izzy's playlists!
Discoholic 🪩
sheepfilms
shark vs the universe
No title available
No title available
Show & Tell
NASA
Misplaced Lens Cap
No title available
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Mike Driver
Jules of Nature
Cosimo Galluzzi
The Bowery Presents
Monterey Bay Aquarium
roma★
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
hello vonnie
#extradirty
seen from South Africa
seen from Dominican Republic
seen from Venezuela
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from Vietnam
seen from Egypt
seen from Canada
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from United States
seen from India
seen from United States
seen from Canada
seen from United States
seen from Algeria
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
@manablr
→ Another lang/studyblr blog REINTRODUCTION!
I started learning Japanese on my own in May of 2015, and now I have N2, unofficial N1-level Japanese. I work fully remote for a Japanese company as 正社員 and live in Sendai, Japan 🌳🏠🌳 My dream is to be like those geoguesser guys that can tell where any picture is from but with languages
a lot of your suffering comes from treating your nature like a problem to manage instead of a design to understand
a lot of your suffering comes from treating your nature like a problem to manage instead of a design to understand
1924 Mikiphone portable pocket gramophone from Switzerland. Hungarian designer Miklós Vadász created this battery-free wonder in the 1920s so folks could spin records anywhere. Fold it up, tuck it in your pocket, and jam on the go with just a hand crank. Vintage portable tunes at their finest.
I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby
English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son
I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”
So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid
OP are you telling me we got the death of Gică Petrescu before we got gta6
Taras Shevchenko and Ira Aldridge by Heorhiy Melikhov, 1963
Famous Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko befriended the African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge, while the latter was on tour to the Russian Empire in 1858. Shevchenko did his portrait in pastel. It is recounted that the two men got along very well. While posing for the portrait, Aldridge sang African-American songs to Shevchenko and in return, the artist taught him Ukrainian songs.
The portrait in question:
Portrait of Ira Aldridge by Taras Shevchenko, 1858. Pastel on paper.
The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.
You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)
language learning is easy you just learn words... and then you keep learning more words... and even more words... and then maybe in 10 years you'll be somewhere
Aligner is a free lightweight web tool for creating aligned bilingual examples and glossed linguistic illustrations. It is useful for language documentation, language-learning materials, translation pedagogy, conlang presentation, and general linguistics teaching because it makes word-level correspondences, reordering, and phrase-to-phrase mappings visually explicit. Web-app link: https://aligner.tinygods.dev/ Repo link: https://github.com/tinygodsdev/bitext-word-alignment License: MIT http://dlvr.it/TSxSdN
oh so this is what ppl have been using to make those cool diagrams!!
Aligner (Bitext Align): free word-by-word translation visualizer. Stack multiple lines, link adjacent rows in the preview, optional gloss/IP
Oh this is fun
WE HAVE GOT TO START LOVING THE PROCESS MORE THAN THE PRODUCT AGAIN
this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀
shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡
連れション
つれション
going to the bathroom in a group
(Note: ション is from 小便 or しょんべん which means urine)
(Use note: This is not exactly a "nice" word to use, and it's mostly used by guys, but it is an interesting slang word so I thought I'd add it. What should I use, you ask? 一緒にトイレに行く or いっしょにトイレにいく )
確かに、日本の連れション文化は、授業中にトイレに行きたくならないよう今のうちに俺も行っておこう、お前は大丈夫か？
たしか に、にほん の つれション ぶんか は、じゅぎょうちゅう に トイレ に いきたくならない よう いま の うち に おれ も いって おこう、おまえ は だいじょうぶ か？
It’s true that Japanese bathroom group culture is like, I’d better go now so I don't have to during class later, are you good?
Ice Storm ~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1998
Moldova, near Ungheni.
A Soviet spherical radome, 18m diameter, built in the early 1970s by the USSR PVO Air Defence Forces. Housed a PRV-13 Odd Pair height-finding radar, tracking aircraft up to 310 km range. Abandoned since 1991, now slowly collapsing.
(c) BACU 2026
Photo Dumitru RUSU
For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026
Quote of the day
