hi hello to my very limited following. I’ve set my intention next year and decided one of the ways I’m going to protect my time (read: sanity) is to move offline. If you’d like to keep in touch, dm me your email/snail mail before 12/31 ♥️
in the coming year we’re doing away with the concept of “cringe.” we’re being our weirdest selves, we’re embracing our nichest obsessions, we’re recovering the passion society tried to shame out of us. ignore the haters. become the exuberant nerd you were born to be.
As @SouthwestAir CEO Bob Jordan pretends to apologize—remember—SW got a $7B federal bailout, spent $5.6B of that on Stock Buybacks, gave their CEO a raise to $9.1M,& forced frontline workers to 16 hour shifts under threat of termination—while spending $0 updating their software😳
in the next year let’s stop creating things for mass consumption and start creating things for a handful of people to say “this is completely unhinged and I LOVE it.” make whatever deranged things are in your weird heart
For 1000 years, Arabic was the primary international language of commerce, scholarship & politics, much as English is today. Over the centuries, English adopted many words that were borrowed directly from Arabic
For Arabic Language Day, here are 20 words with Arabic origins…
get them what they really want this holiday season: a vine-covered lighthouse where they can read books all day and stare out to sea and walk down to the local pub for a bowl of stew