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good morning! today is doll maintenance day :neobot_cute:

if you don't know what that means, allow this image to help guide your thoughts

It is "close your old accounts and delete your data" winter. So you know what that means. Yep, you read the previous sentence, so you know.

Kid has drawn a fearsome bug army and unleashed them upon his homework

The New York Times is giving a murder their “both-sides” treatment. What the hell is the matter with you?!? Someone kills a person with their car, and your reaction is to be like, “Some people think murder is bad, but others don’t like bike lanes, so 🤷‍♂️.”

*girl proposing to another girl* do you wanna be friends and roommates?

i steal jokes from white women and say them louder. when a man does it, that's misogyny. but when i do it, that's reparations baby

Be prepared for the slew of disinformation on Syria coming from "leftists", people who know nothing about the country & those who use the same geopolitcal lens to view every event.
We never faced solidarity with our struggle for liberation - we were either slandered or ignored

youtube.com/watch?v=nbafT2w0cC feels like a parody of england. like "Oh, we used to throw scalding pennies at the poor, but now it's a fun tradition"

Dr. Taylor Jones released a video about untranslatable words. basically the point of the video was "there's no such thing as an untranslateable word, you can always just use more words for it, but also, every word in every language has a unique semantic and conotative associations and as such every word is untranslateable.
I wrote a comment that I also want to share here.
https://youtu.be/6h84uWYWbhM

TLDR: i'd consider names for days of the week untranslateable between languages that don't start their work week on the same day.
my L1 is Hebrew. in Hebrew, all weekdays except for שבת have a cardinal number as their name. Sunday is literally called "first", which makes sense since that's what it is.
and since I learned English while still living this "Sunday is the first day" life, I've internalized it in a way that is now for me extremely hard to dislodge. to me, Sunday is a work day and Friday is a weekend, and I need to work extra hard to remind myself that's not true on most of the planet.
so now that I live in Czechia, where Sunday isn't a work day and Friday isn't a weekend, you know what I do? I use the Czech names of the days of the week, even when speaking English or Hebrew. because while "Friday" and "שישי" both feel like a weekend to me, "pátek" does not (and in fact by literally meaning "fifth" it evokes the same feeling as "חמישי", Thursday, does, which is exactly what I want).
days of the week are untranslateable.

Asking people if they'd like to be milked, and when they say yes, I grin and bring out the water and giant blender.

so yeah the whole "can barely afford catfood let alone rent" situation hasn't exactly improved. it's pretty fucking demoralizing, not gonna lie. i hate posting about it. i hate shit just not getting better. but it isn't, so what else can i do but beg?

help me out if you can, yeah? iceland's expensive.

https://ko-fi.com/unregisteredhypercadence

I've seen some posts advertising Black Friday "gaming deals," all with links to Amazon.

Amazon workers around the world are on strike this weekend. Don't cross the picket line. Support your local, independent book and game stores instead. #TTRPG #AmazonStrike #ShopLocal uniglobalunion.org/news/make-a

סגד טוב!
Reminder: Beta Israel rabbis would like it if more Jews integrated Sigd into their yearly Jewish holiday cycle. The holy day of Sigd fell out of practice elsewhere, but was preserved in Beta Israel by the Ethiopian Jewish community for ages.

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