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actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

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butting heads is so much fun guys

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Look at that thats pretty cool

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every month was 30 DAYS LONG WITH THREE WEEKS OF TEN DAYS AND ONE DAY IN PARTICULAR MEANT FOR TRADE AND COMMERCE (speculated to have been between months instead). EVERY YEAR POSSIBLY COUNTED FIVE DAYS OF MISFORTUNE IN A SIMILAR WAY TO THE MEXICA AND MAYA TRADITIONS.

GRRRAAHHHGHH thirty days thirty days thirty days ten days in a week no SUCH THING AS A MONDAY (bravghhh)

but no… we have words for the days at home

the words for the week:

killachaw. atipachaw. quyllurchaw. illapachaw. ch’askachaw. k’uychichaw. intichaw.

that one brewed kombucha in the back of the refrigerator: qatuchaw 👹

LUNISOLAR CALENDAR one of 328 days and the other of 365 days both of which split into TWO HALVES INTO TWO OTHER HALVES. I FORGET WHAT THEYRE CALLED CUZ IM LOSING IT BUT THATS OKAY

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I wish rainbow trout flew around in the skies so I could release them like doves at my wedding.

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sometimes the way some people on here talk about fat people is like bizarre

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Happy TDoV!

My name is Dion I'm a black genderqueer ftm and I'm saving up for top surgery! My surgery date is supposed to be May 2nd.

I've not gotten word about insurance authorization yet so I'm still waiting to hear back from billing to know how much is covered. Regardless, I will have to take 4-6 weeks off from work and will need money for rent. I'm saving as much as I can, but I will need some help as after crunching the numbers, I will be short for rent + utilities in June.

Anything helps! Thank you so much!

c/shapp: $pumpkinssoup

v/nmo: @/pumpkinssoup

p/ypal: thebiggrilk@gmail.com

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i love graffiti. "comics and jazz are the only american art forms" you forgot graffiti. did you remember graffiti? That art form birthed in Philly and NYC in the early 70s by poor Black kids. that art form that spread all over the world and influenced so many. that's used without irony in commercials when they're trying to appeal to a "young urban" customer.

did you forget graffiti? that racism broken windows theory victim? that reach the establishment takes claiming that it's exclusively violent gang members throwing up those full-color pieces and wildstyle tags in the middle of the night outsmarting fifty security cameras because the billboard was ugly anyway. as if, even if it was, it wouldn't be impressive as all hell. risking brutality and fall damage so your art can occupy the space a gentrified condo named something like "Coluumna" took away from you. proving that despite only assholes affording to live here anymore there's still a soul beneath it. an animal with dripping stripes and teeth that go clack-clack tsssss

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*the implication being right now/generally. if you basically always have your hair dyed an unnatural color but you're in-between dye jobs right now, you can say yes. also "piercings" in this context refers to anything BUT a regular piercing in the earlobe.

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Often when trans women ask me when I'm performing next, and I tell them that it's a queer/trans event, they will tell me that they'd rather not go because they do not feel comfortable or safe in those spaces, that they have been dismissed or belittled at such events before. Even trans women who are dyke- or bisexual- identified often don't feel welcome or relevant in queer/trans spaces. And whenever a trans woman or ally points out aspects about the queer/ trans community that contribute to these feelings of irrelevancy and disrespect—such as the way our community coddles those who support trans-woman-exclusionist events or who make trans-misogynistic comments—we are described as being "divisive." This use of the word "divisive" is particularly telling, as it implies that "queer/trans" represents a uniform movement or community—a "oneness"—rather than an alliance where all voices are respected.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl. Published 2007.

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HE'S BACK, BABY

EA-NASIR IS HERE FOR US, RIPPING OFF CAPITALISTS

AS PER MY LAST TABLET

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I feel I should specify when I talk about the vast majority of Israelis supporting this genocide it's not to call for violence of them or even to demonise them. It's to call attention to Israel having a genocidal education system which dehumanises Palestinians from the moment Israelis start school. Ilan Pappé did a study in 1994 of the Israeli education system and raised the alarm that it would raise a generation who are even worse than those who first colonised Palestine in 1948. We're seeing the truth of that now.

I raise this point because we're seeing this attempt by politicians and the media to claim that it's just Netanyahu who is to blame for this genocide and not a systematic problem that requires boycotting, divestments and sanctions to push them to correct. This lie is being pushed because they do not want to change the status quo which allows for Israel to steal Palestinian land and homes and keep Palestinians under military occupation.

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

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