GiorgioBoymoder [none/use name]

so I know a white USian who moved to Canada & someone said it’s “imperialistic” of them to call themselves “expat” rather than “immigrant”. I get that the term is used selectively, but they are literally synonyms, are the connotations really that charged?

like so:

lmao the video goes from bridge up to bridge in water in 1 frame

livestream must have hitched from the sudden change in bitrate XD

The other day Steve Inskeep read out the Merriam-Webster definition of Stalinism on-air:

the theory and practice of communism developed by Stalin from Marxism-Leninism and marked especially by rigid authoritarianism, widespread use of terror, and often emphasis on Russian nationalism

godamm that river is choppy like the ocean

try being a girl?

Had a Mandela effect style episode while looking up Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago.

It looks different than I thought it did!

But an image search included a few results that show it existing way it did in my memory! How could this be?

Turns out both buildings exist (the second one is 875 N Michigan Ave, sometimes called John Hancock Center), I was just wrong, and those incorrect image search results were just there to confuse the fuck out of me.