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Remembering Chevalière d'Éon for Pride. A transgender woman in the 1700s who was also a spy and who turned double agent, extorted an entire monarchy to get her gender marker changed, and lived her life as a woman in a time when such was thought impossible. We have always been here.

submitted 21 days ago • 275 comments

If you see this, post a monster 👁️👁️👁️

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Among my fav fish are wrasses. I didn’t know this about them but I like them more now

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Spanish public tv, RTVE, was threatened with a sanction if it mentioned Gaza’s genocide. Their response? That message. You can watch Spanish tv for free by making an account in www.rtve.es/play/ Brave!!!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

🇪🇸Hoy es martes 13, considerado por las personas de España un día de mala suerte. 🇬🇧Today is Tuesday the 13th, considered by the Spanish the day of bad luck.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: written and spoken languages have different tendencies. “She stopped it” when spoken, won’t sound like SHE + STOPPED + IT It will sound more like SHES + TOP + TIT Understanding linking is key for speaking and more importantly, listening successfully. #langsky #learnspanish

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

My friend asked me recently about my favourite idioms in Spanish and English. In Spanish, probably the pooping in the milk and other things one. In English, being under the weather and going to town. What are your fav idioms? Both in your L1 and others you speak? #langsky

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

“It’s harder to hate up close.” Brava

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Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said a nationwide blackout of this scale had never happened before in Spain. He added that the underlying cause remains unclear.

submitted 55 days ago • 102 comments

Honestamente, estaba haciendo planes de darme un paseo por el pueblo, completamente a oscuras, a mirar estrellas un rato, cuando ha vuelto la luz.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

If you haven’t heard, a lot of Spain and a lot of Portugal have been hit by a massive electrical blackout. It coincides with the day I was flying here, while less chaotic than expected, it’s taken ages to get home. Everything here was pitch black and stars were very easy to see. Unforgettable…

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Apagón en EEUU: Saqueo Apagón en España: Terracita

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

My friend asked me recently about my favourite idioms in Spanish and English. In Spanish, probably the pooping in the milk and other things one. In English, being under the weather and going to town. What are your fav idioms? Both in your L1 and others you speak? #langsky

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

OMG OMG OMG just watched the second episode of The Last of Us season 2. A story that was like incredibly intense on its own that they have decided to make even more intense. Woah. Incredible. Can’t wait for the rest (had they been out I’d be chain-watching).

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

These last few weeks I have been bringing more pronunciation micro practice into lessons, which leads to unaware repetition, which leads to intuition training. Win-win

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 781 days ago • 24 comments

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 66 days ago • 59 comments

Las flores florecen. The flowers are blooming. #Spanish #languages #LanguageLearning. #LearnSpanish with us: thelanguagegarage.com/spring-in-sp...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

When “gender critical” “feminists” see a cis woman they believe to be trans, they make it very unsafe for them cis women. They have some power to fight and they have chosen to fight, literally, the very thing they claim to be protecting. #TransWomenarewomen

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 68 days ago • 240 comments

My intersectional feminism is very much not represented by the ruling around “biological sex”. TERFs are terrifying and today is a sad day. Not a victory for feminism. A tragedy.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Tax returned filed! A few other freelancer friends and I have a group called “Tax in the City” and today got together and did our returns together, chatting about this and that, eating blueberries and torrijas. 10/10 Would recommend

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment