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90. ALGARA. 2022-10-22 @ Pankahyttn (w/ Berosszulás & Tonal Shift)

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my first tries at inda!!

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The Sierlaef is unlike his father and grandmother in not choosing his own sex, but he’s like them in that he’s already found a favorite.

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And if he’s picked Kies as his favorite for the rest of his life, like his father picked dear Uncle Sindan at about the same age, well, he could have picked far worse.

—Chapter 25, from Hadand to Joret, First Book

*looks RIGHT at Evred* romantic monogamy doomed you genetically

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@goofygooberton tagged me in a thing where I was supposed to list five of my comfort characters and then tag five other people like two months ago, but I was on vacation at the time and the post ended up unfinished and lost in my drafts.

So I am doing it now, here it goes, Tumblr user togrutahhh's five comfort characters (aka a collection of cunning bastards who seem composed on the surface but are secretly Fucked Up but are also kind to children and poor people):

Hina Kudo from Mr. Sunshine aka my pfp: Hina Kudo is actually Korean, but she has a Japanese name because she's the mysterious widow of a rich Japanese man twice her age. She used his inheritance to open up a fancy hotel in Seoul and uses the money and influence gained through that alongside her intelligence and cunning to get what she wants, and what she wants is Mysterious unless you've seen the show to the end. Does she work for the Japanese? For the Koreans? For the Americans? For herself? Nobody knows and everyone hates her for it. She is a Bad Bitch, always cool, poised, and playfully seductive, but she also has a back full of hideous scars and is a proficient swordswoman, hinting at a less genteel past. She seems haughty, but is also wonderfully compassionate towards lower class people and viciously defends her staff from unwanted sexual advances. The men she wants never pick her because they think she's fake and manipulative. (Fun fact: this actress and her mannerisms in this particular role is how I headcanon Alys Vorpatril to look like, with Henry Golding as Ivan)

Grand Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars: I love the Chaotic Strategic Mastermind Who Inspires Loyalty In His Men archetype, but what I love about Thrawn is that, unlike the more overtly theatrical and extroverted specimens like Miles Vorkosigan or Eugenides or Inda Algara-Vayir, he is also very introverted and autistic and seems incapable of connecting to people outside of the structured military environment he's in, which adds an additional twist and makes him deliciously interpersonally vulnerable to me. In the right hands he's also an excellent treatise of when doing evil for the greater good is justified and when it's not, and a cool exploration of someone just abandoning his humanity and his personal needs in order to always do the Rational Thing. Reading Zahn's new canon books about him often feels like watching your kind, hypercompetent, slightly awkward boyfriend who's great with children make the worst possible choices and fail you again and again and again. I also like thinking about him in terms of... information processing? Like no matter how logical you are, your conclusions are only as good as your info and what info you take into consideration will be determined by your own prejudices and assumptions and social position. Honorable mention to his boyfriend aide Eli Vanto and also everyone in the Ascendancy Trilogy - I could make a top ten comfort characters list out of them alone.

Laurent of Vere from Captive Prince: NEW BLORBO!! <3 Another Strategic Mastermind Who Inspires Loyalty in His Men + Interpersonal Vulnerability combo, but this time extra bitchy and needlessly vicious and also in a piece of media that explores his interpersonal baggage with great nuance and respect. He is severely traumatized but the narrative never takes away his agency and always portrays his boundaries as really important and I wrote a whole ass essay about how lovely that is that you can look up on my blog if you want. He comes off as stone cold but seems to have an innate desire to be sweet and submissive that he's too scared to let out. He also has a delightfully intricate mind that manifests in a myriad of plot twists and schemes - those books are literally more filled with unexpected plot twists than the Queen's Thief books, and that's an accomplishment to say the least. Every time you think you've got him pegged down he reveals new layers to his thinking and personality and it's such a delight, but you also see how that same intricate mind stymies him and makes him awkward when he tries to open up to someone (and what's extra charming is that you can see that he's trying so damned hard in places).

Lisbeth Salander from The Millennium Trilogy: The ultimate Bad Bitch. She's punk. She's a genius with a photographic memory but is so distrustful and anti-social and scarred by her severely traumatic upbringing that she pretends to be mentally handicapped so that people would leave her alone. She kills her rapist. She sets her abusive father on fire as a preteen. He comes for her as an adult to get revenge and buries her alive and she digs herself out Kill Bill-style, and whenever I feel in an impossible situation I think of the description of how she feels her fingers being scraped to a pulp as she digs but refuses to give up and that inspires me. She falls in love with an upper middle class leftist journalist twice her age who is poly, which she isn't stable enough psychologically to deal with, so she ghosts him and then spends a lot of time dwelling on how isolated from Normal Society she feels and how it always feels like she's a shitty stray out in the cold and rain watching happy people sit together in warm houses through the window.

Joe Macmillan from Halt and Catch Fire: He's a Don Draper-esque slick salesman kind of charismatic guy, except you can immediately tell that it's a facade and his charismatic shtick often comes off as fake, plastic, over the top or even kinda pathetic. He does the Joker thing where he makes up a different story about how he got his scars based on what will best get him what he wants. He's the best bisexual rep I've ever seen and while his queerness is not a central plot point in the show, he gets an entire subplot about being a queer man during the 1980s AIDS crisis and how this impacts his career as an antivirus software "developer", and we also get hints about how having to perform manhood as a teen is what set the stage for his fake-ass melodramatic bargain bin Patrick Bateman personality. He eventually matures and learns that manipulating people can lead to some really nasty consequences and becomes a more genuine and grounded person. He still loses everything. He comes off as a heartbreaker but actually he just keeps getting dumped by everyone because nobody trusts him as far as they can throw him even when he genuinely cares and continues to suffer over the breakup for years afterwards. He's the ultimate boy who cried wolf. Truly the most pathetic meow meow of all time. He's played by Lee Pace, so he's really hot. Actually everyone on this list is really hot and can cut glass with their cheekbones.

