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The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River superimposed on a map of Europe

…OH.

I googled it once and the only reason why the Great Lakes aren’t called inland seas is because they are entirely freshwater, not salt.

By any other metric they’d be seas. Superior especially (the big one in the upper left) behaves like a small ocean, and has claimed at least 250 ships and over 1000 people. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a frankly chilling song about her that I’ll include here:

Reblogging for the map as well as for Gordon Lightfoot.

albatrosses will wipe the floor with any species of bird you choose to compare them to. they’re the Most, or at least Extremely, by almost every metric

wingspan. lifespan. intricacy of mating dances. devotion to monogamy. investment in offspring. ability to circumnavigate the globe. literary symbolism that is flexible but not to the point of meaninglessness. eyeliner quality. I could go on

muppetness of said offspring

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i feel like the discourse on minority language programs is missing like...funding awareness? minority language programs cost money! that money could go to other things! the argument in favor of actively preserving minority languages cant be "it is nice", it has to be, "it is a better use of resources than whatever else you might do with that money" which is a much harder case! especially because the groups served by minority language preservation programs tend to be pretty poor, such that the idea that *this* is the need that should be prioritized kinda silly imo

The debate isn't missing this in any real sense—since language preservation efforts are almost exclusively organized internally by the communities interested in preservation, this is pretty much the single most active topic of discourse. Like, in the US at least, many of these groups represent explicit democratic constituencies (rather than ad hoc or non-governmental organizations), and "how much money should be allocated for language stuff" is usually pretty core to the entire discussion around language.

The reason this isn't something I've talked about in my last few posts is because

For context, I took a course a while ago about Indigenous North American languages.

And yes, most language programs are organized within the communities themselves, and organizing these programs is expensive but it's up to them whether they need to preserve it. It often relies on volunteer work from inside the community and collaboration from academic institutions to give them the resources to work on them. There are thousands of unpublished resources on Californian languages rotting in Berkeley right now and are being redistributed to Indigenous communities every two years.

Language preservation isn't always about having it as your official language in day-to-day speech, but it can be reserved for reclamation of culture since you cannot separate the people from the language (and vice versa). Some start out very small, like restoring basic speeches that would be used in ceremonial registers.

Moreover, some clinical studies concluded that language reclamation leads to better mental and physical health for Indigenous communities from better bonding situations.

The major hurdle isn't that they lack funding, uses, or interest, it's more that people don't have time to work to learn the languages themselves. Life gets in the way and you don't have time to learn a new language (especially with having a job full-time).

Language is more than a matter of an instrumental use for minorities, it's a part of their identity that cannot be separated from the people.

1 carabiner girl is worth 100000 lanyard guys. remember this

“denied the catharsis of punishment” is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence imo 

chimney swifts are so weirddd theyre like if birds decided to be bats.

thats bats. those are bats. to me

just like what a strange little creature. theyre related to hummingbirds. they cant actually sit and perch like most birds, the best they can do is cling to vertical surfaces. almost everything they do is done in mid-air. they have to drink by swooping at the surface of water with their mouth open. they build nests out of twigs they break off of branches as they fly by. they eat 5000-6000 bugs a day. And theyre the next president, of the united states of america

(Wiggles & waggles with joyous abandon)

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i found the weirdest yt channel like its not even really weird but im just???

 but anyway some girl has spend years animating a show with her furry ocs set in a western universe with hints of?? native american and aztec mythology as well as like bits of others but not really cause theres a rabbit who wears a fuckin sailor outfit and i cant follow the plot at all and theres a crane called ichabod bc subtle 

its fucking me up bc theres so much effort in it but its so haphazard 

i actually love this

Okay, but for this to be animated by one person is fucking AMAZING because we have indie animated projects started and shattered by full teams that don’t even have this much flow.

Youtube is weird because sometimes you find amazing art projects buried in it’s annuals that defy explanation due to their quality and the fact they never went viral.

To watch

i’ve been binging this and i’m on episode 24 and really i find the story pretty interesting and not really that difficult to follow??? my only concern is how all the human children except for like Charles inexplicably look like full-grown adults instead of like actual children

I’ve been a fan of No Evil for a little over a year, and I really can’t recommend it enough! Episodes 1-9 are mostly just animation tests and shorts to get an idea of the characters (though episode 2 and 7 are important to understand the backstory and episode 8 and 9 set up two major conflicts throughout the rest of the series).

There’s a lot of exposition in episode 10 which can be hard to follow on a first watch but is really rewarding when you go back to re-watch everything. Also, the animation is freakin gorgeous now and then, just

SHAPESHIFTING

MAGIC

BEAUTIFUL CHARACTERS

FULLY ANIMATED ASL

PERFECT REACTION GIFS

Also they arrange and record a lot of the music in the show all on their own which is frankly amazing https://youtu.be/L6SZgUVTb4Q

No Evil is so good, you really get lost in the magic of the world and are soon invested in the characters. The designs are so cool and the songs are choice.

If you want help getting into the show on YouTube (because the first few episodes are kinda vague and arent explained till later) you can read the comic that takes places before the show

I highly recommend this one, these people put together an amazing story animating at home and recording in their closets and it deserves as much love in response as was put into its creation

Coucher de Soleil Sur la Mer, Constantin Westchiloff (Russian, 1877–1945)

...HE'S JUST SHOPPING DW

pros of corded headphones:

cons of corded headphones:

glad this was a hit with corded headphone users

Ghibli x Zelda collection, available for print!

Old and not so old fan arts I made of pink and blue characters.

I know that many more characters were missing but I only drew the ones I liked the most just because.

forgot my night time garlic bread in the oven for the length of 2 mythbusters wpisodes and when i opened the oven door it was so thoroughly cremated that i was blinded not by smoke and ash but what surely must have been its Soul as well

my art of the stardew bachelors from tiktok ✨