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My reason for not posting on or reading BlueSky recently

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Impressive if it can happen, but very sceptical that something planned by the EU itself can compete with the innovation of Google.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The precipitous drop in English-language songs in Eurovision this year must be a sign of its loss of prestige even as it remains economically significant. Most opted for national languages instead, but I think a new prestige language will emerge. Will French rise again?

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Italy announcing that they will permit larger dogs in passenger seats in approved carriers is SO EXCITING. I hope this spreads to other EU countries. www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-n...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

One thing we do not talk about (yet) in Europe is that if you learn English, you can have any ethnicity/name/accent and people accept it. For other langs, having a non-matching name/face/accent means your language skills undervalued or ignored. You have to speak nearly error-free or not at all.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Currently job situation is giving me identity problems that will require therapy to deal with.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like it's gonna be dental care summer (two wisdom teeth extractions 🥲)

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Btw it doesn't matter what the answer is, if you ask someone where they're from, putting on a face of dislike or disappointment is incredibly rude.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The UK has pursued a single-minded policy of "reducing net migration" ever since the financial crisis. It's not limited to one party and it is always rooted in the idea that foreigners generate problems that natives don't, despite the fact that the UK has realised huge benefits due to immigration.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry I was unaware that everyone in a country was supposed to be related? The greatest cities in the world have always been full of intersecting groups of people who don't know each other. They interact sometimes and great ideas emerge. Apparently Keir Starmer wants a country of inbred villages.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

All societies are by definition societies of strangers. The fuck is wrong with you people.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

What a terrible idea

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I went to renew my passport today and because I had lived abroad before. I had to fill out a form full of biographical data about myself, my parents, everywhere I had lived in since birth... to have my right to a passport reassessed. People living abroad have to fill this out, but why me? WTF?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

So far, I have done very well on practice exams for DELE, but I haven't done a practice module for writing yet... let's see what happens next.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Give me one good reason I shouldn't move to Madrid.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Just realised one wild thing about English in Europe is that most jobs don't make you show a formal language certification and it's usually judged by interview or just taken for granted, while this is less true for the native language of the country.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

The Millennial in me despises to admit that sometimes calling on the phone just makes everything easier.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh have to renew my passport almost a year early because the US requires passports to have at least 6 mo. of validity to enter, I always need to be able to go for family emergencies, etc, and Swedes can't be trusted to keep passports up to date and flood the offices during summer for holidays.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

We go visit our puppy at the breeder every week, and I just can't stop looking at the photos

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Do I have work to do? Yes. Am I instead looking up dog training and accessories for imminent puppy arrival instead? Also yes.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

La errática política económica y comercial del presidente de Estados Unidos ha generado desconfianza e incertidumbre y ha supuesto un frenazo en seco a un crecimiento que era la envidia del mundo

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Si paso el examen de C1 en español creo que voy a estudiar francés después.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to be wrong but I'm still going with the idea that the blackout was caused by sabotage.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

It is ridiculous how much easier it is to be considered a proficient English speaker by natives compared to vice versa in any other language.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Just discovering now that "Popeye" is "Popeye" in Spanish but pronounced as a Spanish word 💀

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments