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"So, there are times when I need to pay attention to the cancer... But when I am not doing those things, thinking about the cancer is actively harmful."

"Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium

It’s not that I think the people raised this statue to me,
because I know better than you that I ordered it myself.
Nor that I have any illusions about passing with it into posterity
because I know the people will one day tear it down.
Nor that I wished to erect to myself in life
the monument you’ll not erect to me in death:
I put up this statue just because I know you’ll hate it."

--Ernesto Cardenal (Translated by Donald Walsh) via @rabihalameddine.bsky.social

History of "il saluto romano", which NBC wouldn't show you.

"Won’t some dice decide most now?" --@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

"...it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly." (via @helendecruz.net)