who benefits from us being the vast minority on our own lands?
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who benefits from us being the vast minority on our own lands?
one of the most consistent things I find in history is that if someone is really famous for something other than being an anarchist, their anarchism will be stripped out of basically every reference to them.
there's like a whole entire realm of anarcho-Basque poetry inspired by their cultural resistance to forced assimilation and fighting fascism. (Indigi Ag bonus fact alotta these Basque dudes had to flee to Australia they brought the Basque herding dog and those became Australian shepards)
earlier this summer i was reading about how several Basques communities, esp under Franco had culturally and openly accepted Anarchist philosophies as their norm. They would help hide French and Spanish anarchists in their mountains, pass pamphlets across borders etc
Hey didn't ChatGPT tell that kid who hung himself not to tell his parents he was suicidal? Hm. So we got school districts forcing kids to use AI and local government shutting down suicide prevention lines. If you were actively trying to get more kids to off themselves these are the steps you'd take.
shallower than a puddle tbh
What the current moment has actually exposed is that those white *contrarian* dudes were an inch deep re: their ideas.
"The coward restricted replies!" Is so Twitter coded. There's an entire website you can go to if you're looking for a site culture based around confrontation, actually
The emperor NEVER had any clothes - only very very shallow *analyses* about surveillance and drones.
The ugly truth about surviving in the US, is that success is often a matter of how close we can approximate whiteness. Obama, Combs, Cosby to name a few were viewed as shining examples of ‘Black Excellence’ because representation in toxic white spaces was *the* goal.
If anyone has zines that might help with literacy skills specifically please tag me or comment below. I'd love to print some out. I'm already printing out "How to Make a zine" zines to try to encourage ppl to make them
my strategy is to have people make instructional zines so they have to practice writing in steps! so zines about diy subjects are great examples!
Parents Rights/Consent bills across the country have this as a baseline trend, no therapy or counseling can be offered to a minor, even in school without directly informing a parent. which will cause further isolation of abused kids
I don't even have words for this sort of devilry
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
ICE is fucking circling Springfield right now making loops of 70, circling around Belmont. fuck them
western imperial influence has brought so much destruction to Africa
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Bisexual Ouroboros is now a music genre
Let me do you one better - Wal-Mart sells Halal beef bacon now. We won.
JD Vance has repeatedly expressed the desire to make foreign policy decisions based on the best interests of Christians while also pushing to invade largely Catholic nations.
Join TEAM NO BURNOUT (maybe some burnout, as a treat)
It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.
hello educator, thank you for this thread and all you do. I would pay for a weekly newsletter if you ever are in need of a side hustle/get tired of posting on Bsky/need inspiration to start that idea 🤣🤣🤣 (but please dont if it would be too much)
tbh i need to start writing out my tips and strategies so that everyone can use them. less time on social media is good for me anyways
This is reminding me how we really need to talk more about complicity with kyriarchal violence cause we keep being shocked that white women "vote against their interests" as if they aren't the main enforcers & educators of cisheteropatriarchal, white supremacist, Christofascism where men don't rule
PERIOD. I had one teacher who was brave enough to tell us in 7th grade "these tests mean nothing about you, they are OUR report cards not yours. Teachers shouldn't bully you over this, you kids did nothing"
really i need to figure out how to write this all down without it being social media based. skeets suit my adhd but not long form explanations
*seen. LMAO
*another. typing while getting dressed. my bad
+ how we get there. some people will never be story or academic essay people. that's totally cool, let find what you need to know and start there. a mechanics manual is an absolute relay race of terms + parts + instructions. great comprehensive practice even for people who read a ton
anither good way to engage people in reading + comp practice without it being story based. really works with tactile and neurodivergent people. cooking classes w/ recipes, also help in the same way Part of the solution to this struggle is we have really narrowed out ideas of what reading needs to be
i think tutoring can also be done in formats that aren't see as linear programming. we've got a writer's club and 2 book clubs at my library - those things help up comprehension and practice too. i think zine making is another under utilized teaching tool. craft classes with print out instructions -
the only real solution is writing tutoring programs offered in non-academic spaces. i know if people were coming to me in higher ed with comprehension struggles, people outside the institutions were too. this has been confirmed by becoming a library worker.
tbh i writing tutored for like five years, edit k-12 materials and just started a local Writing & Research tutoring program, so i feel alot about this and have just too much to say.
The only solution I've found is to start from basics and actually explain technical steps. you cannot tell someone "a paragraph is a full and complete idea" if they dont know wtf that means and haven't read any long texts themselves. you gotta set up series of questions to guide people
no ability to read or write for themselves. 2. previously incarcerated students at my second job could read + comprehend better. but lacked writing, typing skills, and hard science research skills. 3. Non Traditional students studied better overall the workshops i taught we a mix of all kinds
so we got testing, fear mongered, crammed into classrooms of 30+ students, and no time to get rid of our energy, which lead to disproportionate punishment. so by the time i got to college and started to teach writing skills i noticed some strange things 1. districts with good tests had -
so more of us got suspended than previous generations. White teachers dominated k-12 positions (still do). And nobody was reading full books anymore. also everyone started building the prison box style of schools, then cut all art or outside time to focus on testing
so no consistency in curriculum+ threats. no help. but culturally we also have to talk about the wild uptick in classroom racism post 9/11. white lady teachers went wild with the new "0 tolerance" policies, openly forcing patriotism was fine and terrorist panic made all the POC kids enemies.
one of the first problems is that we were taught to a test that we had to take every 9 weeks so we stopped doing book reading and the only essays we practiced were in test prep bookets. teachers also openly would threaten us to say these test scores would be part of our grades
Hey so. i do and have been talking about this since i got into writing tutoring in college. I'm a weird late millennial+ 1st GenZer. And also I went to like 6 elementary schools + 3 middle schools across the country so i experienced many different public school districts.
