Voice of Fire

Ae/aer. Tired. Leave me be. and to follow elsewhere.

[Voice of Fire @digamma]

I am very small and boring. There is nothing of interest here.

[Voice of Fire @digamma]

@azforeman My dad had three of those and always used "brother-in-law" for them. (NYC, born 1930s)

[Teacher Dude @teacherdude]

Κάθε 11 λεπτά, μια γυναίκα δολοφονείται από μέλος της οικογένειάς της.
Το 70% των γυναικών που πέφτουν θύματα γυναικοκτονίας είχαν ζητήσει προηγουμένως βοήθεια.
1 στις 3 γυναίκες παγκοσμίως –περίπου 736 εκατομμύρια γυναίκες– έχουν βιώσει σωματική ή σεξουαλική βία

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

In conclusion, before you center yourself, as a tourist/classicist/mythology fan, celebrate that vulnerable 🇬🇷queer people, couples, and families, are going to receive some (SOME), of the protections systemically denied to them (which you, as an anglo, have already been granted).

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

And then anglos will say why do we need queer greek perspectives on queer depictions of mythological characters.

Because, always, modern greece is somehow simultaneously hyper privileged and hyper primitive, in the eye of the rando anglo beholder.

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

The other annoying thing is ppl acting surprised greek society is homophobic because their only knowledge of us begins and ends with ancient greek dionysian orgies

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

(Queer retvrn fantasies are still retvrn fantasies)

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

Americans forget real people actually live here and not just service robots for their RETVRN fantasies

[Avra Margariti @avramargariti]

*Greece, a violently homophobic country finally legalizing same-sex civil marriage after 🇬🇷 lgbtq+ activists fought hard for it for decades*

Some rando anglo: finally, those dirty backwards greeks will let us do the 🏳️‍🌈 wedding island tourism they'd been so cruelly denying us

[Teacher Dude @teacherdude]

Photos from inside the revolt - Greek university students have been occupying departments across the nation for six weeks running. They're protesting Athens' introduction of private universities, widely seen as part of a wider attack on public education in #Greece. #photography

[Voice of Fire @digamma]

@thocpodcast Politer/less confident in non-native/not-fully-fluent languages is the norm, I think, but in Portuguese I'm even grouchier than in English for some reason. Never fully acquired the speech habits to say things less bluntly, I guess.

[Voice of Fire @digamma]

@thocpodcast Similarly my voice pitch in GR/ES hovers around a particular point in the middle of my range, while in English it's either low or high/middle depending on who I'm talking to and what image I'm conveying and in PT it stays pretty low.

[tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs]

young american protestant trads converting to catholicism and then going “what the FUCK this is so sick and twisted” when it’s the catholic church and some guy in italy can, in fact, tell you what to do has got to be the funniest thing to happen within christianity in a while

[Adri (Bsky: @adriaan.braevitae.com) @AdriaanBrae]

@Tobi_Is_Fab The "I don't have an accent" people are just making it clear they don't have the capacity to imagine life from someone else's point of view 😕

[Asteris Masouras 正义 @asteris]

Don't vote for nazis, folks. A reminder that he and his gang were convicted for criminal deeds, not their ideology.

[Tim O'Neill @TimONeill007]

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[Tim O'Neill @TimONeill007]

Some more accurate and reliable resources on all of the above:

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[Tim O'Neill @TimONeill007]

... STOP using crappy memes like this as brainless gotchas - it's embarrassing for those of us with clue. Check your facts and guard against clueless confirmation bias.