Just watched a tiktok with the phrase ‘you’ve heard of blue hair and pronouns, get ready for green hair and no nouns’ and I FULLY heard it as blue heron/ green heron and had to loop it twice before I realized that there was not, in fact, wading bird gender controversy.
Under the heron gender scheme, I think I fall under either green heron or least bittern. 🤔
Under the SAVE plan, as long as borrowers make their monthly payments, interest will not accumulate. With previous plans, borrowers with low or $0 payments — too low to cover their monthly interest charge — saw that interest accrue. Now, the government says, that won’t happen.
The department says that under the old plan, borrowers repaid, on average, $10,956 for every $10,000 they borrowed. Under the new plan, they would pay back just $6,121.
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Borrowers can now apply at studentaid.gov/SAVE . In an announcement video, President Biden assured borrowers that the application will take “10 minutes.”
The program allows borrowers to opt in to a feature that allows the Education Department to access their tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service. This will allow the department to automatically recertify borrowers’ enrollment every year, so they don’t have to keep applying and updating.
The administration is urging borrowers to apply soon because, after three years of pause extensions, student loan payments are set to resume in October, with interest starting to accrue in September.
If you have a qualifying student loan and sign up for this program, they will calculate a monthly payment for you based on your income and family size. As long as you make that payment each month, you will not accumulate more interest. Up to a million borrowers may qualify for $0 loan payments.
Here are the estimated payments based on income and family size:
And also:
Borrowers with original principal balances of $12,000 or less will receive forgiveness of any remaining balance after making ten years of payments, with the maximum repayment period before forgiveness rising by one year for every additional $1,000 borrowed. For example, if your original principal balance is $14,000, you will see forgiveness after 12 years. Payments made previously (before 2024) and those made from now on will count toward these maximum forgiveness timeframes.
The website says that most borrowers who apply in august should see these benefits on their october bills, so they’re encouraging people to sign up as soon as possible.
Just watched a tiktok with the phrase ‘you’ve heard of blue hair and pronouns, get ready for green hair and no nouns’ and I FULLY heard it as blue heron/ green heron and had to loop it twice before I realized that there was not, in fact, wading bird gender controversy.
none of them can drive so they’re just in the back of your honda civic trying to give you directions and asking you to change the radio station.
tell me in the tags who you’re making sit middle seat and who gets shotgun.
okay, here’s my rubric:
-no shouting. Arguments are fine as long as they stay quiet.
-I need at least one person who can read a map and/or navigate in a meaningful way
-No bitching about stopping for bathroom breaks or pulling over at a state park to stretch our legs
-at least one person who’s willing to help me change my car tire if needed. They don’t need to know how, just be willing to get sweaty and dirty without too much griping.
Shouting disqualifies both Finwian family groups, and of the two remaining… I’m taking the Iathrim. Beleg and Mablung get to take turns navigating in shotgun, and I also trust both of them with a tire emergency. Luthien and Daeron take turns sitting in the middle. All four have to teach me to be better at bird identification in repayment.
make this poll and then immediately had to follow the impulse to make it worse. same rules apply: you’re driving and you have to figure out who gets middle seat in the back and who’s shotgun
She got both of their stories and punched and made fun of them until they put her back with the living just to get her to leave them alone. She promised to not reveal what they said but her fingers were crossed so
Rachel: And then I was like, ‘you only interfere with species for their own good, huh? Toomin, you and Crayak are the same fucking person and you even have the same delusion.’
Tobias: Hey, if you’re right you’re right.
Rachel: So he got all butthurt about that, but I pointed out that Crayak and Lackofa were the same, and Toomin and Lackofa share exactly one brain cell…
Tobias: Lackofa what?
Rachel: Yeah, no, that’s also on the extremely long list of unanswered questions, but anyway, it’s like I said to Father when he dropped in…
Do y'all think Maedhros at some point realized that the age gap between him and his father was smaller than the age gap between him and Curufin? Do you think, beating at the edges of his mind, the thought ever came that he was hundreds upon hundreds of years older than his father ever lived to be? If so, we know he never faced that thought fully. An elf who throws himself into a volcano clutching his father’s goal even as it sears his flesh cannot be said to have critically reevaluated his father’s wisdom. What a bitter end, that an elf with so much experience, who had seen so much, would repeat his father’s mistakes with eyes wide open rather then relinquish a shred of that legacy. There is something there that parallels Feanor zealously safeguarding Miriel’s legacy. This is not a family that knows how to let go.
it’s interesting how in the popular imagination, middle-aged and older women are often considered entitled, annoying bitches whose feminism is outdated and manners nonexistent. these women are supposedly holding back progress and just being insufferable nags and hags in general. meanwhile, many NGOs—from animal shelters to soup kitchens, from rape crisis centres to rescue dog associations, from suicide hotlines to crime victim support services—actually rely on the unpaid labour of middle-aged and older women, who are very much overrepresented among their volunteers. often, these organisations are desperate to attract more men and young people, and some even have specific programmes to reach out to potential volunteers from those demographics! in the meantime, though: need someone to wash the remnants of an oil spill off a bird’s plumage? accompany a victim of human trafficking to a hearing? sort through a pile of donations to refugees? time to call those middle-aged and older women to do their unpaid and underappreciated work.
The Passing of a Mother Beyond the World is a surviving play by an exilic noldorin playwright about three mortal siblings dealing with the tragic and inevitable deaths of both of their parents in old age. The play is a fascinating cultural artifact, both for its reflection of the cultural anxieties of the noldor in exile, and for its very clear lack of interest in how mortals act or think. The siblings range widely in age—the eldest has an adult son of her own, while her youngest brother is a child, apparently conceived when his parents were octegenarians. All of their ages are left vague. Their mother is on her deathbed, and all three expect that their father will not survive the night in his grief.
The family is compellingly written in their grief. The play covers only the day and the night before the death of their mother, as they cry, fight, and attempt to comfort each other. There is nothing glaringly inaccurate about the portrayal of bereavement—only a lingering sense of strangeness in the shock and desperation of it. Surely, a mortal audience might think, they were expecting this? Did they not discuss, for example, who would take care of the youngest child (the subject of a fight in the second act)? They seem surprised and devastated, like a family reeling from a sudden illness or a violent death, rather than the peaceful passing of their elderly parents.
In the final scene, the adult grandchild of the dead couple seems to realize that his mother will also die, and they share the final scene in the play. She comforts him, and the play ends with mother and son sitting together in silence—mirroring the first scene, a peaceful morning in the now dead parents bedroom.
This play seems to be a reflection of the cultural anxieties of the exilic noldor—of a newly doomed culture discovering tragedy and death. The unexpectedness of it, the violence of their grief, even the father dying with his wife, all reflect a distinctly elven and exilic view of death and mourning. The playwright projects these fears outwards, making them more palatable by writing about the mortal children of a dying mortal couple—a safer choice for an elven audience.
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