Plurilinguismo

Sara, Italy. Language learning, Italian things, professional procrastinator. Tag page - My posts

[plurilinguismo]

“Anticamente le città venivano costruite sui morti, è vero; ma quegli antenati erano sepolti là sotto perché coi loro corpi davano nutrimento alle mura, per farle crescere robuste; ma per potere far questo i morti avevano bisogno che tutta la loro storia venisse narrata, che venisse narrata tutta intera la verità della loro morte, tutta intera, dai vivi che restano per la memoria di quelli che verranno. Se questo non accade i morti diventano ombre, ombre potenti, e continueranno a contagiare il cuore dello stato. Quale nuova repubblica si potrà mai fondare se questi morti resteranno senza verità. Aldo Moro, Peppino Impastato e i tanti altri morti per stragi, nelle piazze, nelle stazioni, sui treni, precipitati da una finestra, annegati dopo lo schianto di un aereo, uccisi sulle scale di casa, aspettano da noi le loro storie. Non le chiedono per loro, le chiedono per noi.”

— Marco Baliani, Corpo di stato

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[didgavlebockengetburneddownyet]

Gävlebocken did not survive 2025

The goat was inaugurated on the 30th november 2025 and stood until the afternoon of the 27th december when it toppled over from the strong winds of the storm Johannes. I think this is a new fate for the goat, it has previously collapsed (in 1972 and 1975) but as far as I can tell it has never been due to high winds before.

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[plurilinguismo]

Italian History: 2 Agosto 1980, Strage di Bologna

On the morning of 2 August 1980, at 10:25 a time bomb hidden in an unattended suitcase detonated in an air-conditioned waiting room at the Bologna station, which was full of people seeking relief from the August heat. The explosion collapsed the roof of the waiting room, destroyed most of the main building, and hit the Ancona–Chiasso train which was waiting at the first platform. The bomb killed 85 people and wounded over 200.

The attack has been attributed to the NAR (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei), a neo-fascist terrorist organization and several of their members were sentenced for the bombing, along with some members of the Italian secret services who had tried to derail the investigations.

The clock at Bologna Centrale railway station was permanently fixed at 10:25 to commemorate the massacre. It became a symbol of the bombing, as well as Bus 37, which was used (along other buses and taxis) to carry all the wounded and the dead to the hospitals.

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2001 Raid on Diaz

Riot police surround an injured anti-globalisation protester lying on a pavement in central Genoa. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters 

The raid on the “Armando Diaz” School took place during the 27th G8 meeting in Genoa in 2001 in the district of Albaro, Genoa. The school building was the temporary headquarters of the Genoa Social Forum, led by Vittorio Agnoletto. A nearby building, housing the anti-globalization organization Indymedia and lawyers affiliated with the Genoa Social Forum, was also raided. On July 21, 2001, shortly before midnight, mobile divisions of the State Police of Genoa, Rome and Milan attacked the buildings, with the operational support of some battalions of the Carabinieri.

The police indiscriminately attacked the building’s occupants, resulting in the arrest of 93 protesters; 61 were seriously injured and were taken to hospital, three of them were in a critical condition and one in a coma. Prisoners taken to a temporary detention facility in Bolzaneto were tortured and humiliated before being released. The raid resulted in the trial of 125 policemen, including managers and supervisors, for what was termed a beating from “Mexican butchery" by the assistant chief Michelangelo Fournier. However, none of the accused police officers were punished, due to delays in the investigation and incompleteness of Italian laws under which torture is not recognised as a crime.

Prior to the raid, there have been several clashes between demonstrators and security forces. Several protesters were sleeping in the school. The numbers and designation of the security forces involved in the raid are still unknown, as they wore ski masks to hide their identities. The Court of Appeal of Genoa stated that “346 policemen, in addition to 149 Carabinieri officers were involved in the raid of the school buildings.”

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Today European Court condemned Italy for torture. You can read the details here

I think not too many people out of Italy knows about what happened in 2001 in Diaz School. I haven’t found anything on tumblr and, damn, I’m disappointed. Because of what happened in 2001 now Italy is condemned for torture, finally.

I’m not fluent in english, so if anyone want to add something to this post feel free to do it! 

[plurilinguismo]

Dieci cose da leggere e vedere per capire cos'è stato il G8 di Genova

Sul G8 di Genova è stata prodotta una mole impressionante di materiale—tra cui film come Diaz, documentari e libri. Abbiamo fatto una selezi

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20 July 2001 - Death of Carlo Giuliani

tw: police violence, death

In July 2001, anti-globalization demonstrators protested the 27th G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, where leaders of the world's major industrialized nations met.

Among these protesters was Carlo Giuliani, a 23-year-old Roman Italian and resident of Genoa, whom a police officer shot and killed during what had become a riot two miles from the summit. It was the first death in an anti-globalization demonstration since its rise from the 1999 Seattle WTO protests.

According to a Reuters photographer, who took photographs of the incident, Giuliani and several other young, male protesters had surrounded and attacked a police van with rocks and other weapons. Italian television broadcast several photographs, in which Giuliani threw a fire extinguisher at the van. A hand from inside the van then fired a pistol in response, and Giuliani collapsed behind the van. Further photographs and reports show that the van had run over his legs twice after he was shot. The Italian interior minister confirmed that Giuliani had been hit by a bullet fired in self-defense by a police officer, who was later hospitalized for his injuries.

In 2009, the European Court of Human Rights recognized that the police officer had shot in self-defense, but it also criticised the Italian state because the investigation on this case had been superficial and lacking.

[zooophagous]

Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

[qonphuceingey]

I’m really starting to think you people don’t understand what university is for. You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things. It doesn’t matter how you do them.

[zooophagous]

I can assure you if you're going to school to be an xray tech or a surgical assistant it does very much matter how you do the stuff your accreditation says you can do. We aren't all business majors.

[qonphuceingey]

Yes, but you actually can’t do an X-ray without an X-ray machine and you can’t do surgery without scalpels. We already rely on technology for everything. Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more. If you can do your job with chatgpt, but can’t without, you can still do your job. I’m sure you would find university much much harder without access to google or the internet too.

[zooophagous]

Do you think scalpels are magic and do a little song and dance and perform the surgery themselves like Beauty and the Beast characters and the surgeon is there to conduct the background music

[memewhore]

[jimxugle]

12.1 million people, aka 3.54% of the country

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[mesimees]

btw

[midnights-dragon]

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

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2/4/2025

[plurilinguismo]

Buona festa delle Repubblica Italiana!

Oggi si celebra il 79esimo anniversario della nascita della repubblica italiana. Il 2 giugno del 1946 è anche la data storica del diritto al voto per tutte le donne italiane

[emziess]

PORCO ROSSO Dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

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How to Access Important Health Info That's Been Scrubbed From the CDC Site

The Trump administration removed pages relating to LGBTQ issues, HIV information, racial disparities and more, but you can still find them o

Long story short:

the new Trump executive order to erase from federal documents all references to “gender” and “sexuality” has resulted in the CDC basically erasing entire databases collected in decades. (Including all data collected about HIV transmission along the years)

The CDC personnel is now frantically working to recover as much as they can and restore the databases

Long story shorter:

[dragon-in-a-fez]

yesterday I told a friend "drown your sorrows tonight but save one bottle to make a molotov tomorrow" and I'm actually very proud of that. might embroider it on a pillow

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[vigilantsycamore]

"The Divine Comedy isn't funny because that's not what comedy meant back then" incorrect. the Divine Comedy is hilarious because partway through Dante's field trip to Hell, Virgil is like "and here's where we keep the Popes"