Mister Chu

Much luck to you if not at all impossible

[giuleye-art]

Goodbye Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

[philosophybits]

“Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men

[cosechadehuellas]

"Durante mucho tiempo he creído que la clave para que cualquier ser humano pudiera vivir con dignidad, para que nunca sufriera brutalidad o humillación por su sexo, su etnia o su color, era la educación. ¿Pero no tenía Goebbels un doctorado en filosofía? ¿El Dr. Mengele no había hecho el juramento hipocrático?

¿Estaremos equivocados cuando definimos educación? Quizás antes de educar a nuestros hijos para que tengan éxito económico y social, debiéramos enseñarles que el verdadero éxito radica ante todo en el humanismo."

- Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026). Extracto de su discurso en el Premio Princesa de Asturias 2024.

[ard-it]

"For a long time, I have believed that the key for any human being to live with dignity—to never suffer brutality or humiliation on account of their sex, ethnicity, or color—was education. But did not Goebbels hold a doctorate in philosophy? Had Dr. Mengele not taken the Hippocratic Oath?

Are we perhaps mistaken in how we define education? Perhaps, before educating our children to achieve economic and social success, we ought to teach them that true success lies, above all, in humanism."

— Marjane Satrapi (1969–2026). Excerpt from her speech at the 2024 Princess of Asturias Awards.

[itsmythang]

Almost startling how relevant this still is.

Time passes, but some truths don’t fade—they echo. The same patterns, the same conversations, the same resistance to facing what’s right in front of us. We like to think we’ve moved far beyond certain moments in history…but sometimes it feels like we’re still standing in them.

[amicus-noctis]

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.” ― Michel Houellebecq, Platform

Painting: detail from "The Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper

[chrisfriel]

road 090426

[havingapoemwithyou]

The hurting kind by Ada Limón

[malaisequotes]

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment.”

The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard

[kstripling]

[blondebrainpowered]

Katherine Switzer running in the Boston Marathon VVV

GIF by Into Action

[havingapoemwithyou]

Barton Springs by Tony Hoagland

[areyoupure]

"your posture is bad”

Sorry my wings are heavy

[entheognosis]

[publicdomainreview]

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn “infographics” he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900 #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

[deresjot]

(via Chris Ware)

[cosmicretreat]

Criselda Vasquez - The New American Gothic (2017)

[grunisment]

Eric Lacombe