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Did you know that the EU is getting new bank notes (And that you can vote on your fave design rn? )

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The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintai

claymind

Ugh, why? And why do they look so ugly?

#i get the idea behind it #but these are supposed to be banknotes #not fucking stamps #with the birds #and supposed famous people like we're americans or sth #and buildings ive never seen in my life #at least pick historical buildings #not these ugly things #or some supposedly inspirational art #it's fucking weird #and the one design where everything is so cluttered #i absolutely hate all of these designs #this is gonna annoy me for a long time isn't it

viralfrog

#incredible parenting #love the kid pointing everything out #very two years old #love this so much

I need a mattress with a boob hole

#auch #whole contraption built now to take pressure off my tit when I sleep now #because ofc I can't sleep when it's not on my stomach #there has go be an easier way to do this

thememedaddy

isuggestrevolution

i have a suggestion

#i will #once I learn how to catapult adults out of buildings with my mind

Instead of orgies, I think people need to start organising group cuddle sessions.

#something something group ties loneliness epidemic etc #i do still need everyone to wear the weird masquerade masks tho #but everyone wears very comfy clothing

ratcandy

are u guys hearing this

(This is a Great Golden Digger Wasp - Sphex ichneumoneus - doing what its name implies, digging. But you may also notice, if you turn the sound on, that she’s making some incredible noises as she does so.)

ratcandy

Incredible onomatopoeia practice happening in my notes

muse-meter

That bug isn't digging, it's playing a kazoo

#ANGY #the noises sound so pissed off lol #<- prev #right??#she sounds like she's muttering to herself #Incredible #love her so much

ilyaspasta

‘De dichter en de duivel’, p.59. Lieke Marsman

claymind

[Ze zeggen dat een vlinder die hier fladdert elders een orkaan veroorzaakt. Ik zeg: een miljardair slaat zijn ochtendkrant dicht

en er sterven mensen van de honger in Congo. Ze zeggen dat de meeste mensen deugen, maar de meeste mensen zijn niet aan de macht.]

They say that a butterfly that flaps its wings here causes a hurricane elsewhere. I say: a billionaire closes his morning newspaper

and people die from hunger in Congo. They say most people are good, but most people are not in power.

#translated #lieke marsman #poem #capitalism #eat the rich #taken some liberties while translating but tried to stay as close to the original as possible

fuckyeahchinesefashion

OP: I finally get why travelers in ancient china always brought bamboo flutes with them especially when they went mountain hiking. (cr你真是饿了)

#china #flute music #music #this is the sort of stuff i wouldve loved to share with my mother #she was mad about flutes #wouldve gone crazy over this video

injuries-in-dust

May I offer you cute red pandas in this trying time?

#cute #red panda #oh my god they are absolutely perfect

depsidase

#raccoon #it's enrichment for us both

cuntaloupes-deactivated20241215

Abusive men pave the way for lazy men to get wives and girlfirends.

cuntaloupes-deactivated20241215

Lemme clarify, how many times have you heard your overworked female friends and relatives say “Yeah, Jerry drinks beer every evening after work while I cook dinner and clean up after everyone and does the bare minimum to help me raise the kids but he’s such a nice guy. He’s never beat me in my life. I couldn’t ask for a better guy in my life.”

Like no, Sally, your husband is a common stone among turds and you know it.

biggestniq

I try to explain this conceptually to people as a thing that happens not saying that this is good but it’s a thing that happens.

wedgemccloud

This is what male privilege is and how all men benefit from it.

This is why you are not exempt from statements about “all men” even if you are overall good.

You benefit from the bar constantly being lowered by systemic issues within the gender.

The expectations on you are always lower than they should because “at least you’re not X”.

musingsofatiredmind

That…is the best response I’ve seen to the “not all men” thing. Thank you.

sprinkledsalt

Yeah, this post reminded me of this bit from a talk by Lundy Bancroft

liesmyth

#if you’ve never worked with older people you can’t realise how many women are just living like this#they work all week and then go home and do nothing except cook and clean and that’s fine with them#their husband does fuck all and if they get really drunk at the office Christmas party they’ll tell you how much they hate him#but most of the time he’s nice enough and the kids like him bc he’ll take them for ice cream so could you really do better @cloud-frost

#jup #my mother said to my father when they got married #you lay a hand on me or our children and I will leave #so he hurt her in other ways #he never helped her out with the household #whenever she asked him to do something simple like put his plates away or repair something #he claimed she was abusing him because his mother used to ask him to take responsibility for himself too #and he'd take out any and all frustrations on the family #like yelling getting into your personal space physical intimidation throwing shit slamming doors #and criticising her for everything; she was never good enough and the main things were her weight and her bladder control #from birthing his two children #one birth was very difficult because my shoulders were so broad I got stuck on my way out #and how she wasn't very smart (because she grew up with controlling parents who gaslit her until she no longer could tell truth from lies)#and then when she died he turned what we only got part of before full force on me and my brother #and my grandmother who was married to an absent man who left her alone and isolated with three children and #whom she had to fight for a marriage that was even remotely equal #is still making up excuses for the fucker claiming that he's not so bad because he's never actually brought his fists into the equation #meanwhile I can't trust people and my worst fear is ending up with a man like my father #but that's beside the point because my family sees me as female (I'm apathogender but still the misogyny that comes with it...)#and still thinks I'm straight so I suppose if I am expected to bear this from a partner I should bear this from my father #but who cares about that #right?#most of my family doesn't believe sexism still exists in the Netherlands anyway so why bring it into this?#sorry. I'm so fucking angry.#I have a degree in sociology and I'm reading into it and I'm bringing receipts #and every time I still have to fight for it to be seen as an issue before I can talk about the wounds it has left in me.#it's exhausting

fuckyeahchinesefashion

OP: How to fold a paper bat plane with flappable wings (cr到车请故意，唛大叔)

#crafts #paper planes #paper crafts

innerchildabortionclinic

the fact that there are liberals who are concerned about dsa candidates winning because they think they're too far left is just. hard for me to comprehend sometimes

claymind

Not that hard when you realise that liberals that are just agents of the political right keeping the status quo and preventing a shift towards the political left (no matter how small).

lordsausage

shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

esereblog

These words still exist in Swedish. övermorgon - overmorrow - day after tomorrow

förrgår - ereyesterday - day before yesterday

claymind

Same in Dutch.

Overmorgen: overmorrow

Eergisteren: ereyesterday.

Still used very regularly.

#language #dutch #overmorrow #ereyesterday

daftpatience

this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

daftpatience

woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey

calltainn

My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.

daftpatience

SOO CUTE AND TINIE 😭