this sea is killing me

heated rivalry season 2 should be a straightforward retelling of the epic of gilgamesh

academic writing these days is always like “be/longing” “re-membering” “(under)standing”

STEM academic writing is like "we present the results of the ACRONYM project (A ContRived mnemOnic is NecessarY Material)"

one of the things i hate the most about UB is 'flavor words', they're pure undiluted I Recognise That Thing fodder... like if you're a fan of the property they provide no clarity because you already understand what the card is trying to evoke and if you're not they're literally meaningless. just awful thoughtless IP reference slurry

the way that people critique "the western family" drives me completely up the wall because 1 the implication, often intentional, that families in eg India, china are actually good + woke 2 the fact that most people are qualifying "western" because they are afraid of being accused of being racist/imperialist so they instead imagine a mythical East of englightment

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

Of course no heuristic is universally true, but I think if you're an american who considers themselves "progressive" this is a rule of thumb you should probably be considering more often: If the conversation you're currently participating in is only able to happen because someone is going out of their way to speak *your* language, that's probably not the person who's most in need of informing themselves about the other's country in this conversation.

sorry to be brave on the internet but I think food labels should list every single ingredient and that there should be harsher penalties for mislabeling and deceptive labeling

seeing this image in 2026 is like seeing an old friend who I've dearly missed

mcu more like military contract universe

the worst part about progressive americans is that they live incredibly close to the source of some of the most interesting movements and works in anti colonial history in latin america but they just invent their own idea of anti colonialism from scratch to just mean whatever. between the monroe doctrine and big ag + mining corps you have a laboratory of imperialism on your borders and migrants from those countries regularly in your neighborhoods. like you'll brag to europeans about access to pupusas but know jackshit about el salvador fr.

im just saying this from being indian where a lot of post colonial thought is often stuck in regressive upper caste hindu nonsense, has little interest in multiracialism or thinking deeply about indigenity etc getting to talk to bolivians and brazilians and mexicans was so useful and important to me.