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Julia 🤝
@REMARKSIST
remarksist everywhere else too || European History || tour guide
East Berlin
Joined July 2010
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    I wrote about Rosa Luxemburg for the anniversary of her birthday today. She is of the most interesting and controversial people to ever live, and she would want to be remembered for what she thought and did, and why they killed her!
    Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored. jacobin.com/2026/03/rosa-l…
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    Because Leonardo dicaprio is GAY. the 25-year-old “girlfriends” are models on couple year long contracts to fake date him for publicity. That’s why they have to sign NDAs and are out of there while still young. He has a “bff” /roomate Lukas haas he goes on every vacation with
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    My bf (historian, published 2 books, basically a public intellectual) looking at a picture of a triceratops: “does this animal still exist”
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    Every post saying something like “just let university students write things with AI if they want to and grade accordingly”forgets that one of the core skills university is supposed to teach is how to write. People aren’t remembering how bad they were at writing when they were 18
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    I live in an East German apartment from 1978 and our direct downstairs neighbours had a baby 1.5 months ago and I have literally never heard it cry. Huge win for communism
    How much of Americans’ aversion to apartment housing is due to sound transmission problems exacerbated by timber frame construction?
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    one of the craziest things to wrap your head around if you are into history at all is how little intuitive knowledge people who couldn't care less have about the past
    ignoring all the rest i love that this guy thinks humans lived in caves in 1725
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    I want Americans to know that it’s illegal or functionally illegal in loads of European countries and not even just particularly social democratic ones. It’s not radical ban cultish freaks from depriving their children of normal socialization
    Probs one of my most radical beliefs is homeschooling should be illegal
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    30k likes for “Frida Kahlo was white” . one brain cell between them all
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    Replying to @REMARKSIST
    This is literally the only celebrity lore/gossip I care at all about but once you see it the jokes about him only dating 24 year olds feel sooo stupid
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    I got a new purse to bring to the pub for specifically this reason
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    what are some *scholarly* ways to say that someone is 'totally full of shit' or 'clearly straight-up lying'
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    actual anti-capitalism isn't gross hippy asceticism that tells you to "stop buying soap". We want to change the economy so that producing soap (and everything else) doesn't lead to the exploitation and degradation of people and the environment
    From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world trib.al/0pION2i
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    What’s going on here