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    2 months ago

    Mind your local laws regarding burning things out in the open. But i think it would be super cool if people started adopting this. I don’t know how similar the tradition is to the colombian one, but in ecuador the doll is called the “old year”. It’s stuffed with old newspaper and sawdust, clothed in old, unusable pants and shirt and wears a papier-mâché mask of whatever you want. It’s common to put a mask of a politician





  • After a little research it seems that “octopi” and “octopuses” have been so widely used and for so long, that dictionaries include all of them as correct. An article from merriam webster even pragmatically suggests referring to them as “octopodes” is less likely to be understood so stick with “octopi” or “octopuses”. Also, it seems “octopodes” is the more widely accepted “correct” plural and “octopoda” refers to the genus.

    But it’s an interesting topic, i wish to subscribe to octopus etymology facts(or any interesting reads)



  • Mine is a youtube video where girl shares that she used to do extreme self deprecating humor like “oh, i dropped this thing, i should just kill myself” but tried flipping completely to “oh, i dropped this thing, guess it’s the price of having such nice skin and grace.” She noticed how it helped her improve her relation with her friends and weed out the bad ones. This video was profoundly influential to me but i didn’t realize until later so i didn’t save it at the time.