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cool new language resource i just discovered: lingotrack! it functions somewhat like polylogger, allowing you to log your activity for languages, but, more than that, it has an explore section where you can find media that's in a particular language, such as books, tv shows, films, etc! one of the hardest things when you reach a more proficient level of a language is finding media in that language to engage with, so i think this is probably a good resource, or at least a place to get started. besides the explore function, there's also collections of media/resources, and a library function where you can add your own resources. it does require you to have a paid account to log study time for multiple languages (the free version allows you one primary language), but the other aspects seem to be available to free users in their entirety!

#langs

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four days at sea (atlantic, ijsellmeer, baltic sea, north sea)

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"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]

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Handle with care

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I thought that these inner sections of a pomelo peel thing kind of looked like flower petals with their coloring, so I left them out to dry for a few days, and then glued some of them together to make little "flowers" to hang in my window.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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Unknown Maker, Belt Buckle, ca. 1900. 

Gilt copper alloy. 

Collection of Richard H. Driehaus.

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THE WITCH

2015, dir. Robert Eggers

#the witch #gif

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Homo Sapiens boy together again with his Neanderthal girl on the first warm day of Spring

#artwork

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A croft house in Scotland, via Country Living Magazine

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Girls will be like “oh I’m just running quick some errands” and then spend all day in the wetlands appreciating the unique flora and fauna

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#hannibal #gif

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im not sure you know what ancient rome is

#guys...

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Saturn

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17th century astronomical art of Maria Clara Eimmart; celestial splendor from a forgotten woman who broke the bounds of her time.

(brainpickings.org)

#artwork

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The two words in question being:

Transection (from trans and sexus) a turning or passing from one sex to another. Dr. Br.

Transfeminate (from trans and foemina) to turn from wo∣man to man, or from one sex to another. Dr. Br.

And here's a link to the full text from the University of Michigan as verification

I assume these are originally in reference to mythological occurrences (like Tiresias), but still neat to see words so similar to our modern terms attested so early (and we can totally bring back transfeminate for undergoing a transfem transition)

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