[orwell]

“If by intellectual you mean somebody who works only with his head and not with his hands, then the bank clerk is an intellectual and Michelangelo is not. And today, with a computer, everybody is an intellectual. So I don’t think it has anything to do with someone’s profession or with someone’s social class. According to me, an intellectual is anyone who is creatively producing new knowledge. A peasant who understands that a new kind of graft can produce a new species of apples has at that moment produced an intellectual activity. Whereas the professor of philosophy who all his life repeats the same lecture on Heidegger doesn’t amount to an intellectual. Critical creativity—criticizing what we are doing or inventing better ways of doing it—is the only mark of the intellectual function.”

— Umberto Eco, “The Art of Fiction, No. 197”, The Paris Review (Summer 2008, No. 185)

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

remember when people listed privileges in their bio and “conventionally attractive” was sometimes in the privilege list? that was such a flex

[kibumkim]

it really was like imagine putting in your bio “i’m not ugly” as a privilege

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

“sorry guys my life is easy because i’m so fucking sexy”

[morphosyntaxe]

Here's a sentence i never thought i would read...

[yassmines]

me meeting a person of color: hey minority :-)

[closet-keys]

the worse climate disaster gets, the more you’ll see closet eugenicists start to advocate for letting people die. you need to be prepared to combat the ideology wherever you see it, because it’s only going to get worse and worse Read everything having to do with climate disaster critically. If the central argument underlying what’s being said is that the death of disabled and/or racialized people is inevitable, natural, or desirable– that’s a fascist.

they might be appear to be a garden variety republican or liberal or even a leftist at first, but know that if that argument is being made, their underlying ideology is one of supremacism, and given additional climate stress, they will become more blatant about it.

[01101010-01100100]

people are obsessed with how they look and how other people look. close your eyes

[signorformica]

Misionero comido por tigre —Missionary eaten by a tiger [indeed, a jaguar (Panthera onca)]. Noé León (b.1907, Barranquilla, Colombia) • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

[morphosyntaxe]

I cant stop laughing at this screencap of my mother reacting to my selfie. Truly my number one stan

[intensional]

failure IS an option and it’s the option i’m choosing. good night.

[odiumars]

Success IS an option and it’s the option I’m choosing. good morning.

[jumex]

I made a fool of myself today and I will make a fool of myself tomorrow. Good night

[anyabocharov]

[1moneychaserworld-deactivated20]

too many of y'all can’t move in silence because you want an applause from an audience who don’t give a damn about you.

[bourtange]

straight people should have to wear “VISITOR” badges when they go to gay bars

[pastperfectcontinuous]

Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own

[poemswords]

“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via the-book-diaries)

[shiftythrifting]

a very unsettling plate found in Cracow, Poland

[d3monicas]