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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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dagny-hashtaggart

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

voxette-vk

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

booksandchainmail

according to wikipedia, before

decepticonsensual

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

stele3

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

nyanfaer
eroticcannibal

I know its very trendy on this webbed site to tell people with chronic pain conditions that they should always take painkillers when they feel pain, as soon as they feel pain, and this is a reasonable reaction to moralising about addiction and fear mongering that meds bad

HOWEVER

Its terrible blanket advice. Youre possibly going to have pain forever. It may well get worse as you get older. Many meds (even otc meds) take a toll on your body that can sneak up on you and leave you unable to use them for the rest of your life.

Please take your meds as directed. Please read the leaflet THOROUGHLY. Please talk to your pharmacist. Please look up your meds, look up what people with your condition say about them. Please look up the worst cases of side effects and find out what leads to that. Please question your doctor if you are concerned about side effects because they are NOT always right.

And please learn non-medical pain management techniques and look at what you can change in your life to reduce strain on your body and stress (because stress causes and worsens pain)

You do not want to be like me, not that old, with chronic pain and unable to use any pain relief.

c00kieknight
highlandvalley

The most beautiful footage of strangers dancing in public…
https://twitter.com/Thorayaaa/status/1660180658646568967

kendrixtermina

its like a real life version of that children’s song with the magic bridge that you had to dance across

prismatic-bell

Highlights:

--all the old people
--one dude who starts doing the Cotton-Eye Joe and has the steps on lock
--quinceañera girl with a dress bigger than the circle
--lots of kids but particularly the dude who's doing the helicopter with his little girl
--an entire section of Millennials doing dance moves I recognize, oh the nostalgia

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saywhat-politics
Texas Denied Her Abortion Care. She Threw Up In Court Recalling Her Trauma.
Several Texas women suing the state over what they say are deeply confusing restrictions shared their harrowing stories in court on Wednesda
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Several Texas women suing the state over what they say are deeply confusing restrictions shared their harrowing stories in court on Wednesday.

AUSTIN, Texas — At a courthouse in Texas, the same state where the seed of nationwide abortion access was planted more than 50 years ago, a group of women once again stood up to share their gripping and emotional experiences of being denied abortion care.

One woman vomited on the stand as she recalled the stress of remaining pregnant for months while knowing her baby could never survive outside the womb. Many observers seated in the courtroom had tears in their eyes throughout the day.

Like others around the country, pregnant Texans have faced an intimidating legal landscape since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its decision in Roe v. Wade last summer. On Wednesday, several of the women currently suing the state of Texas over its severe abortion restrictions appeared at the Travis County Civil and Family Courthouse to oppose the state’s motion to dismiss their case.

Backed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the group petitioned the court for an injunction against Texas abortion law, which forbids the procedure except in very narrow cases when the pregnant patient’s life is imminently at risk. The group ultimately aims to clarify the scope of the law, which went into effect shortly after Roe fell. Another state anti-abortion law gives regular citizens the ability to sue their neighbors over pregnancy termination.

Several of the women in the lawsuit, filed in March, faced similar diagnoses that meant their children would not develop a proper skull and brain tissue. They say their doctors were unable to provide adequate care, their hands tied by state law.

“I had to watch my baby suffer,” plaintiff Samantha Casiano said Wednesday, sobbing. She was not able to abort the pregnancy in Texas because the fetus still had a heartbeat, and instead carried the sick child to term earlier this year.