I’m glad I can always count on employers to take days, weeks, sometimes months on end to get back to me. 

On teachers and the money we don’t make.

apsies:

Someone I know was just accepted into an 18 month long non-degree program that will result in a job in the medical field in which the starting pay could potentially be many thousands of dollars more than I make in a year.

Now, do I think it’s okay that someone who takes an 18 month course could end up making a really great salary? YES, of course.

Am I just a little bit bitter that all of the years of formal education and the blood, sweat, and tears teachers pour into their jobs doesn’t somehow equate to a similar salary? YES, duh.

linguadolce:

Spanish what are you doing

These phonetics

I can’t

…but Spanish phonology is one of the most beautiful things in existence!

Ovunque tu sia, io ti circondo.

Ghiannis Ritsos (via luomocheleggevalibri)

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sugarlandrun:

Forget love.

You want to feel pain?

Slam your hand in a car door

I did this to get out of a piano lesson once.

My thumb immediately regretted the decision.

Il nostro segno di riconoscimento fu e rimase la sua mano sulla mia guancia, la mia guancia nella sua mano. Ci dicemmo poco più che i nostri nomi, non avevo mai udito una poesia d’amore più bella. Enea Cassandra. Cassandra Enea. Quando la mia pudicizia incontrò la sua timidezza, i nostri corpi persero ogni freno. Non avrei mai potuto immaginare come avrebbero risposto le mie membra alle domande delle sue labbra, quali sconosciute sensazioni mi avrebbe donato il suo odore. E di che voce sarebbe stata capace la mia gola.

Christa Wolf, Cassandra (via luomocheleggevalibri)

blowupbarbie:

“My fellow American and international friends, please turn your attention to Brazil. Please help expose the reality of what is happening in my country. Thousands of people in different cities have gone to the streets to protest. Many of them were university students. They are fed up with too many things, and the increase in public transportation fare was the last straw. I have not lived in my country for four years for many reasons. Brazil has so much talent, resources, beauty and potential, but some of the problems that plague us, such as social inequality, corruption, poverty and violence, are just not bearable to me. Today feel deeply emotional as I read and look at pictures of the riots taking place. I feel certain happiness and pride in seeing people finally voice their opinions and deep sadness, anger and embarassment for the public officials in my country who have either violenty attacked protestors or allowed it to happen. It is hard for people to watch media outlets and goverment call protestors “vandals” and blame them for the violence, when things like this picture are happening. That is allegedly a couple who was simply having a beer. See the violent rage in that officer’s eyes. A female Folha de Sao Paulo journalist was also shot in the eye by police when she started filming them brutalizing citizens. Allegedly, six journalist from the newspaper I’ve worked with all my life, are hurt. Many others are also injured, though I do not know the official numbers or details. The girl who was shot said she is proud of her coverage of the riots. Several underage people are in jail and some will not be let out, as there is no money for public transportation and surely no money for bail. People are demanding equality, transparency, freedom of expression. They are Brazilians and they will never give up. Please help us share.”
[TEXT BY MAYRA DIAS GOMES, A BRAZILIAN REPORTER WHO LIVE IN CALIFORNIA.]

PLEASE REBLOG!

I am Brazilian, and I’m going through this oppression. Help us show the world how the government oppresses us!
CLICK HERE -> Please sign this petition to ensure our freedom of expression <- CLICK HERE

Now and again silence would suddenly set in and all that could be heard was Nastya moving the dead bones, but then train sirens once again sang out in the distance, pile drivers let out long heads of steam, and there were shouting voices from shock brigades who had come up against some obstacle; the air round about was charged unremittingly with the tension of labor being carried out for the common use and benefit of society. ‘Chiklin, why do I feel my mind all the time and there’s no way i can forget it?’ asked Nastya in surprise.

Andrey Platonov, The Foundation Pit

becausechocolatethatswhy:

so i’ve seen a lot of people reblogging the episode of that’s so raven about racism in retail but I think Smart Guy handled this better. 

The first picture is of the scene where Yvette and her friend Nina are hired by the store manager. The manager is racist and encourages employees to follow black customers around as a ‘loss prevention strategy’. Despite her actions clearly being racist the store manager later tells Yvette “I can’t be racist I hired you didn’t I?”. Yvette tries to prove to the manager that she is indeed racist. In the second picture she sets up a camera and in the last she shows the manager the video of her white friend clearly shoplifting very obviously who wasn’t noticed because the manager was busy following around her other friend a black male. This was the conversation that resulted 

Store Manager: what are you trying to show me that your friend is a good theif

Yvette: you’re missing the point, you were so busy following the black customer you didn’t see what was really going on

Store Manager: which proves what

Yvette: all races shoplift but if you only follow black customers that’s all you’re ever going to catch

Yvette: I have 50 hrs of tape here

Store Manager: do you have 19 years of tapes, because that’s how long i’ve been in retail and that’s where I get my information

Yvette: but wait a minute the retail industry itself says that the average shoplifter is a white middle aged woman not unlike yourself. you are stripping people of their dignity because of their skin colour and it’s wrong

Store Manager: Yvette i’m sorry you feel this way and i’d understand if you chose not to work here anymore

I liked this episode because it showed just how no matter how much evidence you show someone with a racist mindset will mostly just continue to defend their actions because in their minds they aren’t racist they’re right.  

This show did something by showing just how racists can act like their behaviour is the most reasonable thing in the world and that’s what hit me hardest and something I think needs to be exposed. People need to understand that consciously hating all black people isn’t the only way to be racist.

in the raven episode the big reveal is that the manager admits that she doesn’t hire black people but in reality thats not something they admit. But you’ll still see it in their actions and they’ll forever justify themselves and argue until their last breath that they aren’t racist.  

 Reblog

An oppressive system often seems stable because it limits people’s lives and imaginations so much that they can’t see beyond the limitations. This is especially true when a social system has existed for so long that its past extends beyond collective memory of anything different. As a result, it lays down terms of social life - including various forms of privilege - that can easily be mistaken for some kind of normal and inevitable human condition.

But this situation masks a fundamental long-term instability caused by the dynamics of oppression itself. Any system organized around one group’s efforts to control and exploit another is ultimately a losing proposition, because it contradicts the essentially uncontrollable nature of reality and does violence to basic human needs and values.

Allan G. Johnson (via wretchedoftheearth)

Smother

by Daughter

In the darkness I will meet my creators,
and they will all agree…