Honorable mention to Eugenides from Queen's Thief, who sadly got replaced by Laurent at the last minute. Also honorable mention to a dozen Star Wars characters who got kicked out by Thrawn, including but not limited to my boy Luthen Rael, the entire Skywalker family, Darth Maul, Aleksandr Kallus, and Hera Syndulla.

Five people I'm tagging: @highladyluck @kokoshnjak @thesunlikehoney @capablecapybara @kissingdeadgirls at random from my notifs and anyone else who wants to participate :)) also you don't really have to write a paragraph for each one I'm just annoying and like overthinking things <3

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Fuera de Sektor—Juegos Prohibitos (La Vida Es un Mus)

Juegos Prohibitos, the first LP by Barcelona band Fuera de Sektor, shimmies and struts out of the gate (or into the club, as the case may be) with the memorable combination of “El Mundo Sigue” and “Escapar.” The tracks quickly establish the principal pleasures of Fuera de Sektor’s music, and the interesting difficulties it poses. It’s a singular sound, by turns compelling and bewitching—like the beautiful face you can just about discern across a dim and crowded room, a set of lines and textures briefly lit up by occasional drags on a cigarette. Not quite (or not just) postpunk, pop or dance music, the songs on Juegos Prohibitos itch at your hips and scratch into your brain.

“Itch” and “scratch” are anxious words, and there’s an unsettled energy in Fuera de Sektor’s songs—think of Gang of Four, c. Solid Gold, especially the sound of Andy Gill’s guitar. But the vibe is even antsier than that, and even dancier—think of the propulsive but off-kilter rhythms of Talking Heads, c. More Songs about Buildings and Food, especially “Good Thing.” But none of those references or descriptors adequately captures the feeling of a tune like “Necessito Combustible,” which careens from ebullient signature riff to tight, eddying flourishes of guitar to a downturning refrain, suddenly worrisome, all in just over two minutes.

The tonal shifts feel keyed to a scene: a club just seedy enough, a dancefloor densely packed, an atmosphere of danger in the air that carries a hint of the political. It’s love and revolution. Two members of Fuera de Sektor (Dani Frutos and Albert Rodriguez) also play in anarcho-punk outfit Algara, and there are flirtations with the ideological here and there on Juegos Prohibitos; see this couplet from “Necessito Combustible”: “Otra noche rallada / Yo no odio las mañanas / Otra noche rallada / No nay lunes en la semana.” The song doesn’t clarify where the confusion comes from: Are the punks too busy partying to notice Monday’s arrival? Or are they purposefully ignoring the clock, rejecting the work week’s drudgery? Do they even care?

The ambivalence is instructive. There’s a tautness to Fuera de Sektor’s music that is deep in its tissues, and it registers in the record’s relentlessly upbeat pace. Fuera de Sektor can’t settle down. Too much anxiety? Too many keybumps of whites? For all that tension, there’s a sexiness in the music’s invitations to boogie, fast and close, and in Andrea Jarales’ vocals, which are by turns fierce, playful and plaintive. She sings and you sidle in closer; she snarls and you want to back off. The sound is always on the move, darting and cutting and twisting. You groove, you sweat, you pivot and wheel, nervy and excited. Even for the listener, it’s otra noche rallada. But as long as Juegos Prohibitos spins, you’ll keep dancing.

Jonathan Shaw

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The Flags Just Don't Understand June 14, 2024

I did this fill-in show for Flag Day! I played this one song about a flag! Note I forgot to record this for the first few minutes so sadly my musings on flag day are lost to history. listen to the show

Carole King - Pleasant Valley Sunday Wire - Pink Flag

Pyrex - Sleep Therapy (demo) Heavenly - Sort of Mine Crash Course In Science - Crashing Song Neutrals - Stop the Bypass

Cosey Mueller - Tu mir was Cut Piece - Soft Limit Hard Line Festa del Perdono - Corpo Di Smeraldo The Sound - Fatal Flaw

Sacrilege - At Death's Door Snõõper - Company Car Bloodstains - Combat Shock Lucta - Non Existo Nightshift - Phone

Huggy Bear - No Sleep Françoise Hardy - Je n'attends plus personne BiS - Keroleen (Unreleased Version) Velocity Girl - Crawl Becky and the Politicians - What a Way to Die Parsnip - The Light Varonas - Tengo el Control Wanda Jackson - Cool Love Maraudeur - Slow Dress

Cave Sex - Prophets of War Rəhman Məmmədli - Xarı Bülbül P-MODEL - 美術館で会った人だろ // Art Mania [Bijutsukan de atta hitodaro / I've Met You at the Museum

Smirk - Bad Behavior Tin Huey - Puppet Wipes Statuesque - Consensus is Inevitable Kristiina - Vain hetki oltiin Gee Tee - Out Tonight Rodd Keith - Ecstacy To Frenzy

The Aints! - S - O - S '75 Mekons - I'll Have to Dance Then (On My Own) Algara - Expulsados cutters - Jobs For The Boys Sunny Morris - Defect Woman Despertá - Cómplices ALARM! - Bring Books

Bad Breeding - Idolatry Mundo Primitivo - La Fuerza Negative Gears - Ants deef - Gensouteki Kyouikuron Dwyne - To My Father, My Dog, and Clowns

citron citron - Par un Temps Pareille Babe Report - Ocean Sexaphone - That's the Facts! Program - Side by Side

Ohio Players - Fopp

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Alcaraz danced enthusiastically with the Czech Republic player!

