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September 6, 2025 - In a powerful moment, a massive crowd in Mexico City chanted Palestina libre,” meaning “Free Palestine,” back-to-back during Puerto Rican rapper Residente’s free concert at the Zócalo on Saturday. The rapper dedicated the night to resistance, peace and solidarity, inviting onstage members of the Abed family, Palestinian refugees from Gaza now living in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands filled the historic square, waving Palestinian flags and echoing chants for freedom as Residente performed in attire bearing the words “Free Palestine.” The concert, one of the largest ever held at the Zócalo, blended music, protest and activism, amplifying the call for justice in Palestine to numerous more who also tuned in online. [video]

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epigraph from the robertson translation of medea

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“attraction itself can articulate the same power differentials that enable things like sexual abuse, but that's another post.” i am intrigued…

i think people overdetermine 'attraction' as some kind of uncontrollable involuntary biological reaction to aesthetics & one consequence is that you virtually always hear sexual assault discussed as though the attraction comes first and is a pre-social fact, and then serves as the motivation for an abuse of power. i don't deny that can and does happen but i think equally or perhaps even more often the order of operations is the opposite so to speak: the erotics lie precisely in the fact of a power differential or a perception of someone's vulnerability, and this social sizing-up is the terrain for, & in a sense a causal factor of, the attraction itself. i don't think attraction is inherently a good or bad thing but, like other modes of relating to a person, it can be an articulation or enforcement of a person's relative social position just as much as it can be anything else. the maybe more benign example would be the more readily acknowledged idea that people often find a person who has power over them to be sexy on the grounds specifically of that power differential -- comparatively there is a squeamishness i think about acknowledging this sequence of power -> erotics can go the other way. and to the extent assault and abuse are motivated by attraction (which is not always but certainly sometimes the case) i think it's foolish and shortsighted to shy away from this kind of social enforcement role that attraction can often play

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do you guys wanna get up early and get pastries and eat them in the park and lay in the grass for a while and then go for a long walk to an antique centre and wander round and hold things up and say "this is you 🫵" and then watch classic who and parallel play by working on our individual writing/art projects for the rest of the day with intermittent drink/snack breaks and none of us ever have to look at microsoft outlook or receive an email ever again

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Angels | shop

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To have the highest incarceration per capita rate in the world, Vatican City would need to imprison 13 people.

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hi i just read hamlet and im wondering what you'd recommend for a stage version of it. i read it with no fear shakespeare before watching it bc i thought i wouldn't be able to understand the language if i didnt read it first. since i'm extremely new to reading shakespeare i'm looking for just straightforward adaptations so no time loop/grand theft hamlet yet but i'll get to them one day. ty for reading even if you don't respond <3

HI HELLO!! i honestly have not seen a lot of hamlet adaptations because i am insane and have very particular needs from a hamlet prod, so i'm opening this up to my followers and comrades--i especially know @lizardrosen has seen a lot of productions of, like, everything?

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Insane actually that until I saw Hadestown live I'd never heard anyone talk about the candle. The candle that is hope?? The candle that's THE LAST THING YOU SEE as the stage goes dark at the end of the show. The candle that the Fates blow out, that Eurydice relights at the start of every performance? Kept safe by Hermes until the story is told again? That candle???

Well personally I'M never going to stop thinking about it

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The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.

My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.

All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.

I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!

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y'know how cave-divers who love going into super deep super dangerously small underwater caves always have like a giant family that loves them? that's Dr Mensah

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Okay, poll time. How many languages do you have a smattering of? This includes everything from fluency all the way down to knowing just a word or two.

(Proper nouns and adopted words don’t count.)

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people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they came back to it eagerly, they went over every word again. to love is to return and loving a fic is rereading it. thank you to all readers and rereaders <3333

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it's of course natural and funny for the intrepid heroes to treat brennan like their enemy and an evil mastermind hell bent on their destruction but at the same time it's so endearing that brennan can't help but want to see them win and want to let them do cool stuff and also can't help but escalate every bit they make to the degree that production had to take the tentacles away

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children heed my warning. one day your body’s check engine light will come on and demand that you start eating so many vegetables and whole grains. do not ignore it.

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older gentleman just gave me a lecture on how when I decide it’s time to find a wife I need to buy myself a pair of loud colorful socks and sit around with my legs crossed to show my ankles and women will flock to me