So many problems here, but if you are a therapist doing this, why wouldn’t your client just drop you and use a chatbot. You’re just the bot’s puppet at that point.
Sorry accidentally stumbled into the part of the internet where they are arguing if calling Vikings sluts is racist or not and now I no longer believe we will ever be free
you're the main reason to keep on going
My non verbal dog was well on her way to conversational before her distemper vaccine
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the 2 genders are empath and grifter
I am sick of the constant erasure and intertribal violence. We are NOT living ghosts or the descendants of dead tribes. And if you want to see who is recognized by Texas, check out this document released by the Texas Education agency - T has a complex and violent history www.txel.org/media/2wskbh...
Debbie Reese, one of the most prominent reviewers of Native children’s literature, just spread incorrect information about Indigenous people in Texas. She wrote, “But, the state of Texas does not extend state recognition to anyone.” This lie’s been used to erase Lipan people fighting for recognition
one of the greats. highly recommended Clearcut (apparently Greene's favourite of his own filmography), a gripping and angry political thriller about the conflict between an indigenous community and a logging company.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
Please. Also a reminder that ICE is not just sweeping through people who seem Latino. A Haitian woman died in Ice custody, a Jamaican American cop (yeah ik) was detained, & hundreds of other Black -African, Caribbean and Latino people who have never had to worry about this are affected by ICE raids
Do you guys think we’ll stay in touch in hell
Daily chronic pain in multiple places in the body and daily fatigue that never goes away are no joke.
“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.” Lucy Parsons, statement in the Chicago Tribune, 1885
The inventor of autocorrect died. The funnel will be tomato.
some of us don't want liberation or decolonization, some of us want the license to behave like white men
ah yes a new generation of fort agent has risen.
yaaaaaaa. deeply upsetting
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“You all are being racist” Hey man, as the person affected by this it’s actually you being racist and insensitive. “Your opinion doesn’t matter”
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The scary headlines about "Chorus, a sEcReT dArK mOnEy gRoUp" have been absolutely wild to watch. Because I'm in Chorus, & it's been a godsend. Without it, I wouldn't be able to cover the US's massive modern-day farm slavery problem- at all. youtu.be/f5UwwtrGdak
post-covid my cramps and cycles got way worse for like two full years. people acted like i was making it up but other early long covid forums also talked about it
good morning 🖤
You say “Bluesky is dying,” and yet we have those blurry pictures of Bluesky traveling in the general direction of a golf course
yeah, i muted pretty quick but did stop to talk to a younger person to be like "eh. white people making money off us should be scrutinized within an inch of their lives." idc about changing white peoples minds anymore but i'll talk to our own
For some segment of America, “freedom” means not having to listen to a Black woman, especially if she’s right
yunno we just finished, but i'll message you next time more pitchforks are needed
When they can't buy more followers then it's "daddy daddy! Ban all these accounts I don't like! Execute everyone to social death who reminds me of my insecurities!"
I'll nearly always support publicly harassing a white person tho. thats the problem with being a lil evil
Being Native is like having access to a buffet of philosophy and complex relationships.
Yabba Dabba Do Not Resucitate
Privileged ppl utilize their social mobility through structural tantrums.
It's wild the way that colonizers can always just whine and ppl cave to them.
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There's always a rich sugar daddy paternalist that shares their closed minded values so they've been intermittently reinforced and socialized to gain social mobility differently.
i will not be explaining further.
Texans and Ohioans need to admit we are more similar than any of us care to admit.
Aaaaaand that’s all she wrote folks. At least for the forseeable future all forms of cannabis vapes are essentially done in TX with more hits to come. You can support my change in careers and trade school through the nested posts below. Happy Labor Day 🖤❤️🖤❤️🖤
There is still beauty left in the world
Social media helps ppl navigate "trends" and identity expression archetypes. (Just as any media and lots of spaces for consumption does).
The world if everyone minded the business that pays them.
happy labour day yall. none of yall are allowed to work today. even if ur not american. take today off, rest, relax - there is always room to take a day away from work
I think that’s the way they want it. If everybody’s broke, they’ll work whatever pay they’re given in order to survive. I don’t want to do a historical comparison at all but, Hitler at first made civilians in Nazi Germany money, but then it became unsustainable, and forced lower wages and poverty.
went to lovely tenants cookout in avondale this wknd. honestly it's a haul from where i am but driving to Black leftist events in Cinci, Cbus and Cleveland/Akron always make me feel revitalized. I should prioritize that more
frfr i've got Ph.D in Self Sabotage. this is a fist fight between me, and six past me's who all whisper "you'd be safer if you hide" the specters are lying, i wasn't any safer when i shrank away
Here’s a @npr.org story about the spelling bee win: www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1...
Happy Labor Day, may we all be blessed with hot grills may all your cookout plates be full and the wind just strong enough to keep the wasps away
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My friends who are teachers didn't like, get a vacation. People are upset that they had to keep their kids at home. That's what this is. Schools didn't close. They pivoted to online, and then the summer started.