An exhausted anarchist and school abolitionist.
Queer, non-binary, pansexual ace.
[Using they/them in English is good, but pick something in other languages and stick with it. I'm not fussed.]
Posts dominantly in English, aber ich kann ein bisschen deutsch, a trochu rozumiem po slovensky. Potrei tollerare di leggere l'italiano, but don't ask me to write it too much.
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A person who was made to undergo Chinese political re-education as part of China’s ongoing, undeniable genocide
Built a propaganda tracker tracking Chinese state media and terms. They noticed how, during the re-education program, language was shifting: he was no longer Chinese Mongolian, he was from the ‘northern frontier’.
This work documents and tracks how quickly terms shift through Chinese state media
I genuinely hate how we don't have age-appropriate books for people of varying language levels.
Like, I work with a young girl who is too old for most of the "good" books for language entry (as in, she's fine with them for a few minutes, but they're boring and trite for more than that), which are usually books meant for kids half her age. The books "for her age" are too complex in language and don't help her build up on it.
Granted, I feel similarly for myself. All the books for me in my language learning journeys? Are kids books. And while I don't mind reading them, I do find it tiring that that's the only option if I want to mostly understand something and have exposure to a language I can build upon.
I don't *really* wanna add more of my thoughts to the "protests: are they good or pointless" conversation, but one thought I don't always see talked about is that the same protest "tactic" can be less or more pointless depending on where it's occurring & in what context.
Like, to me, massive citywide protest in big "liberal" city where libs peace-police everyone and then by & large go home without having actually changed or even challenged anything is a very different scene than "300 folks in a Nazi town put themselves out there & show others in that town that not everyone supports or agrees with the fuckin Nazis."
I think those two protests, though organized on the same lines, have achieved (or maybe just, put into motion) very different things.
Personally, I'm severely over the whole protest scene. But as a historian, I also know that context can alter meaning significantly.
The former Chief of the European border and coast guard agency - Frontex - stands accused of crimes against humanity.
Several reports by human rights organisations have shown the involvement of the EU agency in illegal push backs, kidnappings at sea and collaboration with criminal militias, causing tens of thousands of deaths at sea and in detention camps along the EU borders. French prosecutors have now opened investigations against the former chief who is now sitting in the #EU parliament for the French fascist #RassemblementNational party, continuing his hatred against immigration.
An investigation that should have been carried out long ago. Even longer ago we should have abolished an agency like #Frontex.
my daughter (19) wants to make friends with other local artists, as in the type who draws/paints, mostly to have someone to talk about drawings and show her own work and generally stay motivated. but we have no idea where to find such people 
I know a few ateliers and such but they tend to focus on people doing installation work, performances and such. there's a number of drawing courses and workshops in VHS, museums and the like, and maybe one could make friends in courses [citation needed, it's Germany]—but they're all too expensive for us.
I found an open workshop event this week, it seems to be mostly about crafts but it's free. hope that will help
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