A video of Wimbledon champion Algaras excitedly dancing with first-time Wimbledon Grand Slam women’s singles champion Barbora Krejcikova has gone viral on the internet. In the final of the Wimbledon Championships in London, defending champion Algaraz defeated seven-time Wimbledon champion and most Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia to win the title. Meanwhile, a video of Alcaraz…

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Baile En el Bosque/Eres Tú el Príncipe Azul - Lupita Pérez Arias, Lupita P‚rez & Alejandro Algara

Baile En el Bosque/Eres Tú el Príncipe Azul de Lupita Pérez Arias, Lupita P‚rez & Alejandro Algara https://www.shazam.com/track/69198550/baile-en-el-bosque-eres-t%C3%BA-el-pr%C3%ADncipe-azul?referrer=share

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🟠CADENA ESPN ESTRENARÁ DOCUMENTAL SOBRE LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH, NARRADO POR YALITZA APARICIO👇

La cadena de televisión ESPN anunció que este domingo 2 de junio se estrenará el documental “Las amazonas de Yaxunah” en el Festival Internacional de Cine Latino de Los Ángeles (LALIFF) 2024.

El documental está dirigido por el cineasta Alfonso Algara y es narrado por Yalitza Aparicio, la primera actriz indígena mexicana nominada al Oscar.

El filme sigue el viaje del equipo Amazonas de Yaxuná, conformado por 26 jugadoras, de 13 a 62 años, quienes rompen estereotipos de género y superan desafíos para perseguir su pasión por el sóftbol.

El documental fue producido por ESPN Deportes como parte de la iniciativa de la marca para celebrar su 20 aniversario.

Las y los yucatecos podrán ver este increíble documental a partir del mes de octubre, cuando debutará en las plataformas de ESPN por el Mes de la Herencia Hispana.

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Las Ninyas Del Corro 🇪🇸

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Glosario

Tema 4 Bramante: Milano-Roma

Terraceo: El sustantivo derivado de "terracear". "Terracear" es una palabra coloquial que significa "hacer terrazas" o "espacios en forma de escalones en una ladera".

https://www.fundeu.es/consulta/terraceo-terracear/

Axialidad: Axialidad es un término que se refiere a la organización espacial determinada por un eje que conecta y vincula todos los espacios. El plano que delimita el eje marca el inicio y el final del recorrido en el proyecto

Balaustre: Un balaustre es una columna pequeña, generalmente con molduras, que forma parte de las barandillas o antepechos de balcones, azoteas, corredores y escaleras. Los balaustres se moldean en piedra, madera, metal o cerámica.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaustre

Razzias: Una razia es un ataque sorpresa contra un asentamiento enemigo. La palabra proviene del francés razzia (incursión) y del árabe argelino ġaziya (algara)

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razia

Cimborrio: El cimborrio es un elemento arquitectónico que se eleva sobre el crucero de una iglesia. Suele tener forma de torre y planta cuadrada u octogonal. Su función principal es proporcionar luz natural al interior del edificio mediante la apertura de ventanas en sus paredes.

http://enciclopedia.us.es/index.php/Cimborrio

Tema 5 Mr. Worldwide: Michelangelo Buonarroti

Asedio: Asedio es un sustantivo masculino que significa la acción o efecto de asediar. Asediar es presionar con insistencia o cercar o rodear un determinado lugar para perjudicar de alguna manera a quienes están en él.

https://definicion.de/asedio/

El anglicanismo: es una doctrina religiosa que combina elementos del catolicismo y de la reforma protestante. Se originó en 1534, cuando el rey Enrique VIII, jefe supremo de la iglesia, la decretó en un acta

https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/religion/anglicanismo-significado-y-origen-de-esta-importante-religion-753049

Eclectico: es un adjetivo que se usa para calificar a algo o a alguien relacionado con el eclecticismo. El eclecticismo es la tendencia a adoptar una posición intermedia entre diferentes ideas o posturas. También se refiere a lo que combina elementos de diferentes estilos.

https://definicion.de/eclectico/#:~:text=El%20adjetivo%20ecl%C3%A9ctico%20se%20emplea,combina%20elementos%20de%20diferentes%20estilos.

Baluarte: es una parte de una fortificación que se proyecta hacia el exterior en el punto donde se encuentran dos cortinas o lienzos de muralla. También se conoce como bastión. 

https://definicion.de/baluarte/

Ornamentos: son componentes decorativos que se integran a las fachadas con la intención de “embellecerlas” u otorgar valor a la superficie en cuanto transmisora de significados.

https://rdu.unc.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/11086/11593/2.68%20La%20fachada%20y%20el%20ornamento.pdf?sequence=148&isAllowed=y

Tema 6 Manierismo: artistas de corte

Destajo: Un contrato o régimen de trabajo, que se paga por unidad de producto y no por el tiempo empleado en producirla.

https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_destajo

Misógino es un adjetivo que se refiere a una persona que siente o manifiesta misoginia. La misoginia es el odio, aversión o desconfianza hacia las mujeres. También incluye prejuicios y promueve estereotipos de género nocivos. 

https://dle.rae.es/mis%C3%B3gino

Nodo es un conjunto de puntos que están dentro de las líneas que se pueden dibujar. Estos puntos definen la tensión de la recta y la dirección que va a seguir.

https://cocoschool.com/home-4/nodos-diseno-grafico/

Imoscapo es el diámetro inferior del fuste de una columna. Se utilizaba como medida base para encontrar el módulo, que suele ser la mitad del imoscapo, es decir, el radio. A menudo se curva en apófisis para concordar con el listel superior de la base. 

hornacinas pueden ser huecos abiertos en las paredes del baño para colocar cosméticos, productos para el cabello y otros accesorios. Las hornacinas son elementos funcionales que se pueden hacer en cualquier rincón del baño. Además de guardar cosméticos, también pueden usarse para objetos que no pueden estar en contacto con el agua, como las toallas o incluso para adornos. 

