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Just checking this place out. Dutch in Poland. Gay. They/he but honestly OK with whatever.
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When you're packing for a drag show it's always "it can't possibly be that much, it's one outfit, some makeup and maybe a lunch" and then it's somehow this huge suitcase

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Horrible thought of the day: masculinity influencer diet where you're only allowed foods that resemble dicks or balls. You're only allowed phallic food like banana, cucumber, eggplant and sausage and food like eggs and avocados.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

When I did one of those tests to help you pick your major as a teen, I ended up getting sociology and anthropology ranking really high and I didn't understand why. The fact that now a decade later I wish I could put niche internet communities in a lab and study them for a job may be connected.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

I think the only way to properly understand Dutch politics is by looking at how comedians in the early 80s started a fictional political party to lampoon then-current far-right populism that got a substantial unironic following

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

One thing I'm prone to, I think a side effect of the brain-body disconnect I have due to dyspraxia, is that I'm prone to what I call General Physical Misery. I'm grumpy and irritable and feel terrible and only after I've eaten or slept or untensed my muscles I realize something was physically wrong.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Having a discussion about what it means to be a Catholic. To me, (Dutch), anyone who is baptized into the Catholic church and has not de-registered is a catholic, but my bf (Polish) insists that in addition, you need to hold certain beliefs about the role of the pope and such to be Catholic.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

The weirdest culture shock I've had when moving to Poland from the Netherlands is how high they like to turn up the temperature in stores and houses. When my bf and I lived in NL I thought it was a him thing but no, in winter they just turn the indoor temperature up that high.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

The talk of a multipolar world is often framed as "smaller nations should get the freedom to self determination without intervention from the US imperial core" but in practice it results in "Russia and China should get to carve out their own imperial spheres without US intervention"

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely fascinated by linguistic silly zones. It's well known by now Dutch is in the English LSZ. I actually think it's an improvement over how I view Dutch as a native speaker, which is a boring language for work meetings, not for poetry. Being English's clown cousin is an improvement.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, it's trans women who are the threat to women's sports, and not the fact that in the vast majority of sports the top athletes in the women's division are not paid enough to live off their sport.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

"Words mean things" is such a bad copout because it's not even true. It would be really nice if language mapped unambiguously onto the world, unfortunately it does not.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

One of my mom's friends is an HR ghoul and she was like "they shouldn't report there's a flu epidemic on the news because once they report it people feel like they feel like they have an excuse to call in sick" my sister in Christ they're calling in sick because there's a flu epidemic

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Suddenly remembering that one time when I was 13 and my parents talked me into dressing up as Muammar Gaddafi for a school costume party wtf was that

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments