#the five boroughs

[screenshot-thoughts]

“the five boroughs of new york city - manhattan, brooklyn, queens, the bronx, and staten island.”

[loving-jack-kelly]

jack kelly would definitely have opinions on if people from yonkers can say they're from nyc or not. he looks like he just ate a lemon trying not to say "actually yonkers is a suburb and not part of the city" whenever he hears somebody answer yonkers to the question where in the city are you from. quaking with rage when somebody says they grew up in the city and then name a yonkers neighborhood. he thinks he's so normal about being a new yorker but he is not and he is incapable of pretending no matter how hard he tries.

[mandelene]

I am the designated tour guide for my aunt and uncle who are visiting from Poland so I asked them what they want to do/see and they said, “We don’t need to do a lot of sightseeing — we just want to go to Times Square.”

😤

They’re going to be here for 10 days so that’s plenty of time to see a bunch of stuff. 😂

THERE’S A LOT MORE TO NEW YORK THAN JUST TIMES SQUARE.

[theburninggalaxy]

Something that I think a lot of people don't quite understand is how physically big London it. There are entire areas that I've never been to, despite living in this city my entire life.

For comparison let's take New York, which has 8.47 million people (according to the first result on google), compared to London's 8.92 million. Pretty comparable sizes and they're both known for being large, diverse, central cities to the respective countries.

New York has a land area (again, according to google) of 304 square miles of land (and about 100 of water but this is just looking at the land). London has a land area of 607 square miles.

That's almost twice the area for roughly the same population.

So yeah. When I say "oh yeah I've never been to *insert area here* because it would take too long" I'm talking 2-3hrs, 2 buses, and 2-4 tubes or trains. Not 30/45mins to an hour. 30/45mins is how long it takes to get to my nearest shopping centre. And that doesn't mean I don't live in London. London is just weirdly physically big.

(Yes part of the reason is western European vs American city structure, but other western European cities have several million less people so dont have the issue to the same extent. The western European city with the next largest population is Berlin at 3.85 million and a similar land area to New York. There are larger cities in Europe than London but theyre in Turkey and Russia and I know nothing about how cities are structured in those countries)

[queeraang]

tragically i've found myself focusing in on planning a city for my dnd campaign that the party's going to visit in a few sessions and i keep thinking of lore that will almost certainly never come up in game.

[oyonok]

There they are. The worst person you know.

[dresbers]

Dove Santos / a MOTW PC I’ve been playing for the last couple of years 

[themetropolisborough]

FINALLY FINISHED this drawing of my two planned PB founders: Suture and Salvage 🤍💗💜❤️♥️🖤

check below the cut for a couple close-ups!

[power-chords]

it’s to chaotic to actually imagine it’d be like two black holes colliding but imagine if Keitel’s lieutenant met vincent hanna

I physically recoiled!!!

[shadowdemon-gd]

For some reason every time I listen to this, I like to imagine one of them is one of my teachers

[elliebear75]

🎶 I got to say fuck the KKK, and

Oh, yeah hey, how about today? 🎶

[readerviews]

"So Who is God Anyway?" by G.S. Payne

Edgy but Kind Exploration of God's Existence and Nature. #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

So Who is God Anyway? G.S. PayneFive Boroughs Media & Publishing (2024)ISBN: 979-8989474912Reviewed by Tammy Ruggles for Reader Views (03/2024) “So Who is God Anyway? (An (UN)orthodox Theory for Doubters, Skeptics, and Recovering Fundamentalists)” by G.S. Payne is the perfect book for those who go against the grain in “polite society” and enjoy talking about religion. This book boldly blows the…

[voxmilia]

No YOU'RE trying to fit your OC into all your fandoms, I'm being so normal about her

[hotquicksilver]

Top five eats at Borough Market

[bossbc]

Travel News-Book Cruises Out of New York City

[heritageposts]

Germany's leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDU) have ordered high schools in Berlin's borough of Neukolln to distribute brochures titled The Myth of Israel #1948. [...] Neukolln is one of Berlin's most diverse and international boroughs with a large Palestinian community. [...] The brochure states there are five "myths" around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors. In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel's pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely "defensive" Jewish resistance movement. Under 'Myth #2: Israel was established on stolen Palestinian land', Masiyot states that the acquisition of land by Jewish immigrants to Palestine took the form of a legal exchange of capital for an official title deed. At no point in history was land illegally conquered by Jewish immigrants, the author of the text, Michael Spaney, claims. Even land conquered following the wars of 1948 and 1967 and the subsequent construction of settlements, which are internationally recognised as a violation of international law, did not occur unlawfully, it says. "Anyone who uses the accusation of land theft as an argument demonises Israel and denies its legitimacy, i.e. acts out of antisemitic motives," Spaney wrote. "Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided". In the text, Mor states that "displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual". He also labels the UN's attention to the Palestinian cause "obsessive" and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

. . . full article on MME (23 Feb 2024)