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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • the vast majority of place names irl are just objective descriptors, optionally with that having been twisted through time.

    Exeter means “castle on the river exe”, starting as “esceancaster”; Aberdeen means “mouth of the river dee”; Amsterdam means “dam in the amstel”; Stockholm means roughly “log islet” as it started on the tiny central island which they put logs around.

    And of course in germanic areas there’s the very common “burg/borg”, which just means that the place has a castle/fortification.















  • this is genuinely a lot of what i see christmas being here in sweden, in gothenburg they even have a special old tram that goes around before christmas collecting donated presents for poor families to give their kids. There’s clearly a desire in a significant portion of the population to kick the commercialism to the wayside and just go back to focusing on things being cozy and compassionate.





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