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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • As an Irish person it kind of serves them right? Halloween is supposed to be this special, singular, liminal night when the barriers between the mundane and the supernatural are weakest, when dinner is laid out for the spirits of those that died as if you can speak to them there and then. Then the next day it’s gone, and new year starts, cold and bleak at first then warming in temperature and tones.

    Turning it into a month+ of commercialised spooky/sexy stuff just makes it less unique, less Halloween in every way.

    I propose that a new costume night be created, in summer so people can actually wear them, and return Halloween to the darkness it belongs to.


  • The problem is that you don’t know what a pronoun is. You should try writing a sentence with common pronouns first and see if your sentence makes any grammatical sense. For instance “is <name> to understand that…” doesn’t work, because “is me/I to understand” doesn’t work. You would instead say “Am drag to understand”, which while sounding a bit odd is at least actually writing in English.










  • The issue is taking a broad concept and making it mean a very specific one instead.

    (Please note I am an atheist that lived for years in a “Muslim country”. I don’t actually agree with any of the below, but understanding what words are intended to mean is important when you are surrounded by their use in 2 different contexts).

    Fatwa: a Sharia law ruling by an imam

    Fatwa (western): a ruling by an imam that a person is not protected by the law and therefore a target for assassination

    Hijab: men and women of Islam should maintain a sense of visual propriety in order to avoid devaluing what can be seen in private.

    Hijab (western): that cloth Islamic women wear on their head.

    Jihad: the righteous struggles that each human faces to choose a difficult path for good reasons.

    Jihad (western): a holy war of aggression against infidels