Julia 🤝

I took a translation class when I was b2 German and we weren’t allowed online dictionaries so this was the method if you didn’t know something. It was very slow but relaxing

Gentle shampoo is good for wool sink hand-washing. Like if you have wool hats or mittens that don’t get washed much

I got one of the spam messages from the account and its annoying because there doesn't seem to be any way to report it to help you

Screenshot of Tumblr post by lurker-at-thresholds: Thinking about a new bit where i start using “workers of the world” as my go-to second person plural pronoun. Like “chat”. Workers of the world what do we think of this. Is it funny. Workers of the world please like and reblog my post

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

I just finished listening to the audiobook (I get through a lot while sewing) and I think this is the first time that at the end the narrator announced a union affiliation (that she is a member of SAG-AFTRA) which is nice and fitting :)

The cover of the book “the capital order” by Clara e Mattei

despite all the praise by marxists for The Capital Order I was still surprised at how MARXIST Marxist it is, anyway, great book

Whenever I have like 2 beers in the afternoon and then go back to working on a sewing project I feel like I’m getting in touch with my 19th century seamstress ancestors

This is so true! I always feel very safe in Berlin and can count the times I’ve felt uneasy on one hand. All instances where I was going through a park and for some reason there was no one in sight, or walking on a weirdly deserted street

You are right ! -kg per person

Rip Frederick the Great you would have loved free potato week

Vier Millionen Kilo Kartoffeln suchen ein Zuhause Zum 100. Mal jährt sich die Internationale Grüne Woche. Zu diesem Anlass verschenken Berliner Morgenpost und Ecosia tonnenweise Kartoffeln. So können Sie mitmachen.

Attention Berlin!!

🥔 🚨🥔 get ready for free potato week 🥔 🚨 🥔 🚨

The Berliner Morgenpost is coordinating the free distribution of more than 4 million surplus potatoes.

That’s more than 1 potato for every person in Berlin

www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...

I think because people come there from insta - a visual rather than text based platform - way more people on there are functionally illiterate and write/ behave so much like bots it’s super hard to see who is a bot at first. It’s like if all normal people automatically had accounts on here or twt

back to the daily grind (completing the unfinished project of modernity)

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..."

then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live!

people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US.

it's MAD.

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela.

It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.

This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

You just get a fine! It’s wild

In Germany, if they catch you cycling drunk, especially if you disobey a traffic law, they can take away your drivers license. It happened to a friend of mine, he had to do super expensive remedial driving classes because of drunk biking

"In the meantime, may I wish you in advance every happiness for the new year. If it's anything like the old one, I, for my part, would sooner consign it to the devil." - Marx to Engels, 27 Dec. 1861

In before everyone else posts this classic new year's quote

We’re going to see Home Alone 2 in cinemas tonight and I’m wearing two pigeon-themed articles of clothing

I’m also very short and short-waited ( big reason I got back into sewing) and usually always have to take out 1-3cm from the height of modern shirt/dress sewing patterns. Not so here. I took out 1cm and realised after I really didn’t need to, it was designed very short to start with

I dress like this! rust is real vintage and the red one I made/sewed from a 40s pattern. Despite how boxy they look, they have much more shaping around the waist/hips than modern blouses. They are also much shorter than modern blouses. In my red one the there are !8!! darts plus side-shaping

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

“I find it disheartening that instead of a society that once valorized translators as intercultural communicators and professionals who could uphold a bilingual society, we're flattening culture with AI systems that don't allow for a more organic exchange between languages.”

Coming soon in paperback!

The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...

BBC under pressure over Sally Rooney’s Palestine Action support The author of Normal People, which was a big hit for the corporation, said at the weekend she would donate money from her work to the proscribed group

More "free speech" in the Times, as "Lawyers for Israel" suggest that booksellers could be criminally liable for selling Sally Rooney's novels.

Has she seen the meme videos of people making fun of all the absolutely bizzaro home decor items they sell there? I love those

Did you go to ikea? It was always my favourite as a kid. First smalland then looking at all the stuff to dream up my ideal bedroom home makeover style

Hanging out and catching up with a friend who is trying to make it in the academic job market atm has revealed to me that academics are the people in the modern word who are most likely to have a legitimate serious nemesis. A reoccurring evil character haunting their life.

The window is open (15cm gap at the top there) I’m just hoping it jumps down at some point I don’t want to deal with this

There is a GIANT grasshopper on my window. How do I get it to leave. Also, how did it get there. I live on the TENTH floor