Las columnas pareadas son una composición arquitectónica que consiste en dos columnas idénticas colocadas en el mismo plano y que generalmente comparten un mismo pedestal.

https://www.urbipedia.org/hoja/Columnas_pareadas

Tema 7 El último clásico: Andrea Palladio y el Véneto

Xilografía es una técnica de impresión en relieve que consiste en grabar imágenes o textos en placas de madera. El nombre proviene del griego xilon, que significa madera, y graphe, que significa grafía, esculpir o grabar. 

https://www.bn.gov.ar/resources/conferences/pdfs/seibert-ponencia.pdf

Intercolumnio: es el espacio vertical que queda entre columnas iguales y muy próximas que forman parte de una misma composición arquitectónica. Este espacio puede ser liso y vacío, decorado, o con huecos.

Estuco es una técnica de decoración que se utiliza para recubrir paredes y techos. Se compone principalmente de cemento, yeso y cal. El estuco también contiene mármol pulverizado, cal apagada, yeso y pigmentos naturales.

https://www.cemix.com/para-que-sirve-el-estuco/

Pronaos es un término griego que significa "el espacio situado delante del templo". En arquitectura, el pronaos es el vestíbulo o la entrada de un templo. Es un pórtico que está delante del santuario o cela. 

https://www.urbipedia.org/hoja/Pronaos

Tema 8 Barroco, arquitectura y ciudad

Iconoclasia es la destrucción de símbolos o monumentos con fines políticos o ideológicos. Es una acción realizada de forma histórica por distintos movimientos sociales que buscan un cambio en el gobierno o sistema.

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2023/03/07/marchas-del-8m-que-es-la-iconoclasia-y-cual-es-su-relacion-con-las-manifestantes/

Convexo es un conjunto de puntos que contiene todos los puntos en una línea que une cualquiera de los dos puntos constituyentes. Por ejemplo, la curva exterior redondeada de un círculo o esfera. 

https://www.aatespanol.cl/terminos/300010303

Cosmología es la rama de la astronomía que estudia el universo en conjunto y su origen. La palabra cosmología proviene del griego kosmos, que significa "cosmos, orden", y logía, que indica "estudio"

Filibusteros eran piratas que atacaban en el mar Caribe en el siglo XVII. La palabra "filibustero" proviene del francés y se refiere a piratas que navegaban cerca de las costas y saqueaban ciudades portuarias.

https://definicion.de/filibustero/

Dogma es un conjunto de creencias o proposiciones que se aceptan sin cuestionar. Es una proposición que se asume como principio innegable e irrefutable de una ciencia o doctrina.

https://www.significados.com/dogma/

Tema 9 Roma: la ciudad de la eterna rivalidad

Epígrafe es una cita, frase o lema que se coloca al inicio de una obra literaria, o de sus capítulos, para adelantar una idea general acerca de su contenido.

https://www.significados.com/epigrafe/

Baldaquinos son muebles sagrados para las iglesias. Por lo general, son piezas grandes de tela cuadrada o rectangular, sostenidos por cuatro o más brazos adornados con flecos y frisos. Se utilizan para proteger a los cardenales, obispos y papas durante las procesiones.

https://www.holyart.es/blog/articulos-religiosos/historia-del-baldaquino-de-san-pedro/

Asentista es una persona o entidad que hace un contrato o asiento con el gobierno o con el público para suministrar víveres u otros efectos a un ejército, armada, presidio, plaza, etc

https://dle.rae.es/asentista

Pietismo es un movimiento religioso protestante que comenzó en Alemania en el siglo XVII. El pietismo es una reacción contra el intelectualismo y el formalismo dominantes en las iglesias luterana y calvinista

https://dle.rae.es/pietismo

Hagiografía como acto de narrar las historias de santos surgió alrededor del siglo IV. En ese entonces, se distinguía entre las narraciones de los mártires, que se centraban en su muerte, y las narraciones de los obispos, que se centraban en sus vidas. 

Tema 10 Barroco y Absolutismo: Francia y españa

Estamentos son una división social que responde a los criterios propios del feudalismo y el Antiguo Régimen. Eran grupos sociales muy cerrados, definidos por unas actividades, formas de vida y derechos jurídicos diferentes a los de otros grupos.

https://escholarium.educarex.es/coursePlayer/clases2.php?idclase=2797789&idcurso=50209

Mudéjar es un término que proviene del árabe mudayyan y significa "aquel a quien se le ha permitido quedarse". Se utiliza para designar a los musulmanes que permanecieron viviendo en territorio recuperado por los cristianos, aunque segregados en barrios llamados morerías.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud%C3%A9jar

Borbon son una dinastía real que reina en España, pero que tienen origen francés. La rama "Bourbon" tiene su génesis en Roberto de Clermont, el sexto hijo del Rey Luis IX de Francia. En 1317, el hijo de Clermont, Luis I de Borbón, fue nombrado primer duque de Borbón por sus servicios a la Corona. 

https://www.abc.es/historia/abci-origen-borbones-historia-

Alcázar proviene del árabe hispano "Al qasr", que significa "La Fortaleza". "Qasr" viene del árabe clásico "fortaleza", "castillo".

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Monday, June 19, 2023

‘The Fires Here Are Unstoppable’ (NYT) A group of 109 French firefighters arrived in northern Quebec about a week ago to assist nearly 1,000 Canadian firefighters and soldiers, the first foreign reinforcements to help the province tackle the extraordinary outbreak of forest fires that sent smoke to New York and other cities across North America, forcing millions indoors because of hazardous air quality. More than 400 wildfires have burned all across Canada. But much of the smoke over Manhattan drifted from Quebec, a province that is unaccustomed to so many enormous fires, and that has already suffered its worst wildfire season on record. The experience of the French contingent illustrates the challenges of fighting wildfires in Canada. Used to aggressively and quickly attacking much smaller wildfires in France, the French firefighters must adapt to Quebec, a province three times the size of France, ravaged by fires sometimes a hundred times as large as what they are used to confronting. Commander Mossé said, “If anybody in New York is wondering why there’s smoke there, it’s because the fires here are unstoppable.” “Unstoppable,” he repeated.

