Texts from my sister
In high school, when preparing for the baccalaureate, I decided to take modern art as an elective. I spent a year curating a portfolio of my work around the concept of identity, and whether an external eye can grasp what our identity is from the breadcrumb trails we leave in the world.
This was pre big data, pre cookies, pre digital identity, and I had no idea just how eerily accurate big tech would turn out to be at figuring out who we are. I did things like trace out my daily movements on a paper map of my town, over and over the trips I did every day. Do a photo collection of what each of my friends carried in their backpack. Or slip receipts and train tickets in all the library books I had borrowed that year1; the idea was that someone might get a full picture of my identity if they borrowed all of the same books as me — but what were the odds of someone borrowing these exact books, unless they were me?
My sister and I are both online but in different spheres; as a result we often have fresh memes and finds that we know the other one will love, but may not have seen yet. As a trail of crumbs, here is a selection. Personal discussions and photos removed, this is the stuff we talk about. I wonder how much it reveals about each of us, and about our relationship, if anything at all.
And if not, enjoy the fresh memes.
This could be me. Crows are my favorite dinosaur.
Did I ever tell you W. and I met when in Japanese class, they had us learn the names of various fish, and when the list got to dolphin, we both yelled out “that’s a mammal!”
Hands are a disadvantage.
I was looking up something serious for once! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(textiles)
YES.
Adjacent to this, “black” and “blanc” share an etymological origin. From the same fire, one retained the light, the other the soot.
Obviously.
huge fan of this kid.
oh do NOT get me started.
Laughing so hard I am crying.
There is a yarn weight called fingering yarn. It’s about twice as thin as worsted yarn. Of course, if you ask AI about it, its mind doesn’t go to yarn at all.
On nonbinary neopronouns in German, and the problem with declension
https://nibi.space/pronomen
The word draisienne voted most dark horse of a comeback, 200 years later
brum brum.
Really though, the close front i and the near-close near-front ɪ have made learning to read super hard for my daughter. i is never long in French!
STOP ATTACKING ME AND LET ME EXPL
I love when this happens by accident. It feels like such an intimate insight into the time and place where someone read a particular story.