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Multilingualism as racialization
Jason Richardson, Christopher Stroud
«Today [in South Africa] contemporary constructs of multilingualism, both in policy and everyday practice, continue to reinforce racialized divisions inherited from historical uses of language as a tool of colonialism, and a mechanism of governmentality in apartheid, the system of exploitation and state sanctioned institutional racism.
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Pictured: person sitting atop 8ft ladder with sanding block.
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As a husky person on the internet I both get bombarded with husky videos and cannot watch said husky videos because playing husky audio sets is a chain reaction in my husky 🐺 🎶
I am sick of house projects. That is all.
"The best way to fight climate change is to massively reduce consumption that causes greenhouse gas emissions. Historically, Barandiarán said, we have tended to use more of everything, regardless of new technology. “When we transitioned from lumber to coal, we still used more lumber than we used before,” she said. “When we transitioned from coal to oil, we still used more coal than we did before.” Thinking of climate change as a problem to be solved through more markets, she said, means locking us into a high-consumption lifestyle. “That fundamentally has to change," she said."
Either the West gets rid of it's addiction to energy or we all die a horrible death. There is no easy way out of this. Technology won't save us. The market won't save us.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/elephant-in-the-room-clean-energys-need-for-unsustainable-minerals/
Wake me when it's trans day of economic, physical, and psychological security, autonomy, and living in a little commune with our polycule
The smile that comes from the sheer joy of these fucking lakeside assholes having their fence disassembled.
Just a bork holding a tight line on a snowy evening
The Lake Street stop is pretty pretty ok
Wait I can't edit talk to take? How is this better?!?
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New esthetician Yvonne (YA-vahn) had me in belly laughs so deep I had to talk a break so the hard wax didn't crack
Leaving Minneapolis and the USA for a minute 😇
Halp I remain mostly unable to use this platform. How do I find things that I like?
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