my theory is that ppl my age are like this because we were unintentionally brainwashed by the windows media player visualisations.don’t know with what. but it had an effect

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my theory is that ppl my age are like this because we were unintentionally brainwashed by the windows media player visualisations.don’t know with what. but it had an effect
when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW
op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light
Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:
Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.
Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.
It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.
Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.
So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.
Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman
Now that’s a motherfucking gifset.
HEY ! YOU!
Reblog if you think trans women are real women , and trans men are real men .
I remember reading a study once that asked people in their 90s to rank the best to worst decades of their life, and the overwhelming majority were like “my 70s were the best” and ranked their teens and twenties as near the worst, and I think about that a lot when people act like if they’re not living their best life at 25 they’ve lost their chance. like nah, the longer you’ve had to learn about yourself, the more you can love yourself. there’s no expiration date on joy until you’re dead
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…
Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid
“Natsit ovat kuin rottia – jos niitä näkyy pari päivänvalossa, tietää että jossain piilossa on ihan helvetisti”
— Poikakaveri (via avovaimoke)
we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:
to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:
and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether
i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason
And the next step…
https://teezyli.com/
Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now
Oh my god
Anyway, I just emailed [email protected] to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.
I’ve never seen such a perfect example of fighting fire with fire.
Holy fucking shit
I’m DYING.
More accurately
https://twitter.com/postcultrev/status/1428584131835748359
[clutches my pearls] Trans people in 1921?!??! But I thought trans people were trend of today’s youth!
I’d like to add my great great aunt Flora!
Y'all wanna know why we don’t see or hear about trans people from that era?
That’s because that picture was taken at what is known in its native language as Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, it is the place where the first trans healthcare was developed, where the term transsexual was coined.
Do you want to know what happened to the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft?
It was the victim of the very first Nazi book burning. Their teachings were outlawed and their books destroyed. Their leaders - such as Magnus Hirschfeld - were criminalized and exiled, if not outright murdered.
The fascists exterminated not just a generation of trans people, but they erased our history from the books almost entirely. It took us almost a century to get back to where we are now.
We’ve always been here, but our future is not guaranteed. We have to fight for our survival, because it’s happening again.
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uUHuUUUuUHhbhH *sm a c k*
oh my god…
i read this as “cowboy limbo” and i imagined cowboys walking under the cow like a limbo bar
the cow
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@holdwine @evergrove is this accurate?? 🤣🤣
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#fjsdfs #when i studied in denmark #they spent an entire class showing us simple words and how similar they were across danish #norwegian #etc. for the express purpose of ragging on how different the finnish word was #the teacher literally said ‘we can more or less understand across these languages. if you see one that sticks out like a sore thumb it’s finnish #also the delivery on this video is just delightful (via @destinyandcoins)
I find it hilarious that denmark has to stoop to ragging on the finns (instead of doing it for I guess shits and giggles like the others), because all the other nordic languages rag on them for sounding like they’re mumbling with a mouth full of marbles. XD
Oh! Oh! That’s because Finnish is from a different language family! The Uralic languages!
:D
Yup! The roots of the majority of European and many nearby languages is Indo-Eropean, which is the root of everything from English to Russian to Hindi to Persian and more!
Finnish however, as you said, has its roots in a different branch than Indo-European, the Uralic languages. There aren’t many of them - Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian are the most widely spoken, but there’s a handful of others as well, mostly spoken by local ethnic groups in northern Scandinavia and Siberia.
Poles and Lithuanians eying one another across the table xD
Every time I come across posts like these I’m just reminded of the beautiful infographics made by Minna Sundberg
BTW the Finnish word lohikäärme does not come from the separate words lohi (salmon) and käärme (snake). According to current knowledge, this word comes from an old Swedish word floghdragi (flying snake). Finnish has loaned the word, left the first part untranslated but changed it a little to suite Finnish pronounciation better, and it just accidentally is the same word as salmon. The second part of the compound has been translated to käärme (snake).
So yeah, as funny as it is that it is a salmon snake, that’s not really it.
ps. Finnish also has a similar word to the Swedish drake: traakki. It is not widely used but it appears in some plants’ names for example.
Source: https://www.kielikello.fi/-/kysyvalle-vastataan (in Finnish)
Actually, I want to talk a little bit more about Finnish compounds since they are fun and very different from english ones so this might be interesting and quite educational for some of you!
Unlike in English, in Finnish compounds are very normal and widely used. I personally like this since it makes many words easier to understand ‘cause they are a lot more describing than their englsih counterparts. Let me give you some examples:
plane - lentokone (fluing machine)
concussion - aivotärähdys (brain jolt)
conspiracy - salaliitto (secrect alliance)
There are also some comppunds that Finns don’t usualy even recognize as compounds (although they most certainly are).
garden - puutarha (tree enclosure/farm)… it was hard to find a translation for tarha…
world - maailma (land air)
Also in Finnish compunds are ALWAYS and I really mean always written together. This also gives the opportunity to make very usable new words.
You know that “German has a word for everything” meme? I am not 100% sure but I have understood that the German works in a similar way. Of course there is a word for “the happy feeling you get when you eat cauliflower” because that can just be maybe up by compounding the keywords: kukkakaalinsyönti-ilo (cauliflower eating happines).
Cauliflower is also a great compound! It literally means flower cabbage.
German does work in a similar way! In fact, the exact same way for some of the words you mentioned. We have:
plane - lentokone (flying machine) - Flugzeug (flying thing)
concussion - aivotärähdys - Gehirnerschütterung (brain jolt)
cauliflower - kukkakaali - Blumenkohl (flower cabbage)
And also:
dictionary - sanakirja - Wörterbuch (word book)
railway - rautatie - Eisenbahn (iron way)
So yeah, we have a word for everything for this exact reason! And there are a lot of words you can just translate literally into finnish and it’s still a valid compound word, which is nice when you’re German and learning Finnish! Basically,
queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey
queer is literally a slur that means weird and strange
and I most certainly am weird and strange, what else you got?