Supermajorities in state capitols (AP) Lawmakers in state capitols this year have been flexing their superpowers. In each case, the views of their political opponents ultimately were irrelevant. By at least one measure, political power is at its highest mark in decades. That’s because Republicans or Democrats hold majorities so large in 28 states that they could override gubernatorial vetoes without any help from the minority party. The number of states with supermajorities is at its highest level since at least 1982, with 19 Republican supermajorities and nine Democratic ones. When supermajorities run state capitals, some voters may be pleased by the sweeping policies that get enacted. Others may feel like their priorities are ignored. “On behalf of the voters, it might be a good thing, because it helps clarify responsibility,” said Carlos Algara, an assistant professor of government and politics at Claremont Graduate University in California. “If you are a voter in California, you know explicitly which party owns policy—it’s the Democratic Party,” Algara said. “So if you don’t like the direction of policy in California, you have a very easy choice.” Voters in Florida are in a similar situation with Republicans.

Study finds disturbing amount of fecal contamination at U.S. beaches (Yahoo News) As the summer season gets underway, a new report finds that many coastal U.S. waterways, including popular beaches for swimming, are contaminated with unsafe levels of fecal bacteria. After sampling water sites around the country, the Surfrider Foundation, an ocean protection advocacy organization, found unsafe levels of fecal contamination at 19% of the 9,095 water samples. Of the 496 sites sampled, 301—61%—had at least one sample from last year that tested above the recreational water health standard. “I wasn’t surprised by the numbers,” J.P. Brooker, the Ocean Conservancy’s director of Florida conservation, told Yahoo News, citing past studies. “The fact is coastal water in Florida, and other areas of the country, is badly hampered.” During storms, U.S. beaches are often inundated with runoff from streets and sewers, bringing bacteria into the ocean or inland waterways such as rivers and lakes.

Cyclone leaves 11 dead, 20 missing in southern Brazil (Reuters) At least 11 people have been killed in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region on Friday, according to the state’s authorities. The storm caused torrential rains and helicopter searches are underway in flooded neighborhoods to find 20 others who have gone missing, the government of Rio Grande do Sul said in a press release.

Belarus crackdown targets not just political activists but also their lawyers (AP) For nearly three years, a harsh crackdown on dissent in Belarus by its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has filled the country’s penal colonies with thousands of political prisoners, with new arrests reported daily. At the same time, a government campaign has gotten rid of many independent lawyers, making it increasingly difficult for the detainees to mount any kind of legal defense. Siarhej Zikratski is among those lawyers forced to leave Belarus under the threat of arrest. More than 500 of his colleagues have been stripped of their law licenses and quit the profession since 2020, and many of them have moved abroad after facing reprisals at home. Some even ended up in prison. Zikratski says Belarus has effectively run out of independent lawyers to represent the many political prisoners in the country of 9.5 million people, a situation he calls “catastrophic.” The demand for lawyers is outstripping the supply, with repressions escalating and the number of political prisoners growing, he said, “but there is no one to defend them.”

To fight Putin, Russian militias aid Ukraine with cross-border attacks (Washington Post) The first cross-border raids were quick and furtive, the commander said, just a handful of fighters entering a village, scouting the terrain, taking a few shots at Russian border guards and slipping away. Later, they returned briefly to speak with villagers. Finally, he said, a large group carried out the main mission—killing dozens of enemy troops, taking others prisoner and stealing weapons. The commander, Denis Kapustin, is a leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps, one of two independent militias that staged a recent series of joint cross-border attacks inside Russia’s Belgorod region. “These are full-scale attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation while it is under the occupation of the Kremlin regime,” Kapustin told a Russian YouTube channel, Khodorkovsky Live, this week while describing the militia’s operations. “The stakes are getting higher—and we are elevating them.” Their aim is to give Russian civilians a taste of the death and destruction that President Vladimir Putin’s war has wrought on Ukraine, and to show that Putin is failing to keep the Russian motherland safe. The raids also created a military and political distraction as Ukraine prepared to launch its much anticipated counteroffensive, diverting attention from more important areas along the front and creating a political problem for Putin, who has sought to keep Russian lands and citizens out of the war.

Russia aims to defeat counteroffensive with mines, artillery and aviation (Washington Post) As Ukraine readied its counteroffensive by gathering Western weapons and sending its troops for NATO training, Russia spent at least seven months preparing for this potentially definitive stage of the war—by readying reserves, artillery and aviation support, stockpiling ammunition and fuel, and procuring more drones. Russian forces also burrowed into the territory they occupy in southeast Ukraine, digging lines of trenches and erecting fortifications along the entire 900-mile-long front line, from Zaporizhzhia to Russia’s Belgorod region. The massive network of defenses has weaknesses, according to military experts who described Russia’s preparations, but it is already slowing offensive operations and creating bottlenecks for the Ukrainian army. So far, Ukraine has claimed advances covering little more than 40 square miles of territory. However, Russia occupies more than 800 times that amount, roughly 33,000 square miles. About half of that territory was seized before the February 2022 invasion, including Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Nearly 100 die as India struggles with a sweltering heat wave in 2 most populous states (AP) At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave. The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities warned residents over 60 and others suffering various maladies to stay indoors during the daytime. On Sunday, the district experienced a maximum temperature of 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit). The relative humidity was recorded at 25%, intensifying the effect of the heat.

Philippine ferry catches fire at sea, all 120 people aboard rescued (AP) All 120 passengers and crew members aboard a Philippine ferry that caught fire at sea on Sunday were rescued safely and the fire was extinguished, the coast guard said. The M/V Esperanza Star caught fire at dawn while traveling from Siquijor province to Bohol province in the central Philippines with 65 passengers and 55 crewmembers, the coast guard said. It added that it deployed two vessels for rescue and to help put out the flames, which raged for more than five hours. Sea accidents are common in the Philippine archipelago because of frequent storms, poorly maintained vessels, overcrowding and spotty enforcement of safety regulations, especially in remote provinces.

