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“Make the money, don’t let the money make you.”

[moondusttown]

[philosophybits]

“Never open the door to the least of evils, for many other, greater ones lurk outside.”

— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

[gospel-art-project]

[depsidase]

[mossmusings]

We have GOT to resist the normalization of child labor. The decline of education is not a reason for children to join the workforce. "Labor shortages" are not a reason for children to join the workforce. Parents' weakened earning power is not a reason for children to join the workforce.

If children need to work to be able to eat, your society is not doing well.

[bibyebae]

WE WANT A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW

[theconcealedweapon]

This is proof that capitalism is not about freedom. Not even close.

In a system that values freedom, it would be expected that people would value living over working.

This is the same mentality as those who claimed to value freedom but owned slaves. They want freedom for themselves while everyone else serves them. They still haven't grown out of that.

[godloveyell]

For the record, Gen Z is smart to do this. To any generation out there reading this, live your life. Do enough to keep the job, and devote as much time and energy leftover to your life. Do not give your all for a company that cannot and will not love you back.

[criptochecca]

average Biden voter

[left-reminders]

One of the responses to the last tweet:

"It was never about harm reduction, just harm redistribution."

Capitalism and imperialism generally try to outsource the worst of their human/planetary "externalities" abroad so that useful idiots like AngularEd here don't have to look at them. Then sometimes they say the quiet part out loud — they're well aware that even liberal capitalism is a parking lot built on top of a cemetery. They just want a "respectable" member of the ruling class to justify it all with "progressive" language.

[linguistness]

Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

[unbotheredmuse]

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

[intersectionalpraxis]

"... a stark reminder that genocide is about more than just the premeditated mass extinguishing o human life; it's also about the calculated, and often vindictive, destruction of a people's culture, language, history, and shared sites of community." [source: Gabrielle Bates on X, formerly known as Twitter. 11/27/23.] Original post they are responding to on Literary Hub: "Gaza's main public library has been destroyed."

[librarycards]

Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed by Israeli bombing.

Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces aft

Here's the full article for those interested. I highly recommend the whole thing, and all of the work LitHub has published on Palestine. They're one of the big literary orgs (along with Electric Lit, Kundiman, Mizna, and Academy of American Poets, to name a few) that has truly stepped up to center issues and writers based in Palestine.

[rainbowhyperfixation]

[sayruq]

I keep posting this because it's important people see the tricks the US Empire will pull in order to ensure the occupation of Palestine doesn't end.

When Netanyahu is removed and scapegoated for the crimes Israel has committed, his more moderate replacement will go on a media tour in order to repair Israel's image in the West and a diplomatic tour in order to restore diplomatic relations with the countries that have recalled their ambassadors or cut diplomatic ties entirely. The genocide we're witnessing will be treated like a mild mistake that will never happen again (that Palestinians have brought on themselves). More money will be allocated to Zionist groups in the West to ensure that the public doesn't turn on Israel again.

Meanwhile, Palestinians will continue to get imprisoned, tortured and killed, only now without the world paying attention (just like what happened after the 2021 war). It's our duty as people who are pro Palestine to ensure that this fails. We need to make sure they don't sweep the genocide under a rug. We need to make that Western politicians and journalists don't clean the blood off their hands in the same way we've spent 45 days countering Israeli propaganda

[maureen2musings]

Lunar halo

@picabuzz

[maureen2musings]

Mountains and wildflowers

ryandyar

[asonr]

Autistic spaces are getting so much more hostile towards people with low empathy, and it sucks

There was a subreddit I really liked, people were chill, and then there was a sudden influx of people making posts like ‘Autistic people have empathy! Saying we don’t makes us seem like monsters! Thats not a symptom!’ And people making posts explaining that no, actually, some of us do have low empathy got attacked and told they were wrong or ableist? And it sucks, because its just so hard to find a place to exist where you can be seen as not evil? I don’t know, it just hurts a lot to be told that

[renthebarbarian]

[saint-vagrant]

my sign for a protest a couple days ago. grateful to be there— and won't stop for nothin!

palestine will be free.