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Tsveira

@phantasm.bsky.social

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Sometimes get a little feral. She/her. DMs open if I follow you. Aprendiendo español (actualmente: nivel B2)

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Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · Nov 8

A lot of people could stand to learn that there’s no inherent virtue in suffering.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Oct 6

Consider that we now live in a literal dark age. With billionaires relentlessly rotting the internet, there will soon be fewer historical records of this era than there are from basically any other time.

All of this will be forgotten, a corrupted few bits in an ocean of spam in a landfill.

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 2h

The idea of ”stealing” a dish is kinda odd tbh. People who live near each other long enough tend to cook similar things!

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Javier Basulto @javobas.bsky.social · 8h

#Spanish #langsky

The sentences below are 100% correct. The conjugated verbs “fueres”, “fuere” and “vieres” are examples of the Future #subjunctive tense. It has almost disappeared in modern Spanish, although it can still be found in very formal texts. Non-natives do not need to master it.

Two examples of Spanish Future Subjunctive, a verbal tense that is uncommon but used in very formal language.

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 3h

the decline of the future subjunctive is mildly annoying to me b/c it’s so hard to wrap my head around needing to use the present tense (or even past tense!) subjunctive to speak about things in the future lol

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 15h

Kerry not being bi is so messed up

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 21h

Entertainment! by Gang of Four

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

I believe in ideological diversity, I think it’s important to listen to everyone from the center-left to the far left

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

Muslim britney spears and like im not your allah back girl

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

Death cult

Snowden St. @snowden.st · May 14

Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

The Brood being about his divorce suddenly makes that movie make perfect sense to me lmao

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

(This was also how I found out Benny Blanco is Jewish)

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

Friend of mine texted to ask if I’m “proud that selena gomez is marrying one of your people [jews]”

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to see what religion the twitter tradcaths jump to next now that they dislike this pope. The obvious answer is eastern orthodox but i’m hoping for coptic christianity. Mix it up a little, have some fun with it

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

Me playing bioshock

Michael Jordan looking pensively at the camera

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 1d

I have played through all the Bioshock games and I somehow never knew this, which I think says a lot about me (or at least about how I played those games lol)

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The choice feels meaningful the first time because you are sacrificing resources to do something good. Then you rapidly find out that you get makeup resources for being good anyway.

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 2d

Re:Israel-Palestine ceasefire: I find phrases like ”apolitical technocrats” a bit maddening. In what way can governing a territory NOT be political? What do you think politics means lol

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 2d

I thought i was the only person who played that game lmao hell yeah

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lot of them genuinely think once netanyahu is gone they can recoup their losses (which imo fundamentally misunderstands israeli domestic politics let alone US ones lol)

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 3d

Matt Gaetz, famously trustworthy and honest man

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 3d

These days they’ll arrest you just for saying you‘re (majoring in) English

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3d

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 3d

Probably not a coincidence that basically all the men in his cabinet have been credibly accused of DV or sexual assault, then

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · Sep 21

For the sake of posterity, the reading lists I made for military theory and war related literature.

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 3d

I think it’s beautiful that I can give someone directions in Spanish on the way to a German cabaret show and then hear people speaking Chinese on the train ride back. Not to be a cringe lib or whatever but that is unironically why this place is great

Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 3d

A not-insignificant amount of americans do in fact think that yes