Becky Hammer

Fight cloud will come in useful over here in the Braddock Road Conflict Zone

I Ate an Absolutely Massive Salad Thirty Minutes Ago and I'm Already Hungry Again: The Becky Hammer Story

Thank you for introducing me to these songs & artists! I lived in Cuba for a summer back in the mid-2000s and loved the music so much but haven't kept up with it in recent years compared to what's coming out of Puerto Rico, RD, and Colombia

Cultural immersion is so important

"Esteemed animal" is so funny to me. Cannot imagine referring to my dog that way. The world's biggest doofus

A sentence I'm actually likely to use

It's just pet. This is literally how they say pet.

"My pets" in Portuguese is "os meus animais de estimação" (my esteemed animals)

What.

Didn't really need to do all that Duolingo Portuguese to understand this one

Leo pointing meme

Me and Joe watching this last week

Colombia is having elections today (general election for the legislature + primary election for presidential candidates) and I have just learned about the perks people get in exchange for voting

Yeah! Exactly!!! ... wait hold on a sec

A page from a kids news magazine asking whether cereal should be poured before milk, with pros and cons

What kind of question is this? What sociopath pours the milk before the cereal? The Week Junior is out here poisoning our children's minds with manufactured controversies!!!

Not for most of the area in question

Thank you for your service. Hopefully their terminal case of car brain isn't contagious

Someone tell me what they have on their Insta, I don't want to confuse my algorithm into thinking that I agree with this nonsense

Some new signs that have been put up objecting to the Braddock bike lanes

"Save Braddock Road" is absolutely sending me. Braddock Road sucks so bad but yes please let's preserve it exactly as it is right now, forever

"What do you know about Rosalía?" Girl how much time do you have

Yes it is *the* cutter head! They wanted to put it on display somewhere but it's too heavy. Still not sure where it'll end up

Eyes will need to be averted the first time I leave the house with my shins exposed

Los Pleneros de la Cresta holding panderetas and a guiro

I do however enjoy the thought of being seated near a complete Puerto Rican plena ensemble

a woman is standing in a doorway with the words `` here i am '' written on it . Alt: a woman is coming through a doorway above the caption HERE I AM

Our legs emerging from hibernation

I feel unburdened

72 degrees outside

A razor that I'm about to use to shave my legs for the first time since early November

It's time

Just learned podcast is "podcast" pronounced po-gee-cas-chee

Refrigerante means refrigerant *and* soft drink

This won't cause any confusion whatsoever

See that one actually makes sense! I just learned the Portuguese word for soda is "refrigerante." Yes I would like one refrigerant, please

If I can't remember the word for something in Portuguese I just say the Spanish word as pronounced by someone who was recently hit on the head. Works about 80% of the time

The word for yogurt is "iogurte"? Unserious language

Spring break in Brazil is coming up sooner than I realized, time to do 50 Duolingo lessons a day so I can learn all of Portuguese in three weeks