zaagi

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[zaagi-studies]

studyblr intro *ੈ✩‧₊˚

🌿 about me *ੈ✩‧₊˚

he/they + two-spirit

22

afro-indigenous [ojibway & ethiopian]

from : treaty 4 territory

currently in : coast salish territory

i'm diagnosed with adhd [most likely have fasd], idiopathic hypersomnia, & in recovery from substance use.

🌿 languages *ੈ✩‧₊˚

currently focus language is nakawemowin [anishinaabemowin]

used to study korean, mandarin, & nehiyawewin [plains cree]

🌿 school *ੈ✩‧₊˚

2nd year in indigenous teacher education [B.Ed.] + 4th year overall.

academic interests: turtle island history, settler-colonialism, indigenous governance, philosophy of identity, pretendians/ethnic fraud, genocide studies, african diasporic identity, etc

long-term goal: being a historian, language activist, + educator of my people <3

🌿 current classes *ੈ✩‧₊˚

contemporary issues - war on terror

modern middle eastern history

teacher practicum

communication for teachers

🌿 other random facts and things *ੈ✩‧₊˚

i play bass & electric guitar

i'm in a t4t relationship with a smart biologist girly

my favourite music genres are conscious rap, nu-metal, indie rock, and kpop

i used to work for 2 libraries !!

🌿 my other blogs !! *ੈ✩‧₊˚

@punk-by-the-book ~ main blog (v active)

@zaagis-archive ~ writing & photography (not super active)

[zaagi-studies]

lowkey been so busy being ill that i forgot school technically starts today !! but only evening classes so i don't actually start until thursday

which gives me plenty of time to do a lil blog makeover for yall !!

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[purgaytorysupremacy]

if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[cosmos-fudge]

A lot of the time I get so much more dopamine from preparing for The Thing (reading, studying, writing, sewing, ect ect) that I realize actually doing The Thing wont feel nearly as rewarding so I never end up doing The Thing

[zaagi-studies]

might get back into making vlogs cause i study so well if i'm on camera lmaooo

[homunculus-argument]

Intrigued by the people who say they're into history but cannot stand the thought of hearing about the thoughts, feelings and opinions of people whose values were shaped by a completely fundamentally different environment, and immediately become offended and outraged by the idea that someone whose world was completely different would have a different worldview without being ontologically irredeemable and evil in every way.

Looking up different times, thinking "there better not be any fucking 'it was a different time' in here."

[casyndrome]

There were some acts in history done by people that were pure evil. The time frame did not matter in a lot of cases, it was just pure human evil.

However there were other times when it was genuinely just that they were in a different environment with a different needs and means of survival.

I understand that it can be scary to feel like you're justifying terrible Behavior or allowing other people to justify terrible Behavior but the fact of the matter is different times have different morals, people who grow up in a world without fast shipping and electricity and easy Communications, people who grew up in a world where you actually had to fight for resources and sometimes even fight to stay alive and healthy are simply going to have different morals and means of survival then we do today. History is interesting even if it can be infuriating at times but to fully understand and learn from history you need to be able to have the brains to understand the time period.

[zaagi-studies]

signed up for a class about resource management and it turns out i'm learning about colonialism in contracts & law so now i have to write an essay using a legal citation style and submit it to 2 lawyers 😭😭 i went into history education because i thought law would make me depressed lmaoooo now here where i am

[the-nyanguard-party]

ecological problems of colonialism also have more to do with the exploitative nature of colonialism than with foreigners lacking an elf-like connection to the land imo

[zaagi-studies]

if ur a history studyblr that doesn't focus on europe pls like/reblog this

im tryna find more of yall. no shade to europe but it's so hard to find histblr content that isn't abt dead white ppl 😭😭

here's the areas of history i study if ur interested !!

indigenous north american (turtle island) history, mostly 20th/21st century & pre-contact

settler-colonial movements & genocides

ethnic fraud / pretendians

philosophy of identity amongst indigenous & settler ppls

anishinaabe history + languages (i'm nakawe/western ojibway !!)

pan-africanism & black socialism

indigenous turtle islander socialism

canadian legal history

history education / how to teach history to teens & adults

[zaagi-studies]

being in teacher ed and taking non-teacher classes run by grad students who have never studied teaching or done it previously is kinda interesting

like the person running my class studied history for the same amount of time i have at the same school but they have no concept of teaching online outside of reading off slides, 10 minute discussion with vague questions, and then a choose ur own topic essay. dude is super nice and approachable but extremely boring to listen to despite having super cool material !!

it's almost the exact opposite problem to my main teacher ed prof who only has experience teaching ages 3-14. her material is extremely boring as it teaches the bare bones of our subjects repeatedly and our lessons clearly provide more benefit to those wanting to teach younger grades. but the actual time in the classroom is fun and i love it (except for that time she made fun of me but whatever)

just gotta make it clear but i think it's totally fine for grad students to teach, i just hate when they're forced into it as part of their program and lack the help that would let them thrive !!

