im really tired of this ‘’look at me, im usamerican and i dont know anything about the world’’ trend and people thinking its funny, cuz when i was 10, even in my poor ass school in my poor ass province, they forced us to study usa’s independence and to locate every country in the americas. but im pretty sure if i ask any 10 year old usamerican kid ‘’who was josé de san martín?’’, they wouldnt know, and the man freed half of south america.
please dont be this usamerican and realize this isnt funny, its actually sad.
TIL… that in the middle ages there was a popular belief in a demon of language, one who collected the words of people women gossiping in church, and the mumbled syllables of priests who weren’t saying mass properly. He was also held responsible for scribal errors. “Later he haunted printing presses, causing typesetters to make mistakes.”
TIL… there is a typo demon, it has a name, and it is Tutivillus (Titivillus).
do you ever feel yourself slowly losing your current hyperfixation but you’re not particularly interested in anything else rn so you have nothing to fill that void and ur just bored and ready for death
The world puts its mouth on you
& you don’t say a thing. The world digs a hole in your yard
& it’s up to you to fill it, up to you to find something useful
to do with your sadness.
— Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Outbound,” published in Poetry Magazine
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