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“Rhododendrons time” | Mt. Fuji, Japan || hobopeeba

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if you’re irish and you complain about britain “erasing culture” but can’t even speak the language/ don’t know shit about ireland before 1910 then just shut your cakehole nobody cares

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langblrs studying less popular languages: “Here’s the basic vocab, numbers, and verb conjugations.”

japanese langblrs: “Here’s the vocab you need to be able to read your dishwasher’s instruction manual in Japanese”

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i know this isn’t really original but im obsessed with how english words that refer to the bodily, the tangible, the elemental etc are so often of anglo-saxon/germanic origin e.g. (heart, blood, jaw, flesh) or observable phenomena, like adjectives describing light (glisten, gloaming, glitter, gleam, gloom, glow, dark, fire) or places (hearth, hall, hill), and the most stark, primal emotions or states (hate, love, life, lust, death) and of course fuck, shit, bitch, cunt etc– these often monosyllabic, consonant heavy words…and then you have the lilting, limpid romance/latinate, words like acquiesce and exacerbate and agrarian and pellucid and clemency and lucidity…and how maybe the secret of all great english language poetry is a textural balancing of the push-pull of the germanic and the romantic/latinate, a balancing of these two energies. like some of the most powerful moments in shakespeare are where the verbosity falls away and you have these plain utterances (“to be or not to be” or lear’s dying “look there look there”– all anglo saxon words) that are so powerful precisely because the language is so ornate elsewhere. i once came up with an elaborate wildly incoherent theory about this in the pub with some drunk american masters student who was dressed like harry styles

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to anyone that still doesn’t get why people were protesting the shutdown, let it be known that i was denied unemployment for three months, my claim was FINALLY opened today, and I can’t make any back claims on the, uhh lets see, thirteen weeks I had no source of income, but its okay I will finally be receiving……. $72 a week.   

oh also i never got my stimulus check. 

but it was just white people who wanted haircuts. 

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The Other Side Of The Fence

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Anonymous photographer, Japan, 1954 / Courtesy Galerie Lumière des Roses / source

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Not going to lie, I’m having some serious Japan withdrawals right now

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Friendly reminder that hating Pokemon Unite isn't just about ""no Sinnoh remakes or no let's Go Johto"".

Fucking Tencent is the one making it.

Tencent is known for spyware, punishes those who support the Hong Kong protests, are KNOWN to rip off larger companies or buy out larger companies if they're seen as competition, are extremely rampant with censorship of any kind, and were receiving personal information from Apple such as I.P Addresses, and the CEO is extremely honored by the communist party that supports Muslim concentration camps.

This company is absolutely fucking garbage and it's pretty obvious from the comment section of the video that everyone who knows about Tencent is chiming in with them dipping the moment they announced it was made by them.

And if that's not enough to stop you from wanting to play tencent has driven many players who actually did enjoy their games away due to the rampant cheating that occurs and isn't dealt with in their other online games. They're known to try and milk their gamers for money with pay to win deals and from the sounds of it ""free to start"" means you'll have to pay eventually no matter what and then continue to keep paying in order to succeed or advance in later levels due to the pay to win structure.

For those who are excited about this there are LITERALLY so many other games on this oversaturated market that spent time on their back grounds, and textures, and design that dont make them look like a dollar store rip off game. Please look into literally anything else.

Pokemon Unite is NOT the way to go

I'm sure that people in the videos comments did a MUCH better job of explaining the dangers of tencent instead of me and theyre most likely a lot more well aware of the first hand experience with them. But please just take my word for it when I say that the ""unfair hate around this game because it's not a Sinnoh Remake"" is bullshit.

There's hate for a reason

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ricefield (via 棚田の写真 :PHOTOHITO)

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Midsummer celebration, 1905, Sweden.

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Neons on a rainy night

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Can we please stop talking about “the economy” as if it’s just haircuts and the stock market when it’s also:

People’s ability to buy food and pay for utilities

People’s ability to pay rent or access housing

People’s ability to access child care

People’s ability to keep their health insurance

People’s ability to access medical care that reduces pain or increases mobility

People’s ability to access government benefits

People’s ability to immigrate (including seek asylum)

The asylum program in the United States has been suspended since March 20th and people, including children, have been deported without hearing over it. There’s been about a 70% increase in demand for food banks. Non-essential procedures that have been suspended across most of the country include surgeries that reduce pain or procedures that screen for more serious disease. Rent builds up even during an eviction moratorium. Domestic violence and suicide hotlines are reporting massive, in some cases exponential, increases.

New analyses suggest that 500 million people across the globe - 8% of the world’s population - may be pushed into poverty due to the economic collapse.

Can we please stop depicting “reopening the economy” as just the right to get a pedicure?

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Monty Kaplan aka Javier Kaplan aka Javier Federico Kaplan (Argentinian, b. 1986, Buenos Aires, Argentina, based Miami, FL, USA, and NY, USA), Photography   More