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Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is books and pronounced deegahwaneeskee jhoogahlawkah

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The word for "books" translates as "talking leaves" in Cherokee

More than 1,000 flights canceled as airport chaos begins: “People are just fed up” - Los Angeles Times

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Not On My Patch: a Young Wizards Halloween Just another Halloween in the Young Wizards universe... Ronan burst out laughing as the tatty dark shapes came lurching and staggering closer and closer to the wizards in the darkness, bits and pieces...

On #Halloween Eve: a Young Wizards take on the spookiest night of the year. WARNING: contains bats, black cats, too many zombies, too much candy corn, and Ultimate Evil with a #pumpkin spice latte. *Not On My Patch*: ebooks.direct/products/not...

Funny how the government shutdown means governmental workers don’t get paid, but there’s money to pay the contractors for Trump’s Ballroom….. 🤔

They call your Social Security & Medicare 'Entitlements' so you don't call them something silly like 'Earned Benefits.'

….. that is one of the most scathing responses I’ve ever seen.
Props to you!

One thing I love about the Chronicles of Elantra series is how things can come back to be relevant. Did Kaylin think of the political implications of declaring Terrano kyuthe? Not at all! Is it gonna come back and bite her? Probably! And her reasoning being “Mandoran and Annarion would, so I gotta.”

Rewarewa is fun to say and good looking.

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#Bonsai forest

"Plain language isn’t dumbing it down; it’s opening it up. It’s about respect. It's about access. When we speak in words everyone can understand, we honour the dignity of those we support."

Quoting @openfuturelearning.bsky.social, with gratitude.

#disability #neurodiversity #autism

A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

I saw this plaque when I visited Milwaukee last month, and I'd had absolutely NO idea of this story before then. Absolutely incredible stuff, honestly.

We’re entering primetime for hurricane season. Here’s what’s going on in the Atlantic | CNN Atlantic hurricane season is about to hit its stride. August through mid-September is historically the most active stretch of the season, and while there have been a handful of short-lived named storm...

Atlantic hurricane season is about to hit its stride.

Challenge:

-read someone (likely with the same identity) sharing a headcanon of a character as queer, neurodiverse, trans, etc

-refrain from arguing that they HAVE to be wrong

-smile, say to yourself 'huh, it's neat that they see themselves in that character'

-MOVE THE FUCK ON WITH YOUR LIFE

“Good news! Your CT will apply to your deductible!”
“Wonderful, how much?”
“That’ll be $500.”
“Let me just… find more money than I make in a week.”

The saying “you’ll get more conservative as you get older” comes from everyone else dying because of shit like this.

This about covers it.

kinda crazy that black Americans contributed to 90% of
popular culture yet get absolute crumbs for it/get overshadowed by a non-black person doing the same thing stolen directly from us.

A watercolor painting of a dark gray dragon flying over a misty forest hillside with a mountain in the distance. Signed Katie Croonenberghs 2024, text in lower right reads kamakru.com

Dreaming of dark forests draped in blankets of soft mist

#dragons #watercolor

My painting ORANGE POPPIES

Oh, my apologies, I didn’t realize you were buying for giveaways, I thought that was your book haul for the month and was just suggesting more accessible options with good sales! 😅