[twinktorturer]

studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday

[thedronesneedyou]

i'll never live down the time i was talking with a friend and i said "given recent events". my friend said "what recent events?" and i had to reply "the Protestant Reformation"

[miikpal]

uh oh!! spotted!!!!

[peppermint-3]

me when im in a situation

[zenja-soba]

Me, at my gamer funeral, on my gamer deathbead: *Is dead.* Priest: “My fellow gamers, today we press F, but from here on….” Crowd: *crying*

Priest ”:..We must press W, and move forward.”

[mexicanalesbiana]

[aletheyass]

obsessed with the girl who says that if you lie on the floor long enough you will start to cry and shake because your body is 'releasing excess cortisol' like i just think you might be going through something girl

[saintjosie]

when i came out as trans i had an old friend from my church days message me to congratulate me and ask me for my name and pronouns. and i was shocked tbh cause he was such a head-deep-up-the-church’s ass kind of guy so i was super wary.

and after digging a little deeper i found out that he was very supportive of transness, saying that trans men are men and trans women are women

BUT

he also believed in the church’s gender roles meaning that trans women had to marry men and be submissive wives and trans men had to marry women and be strong christian husbands.

which is like ????

the weirdest and most surreal form of trans inclusive misogyny i’ve ever seen.

[saintjosie]

TRANS RIGHTS BUT WOMEN WRONG

[baggy-holmes]

[langernameohnebedeutung]

[spicymochi]

choose your fav puppy

[mikufanclub]

remember when teachers would tell you to fold paper hamburger or hotdog style. kind of sounds like some fake shit but just another example of burger centric american thinking

[mikufanclub]

non americans in the tags doubting if this is true. you think burger is a fucking joke to us??

[dizzyzs]

Everyone look at the cat blanket I made like .. 3 years ago

[dizzyzs]

Btw don't believe any Etsy ad or things trying to sell this pattern to you. It's been free since the 90s. It's very simple, just double crochet and color changes. Be sure to weave in ends as you go unlike me

[libraford]

I'm at the pediatrician office watching two 3-year olds attempt to break the language barrier.

[libraford]

English speaking child: baby! Baby!

Spanish speaking child: ¡esta bebe!

Excited screaming from both.

Spanish: -produces a toy of some kind-

Excited screaming both.

Spanish: do... do you...quieres... ahhh...

English: do you want to come pl-

Spanish: ¿juega conmigo? -toy makes a sound-

Excited screaming both

[lampfan911-deactivated20250622]

Back when i worked i spent 8 hours packaging chicken skewers and the first day i was so exhausted that i couldn't stop shaking and whenever i closed my eyes to sleep i kept seeing chicken skewers and i couldn't get the smell out of my clothes so i did my best to picture images of The Beatles instesd but they kept fading & turned into chicken skewers like in some horrible nightmare and i was miserable

[lampfan911-deactivated20250622]

This is what it was like

[rozieramati]

by Brooke DiDonato

[roach-works]

can we get brooke to stop

[takawoyu]

what have i done

[buried-in-stardust]

Okay so I got Rednote because I heard about the whole migration thing and I never bothered to sign up before, and the cultural exchange has just been really fascinating

[buried-in-stardust]

Some sentiments I see from the Chinese side:

For a lot of people, it's the first time they've been able to directly interact with foreigners and make use of the mandatory English classes that they've been taking since elementary school

This is a special in moment in time, where the people in both countries can just converse and see just how similar they really are. Many people are staying up late to really get the most out of it because we don't know how long this can last

Lots of misconceptions being corrected, including but not limited to: Americans don't get period cramps, Christmas and Jesus are Korean, all Americans have big houses like on TV, work in the U.S. is easygoing

Finding similarities between parents, like asking if they're digging a hole to the U.S., or saying that when they were little they had to walk uphill to school in the snow both ways

Two things they were shocked by: cost of university (in China, the better the school, the less you pay), and learning about rural food deserts in the U.S. ("aren't they farmers?")

Lots of comparisons on the cost of rent/groceries/medical costs/salary/work hours etc, with the resulting sentiment that the common people everywhere really are the same and have a common enemy

Lots of them have changed their typing habits so that it's easier to machine translate and are now stuck with a sort of "translation accent" in their Chinese from reading so much machine translated Chinese

After the Americans joined, the quality of the posts have gone way up ("Rednote algorithm knows there's guests here and so is serving the best dishes now" / "Why has Rednote been hiding the good stuff? The guests are worthy but we aren't?")

Also there was a post asking Americans to post pics of their work lunches, but I think the Chinese users might've been disappointed by the comments, because half the comment section was pictures of empty hands ("Didn't have the time") or like. a cup of coffee

[mobgoblin]

Queued right up for it