[zaagi-studies]

SWITCHED INTO A RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CLASS AND MY FAVOURITE CLASSMATE FROM LAST TERM IS HERE TOO YAYYYYYY

[zaagi-studies]

switched into a course during the second week which i've never done tbh

[girlrustcohle]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[dumbpuppyfag]

we need to legalise learning for adults

[dumbpuppyfag]

"the education system here is so bad 😭" they taught u how to open a book didn't they?

[dumbpuppyfag]

how is it that revolutionary movements in the world's poorest countries can understand dialectical materialism but ppl in the global imperial core can't learn basic history? ur phone has access to every major published work in history for free (in ur own language no less!) but first u gotta stop pretending they hit u with a bolt gun when u turned 18. the problem isn't that this information wasn't spoon-fed to u, the problem is that u think it has to be.

[af-hverju]

me: why are you destroying earth!!!

aliens: because theres people who think that english is the only language they need to speak

me: thats fair i understand

[nerdypersonwithwings]

For some reason I find this all the more amusing because it’s written in English

[af-hverju]

moi: pourquoi vous détruisez le monde!!! l'extraterrestre: parce que il y a des gens qui pensent que l'anglais est le seule langue pour parler moi: ah ça c'est bien

[languageoclock]

ich: warum zerstört ihr die erde!!!

aliens: weil es leute gibt die glauben dass englisch die einzige sprache ist die sie sprechen müssen

ich: das ist fair ich verstehe

[sprachtraeume]

ég: af hverju eyðileggið þið jörðina!!! aliens: af því að það er fólk sem finnst að enska sé sú eina tungumál sem þau þurfa að tala ég: oh, það er vit í þessu. ég skil.

[pory-gon-2]

ik: waarom vernietig je de aarde!!!

aliens: omdat er mensen zijn die denken dat engels de enige taal is die ze hoeven te spreken

ik: oh zo, ik snap het

[perilegs]

minä: miks te tuhootte maapalloo?

alienit: koska tääl on ihmisiä joitten mielestä englanti on ainoo kieli jota niitten täytyy puhua

minä: toi on reilua, ymmärrän

[polyglottica]

私: どうして地球を滅ぼしているんですか？

宇宙人: 英語しか喋る必要がないと思う人がいるからです

私: なるほど、わかりました

[lingumaniac]

me: Wosück maakt ji de Welt twei!!!

aliens: wieldat dat Lüüd gifft, de dinkt dat Engelsch de allenige Spraak weer, de een snacken mütt

me: jo, daar seggst wat. Nu versta ik’t

[somalang]

aniga: dhulka maxaad u burburinaya !!!

shisheeyaha: dadka intiisa badani u malaynayaan in Ingiriisidu tahay afka oo kaliya ay u baahan yihiin inay la hadlaan

aniga: waxaan fahamsanahay. waa wax cadaalad

[zhanaform]

我：你们为什么在毁灭地球?！！

外星人：因为有人以为他们只会英语就可以了

我：懂了，说得有道理

[natsui]

ako: bakit niyo sinisira ang mundo!!!

taga-ibang planeta: kasi merong mga taong akala nila Ingles lang ang kailangan nilang matutunang lenggwahe

ako: ah, sige naiintindihan ko

[katsudonski]

Aku : kenapa kau hancurkan bumi!!! Alien : karena masih banyak orang berpikir hanya bahasa inggris satu-satunya bahasa yang terpenting Aku : oh, oke lah..

[belisencia]

tôi: tại sao các người hủy diệt trái đất!!! người ngoài hành tinh: bởi vì có người nghĩ rằng tiếng Anh là thứ tiếng duy nhất mà họ cần biết tôi: ồ thế thì tôi hiểu

[aphdoitsu-deactivated20170414]

Eu: Por que vocês estão destruindo a Terra?! Aliens: Porque há pessoas que pensam que o inglês é a única língua que eles precisam falar. Eu: Isso é justo, eu entendo.

[wednesdaythunder]

jag: varför förintar ni jorden!!!

utomjordingar: för det finns folk som tror att engelska är det ända språket de behöver kunna

jag: rimligt, jag förstår

[useless-czechrepfacts]

Já: Proč ničíte Zemi?

