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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

The voters They destroyed the cage Yes YES The Tories are out

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:45 UTC

This is the energy I want to project on Bluesky.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

Every now and then, in particularly long projects, favourite typos emerge out of nowhere (it tends to be not-common words that are common in this context). And I love that my current affliction is writing "dudeln" (of music: tootle, noodling) instead of "dulden" (tolerate). Clear improvement.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 12:00 UTC

I don't know, can we talk about dogs at the Pole instead? Like this very good boy.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:13 UTC

If Britain could actually vote for something today that would get them back into the EU, that would be fab. Sadly, we'll have to settle for brief Schadenfreude. But I guess that's something.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

If you're invested in all three countries in one way or the other, the overwhelming vibe at the moment is one of crushing, heartbreaking indifference.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:56 UTC

Every time I see one I also think of this excellent piece of art (from 9 years ago) by @tealin.bsky.social – she's right you know.

www.tumblr.com/tealin/11835...

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 09:33 UTC

So, uh, if you need a German translator for this so you can sell it in the Serious About Bread country, you know where to find me … 😁

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 09:31 UTC

This is slander/too kind (depending on perspective) on the European Robin. They're aggressive, nosy little [bleep]s. And I love them.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 09:29 UTC

😍!

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

No, there isn't one. It's just that there SHOULD be one. Possibly a canoe.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

It did! Thank you to you and your sister for making me a) google and find a surprisingly large number of pictures of this logo from different angles, including what is presumably the folded tent (maybe not fake? o_o) and b) come up with the worst corresponding inflatable pool branding.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

Hey. Hey you. Wanna see some perfect claymation? I thought you did.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

Directed at birds, I hope 😁

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

I suppose it doesn't count when you're not appreciative? Like when 4 AM the dawn chorus started just as I was trying to sleep, and I said "stop screaming for sex, you bastards" out loud. To myself. Should have yelled it out the window. 😁

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:21 UTC

I guess you could ask it to write it. And then write its bibliography too. Keep 'em busy.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:19 UTC

🎵 I stiiiiill dreeeeeaaaam of Oooorgonoooon 🎵

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 14:17 UTC

One of the many problems when you demonize a thing without knowing what it is: a) it first becomes a diffuse bogeyman, then b) a justification to commit atrocities, and you can fight neither real nor imagined threat. Make Americans read Das Kapital. Not "again", because it'll be their first time.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 07:59 UTC

Oh, it's Canada day? Good, good.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 07:20 UTC

I can barely imagine. I cried the day after the referendum (for a variety of reasons), and I don't even live in the UK.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

"I wish my goodwill meant something, *anything* to the people I work for": My only thought left after bending over backwards last week to fulfil requests sent to me while I was officially out of office, and now finding that none of it was made invoiceable in time for June. I'm so very tired.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

Fun (to me) fact: This wasn't dubbed into German until 1966. There's debate in the anglosphere on whether the scene in the still is one of the first uses of "gay" for "homosexual" on film, but the German dub (imho correctly) leaves no doubt, and it was translated pre-Stonewall.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:19 UTC

Really difficult decision between Dr. Strangelove and this, but it's the older of two loves.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:09 UTC

It's not just the condescension and the misogyny, it's the fundamental misunderstanding of what a role model is. A role model is not a categorical imperative. It's evidence and reassurance that the thing you want to do anyway *can* be done, because another meat bag just like you managed to do it.

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 14:02 UTC

Ahso. Das sind dann wohl die, die immer noch fluchend auf der Parkplatzsuche um den Block fahren, während ich pfeifend aus meinem Fiat 500 aussteige. Dafür lohnt sich eine Klage bestimmt. 😁

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 09:53 UTC

towards a language or a person. "It drives me crazy how difficult you are, you're being unreasonable, you're taking up chunks of my time and thought I could use for other things. Yet here I am, writing about your quirks that I spend my time getting to know and understand, because I love them." /fin

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 09:51 UTC

 … about learning German and gets down to the nitty gritty of the grammar, at which point he lets his frustration (justified) produce some extra sparkle. But on the whole, the thing is also a love letter, and you'd have to be mad not to see it as such. It's not an unusual sentiment, whether /3

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

 …that's a reflection on your cultural frame of reference, not on German: You've only ever heard shouting Nazis and no quiet whispers of "Ich liebe dich". Two: If you cite Mark Twain's "The Awful German language" as somehow dunking on German, you haven't read or haven't understood it. He writes /2

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 09:46 UTC

There's this article in the Guardian. And it's all good and well; apart from the phenomenon itself (which has passed me by), it's the usual, bla bla bla, ugly language, bla bla, delightful departure, bla bla bla Mark Twain. Two things. One: If you think German is inherently aggressive or harsh… /1

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Kubobukata @kubobukata.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 08:56 UTC

Look at that gawjus cover. (And the content is even more gawjus!)

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