primarily Norman Elite who cluster around The Home Counties and London. Of course I should stress that these populations have all mixed so much that almost nobody is a pureblood of any of these groups, but the fault lines remain. Why don't the London Elite care when the brown immigrants r@pe lower class girls? Well, to some extent it's because they don't see those lower class girls as being of their own kin, they see them as a Celtic/Saxon slave caste and therefore their lives and virtue are not worth anything. Then they disguise this motivation as "antiracism" or something so it's more socially acceptable.

@lottebettsdean Heathcliff is a murderous psychopath who destroys everyone's lives and starves his own child to death. His obsession is a bug, not a feature. There's no love and certainly no romance, people inexplicably choose to see romance in it

@ChadVindin Haaaha wow. I saw one take that thought perhaps it’s Margot self-inserting herself into an imagination of it while reading it (!) What do you think the story rly is/Why do you think people who like this story can’t see it for what it is?

the big diff is that Baz’s R&J is fundamentally very true to the text but sets it in a completely different space/time. it seems (SEEMS!!! From the trailer/pics) like what EF has done is set it in the space/time of the original but then gets details wrong? I remain confused

@lottebettsdean My naughty take is that anyone who likes this story can't see it for what it is, so the only way to portray it is to also not see it for what it is, so in that sense, she is serving the audience's story, not the author's

@ChadVindin a very good point!! But this is an existing text that is filled with detail and is a product of its time/place so to ignore (or appear) big things about class and race in it, let alone the details, feels a bit odd. That being said the trailer was genuinely enticing and weird

@hyusapx This looks amazing- where can I find it?

like, follow, or rt if you like this and want to see more

it even began understanding chemistry

@lottebettsdean I love these sorts of details!

transliterating Irish into my own nonsense language (as you do) and suddenly realised that the ICONIC noughties track ‘Sleepyhead’ by Passion Pit samples Mary O’Hara’s recording of ‘Óró mo Bhádín’ MY WORLDS AND LIFE ERAS ARE COLLIDING faaaar out wow

@flynnslick Tabloid by Errol Morris is one of my all time faves. The Imposter by Bart Layton Raw Deal by Billy Corben

Drop the best documentary that you’ve seen. One that blew your mind and you couldn’t stop thinking about for weeks. I want something that will break my brain.

@Komaniecki_R Definitely a better term than the "Scotch snap".

Never heard “negative swing” used to describe that rhythm but it makes perfect sense and the visualization is great. Pedagogy!!

All languages covey information at a similar rate when spoken (39bits/s). Languages that are spoken faster have less information density per syllable! One of the coolest results in linguistics.

Instead of saying "you have to practice to get better", I've got an aerials instructor who says "whatever you do is what you'll get better at". I love the reframing.

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Scientists are figuring out that birds talk to each other through song. I bet there have been birds who heard some of Messiaen's music and thought "oh that's completely inaccessible"

lol

Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch

The paradox of poetry and information theory

Oh the discourse! Saul Bellow in 1973

The London Review of Books has evidently hired a classy shit-poster to do their social media, and I'm all in

Learning that some people in Dorset, England, still say “thou bist” (like German 𝘥𝘶 𝘣𝘪𝘴𝘵, Old English 𝘵𝘩𝘶 𝘣𝘪𝘴𝘵) instead of “you are.”

@pulseonapath this is fascinating to read from London where all the tertiary institutions have trimesters, and the third term is usually just 2 or 3 weeks of classes before exams start. Not really sure which is better but I suppose here it does fit around the summer festivals (and the weather)

Gosh - never saw this coming… 🙄 smh.com.au/national/nsw/a…

@wyatt_privilege love the vibey use of Chopin at the end

Everybody quotes the “just one more thing” from Columbo, but gags like this are a million times better. Just roll credits on his stupid ass blubbering trying to get out of it