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Horácio Novais - Alfama, Lisboa

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transparent Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds by Salvador Dali (1936)

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Watercolor paintings by Emma Larsson on instagram

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I apologize for the delay, @emblematik! Thank you for any patience you had for me.

I've finally written a short fanfiction based on a prompt you gave to me.

Empyrean

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The parallel times of Noa Kaiba and Seto Kaiba under the shadow of their father Gozaburo.

#eeee thank you so much!!! #💖💖💖 #seto-noa angst and antics my beloved #your writing is wonderful as always 💖 #yugioh #kaiba bros

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Glass study turned fanart

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Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso

#this song is so stupid im obsessed with it 💖 #music

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empire state..

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still thinking about this recruiter email i received

has the same energy as when i was looking for an apartment and one of the groups i applied to didn't respond except to ask me for tips on how to improve their craigslist post

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'Morning Sea at Shiribeshi'. Hasui Kawase.

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I think Kaiba's "political" "ideology" is very easy to infer based on his words and actions and it is simply that he believes he is smarter than everyone else and that everything would be solved if he were unquestionably in charge of everything. He is perfectly happy to break laws when they inconvenience him or to blackmail or manipulate public officials to prevent them from acting against his interests; I also think that he would not hesitate to use the full force of the existing law against someone else when it suits him. Seto Kaiba hates the machinery of war and the suffering of children and wants to bring about a game-powered utopia where neither exists, but this is expressly a world where he sits as its unlimited and omniscient corporate techno-dictator.

Like, this is very text. Kaiba is skeptical and irreverent of any authority that he does not control, will seek to ignore or disregard it when he can and take control of it when he cannot; authority that does belong to him is rightful and should rarely or never be questioned by anyone else. Kaiba would like to fire god and redesign the world from the ground up, with him the fighter jet pilot's seat, and he doesn't particularly care what anyone else has to say on the matter.

#yugioh #seto kaiba #i love him he's so messy

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i do, often, think of that quote from wislawa szymborska talking about love and the inexplicability of some of it. "great love is never justified" etc. and it truly isn't. and thank god for that.

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While I was writing this to you, Janet Napolitano, the former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, assumed her new post as the twentieth president of the University of California system, the first woman to occupy the office. The revolving door between institutions of policing, bordering, surveillance, incarceration, illegalization, militarization, and schooling is not new. Indeed, in San Diego, where I am based, Alan Bersin was superintendent of public schools from 1998 to 2005, after three years of running U.S.–Mexican border law enforcement for Attorney General Janet Reno under President Clinton. After his stint governing schools, Bersin governed the border (again) in 2009, this time for the Obama administration, working as ‘border czar’ under Janet Napolitano, then Homeland Security secretary, now UC president. However, it would be a misguided comparison to describe the bodies of faculty and students as analogous to the bodies of detainees and deportees and migrants and suspectees. It is not analogous power but technologies of power that recirculate in these imperial triangles, for example, debt financing, neoliberal market policies, information systems, managing noncitizen populations, land development. If we consider triangular connections between war abroad and refugee management within, antiblackness and the maintenance of black fungibility and accumulation, and militarization and Indigenous erasure throughout empire, then we can understand why the governors of war and the governors of schools can have similar résumés, without pretending that the governed suffer through identical conditions.

la paperson, A Third University Is Possible (Duke University Press, 2017), pp. 37–38.

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Decolonization is, put bluntly, the rematriation of land, the regeneration of relations, and the forwarding of Indigenous and Black and queer futures—a process that requires countering what power seems to be up to. To take effective decolonizing action, we must then have a theory of action that accounts for the permeability of apparatuses of power and the fact that neocolonial systems inadvertently support decolonizing agendas. […] Colonial schools have a tradition of harboring spaces of anticolonial resistance. These contradictions are exquisitely written about by the eminent novelist, literary scholar, and postcolonial thinker Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. He describes how the machine of British colonial schooling in Kenya produced a Black governor of colonial Kenya and, paradoxically, also helped to produce Mau Mau revolutionaries. Fearful that schools sheltered the Mau Mau, who occupied the imaginations of Indigenous Kenyans and settlers alike as he quintessential Black, violent resistance movement, the colonial state banned many of its missionary-inspired schools in the 1952 declaration of a state of emergency. This ban included the Kenya Teachers College, whose campus was converted into ‘a prison camp where proponents of resistance to colonialism were hanged.’ During the Mau Mau Rebellion, [Ngũgĩ] attended Alliance High School, a segregated, elite missionary school for Black Africans in British Kenya. And prior to that, he attended Manguo elementary school, which was banned for a time by the colonial government. How can colonial schools become disloyal to colonialism? According to [Ngũgĩ], the decolonial is always already amid the colonial.

la paperson, A Third University Is Possible (Duke University Press, 2017), pp. xv–xvi, summarising Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir.

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Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks, trans. Richard Rees

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#yugioh #seto kaiba

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