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Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, French & Kiswahili.

If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?

The concept of assemblage—an open-ended entanglement of ways of being—is more useful. In an assemblage, varied trajectories gain a hold on each other, but indeterminacy matters. To learn about an assemblage, one unravels its knots.

The Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna Tsing

Standardize tests generally do not measure your grasp of concepts but rather your ability to take tests.

Guido Mangold, Hommage to Edward Hopper, 3rd Avenue in New York, 1985

feeling very normal about this

they should invent 7 hours between 10pm and midnight

Who are we? We are the global South, that large set of creations and creatures that has been sacrificed to the infinite voracity of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and all their satellite-oppressions. We are present at every cardinal point because our geography is the geography of injustice and oppression. We are not everyone; we are those who do not resign themselves to sacrifice and therefore resist. We have dignity. We are all indigenous peoples because we are where we have always been, before we had owners, masters, or bosses, or because we are where we were taken against our will and where owners, masters, or bosses were imposed on us. They want to impose on us the fear of having a boss and the fear of not having a boss, so that we may not imagine ourselves without fear. We resist. We are widely diverse human beings united by the idea that the understanding of the world is much larger than the Western understanding of the world. We believe that the transformation of the world may also occur in ways not foreseen by the global North. We are animals and plants, biodiversity and water, earth and Pachamama, ancestors and future generations—whose suffering appears less in the news than the suffering of humans but is closely linked to theirs, even though they may be unaware of it.

— Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Manifesto for Good Living/Buen Vivir; EPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE SOUTH: JUSTICE AGAINST EPISTEMICIDE  

Upside-down fig tree in Bacoli, Italy.

"No one is quite sure how the tree ended up there or how it survived, but year after year it continues to grow downwards and bear figs."

Credit: ArchaeoHistories