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Books, cats, Takarazuka and other musicals. Warsaw, Poland. She/her or sie/hir. yukinojou.tumblr.com
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Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

From an entirely kitsuke point of view, the layers of queerness in these clothes.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

🇺🇸🇵🇱🇭🇺 I'm afraid that all the expert output about the rule of law crisis in Hungary/Poland being a consequence of these countries being "young, not yet fully developed democracies without a long history of developing trust in institutions" is about to age very badly.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, a former prisoner at Auschwitz, has died aged 98. Turski regularly appealed to people to not be indifferent towards discrimination, famously declaring that "Auschwitz did not fall from the sky".

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

'Josephine Baker wearing her medals from her service in French Resistance at the Civil Rights March on Washington DC, 1963'

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Signal boosting, I’m a big fan of their work. There’s a lot of need out there and I’m not pressuring, just thought I’d let other fans know.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

submitted 66 days ago • 71 comments

A brother makes the best pillow.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Chúc mừng năm mới! Vạn sự như ý! (Happy new year, may all wishes come true)

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

I fucking love how much Russia just does not get that Poland genuinely does not want Lviv anymore. It is an entire country that remains, even now, psychologically incapable of conceiving that someone could concede a territorial claim.

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Polish government agency KSNG confirmed that the Polish name of the Gulf of Mexico is still very much "Zatoka Meksykańska" and pointed out that even the official international English name is officially Gulf of Mexico, per International Hydrographic Organization. www.gov.pl/web/ksng/naz...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Hi you don’t have to post it. And you don’t have to re-post it. And you can think about the fact that Jewish people are gonna be traumatized every single time you make us see it over and over and over and over. You can just not post it.

submitted 33 days ago • 86 comments

Cass Review. New article in the New England Journal of Medicine, founded in 1812 and amongst the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. Its 2023 impact factor was 96.2, ranking it 2nd out of 168 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".

submitted 33 days ago • 52 comments

Ok #booksky, let’s talk. 👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books. 👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

submitted 34 days ago • 901 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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"She didn’t consider leaving. She’d hated herself her whole life, she tells me, “and when someone comes along and hates you as much as yourself, it is kind of a relief, without it always being consent.”" 😱 www.vulture.com/article/neil... My thoughts and support to the victims.

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

Who is your celebrity "birthday twin" (born same day as you)? Answer with pic or gif only.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Back to late medieval calligraphy. Holbein was just mentioned, resisting breaking out into Haus of Holbein...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

submitted 43 days ago • 443 comments

Regulation matters

submitted 45 days ago • 66 comments