Violent crime within Israel’s Palestinian minority reaches new heights under Netanyahu’s government (AP) A relentless wave of violent crime within Israel’s Palestinian minority is turning cities and towns into bloody battlefields, exasperating a community feeling increasingly forsaken by Israeli authorities. Anger over the mounting insecurity is directed at Israel’s government and its ultranationalist minister in charge of police, Itamar Ben-Gvir. Critics say that with his history of anti-Arab rhetoric, he cannot be trusted to combat the rising scourge. The skyrocketing violence lays bare the deep inequities in Israeli society, with Arabs facing years of discrimination that activists say laid the groundwork for the unabating bloodshed. More than 100 people have been killed in violent crime in Arab communities this year, nearly three times higher than at the same time last year, according to the Abraham Initiatives, a group that promotes Jewish-Arab coexistence and safe communities. It also is more than three times the murder rate in the majority Jewish sector, according to official figures, despite Arabs making up just a fifth of the country’s population of 9.7 million.

Israeli government gives settler minister control over West Bank settlement planning (AP) Israel’s government on Sunday granted a pro-settlement firebrand authority over planning in the occupied West Bank and lifted red tape on the settlement housing approval process. The changes make it easier for Israel to expand its settlements on land the Palestinians seek as the heartland of their future state, at a time when hopes for peace are more distant than ever. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli government’s decision and called upon the international community to pressure Israel “to take the necessary practical steps to force the Israeli government to stop its illegal unilateral measures.” The government gave Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich control over planning in West Bank settlements, a condition he had made to join the government. The authority over planning in the territory, which is under a 56-year military occupation, is traditionally the purview of the country’s defense minister.

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Banu Qasi triology: Words & Etymology

'amil: local chief. Plural: 'ummāl

'amil al-bahr: 'almirante', admiral

'arif: low ranking officer

'arif al bannā: master builder

albannā: 'albañil', construction worker

albáytar: 'albéitar', precursor of the current veterinarian

al'ard: 'alarde', pre-departure ceremony for a military campaign

albardí: esparto-like plant

(This plants are either called atocha, esparto or albardín)

alfaquí: priests and teachers, specialized in religious subjects, both in terms of their teaching and their application

algara: revolt

alhabáqa: 'albahaca', basil

alhínna: 'alheña', henna, dye used for its magical and cosmetic properties. It is used to dye the hair and to beautify the hands and feet.

almuwádan: 'almuhédano', muezzin, person in charge of the call to prayer in the mosques

alqabála: business transaction tax

alqasába: 'alcazaba', fortress

alqásr: 'alcázar'

alqáyid: 'alcaide', warden

alqaysaríyya: 'alcaicería', area of ​​the market reserved for the most valuable objects

al-quitrān: 'alquitrán', tar

al jurs:" the mute", elite guard corps of the successive emirs

alkuhl: alcohol

almúnya: country house used as an occasional residence, located in a cool area, with an abundance of water and vegetation

alqutún: 'algodón', cotton

amān: amman, pardon in exchange for laying down arms, capitulation treaty

as sayyida: the Lady, referring to the emir's first wife

asaifa, sa'ifa: the 'aceifas' were expeditions of the Cordovan army against Christian areas that took place during the summer period, at times almost annually. In many cases it was the emir himself or some of his sons who led them

asfarag: 'esparragos', asparagus

ashsharín: 'aserraderos', sawyers

assánya: 'aceña, noria'

assutáyah: 'azotea', rooftop

assúd: 'azud', weir, prey

attahúnna: 'tahona', bakery, bread oven

azza'farán: 'azafrán', saffron

bābūs: 'babuchas', light shoe without heel

bait al mal: religious community treasure, amount of money, destined to the relief of the most needy and the payment of the expenses derived from the operation of the mosques

baraka: luck, blessing

baskiya: name of the Arabic sources of the Basque language, incomprehensible jargon for them, which is why it is classified as "barbaric language"

baskunish: basques

bilawar: ornaments made from stringed beads, origin of the Spanish word 'abalorio", bead

burj*: tower

*the name of town of Borja in Aragon comes from that word, also the male name Borja and the surname Borja, the noble family of the Borjas probably were from that town, and when they moved to Italy, their surname was adapted as Borgia (in other post I wrote that Teruel comes from Tirwal, meaning tower, because in some sites that etimology I read that it comes from Arabic, although the Arabic word for tower is burj, so maybe Tirwal is a kind of Arabized form of the latin word for tower, turrem/turris, like Guadalupe means River of wolves because the lubb in Wadi al-lubb comes from an Arabized form of the latin word lup)

comes: count, highest representative of the Mozarabs in a city, in charge of collecting their taxes

dā'is: Fatimid missionaries in charge of spreading the Shiite doctrine

dar al raha'in: hostage house

*(the word 'rehén', hostage, comes from the Arabic raha'in)

dar al sina'a: 'dársena', dock

dimmī: member of Christian or Jewish minorities subject to Islam

dinar: gold coin used during the emirate

dirhem: silver coin used during the emirate

dīwān: set of offices grouped within the alcázar that made up the central administration

drakaar: dragon

fals: low value copper coin

falūkah: shallow draft sailing boat to go up rivers

faquí: 'alfaquí', alphaqui, doctor or scholar of the law

fata: slave, eunuch

fitna: revolution, civil war

fityán: page

funduq*: warehouse where merchants deposited their stocks and their place of accommodation. Origin of the Spanish word 'alhóndiga'.

