Upon his arrest, he gave a voluntary statement to police. When confronted with the Tumblr messages and asked if he were aroused by them, he replied, ‘I mean, in a way, it’s hard not to be.’

Despite pleading guilty to the charges, Keenan maintained that he is not sexually attracted to children, and had only stumbled upon the child pornography [sic] in 2017 while “searching for other images such as sunsets and beaches,” according to the decision.

Keenan said [he] was appalled by what he found, and decided to start a Tumblr blog to lure out paedophiles so he could report them to the site’s moderators in a kind of “undercover sting.”

I’ve incidentally been working on a whole future fiction project showing the world as it will look by the end of the century. A lot of my predictions feel kinda boring and predictable and maybe a little inappropriate for this comm — stuff about wars and climate change and so forth — but I still have a few more fun or interesting predictions:

1. The first complete human language to develop naturally in the Antarctic will be a sign language native to King George Island.
2. Speaking of sign languages, many popular anime shows and movies will be remade in them.
3. Esperanto will become one of the world’s most widely-spoken languages.
4. The Internet will collapse on itself and be replaced with a “Second Internet”.
5. A bridge over the Bering Strait will be built.
6. A permanent moon base will also be built, under the administration of the UN’s successor.

And I could mention a number of other predictions, particularly about the future language landscape of the world — but at the same time I don’t know to what extent I can call these “calling it now” predictions, anyways.

The few points I’d bring up are:

1. If you want to reach a high level of proficiency you should basically be in love with the language. If you’re forcing yourself to do something, learning it won’t come as easily.
2. You should use a diversity of tactics, experiment, and find what works best for you.
3. Comprehensible input is a very good idea. There are different standards for what makes for the best comprehensible input, but I would say you should focus on finding songs, books, comics, shows and movies etc where you can still get something out of them even if you don’t understand everything, and beyond that learn not to expect to understand everything. Being around L1s can also be very helpful, but it depends on how you make use of their input.
4. Define what you actually want to get out of your language learning by setting realistic goals. If you want to learn a new language because you hear it makes you less likely to get dementia later in life, then you might prefer a more game-y or puzzle-y approach. If you’re interested in translating into your first language, then focus on understanding input more than generating output. And so forth.

Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers’ voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.

Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.

This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say “graduate computer science”. To me it reads more like commanding someone to “quit computer science!”, more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, “to complete one’s education in computer science”.

Sometimes you see a headline like this and you just have to stop for a moment and reflect on how mindboggling it is that genocidality could become so popular in a society. The fact is of course that this is the character of every genocide in history: genocides only happen if most people in a society passively or actively accept them. But when oneself is so far removed from that cultural context that enables this most horrible of crimes to happen, it becomes difficult to even fathom how a society could end up in a situation where one could meet ten people in the dominant group and find that nine of them want the marginalized group — largely children no less! — reduced to bags of nondescript red mush. Even the tenth person is probably still incredibly racist and a tacit supporter of genocide, just not an active supporter of it.

It feels cliché to mention how Zionist settlers are themselves to a pretty large extent descended from the survivors of pogroms and one of the worst genocides in human history, because the apparent irony of that is just not what makes the genocidality of so-called “Jewish” “Israelis” so horrifying, revolting, and tragic. People are not their great-grandparents, and Zionists, although they use Jewish aesthetics, are still a product of the cultural climate of Anglo settlerism and German volkism more than they are a product of anything Jewish. The Zionist settlers are, in a word, “not Jews”.

No, this is a human matter, not an ethnoreligious one. It’s a matter of me expecting to be able to look a member of my own species in the eyes and see a soul capable of empathy; all human beings are after all cousins if you go back far enough, and I would gladly welcome anyone as my own family. So even if people’s actions hurt others, I like to believe that people are largely just misguided and could be set on a better path, that people simply mean well but don’t always know how to do well.

But Zionists, in the way they talk, in the way they act, in the lack of any brightness in their eyes, there is just… no humanity left. Whatever humanity the Zionist settlers had was “left at the door” like shoes and coats when they decided to become settlers, and they’ll put their shoes and coats back on when the wretched, moribund system they benefit from finally collapses on them, which will be soon, God willing. And perhaps then, and only then, to paraphrase my own favorite ex-Zionist, ĉiu vidos en sia proksimulo nur homon kaj fraton.everyone will see in their neighbor only a man and a brother.

Yes, the app Xiaohongshu, also known as Rednote. Although originally aimed at people in China, the app saw a brief flash of popularity in Seppoland/USA after TikTok was banned.

It seems highly unlikely.

Trump is speedrunning his Tokugawa Shogunate arc, many people are saying this

Putting the Felix in “O Felix Roma”

Oh, I see, so you misunderstood the title of the article. Honestly though that would be AWESOME for real. It would make for a good party name or something, too.

In Norwegian it is known as Landsorganisasjonenthe National Organization iin NorgeNorway, hence the abbreviation LO.

Holy shit LITERALLY the Spitting Image “my God, man, what do you think you wiped your feet on when you came in?!” bit

What would the world be like if even a fraction of the creative energy that Zionist freaks have thus far spent on their constant stream of surreal, nightmarish new ways to destroy, degrade and humiliate the Palestinian people, was instead spent on actually making a better world?

More properly the airport continued to be known as Lod Airport until 1973, when old “Ben Gurion” finally kicked the bucket. This is indeed why the famous attack on the airport by the Japanese Red Army in 1972 is referred to as the “Lod Airport massacre” — the airport was officially still called Lod Airport at the time.

Presumably 11 PM CET or 5 PM EDT like last time.

Due to the delay, we’re watching part 2 on Sunday, if you’d like to join then!

Apparently Blorptube is migrating to a new host tonight, so depending on whether that whole process gets done by like, I dunno, 1 AM CET, you might get your wish!

Edit: Blorptube is back!

You might as well. If it goes poorly then surely you can just get rid of it later, right?

Wanna form a neolithic comedy duo with me?

The first thing to come to mind is “The Virus” by The Halluci Nation. I can’t guarantee that I’m not misunderstanding the question or whether this will be to your liking, but yeah. It’s got some heavy themes around Indigenous history and current issues, but shining through the whole song is a message of hope, pride and resilience, which only enhances the bass drop.