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a herd of sheep with text that reads "woah bro, did you just judge yourself for fumbling as you learn and try something new? damn dude give yourself some grace"

a herd of sheep with text that reads "woah bro, did you just judge yourself for fumbling as you learn and try something new? damn dude give yourself some grace"

04.03.2026 20:39 👍 132 🔁 67 💬 1 📌 1
Storia e Segreti della Torre di Pisa
Storia e Segreti della Torre di Pisa YouTube video by Storia Di Pisa

Ossessionato che anche azoto liquido hanno utilizzato per salvare la Torre di Pisa

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-05J...

27.02.2026 23:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#writingscripts #memes #linguistics

26.02.2026 16:36 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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vou desmaiar com o departamento de russo da minha universidade

24.02.2026 20:20 👍 309 🔁 108 💬 6 📌 11
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

18.02.2026 18:40 👍 3579 🔁 1304 💬 195 📌 486
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Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

21.02.2026 22:36 👍 13562 🔁 4574 💬 135 📌 745

Eu to no Goodreads e no StoryGraph 😆. To no Goodreads meio por inércia e porque é o mais usado, mas eu gosto que o StoryGraph tem umas resenhas mais visuais, CWs e uns gráficos legais

13.02.2026 19:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In Brazil, "convosco" and the second person plural in general is mostly found in Christian prayers nowadays (aside from formal terms like "Vossa Excelência")

07.02.2026 20:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In Spanish, “for you” is ‘para ti’, but “with you” isn’t ‘con ti’: it’s ‘contigo’ instead.

What’s this ‘-go’ doing there?

It’s a remnant of the same Latin word that gave us ‘con’.

So etymologically, ‘contigo’ contains this word twice: “with you-with”.

Click my graphic to read the full story:

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07.02.2026 19:44 👍 104 🔁 25 💬 7 📌 5
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Hace tiempo me encontré este gráfico que expresa la relación entre los niveles del marco europeo de exámenes de lenguas y creo que expresa bien que la diferencia entre los niveles no es lineal.

06.02.2026 20:06 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
28.01.2026 19:30 👍 16544 🔁 6480 💬 46 📌 39

confirmado japão já tinha garotas mágicas desde o século 14

24.01.2026 13:36 👍 1161 🔁 362 💬 13 📌 4
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Cabbies' Brains Have More 'Navigation' Gray Matter To become a licensed London taxi driver, candidates must undergo in-depth training. This learning process changes the part of the drivers' brain in charge of memory and spatial navigation, a new study...

Nature vs nurture and such

www.livescience.com/17376-london...

20.01.2026 20:10 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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via the article for the album "a thousand suns"

20.01.2026 00:00 👍 2548 🔁 403 💬 20 📌 24

QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood

19.01.2026 00:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
[photo of a white tree, surrounded by green ones]
Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

jumpingjacktrash
the reason it's rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can't get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn't have any green in its leaves, it's getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant's photosynthesis.
albino plants are basically vampires.

heywetotheotherworld
For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn't figure out why the bigger plants didn't release chemicals to kill them.
Turns out, the lil' ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.
They're vampires, and they're commensal, symbiotic mutualists!

carnivalseb
this is super cool! I had no idea

monticellomarshmallow
This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen!

[photo of a white tree, surrounded by green ones] Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare. jumpingjacktrash the reason it's rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can't get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn't have any green in its leaves, it's getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant's photosynthesis. albino plants are basically vampires. heywetotheotherworld For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn't figure out why the bigger plants didn't release chemicals to kill them. Turns out, the lil' ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system. They're vampires, and they're commensal, symbiotic mutualists! carnivalseb this is super cool! I had no idea monticellomarshmallow This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen!

Tap for the whole thing. It’s worth it, we promise

17.01.2026 18:15 👍 68 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
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Sé que és famosíssima, però com que cada dia la trobo més vigent i necessària, aquí la teniu, per si algú no la coneixia:

17.01.2026 07:37 👍 83 🔁 45 💬 9 📌 5
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

15.01.2026 13:47 👍 12533 🔁 4021 💬 95 📌 306

gente quem puder dar repost e apoiar a ideia, precisam de 20 mil apoiadores até dia 28/01!!!!

14.01.2026 17:55 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Btw did everyone already know that sign language can also exhibit metathesis?? 'cause nobody told me!!

13.01.2026 23:24 👍 44 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0

CNN, se vocês acham que meu trabalho como tradutora da língua da Batatolândia é muito caro, pelo menos me contrate para revisar a tradução tosca de Google que voces fazem.

Assim evitamos traduzir o nome desse energúmeno, Steinmeier, para PEDREIRO.

08.01.2026 23:04 👍 320 🔁 62 💬 13 📌 2
Resoluções possíveis de múltiplos tipos de microscópios (gráfico originalmente em inglês)

Microscopia ótica: até 200 nm
Microscopia eletrônica: 200 nm a 0,1 nm
Microscopia eletrônica com correção de distorções: 2 nm to 0,03 nm
Pticografia: 0,3 nm a 0,01 nm

Resoluções possíveis de múltiplos tipos de microscópios (gráfico originalmente em inglês) Microscopia ótica: até 200 nm Microscopia eletrônica: 200 nm a 0,1 nm Microscopia eletrônica com correção de distorções: 2 nm to 0,03 nm Pticografia: 0,3 nm a 0,01 nm

Pitico 🤏 grafia

worksinprogress.co/issue/the-go...

08.01.2026 17:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

nunca confie em ia pra absolutamente nada

08.01.2026 12:31 👍 121 🔁 42 💬 0 📌 2
Stop Non-Consensual Intimate Image Abuse | StopNCII.org StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technology, free from harm.

ESTO ES IMPORTANTE

Si alguien modifica una foto tuya (Photoshop, IA…) para desnudarte o denigrarte:

1. Ve a la web de la ONG stopncii.org
2. Sube la foto original y la modificada.

Borrarán la modificada de todas partes en internet. Debes ser mayor de edad y ser foto de ti, no de otros.

02.01.2026 12:07 👍 2471 🔁 2597 💬 34 📌 50
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Latin had six noun cases, but in all Romance languages except Romanian, nouns and adjectives only have one singular form and one plural form left. What happened?

This extra large infographic tells you how the Latin case system collapsed – and why it's the accusative case that lives on in Romance.

01.01.2026 18:48 👍 146 🔁 44 💬 5 📌 4

#LangSky hoy empieza el mes de enero y eso me da pie a hablaros de otro locurote del serbocroata que son los nombres de los meses. En esta historia entra muy en juego la adscripción étnica.

01.01.2026 19:25 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

great news, everyone! turning a 5 into a 6 because you forgot the year is one of the easiest ones to fudge! turning a 6 into a 7 won't be so simple

01.01.2026 05:08 👍 190 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 0

Catalan uses "demà passat" and I find it kinda funny. I first interpreted it as "the past of tomorrow" so it felt like an oxymoron

31.12.2025 14:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OVERMORROW IS BACK IN 2026

31.12.2025 05:34 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

29.12.2025 13:11 👍 29043 🔁 7350 💬 430 📌 529