*or al fundaq, that derived as alfóndiga in old Castilian, and then to alhóndiga

galasqiyin: gascons

gallasa: a woman in charge of the female area of ​​the public baths

ghasul: Clay made with cloves, lavender and rose petals to beautify hair

gūrab: "crow", warship similar to the galley, with a highly variable number of oars. Plural: girbān

hadra: capital of the kūrah or province

hammam: arabic bath

haram: main prayer hall of the mosque

harem: 'harén'

harrāqā: warship supplied with naphtha

hasīs: 'hachis', hashish, the consumption of opium in Al Ándalus is attested from the 10th century, due to the appearance of remains of bowls to consume it.

hachib: position of maximum responsibility in the court of the Cordovan emirs, direct head of central administration, military and provincial

haffarín: laborers, diggers

haymah: 'jaima', tent, usually made of camel skin

hisba: market admission and regulation treaty

hisn: castle, fortress. Plural husun

Id al Adhà: lamb feast, one of the main celebrations in the Muslim calendar, which falls on the tenth day of Dul ​​Hijjah

imām: 'imán', imam, spiritual or religious head of a Muslim community

jarayaira: prostitute who worked in a brothel or dur al jaray

jassa: group made up of the aristocracy, the dominant families of society and the main dignitaries of the government and the army

jatam: Royal seal

jayyarín: 'caleros'

jizya: burdensome tax that non-Muslims from Al Ándalus had to pay

jund: troops of Syrian origin who participated in the early days of the Arab conquest. Plural: junud

katib: senior civil position in the Cordoba administration

khalífa: 'califa', caliph

kuhl: kohl, powder made with antimony, toasted olive and date pits, and cloves, which beautifies the eyes and highlights the look

kunya: nickname used in Arabic onomastics

kūrah: 'cora', kora, each of the emirate's administrative divisions, similar to a province or district

madinat: 'Medina', city

mahalla: military camp

maqbara: graveyard

maqsura: enclosed space inside the mosque of Córdoba that improves the security and privacy of the emir

mawla: client, person linked to another by a client relationship. Plural: mawali

maylis: literary gatherings

mayûs: also madchüs or machüs, Normans, Vikings. Arab chroniclers also use the names alurdumâniyûn or nordumâni

mihrāb: niche located in the wall of the mosque facing the Qibla and in the direction of Mecca

minbar: kind of pulpit, usually made of precious wood and ivory, where the preacher would sit to deliver the sermon in the mosque

muhandis: construction technician, engineer

muladí: descendant of those inhabitants of the peninsula who, after the arrival of the Arabs, spontaneously submitted and embraced the Muslim religion. They constituted the majority group of the population together with the Mozarabs (from Arabic mustarib: arabized), who maintained the practice of Christianity, subject only to the payment of special tributes (jizya).

muqrif: 'matarife'

musalla: outdoor enclosure in many Muslim cities, facing Mecca, which served as an open-air oratory

musara: 'almozara", open and wide space outside the cities in which equestrian exercises, horse races, demonstrations and military parades were held

muwalladun: muladíes

muwassaha: 'moaxaja', Arabic poetic or musical composition

muzdamin: civil head of the Jewish aljama (the rabbi was the religious leader)

nabarrus: It seems probable that since the 8th century the users of the nabar or plowshare in Old Basque were known as nabarrus in the Pamplona region, that is, the peasant population

nāfta: incendiary material used in naval warfare

naggafat: mistresses of ceremony

najjarín: carpenters

naqib: commander of a two hundred-man battalion in the emirate army

na'úra: noria

nazir: head of an eight-man squad in the emirate army

neggacha: specialized woman to compliment the bride in the ritual prior to Muslim weddings

pasaranga: itinerary measure equivalent to 5250 meters used by the Persians since ancient times

politeístas: term commonly used in Arab chronicles to refer to Christians, alluding to the conception of God as three different people

qa'id: commander of a thousand-man battalion in the emirate army

qabila: Muslim midwife

qādī: Muslim judge *(other form of this word is alqádi, that derived into 'alcalde', mayor in Spanish)

qafiz: Arab unit of measurement of variable value according to the area and the time

qamís: front buttoned garment

qarāqir: 'carracas', argosy, merchant ships

qasí: belonging to the Banu Qasi clan

qass: storyteller. On market days it was common for mubahrich (puppeteers), la'ib (presdigitators), muhli (minstrels), hasib (fortune tellers)

qubba: Royal pantheon that served as accommodation for the Emir of Córdoba during the expeditions

*(al qubba is the origin of the word 'alcoba', meaning bedroom or bedchamber)

qumis: Arabized denomination of the old Christian Comes, head of the Mozarabic community in each city, in charge of relations with the Muslim authority and especially the collection of taxes

qurtubí: relating to Cordoba

ra'is: Captain of boats, in charge of navigation, while the qa'id holds the military command

sabat: elevated walkway over the street that linked the alcazar with the mosque of Cordoba, for the exclusive passage of the emir

sabun: 'jabón', soap. In Muslim Spain, a rudimentary soap made from olive oil and wood ash was used.

sahib*: Lord, formula of respect before a superior

* or sayyid, from which the name of Cid comes from.

sahib al 'ard: quartermaster general, in charge of reviewing ('ard) the weapons and equipment. From the Arabic term al'ard comes the Spanish 'alarde' *(and the verb alardear, both meaning something like to boast, to brag)

sahib al abniyā: master mason

sahib al madina: city ​​prefect

sahib al suq: head of the souk, later he would become the muhtasib or almotacen, an official in charge of ensuring compliance with Islamic norms, and specifically for the proper development of commercial transactions in the souk

sahib al surta: Police chief

salat: there were five calls to prayer, salat al fajr, or also called salat al subh (dawn prayer); salat al zuhr (at the instant the sun begins to decline); salat al 'asr (mid-afternoon prayer); salat al maghrib (a few minutes after sunset) and salat al 'asa or salat al'atama (one hour after sunset)

salaqiba: slaves from Slavic countries, of great importance during the emirate of Córdoba

samra: night party, evening party, sarao, origin of the Spanish term 'zambra'

