norsk heks (Sara Con Coco)

[Image Description: five gifs of Sam Obisanya and his father Ola sitting in the exercise room together, after Sam breaks down about his restaurant being destroyed. Sam is leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, while Ola looks at him with concern:

GIF 1: Sam lost in thought as Ola looks at him with eyebrows furrowed, saying, "Follow your heart, Samuel."

GIF 2: Ola continuing and saying, "Anger will only weaken you."

GIF 3: Sam looking downwards, slightly annoyed and put-out at his father's advice as he turns slightly towards Ola and says, "Yeah. Okay."

GIF 4: Ola smiling slightly as he leans further into Sam's side, saying, "But if you really want to piss off the people who did this..."

GIF 5: A continuation of the previous gif, with Sam looking up at Ola. Ola raises his eyebrows and wisely says, "Forgive them."

/end ID]

languages, like people, have been made into the objects of politicized aesthetics—not only is this about the dichotomy between "melodious", "soft", "musical" &c. and "harsh", "guttural", "rough" &c. as generalizations applied to entire languages (even language families), but also (and more importantly) the fact that these descriptions track non-linguistic attributes like racialization and class at least as often as they track phonology. please think about who, historically and presently, is most likely to have their language(s) described in one vs. the other way.

me and my coworkers were talking and it made me curious

Yall was discussing with some Canadians earlier so

Added Generation Alpha because maybe there are some 13 year olds on this site and added Silent Generation because maybe there are some 80 year olds on here too

loved the age where you could look up paranormal stuff and have no gauge of what’s real/fake so you’re just like “oh my god …. a ghost caught on tape and no one is talking about this”

ten year old me after seeing the grainiest picture imaginable of a figure in a cemetery:

Type "I am" in the tags and whatever follows is your gender today...

I was talking to my mom and now I'm curious

I was talking to my mom and now I'm curious

(id love you forever if you wanted to rb)

how do you wear dresses and skirts but in, like, a butch way

Real answer? Probably collars and straight lines.

What I want to know, though, is how to wear frilly pretty fit-and-flare '50s housewife outfits in an androgynous way.

Harvey showing off his sweet assets for EW's 2023 Pride cover issue.

via Vanessa Heins

If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.

The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.

Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.

Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.

Ted Lasso Season 3 out of context

Pride needs more fun activities that you can enjoy while drinking or sober. There should be ring toss booths and ski ball and other carnival type stuff.

Pride already has such a fun county fair energy we should lean into that

Instead of a quilting bee we have a flag making contest. You have to use an established Pride flag of some kind as your base but from there you get to go hogwild.

What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what

do you mean a wikipedia page about us? or do you mean some baby is arbitrarily given the rights and responsibilities to update the paramecium article?

ok I did mean a Wikipedia page about us. But keep talking I like where you’re headed

What's your government-assigned Wikipedia page? (No rerolls. I am in charge of "1929 in Wales" now. Not a great year, some bad floods in November.)

writing sucks because after i share what i wrote i wanna be like "hey did u notice this technique i used? did you notice the repetition here? let me write you an analysis on my own work."