#there is another*

[urbanflorals]

And here is said video that took 2hrs :)

[sp-ud]

the brazilian and french streamers dont know that along with charlies daughter juanaflippa dying, he also indirectly-directly is the reason tilin died. which was actually the true reason for his eggxile.

[ask-horacealtman]

@permettez-moi I gotchu!

wait a minute--

[onbearfeet]

Today's fun experience

I went to the box store (technically Pak West/Serv-All, but who cares, they sell boxes) to get shipping boxes for the impending holiday bearpocalypse and also my impending move. There I met Gina, a sunny lady in her 60s(?) who rules the place, finds me delightful, and refers to me as "the bear lady" or "the bear girl" (I'm about 40) because names are hard.

I, a cis woman with visible boobs, mentioned that I'm moving and used he/him pronouns for my new roomie. Gina immediately started joshing me about having a male roomie.

Had I ever lived with a man before?

Ehh, does growing up with brothers count?

She cackled. So what was this fella like?

Nice guy. I've known him for years. His cat is cool.

Did I perhaps have ... DESIGNS on the gentleman?

Distractedly, I replied, "I think my girlfriend would have opinions about that."

Dead. Silence. Just long enough for me to regret my every life choice and wonder if I needed a new box store.

Then Gina WHOOPED. Her entire face lit up. She called in a younger worker to tell him, "The bear girl has a girlfriend!" I have never seen someone that straight be so DELIGHTED to hear queer shit.

Eventually she calmed down enough for me to explain that new roomie is also technically young enough to be my child, and that HIS taste in partners also excluded ME, so I really hadn't thought much about the whole affair, and really I was just hoping his cat kept liking me.

"That's the most YOU thing I've ever heard out of you," she said, and was off in giggles again.

[thatbuggygirl]

Sometimes I think it's funny, that there are two people in my life who answer to the name "Ham."

One is @akinari-kashihara; the other is a four-year-old in my class who's middle name is "Hamilton", but when she tries to say her full name, it comes out "[First name] Ham [Last Name."

So I call her Ham, Hambone, and the Great Hamboney, and she answers to all three.

[sasster]

harlan is so beautiful i am the only person in the world that understands orfuse

[cafffine]

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

[tastylemonbread]

a post about when someone tags someone else on your post

[cemeterything]

it's such a bummer that losing control of your emotions only makes the entire situation worse in really embarrassing personal ways. losing control of my emotions should give me pyrokinesis.

[bumblebeebats]

Every time i purchase a moderately expensive item the Karl Marx on my shoulder is like "For shame... you purchase yet another pair of jeans when you have 5 already at home, you despicable commodity fetishist? In my time, a man with five outfits would consider himself blessed beyond measure, and yet you want for more, while there are children starving in the world??" to which the second Karl Marx on my other shoulder says "Objection! Those 5 pairs of jeans all wildly uncomfortable or have holes in the ass, due to the decline of clothing quality driven by the fast fashion industry, unfortunately making this purchase a necessity... Plus, by purchasing a slightly more expensive pair of jeans from an independent brand, seeking quality over 'brand recognition', they are deliberately trying to avoid engaging in conspicuous consumption!" to which the third Karl Marx clinging to my back like that beetle from Doctor Who says "Remember, my friend; the less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt — your capital. Buy the jeans," to which I say "I don't know if any of you have actually read Karl Marx"

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[mcworm]

JUST SAW A FED-EX DRIVER JUMP OUR OF HIS TRUCK AT A REDLIGHT AND RUN UP TO A SECOND FED-EX TRUCK (THREE CARS AHEAD) AND THE GUY LEANED OUT AND THEY JUST KISSED ON THE LIPS? HELLO?

[crehador]

so when food is too salty we might say "打死卖盐的" basically meaning "did you beat the salt merchant to death" but one time in an attempt to be a little polite and a little funny to the chef (my mother) i said "……是不是又跟卖盐的有矛盾了" meaning "are you... having a dispute with the salt merchant again" and now it's a whole thing in my family

anyway point being there has been another altercation with the salt merchant

[canisalbus]

✦ Bread ✦

[catmask]

my mom loves to lie and like she always swears she was NEVER homophobic or anything to me as a child “i even have a gay work friend” but a really funny memory resurfaced recently where i asked if i could use birthday money i had to buy a rainbow flag when i was like ??? 7?? because i LOVED rainbows. and she said no that means something Evil and god will hate you . so what did i do. but ask my grandmom for a rainbow sweater for christmas and proceed to only wear that sweater for three years when it got cold because i didnt like the idea that god hated colors and i wanted to challenge him

[ot3]

i dont like the idea that kids these days are doing their fandom rps with ai chatbots. that's how you're supposed to make lifelong friends as a weird really online teen.