sāwna: warship similar to galley. Plural: sāwani

sarauil: breeches or 'zaragüelles'

shari'a: Islamic law

shura: Islamic assembly

siqlab: plural of salaqiba

sirtaniyyun: Cerretans, Aragonese

suak: walnut bark

sudda: prey

suq: 'zoco', market, souk

tābiya: construction technique, formwork

tafaya: dish made with slow-cooked coriander broth, pepper, onion, oil and water, to which meatballs and crushed almonds are then added

tahlil: small leather box in which Muslim soldiers used to carry relics, prayers and exclamations of profession of faith

tiraz: workshops controlled by the emir in which fabrics considered luxury items are made

ulema: doctor of Islamic law

umm walad: concubine mother of one of the emir's sons

wālī: 'valí', governor of a province or part of it

wazīr: 'visir', vizier

yabal: mountain

yamur: top of the minaret formed by golden spheres of decreasing size

yenun: evil genies

yihad: Holy war

yilliqiyun: denomination that the Arab chroniclers give to the Asturians

zakat: taxes that Muslim families had to pay in Al Ándalus

zakat al suq: market rights

zandaqa: crime of heresy

zanáti: Origin of the Spanish word 'jinete*', rider

* I made a post some time ago about history, etimology of this word and genets (and an Asoiaf related drawing about a silly idea I thought)

Locations II Characters

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ALGARA / Jimmy Dirtbike

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Honey, It's the Twenties! Part 2 December 27, 2023

More music from the 2020s! listen on Mixcloud

ISS - Spikes

DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths

Freak Genes - New Crime Divorcer - Crying The Rabbits - Seiteki Ningen Playthings - Sit Down (Stand Up) Terry - Gronks

DJ speaks over Hard Copy - Wheel Route

Algara - Otra Generación Más Stiff Richards - PEA Non Band - Silence-High-Speed Tiikeri - Kuuma on moottoritie Tiikeri - Punk on Rakkaus Stuck - Break the Arc

DJ speaks over Ramuntcho Matta - Harpie

Jimetta Rose & Voices of Creation - Answer the Call CB Radio Gorgeous - Decline Grisaille - Ton Souvenir Limbo District - Knock Knock Lobo Rotura - Sobrevivir

DJ speaks over Alessandro Alessandroni - L'altro Dio (Titoli)

Damu The Fudgemunk - Four Better or Worse, Pt. 1 A Culture of Killing - Matches and Fires Tee Vee Repairmann - Backwards Tožibabe - Lutke Alvilda - Demain Alternative - Suffer in Silence / Struggling Through the Darkness Inyección - Borracha en la Cancha At Night - Rid the Static Sound

Rata Negra - Lo Sublime Phil & The Tiles - Nun's Dream Blue Oil - Far Too Much Prospexx - The Devil Has Won

Belgrado - Tu I Teraz Milk - 灰色 Cochonne - Trop The Gobs - Adderall or Nothing

Mižerija - Izolacija

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Algara — Absortos en el Tedio Eterno (La Vida es un Mus)

Absortos En El Tedio Eterno by Algara

Spanish anarcho-punks Algara are now a four-piece band, and the opening tracks of Absortos en el Tedio Eterno sure sound like they’re enjoying their newly robust configuration. “Otra Generación Más” — and the two great tunes that follow, “Victimas” and “Tedio Eterno” — has the fizz and snarl of a lovechild spawned by Spiral Scratch-period Buzzcocks and Decima Victima at their most gauntly foreboding. Like both of those bands, Algara excels at writing and recording songs that smolder with contempt and barely repressed rage, but you can’t help dancing around the room while all the aggro energy spits and whirls. Post-punk has rarely sounded so — well … energetically punk. Algara has always been witheringly pissed off, but their low-tech, recorded-in-a-squat Enamorados Del Control Total (2020) was a spare, mechanical affair, all minimalist guitar, drum-machine pops and DEVO-style sloganeering. The aesthetic fit the message, recitations of concrete conditions of existence that smacked you on the forehead with their directness. This new record is just as urgent and just as angry, but the punks in Algara seem to be thinking harder about the relations among catchy melodies and agitprop action.

That movement toward melody and songs that are at least a little bit less abrasive to your eardrums is interesting, given the record’s dominant themes. See “Tedio Eterno”: “Rebellones prefabricadas / Higienicas y blancas / Bien limpias, para no manchar / Absortos en el tedio eterno / No encontramos mas salidas / Que lo virtual.” Algara has little patience for dilettantes, it seems, and the band has even less tolerance for superficial revolutionary gestures couched in effortlessly consumable pop pablum (you listening, Idles?). Occasionally the band’s spikier, more austere musical mode re-emerges, as on the instructively titled “Hedonistas.” That song is all hollow beats, ghostly 1980s synths and snarled vocals: “De borrachos y hedonistas / Que perdian el sueno / Por un poca de atencion.” That makes immediate sense — and it’s pretty fun when the song segues into a field recording, capturing a distorted version of “All You Need Is Love” being played in what sounds like a video arcade.

 The band has a passionate attachment to its anarchist ethos, and they also have a plan: along with physical copies of Absortos en el Tedio Eterno, you get a booklet that details techniques for home recording and releasing music outside the dominant, commodifying modalities practiced by professional studios, labels and distributors. Algara got pretty good at it, and seems like they’d like the rest of the world to give it a whirl. In punk’s first flush, the impetus and liberatory impulse focused on a willingness to get up and play. Who cared if you’d never held a guitar before? The Slits did it. The Mekons did it. The Germs did it. Of course, capital has come some distance since the 1970s, and Algara’s emphasis on the apparatus of music (and politically potent uses of all that equipment, and all those channels of distribution) presents a liberatory practice of production. Play, but also make — and it sure helps when you can make songs as good as “Otra Generación Más” and “Paso Al Frente.” At the very least, it’s a way out of el tedio eterno.

Jonathan Shaw