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this week we are looking at Lublin and its art

the portal is a set of two portals, one stood in Vilnius and the other in Lublin. they are like videoconference windows. you can stand in front of one and make stupid faces at your friend stood in front of the other in Lithuania (recommend).

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Fuuuuck

I didn't have breakfast today becasue I figured if I leave home earlier I can just buy something in a bakery

I did not consider the fact that since it's Fat Thursday every single bakery and shop will only have pączki

Don't get me wrong I like pączki (though I'm not crazy about them) but yk. I wanted a breakfast

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There is a what where??

Dracula and Jonathan’s Tango - from The Polish National Opera production of ‘Dracula’.

With Choreography by Krzysztof Pastor and Music by Wojciech Kilar.

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digital art round 4 poll 2

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Untitled [three borzhois] by Aleksandra Czudżak, 2019:

propaganda: Love the use of limited color pallet!

Running away by Margot Zussy (French), 2022:

propaganda: this art is based on the news story of a cow that ran away and lived with a group of wisents in 2017 here is a link to news story about it from BBC news https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-42803471

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like a fool i have always forgiven the dc metro system every time it fucks me over because the stupid sexy 70s brutalist aesthetic is just too swag i am sorry

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What XD

That's my new favourite accidental shipment fiasco now, previous one was the cocaine smuggled with bananas in Biedronka

In case anyone missed it

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I'm choosing the the Warsaw Old Town becasue it was probably used during repairs after the war and that's very cool

(I know exactly in which corner you need to stand to see this even though all of these buildings were destroyed)

painting round 4 poll 12

Blessing of the new moon by Artur Markowicz, 1933:

propaganda: It has such a soft fuzzy feel to it, just makes me feel very comfortable when i look at it.

Warsaw Old Town Square at night by Józef Pankiewicz, 1892:

propaganda: The colors create such an amazing mood.

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Bigos disgusts me, the texture, the taste, everything

I have nothing against pickled cabbage (actually cabbage in general) until you try to make it hot

What’s a food from your culture that u HATE #hatersonly

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As far as I know there is one (1) cybertruck registrated in Poland (in Śląsk region somewhere, I think)

If I remember correctly, to manage that they had to 1) buy it secondhand and abroad (a bit different laws apply then, I think) and 2) make hella lot modifications so it doesn't kill pedestrians as easily

(iirc they they had to modify it twice before the office agreed? They had to get rid of the sharp edges and change the front lights so they are according to the EU regulations)

So much trouble just to be the ugliest car in the country xd like, please, it looks like it's rusting on this photo

(the owner published it on twitter like this so it's ok not to blur the plate right? Either way there is only one of these so it would be easy to find out xd)

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Translated image id:

A notice about giving away cats with a picture of two cats in hard cats

Notice text: Two three months old tomcats are looking for a home ([they are] healthy, clean, with an extensive construction knowledge*)

First cat says "I'm building code"

The second says "and I'm safe working practice"

The fire text is "The construction industry brothers"

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*this is not an idiom, those are just really smart kittens apparently. Also there is something about word "budowlanka" that is funnier than just its meaning but I can't explain it

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There is something about Sienkiewicz that makes people go wild. I remember when we were reading The Crusaders in middle school and my class was divided by a ship war

everyone’s talking about how unhinged fans are nowadays about their blorbos. well let me tell you that when the polish writer henryk sienkiewicz first published his novel ‘with fire and sword’ in parts between 1883 and 1884, and killed off the beloved character longinus podbipięta, people nationwide were so upset they’d go to church and ask for requiem masses to be held in his memory. match THAT freak

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Tips from a pro

(Working Cats)

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I have just heard a preteen say "iks de" outloud

I knew people still do that, ha! XD

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City buses (autobuses), and public transport in general, don't get belts, trams here don't really get chairs either xd you mostly have to stand

There are only belts for people on wheelchairs

In theory they don't really drive fast. In practice... Well. You should hold something when you are standing there.

But buses that like, go to another city or country (autocars) do have better chairs and lamps etc (and seatbelts ofc)

And those drive on highways etc so you legally should wear a seatbelt. Most people don't tho, losers

Do buses have seatbelts where you live? yes/no (if mod wants to add a never been on a bus option that's fine)

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Devastating:

Finding out that the cool word you were looking for while writing in English is in fact a Polish slang one

So now you remember it but can't use it, even though it fits perfectly, because it won't be understood

However, I can also rightly say that English speaking people have no rigcz

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Ever wanted to know how to pronounce the name of our favorite Ur copper merchant, Ea-nāṣir? If you haven't looked it up, I can almost guarantee that you are saying it wrong, but fret not. I will share the secret with you (or at least the buest guess modern experts have).

The reconstruction of how to pronounce his name currently looks like this in the IPA:

[e.a.naː.t͡sʼiʁ]

If that looks daunting, keep reading.

While Ea-nāṣir may be remembered to us as a Sumerian, he did not speak Sumerian. The Sumerian language was all but extinct in his day, and Sumerians now spoke an unrelated language called Akkadian.

The infamous complaint tablets are written in Akkadian Cuneiform, which is a complicated writing system that it is difficult to figure out the pronunciation of after the fact. Pronunciations have shifted considerably during the time that modern people have studied it. All the same, we have a "buest guess" at pronunciation.

The first thing to note is that Akkadian has phonemic vowel quantity, which is a fancy way if saying that the length of a vowel is really important. Ea-nāṣir's name has four vowels, and three are short and one is long. The long one is the A with a bar on top (called a macron, pronounced MACK-ron or MAKE-ron). If you see that symbol in other languages it is probably also a long vowel (you'll see this in Arabic, Latin, and many other languages).

This also tells us where to stress the word. While Akkadian has somewhat complicated rules for stress, Ea-nāṣir's case is simple: stress the syllable with the long vowel.

The vowels themselves are the vowels you would find in Spanish, Japanese or Swahili: the E is closest to the English vowel in dress, the As are between trap and palm, just like Spanish gato, and the I is somewhere around sheep or fear.

So far, intuitively, you're probably pronouncing it something like "e-a-NAW-sir", which is getting closer to the accurate idea, but we haven't looked at the consonants yet, and unfortunately they are the hardest parts (for an English speaker).

The N is just a regular N. This isn't too surprising since N is one of the single most common sounds across all spoken languages (perhaps only beaten by M).

The R, while contested among scholars, seems to be leaning towards a "back R" or "guttural R", the way French people and some Germans do it.

That leaves the ṣ. Oh boy. It is, first of all, an affricate, like the Z in pizza. "e-a-NAAT-sir" would as such be a good try. It is, however, also something called an ejective, which is a notoriously tricky type of consonant where you block the airflow while saying it, only to release it immediately after.

You know the T-dropping that some brits do, or the way you rapidly close off air flow at the back of your throat when saying ah-ah-ah (and perhaps wagging your finger)? Try putting an air release like that right after the ts sound. If the closest you get is "e-a-NAT-suh-ir" then you are already doing a good job.

If you are a perfectionist, here is an old youtube video of a person making the noise, with decent audio.

And that's it, really. That is a complete breakdown of the best guess we have at how Ea-nāṣir's name would have been pronounced.

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I think I'm gonna start using he/him for the moon on purpose now.