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blossomfully:

““No feelings.” He says. “No feelings,” I agree. “Just the here and now.“ He takes my hand. I dismiss the infinitesimal flutter in my stomach that seems to last an eternity. No feelings. He kisses me with the force of his entire being - until it leaves me shaking. No feelings. He takes my laughter and condenses it into a glass jar for rainy days. For when he’s gone. No feelings. He tells me his secrets and I tell him why I have trust issues and he lets me rest my head on his chest. "No feelings,” he says. “No feelings.” I echo. I hope he doesn’t mean it. I know that I don’t.”

— Sue Zhao // “Timing” 

fullpraxisnow:

“Hard work causes stress, poor health and early death – above all, it has never solved poverty. We work longer hours now than we’ve done for fifty years, yet the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. Working hard cannot solve an economic crisis. The fact we are all expected to work so hard is in fact a result of economic crisis: a crisis that did not appear in 2008, but has been with us far longer. This is the crisis at the heart of capitalism: a tension between the 1 percent who control the economy, and want to continually increase their wealth, and the rest of us, who are expected to work ever harder, in order to generate profit and to keep us from occupying our time in meaningful ways like questioning or challenging the status quo.”

– Selina Todd | Strike! Magazine: Fuck Your Hard Work

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fullpraxisnow:

dion-thesocialist:

Let’s start glorifying hard work. Let’s romanticize the notion of busting your ass at something until you’re the best you can be at it. Let’s reaffirm the notion that great rewards come from great effort.

Tell that to the millions of people working their asses off at minimum wage jobs because capitalists put profit before people. Tell that to the millions of farm workers being paid BELOW minimum wage because this country can’t be “great” without entire classes of people to step on. Tell that to the millions of interns doing unpaid labor just to get a foot in the door because this system produces chronic unemployment and underemployment.

“Hard work” is a myth created by the wealthy to victim blame poor people for being in poverty. Fuck em.

thinfatfit:

“Diet and beauty culture thrive on guilt. Guilt over that delicious dessert. Guilt over that dress size. Guilt over those wrinkles. They teach you guilt and then they sell you the solution. Please, never feel guilty for existing. You are allowed to eat. You are allowed to take up space. You are allowed to age. You are allowed to exist in the body you have right now without spending all of your time, money and self worth to change it.”

— Megan Crabbe, Bodyposipanda (via monstersinmirrors)

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spanishskulduggery:

1. el árbol = tree
2. el cangrejo = crab
3. la savia = sap / lifeblood, energy
4. redondo/a = round, rounded
5. la mezquita = mosque
6. la boca = mouth / mouthpiece
7. la reunión = meeting, meet-up / reunion
8. el rumor = rumor / noise, murmur, rumbling
9. la derrota = defeat, loss, rout
10. el colmillo = fang, sharp tooth
11. la rueda = wheel / tire (regional)
12. la voz = voice
13. la retirada = retreat
14. la libélula = dragonfly
15. el horario = schedule, timetable
16. la boda = wedding
17. el loro = parrot
18. el desagüe = drain, drainage, gutter, drainpipe
19. la pieza = part, piece / piece (music) / room
20. en vano, en balde = in vain

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spaffy-jimble:

chamerionwrites:

notsoterriblymisanthropic:

violaslayvis:

comcastkills:

a lot of people i’ve interacted with still think the whole chiquita death squads thing was only a rumor so I wanted to point out that they owned up to it and got fined.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/March/07_nsd_161.html

so a corporation literally funded right wing terrorists to kill innocent people and only got fined. $25 million. chiquita has annual revenues of $3 billion. that should really have been a wake up call to anyone thinking corporations are treated unfairly, but it wasn’t. this is capitalism.

Pepsi is also directly responsible for the coup of Allende. Allende was actually supposed to win the 1963 election, but was unable to bc corporations like Pepsi poured millions into his opponent’s campaign. In return, his opponent promised to protect their investments. In 1970, when Allende finally won, the CEO of PepsiCo explicitly demanded President Nixon stage a coup against Allende bc as a socialist, he would threaten Pepsi’s and other foreign investments. Pressured by these corporations, Nixon eventually took action https://www.theguardian.com/business/1998/nov/08/observerbusiness.theobserver

Possibly my all-time favourite ever book review is Barrett Brown’s review of the first 33 pages of Niall Ferguson’s terrible biography of Henry Kissinger, where Brown manages to completely destroy Ferguson while writing from a prison cell… anyway, one of the points Brown makes in that is that Ferguson smears Howard Zinn, a dead man who can’t defend himself, as being a crazy conspiracy theorist for alledging that ITT was involved in the coup against Allende, when in fact Zinn was just reporting on historically documented fact.

I expect my followers are very tired of hearing me point this out, but Chiquita Brands International is United Fruit Company.

United Fruit Company of Pablo-Neruda poem infamy. United Fruit Company of the-Banana-Massacre infamy. United Fruit Company of bribing-the-Honduran-president-$2.5-million-to-lower-the-tax-on-banana-exports-and-inspiring-Congress-to-create-the-Foreign-Corrupt-Practices-Act (aka Bananagate) infamy. United Fruit Company of 1954-Guatemalan-coup (while the head of the CIA - Allen Dulles - sat on United Fruit’s board of directors, and the Secretary of State - his brother, John Foster Dulles - had long represented United through his law firm, and the ambassador to the UN - Henry Cabot Lodge - owned a pile of United Fruit Co stock, and their public relations lobbyist - Ed Whitman - was married to Eisenhower’s private secretary) followed-by-forty-years-of-civil-war-and-genocide infamy. United Fruit Company of literally-responsible-for-inspiring-the-term “banana-republic” infamy. THAT United Fruit Company.

Of course they funded death squads.

Capitalism Kills

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Look what I’ve found! Wiktionary has basic word lists for some languages. I wanted to share this because I think they’re very useful. These lists are great if you don’t know which vocab you should learn first or simply want to check what you already know :) Have fun!

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~5000 Words

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~10 000 Words

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Hungarian (2)
Japanese
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Mandarin
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Hebrew (not as well structured)
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HSK list of Mandarin words
Vietnamese syllables
English Contemporary fiction in 60 categories
Shakespeare wordlists

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