#pander — Public Fediverse posts

It's a circuitous route via Greek, Latin, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (and others) to get from Pandaros in the Iliad to "pander" in English.

#TheIliad #Greek #Latin #Boccaccio #Chaucer #Shakespeare #Pandaros #pander #etymology

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/21/how-an-obscure-character-in-the-iliad-gave-us-the-english-word-pander/

It's a circuitous route via Greek, Latin, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (and others) to get from Pandaros in the Iliad to "pander" in English.

#TheIliad #Greek #Latin #Boccaccio #Chaucer #Shakespeare #Pandaros #pander #etymology

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/21/how-an-obscure-character-in-the-iliad-gave-us-the-english-word-pander/

It's a circuitous route via Greek, Latin, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (and others) to get from Pandaros in the Iliad to "pander" in English.

#TheIliad #Greek #Latin #Boccaccio #Chaucer #Shakespeare #Pandaros #pander #etymology

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/21/how-an-obscure-character-in-the-iliad-gave-us-the-english-word-pander/

It's a circuitous route via Greek, Latin, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (and others) to get from Pandaros in the Iliad to "pander" in English.

#TheIliad #Greek #Latin #Boccaccio #Chaucer #Shakespeare #Pandaros #pander #etymology

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/21/how-an-obscure-character-in-the-iliad-gave-us-the-english-word-pander/

It's a circuitous route via Greek, Latin, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare (and others) to get from Pandaros in the Iliad to "pander" in English.

#TheIliad #Greek #Latin #Boccaccio #Chaucer #Shakespeare #Pandaros #pander #etymology

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2025/12/21/how-an-obscure-character-in-the-iliad-gave-us-the-english-word-pander/

Top ten (new) posts in November 2024

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/12/01/top-ten-new-posts-in-november-2024/

#alanMoore #America #bestTen #blood #book #charlesStansfeldJones #conservative #evangelical #facts #fear #fraterAchad #good #hermes #knowingly #knowledge #lilith #magic #magick #medievalIberia #mistletoe #moralPanic #moralityTale #mostlyWhite #music #November2024 #occultArts #omniumGatherum #paganism #pander #Prejudice #quote #reject #satanicPanic #Spanish #sun #topPosts #topTen #truth #unpardonable #willfully #wisdomTradition

The #Irony! #AmberRose #Accuses #KamalaHarris Of Using #MeganTheeStallion To #Pander To #Black #Folks.

The #Slutwalk #organizer decided to share her thoughts on #AdinRoss‘ #livestream.

https://www.theroot.com/the-irony-amber-rose-accuses-kamala-harris-of-using-me-1851613067

#Trump #Attorneys Try To #Pander To #Corrupt #Conservative #Justice #BrettKavanaugh, #Fail

How #embarrassing for them.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/03/trump-attorneys-try-to-pander-to-justice-kavanaugh-fail/

Carissa had multiple online storefronts for her cupcakes. If you clicked on "Love Is Love," you got rainbow cupcakes and enby dinosaurs; if you clicked on "Men In Blue," you got thin-blue-line cupcakes; if you clicked on "V For," you got cupcakes in anarchist colors, and so on.

"How can you #pander so shamelessly?" demanded her roommate.

"It's not pandering, it's *catering*," Carissa insisted. "I'm catering to a diverse clientele, that's all."

#wss366, #microfiction

"Thanks for bringing us to the Bestiary, David," Zaza said.
The Better Angels wore sundresses walking through a surreal landscape populated by biological androids that replicated wild animals from across the galaxy.
"You're welcome! These places always seem a little weird & unnatural to me. Rather than educating the public, they merely…"
"#Pander!" shrieked Bebe.
"… That's what I was going to say," said David.
"No! Pander!" she screamed, pointing.
"I'm a panda," said the panda. "你好!"

#wss366

Breaking Down Kenya's Class War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRp1dbwaqh0&ab_channel=red.

As anti-government protests resume in Kenya watch Communist Party of Kenya National Vice Chairperson Booker Ngesa Omole argue that:

Kenya only has 'two tribes' the 'haves and have-nots' and that the 'war we have in our country is a class war'.

Booker also blasts President William Ruto for his decision to cut subsidies to Kenyans living in poverty as well as the subservience of the bourgeois Kenyan political class to international capitalist institutions like the IMF and The World Bank.
#Kenya #ClassWar #IMF #WorldBank #Impoverishment #Division #Neocolonialism #politicians #pander

@xinicit At first I thought you wrote, “I don’t write jokes that PANDA.” Oh, I’m sorry, did I put this here?
#Panda #Pander
#Pandermonium