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Antholzer See, Italy (by eberhard)

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Corsica, France (by Tom Grimbert)

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Do not ignore what is going on in the Philippines.

An human rights worker named Reina Mae Nasino was jailed and wrongfully accused for owning firearms. She was pregnant by the time she was jailed and gave birth in prison.

At this point, Reina Mae Nasino wasn’t given proper care in prison and was only given one medical visit. Reina gave birth to a girl named River but the lack of prenatal care caused the child to have a low weight and skin discoloration. Nasino also had difficulty breastfeeding her and wasn’t getting any assistance for her child. The counsels asked for the baby to be transferred to a hospital for her care but it was denied by the court.

On October 9, River died due to acute respiratory distress syndrome. She was only 3 months old.

Reina Mae Nasino was supposed to have 3 days to say goodbye but the Court Judge revised it and made it 6 hours, 3 hours for the wake and 3 hours for the funeral. She wasn’t allowed a peaceful grieving as dozens of police and jail guards swarmed the area. On October 14, Reina Mae attended River’s wake in full PPE and handcuffs, surrounded by guards because she was labelled a high profile criminal. The guards tried to cut her time with her child short as they tried to drag her away 2 hours before the visiting time was up. She was also not allowed to take off her handcuffs.

October 16, the day River was to be buried. The funeral wasn’t peaceful or respectful as the police swarmed and guarded the area. The car carrying River sped to the cemetery, not giving time for her family and supporters to catch up. The relatives begged on their knees for the guards to remove Reina’s handcuffs so she can hold her child one last time but they refused.

She wasn’t allowed a peaceful goodbye to her child.

She never even heard her child laugh once.

Reina Mae Nasino is not a criminal. She is a political prisoner and an activist who was treated terribly by the police and the justice system.

They killed her child.

There are over 600+ political prisoners like her in the Philippines that are subject to inhumane treatment due to the Duterte Administration and its disregard for the poor and disenfranchised. Baby River is not the only child who died due to the lack of care by the government.

Activists in the Philippines are getting killed, red tagged and treated as terrorists.

Do not ignore this. We need to be heard.

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Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

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the fact that they banned hosting wechat servers in the us & will ban transactions from within the us deliberately to make the app basically nonfunctional for people accessing it within the states will mean that millions of chinese americans, migrants and international students will lose the only way for them to communicate with loved ones overseas or send them money/be sent money to pay rent or buy groceries or anything at all etc is unironically an act of violence

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Why you shouldn’t mock people’s accents

(AKA, what is linguistic discrimination?)

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Imagine if everybody knew the International Phonetic Alphabet. It would be so much easier to explain how words are pronounced which would be especially useful to second language learners & people who have unpronounceable names.

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In revitalizing a language, the learner must continuously evaluate from which culture their intentions come from. If you speak the language but hold the same intentions that come from another culture, the revitalization efforts has failed because colonization is happening through the language.

An example of this phenomenon is best illustrated by missionaries coming into communities to learn the language with the intent to convert them. They spoke the language but they held onto their original intentions.

The idea of decolonization should stem from how a tribe heals themselves, not from outsiders telling them how to heal, same with revitalization

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the thing you need to realize about localization is that japanese and english are such vastly different languages that a straight translation is always going to be worse than the original script. nuance is going to be lost and, if you give a shit about your job, you should fill the gaps left with equivalent nuance in english. take ff6, my personal favorite localization of all time: in the original japanese cefca was memorable primarily for his manic, childish speaking style - but since english speaking styles arent nearly as expressive, woolsey adapted that by making the localized english kefka much more prone to making outright jokes. cefca/kefka is beloved in both regions as a result - hell, hes even more popular here

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just a reminder if you’re bored you can always answer some simple trivia and give rice to people in need.

and it’s absolutely free

http://freerice.com/

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hey studyblr community, while you guys are doing study and language challenges, i think it's also important for you all to educate yourself on black history and politics. here's a master doc of black revolutionary texts to get you started.

ill also be making a post about how non-black people can make the studyblr community inclusive of black people and our history.

stay safe, wear a mask, and black lives matter. ✊🏾

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Balchik Botanical Garden, Bulgaria 

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Karskrona, Sweden

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Historic Villages of Shirakawa.

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“Finland’s New Road” - Proposal for a “Greater Finland” made during Continuation War

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Rupea Citadel, Romania *by Alex Berger