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Fun fact of the day: “one fragment of Sappho, in fact, was recovered from a mummified crocodile.” 🐊

… the facts of the Nazi genocide were drummed into us like arithmetic tables … “It’s re-traumatisation, not remembering. There is a difference.” … remembering pits the shattered pieces of our selves back together again (re-member-ing); it is a quest for wholeness. At its best, it allows us to be changed and transmuted by grief. CONT in comm

Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right - the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden. The word for the system driving those feelings starts with c, but if no one ever taught you how capitalism works …

We were not, and never were, self-made. We are made, and unmade, by one another.

Liberal investments in individualism result in thinking of power as residing in individuals and groups rather than structures. Without an analysis of capital or class they end up default to the stories the West tells itself about the power of the individual to change the world. But hero narratives easily flip into villain narratives.

Julius Tandler: “He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”




(ignoring for the moment that he was in favour of eugenics 🤡)

When women are empowered in local governance, for whatever reason, they are more likely to vote for local infrastructure (and health services and local, directly impactful public spending) than male politicians, and in Europe, they’re even likely to improve government transparency.

58% of American woman have continuing health problems associated with the pregnancy more than six months after giving birth; the rates worldwide are higher.