Janaina Medeiros
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KIROKAZE
occasionally subtle
almost home
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Origami Around
izzy's playlists!
pixel skylines
Three Goblin Art
çĽćĽ / Permanent Vacation
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@salticidâ youâre amazing and I love ur cryptic spambot convo I hope u like this!!
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ph my fuckning gog
I adore this comic and I've taken way too long to do a voiced version of it. Hope you enjoy it
Odysseus moment
Zoozve, my beloved
"...we don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club..."
This is my favorite line.
I have learned so many things from this.
Asimov was right when he wrote The Collapsing Universe
please just read the whole thing
âYou get to drive awayâ
*sidles up to you at the bar* would you like to hear my wise aphorism
only if it's actually wise. the last guy who asked me this had a pretty foolish aphorism tbh
oh⌠uhuh⌠*really should have prepared this ahead of time* never ignore⌠the melody of time⌠when your shoeâs untied?
*considers this aphorism sagely, sipping my horrible and bitter potion*
yes. there is wisdom in this. he whose shoes are untied must carefully mind the rhythm of his steps. bartender, another Wretched Potion, for my comrade here
*to self* holy shit⌠my aphorism⌠itâs wise!
I were inspired
Good for Tiny Hat!
A group of curious preschoolers visits some beehives in Stockholm
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Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"
Jenkins, Henry. âStar Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.â Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85â107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691. Â
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but thatâs what i have ready to hand.Â
Henry's been amazing for a long time.
Blind people must save a lot on electricity.
They do actually!
I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, âWAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!â before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. Iâm sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadnât previously considered.
Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didnât know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said âOh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.âÂ
She stared at him for a long time and then said âHow do you know Iâm from Brooklyn?â
And he said âYou have a Brooklyn accent.â
She said âI do?â and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said âI had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.â
My moms a sign language interpreter, and sheâs signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a âdrawl.â They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.
So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like âoh youâre from the south!â
And they were like âhow did you know that?â
And she said âyou sign with a drawl.â And they were really surprised that it came through that much.
Itâs really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.
Humans are so fucking fascinating
this video does more in 10 seconds than your faveâs entire filmography
For everyone whoâs confused
I feel like im watching a wedding ceremony from a country i didnt know existed. Like, I have no idea how all this stuff is important but good for you?????
This is hella interesting.
btw she gave him a single which can be made in a matter of minute depending on pattern and size but he gave her a giant cuff which can take hours or even more than a day to complete based on just how complex the design and materials are. she wanted to trade something small and simple and he gave her a massive token of his love and respect for her as a fellow raver (and possibly his junior in the scene)
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from AimĂŠ CĂŠsaire's Discourse on Colonialism, first published 1950:
Whether one likes it or not, at the end of the blind alley that is Europe, . . . there is Hitler.
Inshallah he will be stirred into a fine fry
A delicious meal
They really want people to start torrenting again eh?
Remember kids, piracy is bad. Stay away from these sites.
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Overwritten; left unsaid
Part of my Wings of Pages collection
From Yuumei art
Texas gave up that land so they could keep slavery:
âWhen Texas sought to enter the Union in 1845 as a slave state, federal law in the United States, based on the Missouri Compromise, prohibited slavery north of 36°30' parallel north. Under the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered its lands north of 36°30' latitude.â
Tell me more about how critical race theory shouldnât be taught in school.
I am a grown ass man and I just learned about this 5 minutes ago. Fuck everything about trying to hide the sins of our past.
I gotta read stuff to get my adderall to kick in before I can do real work, so here's my attempt at a primer on the Chinese writing system:
âHow do they have a separate character for every single word??â They donât: each character represents one idea, one morpheme, one unit of meaning in a word.Â
Unbreakable in English has 3 morphemes: un, break, and able, each adding meaning. In Chinese characters that word is ä¸ĺŻç ´, which each mean no, able, & break, individually.Â
Like break and -able, some characters can be their own words and some can't.
Just as westerners often think that each character = 1 full word, Chinese people often don't realize that each English word can be many elements smushed together. Someone learning English might see antidisestablishmentarianism as one insanely complex character, rather than 6 morphemes in a trenchcoat.
We need to make an Antidisestablishmentarianism character for the most insane stroke order ever conceived by man
Ok I went and googled, and "most complex character" has multiple claimants, just like "longest word" in English. I present to you:
NĂ ng - stuffed nose, 36 strokes. Claimed to be the biggest word in common usage.
ZhĂŠ - an archaic word meaning noisy, which is never used today. It's also dragon 4 times, which I think is a great etymology. 64 strokes, but isn't it really 16x4?
BiĂĄng - a specific type of noodle from Shaanxi. Some say it's "not real Chinese" or was just made up by a clever noodle seller. One wonders how anyone read it, if so. 58 strokes.
Finally, the word/character that has the antidisestablishmentarianism reputation in China:
HuĂĄng - 172 unholy strokes. No one even knows what it means! Historians and linguists have tried to trace it back, but no luck yet. It might just be a nonsense "word" used as a charm, like the SATOR square. How does it even have a known pronunciation, if no one knows its meaning?
