#not a great day

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

How are you doing today, Quin?

Honestly? Not great. I’ve thrown up so many times today I’ve kinda lost count. I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow so I hope everything goes well there.

Hope you’re doing well, sweet anon

[harellan]

supposed to be traveling for a concert on wednesday and i currently have the worst sore throat of my life, nervous it's strep

[betasuppe]

Yesterday was. A hot fucking mess. & I'm just.

I feel like everything I set out to do, I'll absolutely fucking fail.

I really don't know why I try anymore. I don't know why I keep putting myself through this same routine of torture over & over again.

Fuck me for even trying, I guess.

[psych0r0gue1]

[wanderingmind867]

We went out today. Technically, my dad never promised me the day would go perfectly. But I got my hopes up a bit, and now my day is going worse than I imagined.

First off, there was an Uber with a wet seat (except I didn't notice the seat was wet), so by the time we got out of the car my pants were soaked with water. It feels chilly now and I hate it.

Secondly, we went to a bookstore to return a book and browse. That was going okay, until I got tired and wanted to sit down. Then I realised the store had no seating, which made me angry and indignant to the point where I began sweating profusely under my winter coat. Now I'm sitting out here trying to de-stress, writing this note while my back is coated in sweat and my pants are freezing me. I feel deeply uncomfortable, and the only positive is that this note has offered me enough catharsis that I seem to have calmed down a bit.

[sparklebear11]

I had not a great morning 💀

My dad cut his arm and he was bleeding everywhere so my parents left 😭

Showered

Cleaned off so much blood from the floor

Realized there was a chicken in the stove, panicked (I don't know how to cook)

Texted everyone I knew 😭

Texted my family gc

Thank god my auntie picked up and told me it was slow cooking 🤭

And yay my mum is gonna come home 🤭🤭🤭

She panicked so much and I was calm because I just woke up 🤭- and a eepy baby BUT NOW EVERYTHING SMELLS LIKE BLOOD

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

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[the-marxist-mash]

We got that dysphoria rot today girlies 💖

[mantasunray-art]

im getting fired from my 1st job cause im the laziest bitch ever and i havent even started what im supposed to be working on for like... months (hashtag slay)

[commander-snacks]

all Ive done today is disappoint people and make messes im going to try to sleep now

[lesboslibra]

y'know it's very hard to be depresso in ur room and try to go to sleep early when the club downstairs blasts music for another hour and a half

[unnatural-twenty]

Accountability blog

Food: Cooked Stuffed Peppers, Butter carrots and Banana bread. Had an omelette for breakfast, a banana and a slice of bread with cheese for a snack

Tasks: Did the shopping

Exercise: None

[t-ierrahumeda]

Feeling bad tuesday

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[eldritch-elrics]

obsessed with the april fools day joke from the another crab's treasure devs

[chaos-whispers]

When the cramps are so bad you just have to lay down and cry