I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”
like what stupid frenchman saw this:
and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE POMME DE TERRE!”
j’adore comment ananas se dit pineapple en anglais, ce qui veut littéralement dire “pomme de pin”, genre quel type anglais a vu ça:
et s’est dit : “ow cette étrange big fruit ressemble à une, how do you say, POMME! hmmm… mais plutôt une pomme qui pousse dans les pins… HU HU HU! OH YES, IT’S A PINEAPPLE!”
(z’avez vu, on peut le faire aussi… hon hon hon!)
I can’t even read French and I’m laughing my ass off
Reposting this A+ response from a biology teacher to the “It’s not natural” argument about the fluidity of gender, sex, anatomy, and sexuality. Life in all shapes and forms is mind-blowingly complex and beautiful that way.
The wild is an integral part of who we are as children. Without pausing to consider what or where or how, we gather herbs and flowers, old apples and rose hips, shiny pebbles and dead spiders, poems, tears and raindrops, putting each treasured thing into the cauldron of our souls. We stir our bucket of mud as if it were, every one, a bucket of chocolate cake to be mixed for the baking. Little witches, hag children, we dance our wildness, not afraid of not knowing.
it’s 9am. if i put my boots on with the intention of going out to play in the snow, it will suddenly be 4:30 pm and dark as satan’s asshole. this is our life.
Top 10 Weather Photographs: 10/18/2015 “Storm Puts on a Show in Lubbock Texas” – The changing colors of the back of this storm at sunset were incredible over Lubbock, Texas - June 12th 2015
CHINA, Fengjing : Farmer Chen Jinxiang walks through his rice paddy
field planted with various types of rice forming a map of China in
Fengjing, west of Shanghai, on October 19, 2015. Chen grew over 20
different types of rice in his field, measuring some 200 square meters,
to form the map. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE
This week I am very happy to present a collaboration comic with my friend Chrissie, who has been generous in sharing with me her experiences of gender dynamics in a technical field, and then helping me craft them into a comic narrative.
Whenever I see Chrissie’s work I’m always impressed at the cool, creative things she does. When we were discussing this comic, she told me: “I find men persistently try to direct me lots now too, which is probably the biggest problem I consistently run into”, and my feelings around that fact are a terrible and familiar blend of frustration, sadness, and lack of surprise.
When we talk about the differences in how men and women are treated professionally, especially in technical fields, we are often dismissed with ‘everyone has to deal with that’, or ‘women need to demonstrate more confidence with their skills’, or ‘they’re just trying to be helpful’, or ‘it’s all in your head’.
It’s frustrating when we know something like this is happening, but we spend so much of our time actually trying to get people to believe that it’s a real phenomenon. I find narratives like Chrissie’s validating in that she has a comparative set of experiences and is like ‘oh yeah, people totally think I’m less competent at my job now. it’s totally a thing’. So, can guys just believe us already and get on helping it not happen?
Yeah. I think a lot of people underestimate how obvious this stuff is to people who’ve changed presentations.
