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Reblog to give a trans woman a delicious Cuban sandwich

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Temple de San Felipe Neri, El Profesa, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City.

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Everything about Luigi Mangione’s story seems like it was written by AI for a gay crime fan fiction site. Especially/including the images that are being circulated.

He was arrested in Altoona, PA at a McDonald’s…with a handwritten manifesto…after leaving a bag with Monopoly money in the park … this can’t be real.

Neither can his abs.

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The Virgin of the Cave (Santa María de la Cueva), in the Monastery of Santa María la Real, in Nájera, La Rioja, Spain.

According to legend, García Sánchez III, king of Nájera-Pamplona, found a miraculous image (not this statue) of Mary here in 1044; the shrine dates to 1052. Originally part of the kingdom of Navarre, Nájera is now in the community of La Rioja. The statue is from the medieval period and was last restored in 1948.

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Golden hour at the Bullring ✨ Birmingham’s modern masterpiece standing tall!

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I spent 6 months as a Fulbright scholar in Egypt in 2023.

About two weeks before I left, Fulbright Egypt asked if I would be interested in doing a video showing a day in the life of an American scholar. Being a consummate attention-hound, I said yes!

The video was shot fairly quickly--we budgeted the entire day, but we were done in a few hours, beginning in my flat in Zamalek, and them moving to the neighborhood around it. (Those familiar with the area will spot the geographic claustrophobia, I'm sure. The nice folks at NViC let us film in their reading room).

Mahmoud Rohaim storyboarded the film and directed the shoot. The video was published today -- I'd wondered whatever happened to it! Considering it's been just over a year since I came home, it's been a nice blast from the past.

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Add to this Arabists who insist that “mudejar” (the word for former Muslims who came to live under Christian-not-yet Spanish rule as the emirate of Al-Andalus was slowly shrinking) comes from “mudajjan” (tamed) instead of being the Spanish “dejar” with the ism (actor) suffix, which would mean “one who was left behind,”

And don’t even get me started on usted/ustaadh.

Language politics is so weird, man. “Yes, we lived side by side for centuries if not millennia but our language is pure.”

Whenever I see that RAE considers Spanish word chipirón (squid) comes from "the Latin diminutive of word sepia" [original Latin word not given] instead of from Basque txipiroi, name given to baby calamari.

Okay.

You're the expert here RAE, not me, but it's hard to understand that a diminutive has become a word ended in augmentative suffix -ón.

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Gaztelugatxe is about an hour’s drive from Bilbao, on the scenic route to Gernika along the Mar Cantábrico. It’s an islet connected to the mainland by a treacherous path (the staircases were a filming location for Game of Thrones), with a hermitage dedicated to Saint John the Baptist that dates from the 10th century (at least). Even the view is worth a look—and just getting to the lookout is a hike!

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Traditionally, Basque women were the fishmongers. Men caught, women sold. And in the Bretxa Merkataritza Zentroa / Mercado Central de Bretxa in Donostia-San Sebastian, most of the sellers on the day we went were women.

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Richard Serra (San Francisco, 1938-New York, 2024]

The Matter of Time, 1994-2005

Eight sculptures, Weathering Steel

Denboraren materia

Zortzi eskultura. Altzairu herdoilkorra

La materia del tiempo

Ocho esculturas. Acero patinable

La Matière du temps

Huit sculptures. Acier patinable

Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

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Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain.

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Portugalete, Bilbao, Bizkaia-Vizcaya.

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Casco Viejo, Bilbao-Bilbo, Vizcaya-Bizkaia.

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This is fun one: the Vizcaya Bridge (Bizkaiko Zubia; Puente de Vizcaya) links the towns of Portugalete and Getxo, just upriver from Bilbao, across the mouth of the Estuary of Bilbao (the last stretch of the Nervión-Ibaizabal River before it enters the Atlantic).

Built in 1893 by Albert Palacios, one of Gustave Eiffel’s students, it solved the problem of facilitating traffic between the two cities at the mouth of the estuary (which otherwise required backtracking into Bilbao). A gondola shuttles every 8 minutes back and forth, suspended from the track that hangs between two 45m tall towers, carrying passengers, cars, and cargo.

It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in the industrial heritage category (in which is it the only Spanish entrant) in 2006.