I don’t really want to label myself as “depressed and dysphoric” more than just “pre-transition and doing what I can in the situation I’m in”, but honestly crying Satania with an autism cap is such a mood. She is my icon

Time to learn Béarnese Gascon, then

Which 14 Englishes do you speak?

I mean, I’m not even joking when I say this… Well, I don’t have plans to learn French necessarily, but one of the big reasons why I want to build my Norwegian skills is for the sake of the older folks who don’t speak or aren’t comfortable with speaking English. Older folks are by all means a mixed bag — trust me — but I still just like being around and hearing from them generally, and I wish them well, I don’t want them to feel lonely or forgotten.

Don’t forget that ASL is the third most used language in the United States! No point in focusing exclusively on spoken languages, right?

In any case, I find it questionable to talk about languages in terms of “usefulness” like that, trying to measure “usefulness” based on an objective “number of speakers minus percentage who speak a language I already speak”: there are plenty of reasons why a language can be personally useful to somebody, plenty of reasons to want to learn a language aside from how many new people one can talk to; and heck, learning one seemingly useless language can be great for building the skills and knowledge for taking on another language, or for becoming more flexible in using one’s own first language.

That being said, you’re not wrong to call the pedestal that French is put on compared to other languages a product of racism… Actually, I’d argue that a lot of foreign language education isn’t even meant to get you proficient in that language, but rather more for the sake of, like, standardized school tests. Thus the languages that are put on the highest pedestal are just going to be the ones where the infrastructure already exists for getting butts in seats and tests on desks.

Don’t forget Saint Pierre and Miquelon is right there!!!

Oh yeah, it’s Soyuzmultfilm time

and who the fuck wants to talk to an older European.

I once saw a Zionist — one who is actually self-taught in the Irish language — talk about how “the Irish left is Europe’s worst” because of their “seething hatred of Israel” or whatever else, and I was just like…

“Do you actually hear yourself right now‽ Do you give even a second of thought to the things you say, before you say them‽”

When I was a kid, my granddad had a Nintendo 64 (we got that N64 for ourselves after he died when I was a teen) and we had a Wii at home, and we had one of those early DSes that let you play GBA games; when we got rid of that old DS, we replaced it with a 3DS; and I used emulators (often those free online ones that don’t let you save your progress) to play NES and SNES and old-school Game Boy games (and we also had a neighbor with a real-life Game Boy Color), and after we got rid of our classic DS I started playing GBA games using online emulators, too; and when I lived in a school dorm I got the chance to play a little Switch in the common area with the others on my floor.

…Which means that the only two Nintendo consoles that I never really got to experience either IRL or through an emulator were the Wii U and the GameCube, and of those, I don’t really remember the Wii U having any particularly noteworthy games — whereas even as a kid I was definitely always curious about the old GameCube games like Luigi’s Mansion and Super Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime and all that, I still am curious about them now. And so if I have to choose one single Nintendo console, whatever that “choosing” means, I’m honestly going to go for the one that I always wanted to play but never got the opportunity to.

Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway (born 2003)

I already had more than enough reasons to support the abolition of Norway’s monarchy, but getting to avoid reading sentences like this in the future just became yet another reason.

New England Rexist Liberation Front🌲 | Third Positionist/Jacobite Monarchist | Scythian-Sarmatian Unity 🇭🇺✠🇵🇱

I’m gonna be honest, this reads like complete word soup to me. I have no idea what to make out of any of it except for “some sort of Nazi with a monarchy fetish”, but that much was obvious from the thread itself.

2hu Enjoyer

The knowledge that this person likes Touhou is so accursed that even my own Touhou figurkas suddenly feel like they’re coated in Cheeto dust by association.

I feel a bit light-headed every time I see this picture

https://piped.video/watch?v=q7rlld7YAK0&t=10

Ah sweet! Man made horrors within my comprehension

I see what you did there

Me in May 2024 (my best year) riding the PUS TAXI with a comically oversized and literally unopenable Bible on top

Also when all is said and done, I think we can all agree that AI image generation has given us lots of great inspiration for fake writing systems for conworlds.

The key just to the left of the # key, i.e. the A key in the default Thumb-Key layout, should have a ▲ for the upward swipe. That swipe is how you get into shift mode. Swipe up on that key again to enter caps-lock; swipe down on that key to release the shift/caps-lock.

Doggy!!

That’s a bit mean, I think Lemmy is pretty good all things considered.