"a triumph of style"
"the excitement of the exterior"
"[sits] unexpectedly well in its semi-rural surroundings"

my God

Time to recall, yet again, one of the wisest quotations in literature.

Please don't let the aspect ratio be longer than 4:3, otherwise a single 'long' photo (for instance in 16:9) can fill an entire screen, and it takes ages to scroll through photos...

Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇

'Know your audience', the saying goes. Language like 'NPCs' was only used with the hardcore base, and the four words behind 'DOGE' are self-explanatory. But concepts like 'brat summer' - which take a lot more than four words to figure out - were dropped on the (non-plussed) general public.

€0.02 from Europe: For a non-native speaker like myself it's much easier to 'get' the messaging on the right. On the left it can feel pretentious & unnecessary, like the coded language in a high school clique. "New and intelligent" to its members, kind of lame if you ask the others

He addresses that in the article... "While conservatives have their own argot — “red pill”, “blue pill” — you have to delve quite far into the weirdo fringe to encounter it. Among the megastars such as Joe Rogan, not to mention Donald Trump, what stands out is an Orwellian directness."

Here I know 'beregată', 'hoit' and 'șirag'. The last one is in fact standard if the necklace is made of beads/pearls. The other two are like those above: archaic but can be used today to add some flavour to a text. (A poet may say 'talaz'; a blogger may write about a 'jivină politică'.)

From Transylvania. Heard & understand 'jivină' and 'talaz'. They sound like old literature, but may still be used in a literary context today. Never came across any of the other, though 'mlădețe' must be closely related to 'mlădiță' (botanical term for an ofshoot).