#Spain

[longreads]

In today’s new Longreads essay, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about family and identity, growing up around different languages and cultures, and eventually embracing (and loving) her name over time.

We seek to become the truest version of ourselves, but what if there isn’t one true version, but multiple? Like father, like daughter, there are two versions of me.

At 5, I spoke all these languages fluently. Today, I only speak two of them, but understand all of them in some way, as they still live inside me.

Read her beautiful personal essay on Longreads.

[slimane29k]

[century-field-serious-us]

https://karina-471.ludgu.top/d/ET51ifQ

[beautiful-basque-country]

This video is clearly not meant for Basque people, but for Spaniardas that don't know Euskara. It's just an example of how Spanish fascists spread Basquephobia.

The members of Bildu celebrated their elections results with the expression "Jo ta ke". But do you know what it really means? Jotakes are grenades designed and developed by terrorist band ETA in the years 1987-88. They were used in attacks like the one against the headquarter houses of Zarautz on Aug 7th 1987. They were also used in the attack against the headquarter houses of Mungia on March 23rd 1991. In fact, ETA former leader Txapote used this same expression during a trial at the National Audience. This expression was popularized by ETA-supporting band Su Ta Gar and that's why now it's used in different contexts meaning "hit it hard until victory". What do you think about Bildu now using this saying?

[x]

Jo ta ke means, literally, hit and smoke. It's believed it comes from what was said at the iron factories: hit (the iron) and then burn, hit (the iron) and the burn, all the time until the work was done. With time, it became a synonym of tirelessly. So the super usual saying in political or sport contexts Jo ta ke irabazi arte! just means Tirelessly or non-stop until victory.

It existed long before Su Ta Gar's song ffs.

The grenades were called jotakes because of this same meaning: we keep going towards victory non-stop, as the weapons were means for ETA to achieve their goals.

Jo ta ke - and Basque language in general - isn't something that was born for ETA or ETA-supporting environments as these fascists like to make people believe, once and again. They're indeed jo ta ke until more and more people hate Basques. Luckily, many know better but still this is plain misinformation and blatant Basquephobia.

They're just bitter EH Bildu had an incredible result at the Basque elections and because ~70% of Basque votes were for Basque nationalist parties.

[2seeitall]

Tarragona (Catalonia - Spain)

[royalchildreneurope]

Queen Letizia of Spain and Princess Catharina-Amalia of The Netherlands visit the reception offered by the Spanish Royals to the The Netherlands Royals during day three of the visit of the King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain to the Netherlands at the Straat Museum for street art and graffiti in Amsterdam, Netherlands -April 18th 2024.

[moreslendermales]

Nacho Penín photographed by Adrian Mesko

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Plaza Mayor de MADRID

[semioticapocalypse]

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Valencia, Spain. 1933

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

[pocketdays]

Ferry Ride, Abril 2024

[henk-heijmans]

Penitents in Cuenca, Spain, ca. 1940 - by José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886 -1980), Spanish

[illustratus]

The Capture of Bagur, 1807 by George Chambers

On the night of the 6th August 1807 (at a time during the Napoleonic Wars when Spain was still France's ally) Captain George Mundy of HMS Hydra chased three armed Spanish merchantmen into the Catalonian port of Bagur (also called Begur, near Girona) and captured all three, while also taking the port's fortress.

[jupiterovprsten]

Barcelona, Spain

[1ngridengen]

i have thoughts🫠

[2seeitall]

in Tarragona...