Cesar Gerardo

Just doing my best to be doing my best. he/him.

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I’m assembling a team…

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The Deposition, Rogier van Der Weyden

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The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, Giovanni di Paolo

My wife & I attended a very fun Mexican-Vietnamese wedding! Inspired by the genius @ArtButSports 😊 No AI used—just me re-cropping & spending too much time scrolling images online

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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sebastiano Ricci

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The Deposition, Rogier van Der Weyden

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@langofmind One of my favorites is in Vietnamese, where there’s no real word for NOODLES—you must specify what kind lol

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First clip from DreamWorks' ‘FORGOTTEN ISLAND’.

The film follows 2 best friends trapped in a mystical world but their only way of escape is to erase all their memories of each other.

In theaters on September 25.

[Cesar Gerardo @kaliador]

@CountJanzin Yay! I studied with Prof Zinoman & Cô Cầm in Hà Nội before their translation was published & I own this same edition too. What a fun way to see their names again. Muito obrigado pela memoria!

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@physorg_com @ConversationEDU "We have given it the common name helmethead sea muppet, after the domed, helmet-like crest on its head." LOL

[Cesar Gerardo @kaliador]

Perfect

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Cesar Gerardo @kaliador]

The Town is in Da House!!!

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I’m assembling a team…

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My favorite souvenir from our BirmEdinHamBurgh trip: my first INTERNATIONAL library card!!

[Cesar Gerardo @kaliador]

@briscoepark Twin Peaks trail to the Black Lodge!

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@awoodustin Mamsir exists in the Philippines 😊

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I find it helps to develop an interest in things. Visit museums, hit up the library and discover-browse. Read widely. Learn new languages, new words. Watch old films. The world is a wondrous place but the sense of wonder is a muscle that must be cultivated like any other.

[Cesar Gerardo @kaliador]

@lingdiscovery The etymology of lord & lady always makes me smile—such a wild ride!

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@sonaturn Boys weren't allowed to have any facial hair. I was the only one to ever challenge the rule for all 4 yrs. Every month, 1 teacher (same one each time) was tasked with telling me it was time to shave.

[Cesar Gerardo @kaliador]

@becauselangpod @superlinguo @lingthusiasm @OxUniPress Mindblown: my avoid-evade RelatedOrNot played, AND Baybayin mentioned‽ Did this episode peek inside my diary? FYI babayin does make excellent tattoos, incl the full text of The Lord’s Prayer I have on my back!