Mimozemšťani: Protože tu jsou lidé, kteří si myslí, že angličtina je jediný jazyk, který potřebují znát

Já: To je fér, to chápu.

[useless-polandfacts]

ja: dlaczego niszczycie Ziemię?

kosmici: ponieważ są ludzie, którzy myślą, że angielski to jedyny język, którego potrzebuję

ja: rozumiem, w porządku

[vyrkann]

io: perchè state distruggendo la terra!!!

alieni: perchè ci sono delle persone che credono che l’inglese sia l’unica lingua di cui hanno bisogno

io: capisco, mi sembra giusto

[rad-and-sleepy]

Yo: porqué estás destruyendo la tierra!?!?

Extraterrestre: porque hay personas quienes creen que inglés es la única lengua que se tiene que hablar.

Yo: te entiendo, es justo.

[haxyr3]

Я: Почему вы уничтожаете Землю?!?! Инопланетяне: Потому что есть люди, которые считают, что им нужно говорить только по-английски. Я: А, ну понятно, тогда ладно!

[jenroses]

A modern Rosetta stone.

[polygamouscaterpillar-deactivat]

[mens-rights-activia]

Onipa: ad3n ti na woo se3 ewuasi

3wiamu nii: efri s3 nk⊃fu⊃ bi w⊃ ho a ⊃mo fri s3 br⊃fo ne kasa p3 a ehyia ⊃mo

Onipa: a, ma te ase

[into-the-valley-of-unrest]

Yessssssss I love the sign language addition! @polygamouscaterpillar

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

This is like the side-by-side plates of the Lord’s Prayer in the historical linguistics textbook except so much better

This is the most educational shitpost I’ve ever seen

[thatlittleegyptologist]

[accessibleaesthetics]

[Image Description: the three GIFs in polygamuscaterpillar’s reblog show the same message as all the other posts signed in American Sign Language. The image in thatlittlegyptologist’s reblog shows the same message in Egyptian hieroglyphics. End Image Description.]

[jannowa]

mi: sina pakala e sike ma ni tan seme???

jan tan sike ma ante: tan ni - jan mute li wile toki Inli taso.

mi: a ale li pona.

[mtg-player1]

meg: kvifor øydelegg du jorda!!!

romvesen: fordi det finst folk som trur at engelsk er det einaste språket dei treng å snakke

meg: greitt, eg forstår

[wise-lizard-wizard]

@latinare

[latinare]

ego: cur mundum deiicitis!!!

astrici: sunt qui credunt solam linguam loqui necessarium est anglicem

ego: iustum est. intelligo

[canonically47]

eu: de ce distrugeți pământul!!!

extratereștrii: pentru că sunt oameni care cred că engleza este singura limbă pe care o au nevoie să vorbească

eu: aia e corect, înțeleg

[puppygirlniko]

אני: למה אתם הרסים את כדור הארץ!!! חייזרים: כי יש אנשים שחושבים שאנגלית היא השפה היחידה שהם צריכים לדעת אני: זה הגיוני אני מבין

[sodium-ion]

I don’t know a language that hasn’t already been put here :(

[just-ray]

Mise: cen fáth tú ag milleadh an domhain?

créatúr: Mar cheap daoine gur bearla tanga amhain de díth duirt orthu

Mise: Ceart go leor

[cosm1cmicr0wave-deactivated2025]

Fi: pam ydych chi ddinistrio'r ddaear???

Aliwn: achos dacw bobl a meddwl Saesneg mae’r unig iaith nhw angen siarad

Fi: bod teg deall fi

[zaagi-studies]

niin: aaniihshwiin giin biigwa'wi aki ??

biiwidew-giizhigw-bemaadizid: ima anishinaabekaa awenen maaminonenim-wiin eta andawenim giigido zhaaganaashiimowin

niin: ahaam, ninisidotawaa

[zaagi-studies]

passed my canadian reconciliation class with a 71% let's fucking goooo

i love my prof sm

[zaagi-studies]

i went to bed instead of finishing my essay

imma be so fr yall i was tired and extremely bored. originally i thought my essay would only be around 2000 words but after writing 700 words for the intro i think it's gonna be closer to 3-4k so here's a revised schedule

11 - paragraphs 1 & 2

12 - paragraphs 3 & 4

1 - conclusion + edit

THE GOAL IS TO SUBMIT BY 3PM AT THE VERY LATEST CAUSE IM SO FUCKING COOKED LMAOOO

[zaagi-studies]

IM DONE HALF OF IT WHICH IS A LITTLE BEHIND SCHEDULE BUT I HAVE ENERGY RN SO WERE GONNA GET THRU IT YALL