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  1. "Entre todos los homínidos, los Humanos o Homo Sapiens, somos los más “lamentables”, en comparación a nuestros primos más cercanos. Sin carras para defendernos, colmillos para rasgar la carne, pelaje para combatir el frio, [...]. Somos dolorosamente conscientes de esta debilidad, es por eso que nos buscamos entre nosotros."

    - Sangre & Ceniza (Ensayo"

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    "Among all hominids, humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most "lame" compared to our closest cousins. Without claws for defense, canines for tearing flesh, fur to combat the cold, [...]. We are painfully aware of this weakness, which is why we seek each other out."

    - Blood & Ashes (Essay)

    #Ensayo #Essay #Blog #booktodon #literature #literatura #antropologia #narrativa

    none-dc.neocities.org/Essays/W

  2. "Entre todos los homínidos, los Humanos o Homo Sapiens, somos los más “lamentables”, en comparación a nuestros primos más cercanos. Sin carras para defendernos, colmillos para rasgar la carne, pelaje para combatir el frio, [...]. Somos dolorosamente conscientes de esta debilidad, es por eso que nos buscamos entre nosotros."

    - Sangre & Ceniza (Ensayo"

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    "Among all hominids, humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most "lame" compared to our closest cousins. Without claws for defense, canines for tearing flesh, fur to combat the cold, [...]. We are painfully aware of this weakness, which is why we seek each other out."

    - Blood & Ashes (Essay)

    #Ensayo #Essay #Blog #booktodon #literature #literatura #antropologia #narrativa

    none-dc.neocities.org/Essays/W

  3. "Entre todos los homínidos, los Humanos o Homo Sapiens, somos los más “lamentables”, en comparación a nuestros primos más cercanos. Sin carras para defendernos, colmillos para rasgar la carne, pelaje para combatir el frio, [...]. Somos dolorosamente conscientes de esta debilidad, es por eso que nos buscamos entre nosotros."

    - Sangre & Ceniza (Ensayo"

    ---

    "Among all hominids, humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most "lame" compared to our closest cousins. Without claws for defense, canines for tearing flesh, fur to combat the cold, [...]. We are painfully aware of this weakness, which is why we seek each other out."

    - Blood & Ashes (Essay)

    #Ensayo #Essay #Blog #booktodon #literature #literatura #antropologia #narrativa

    none-dc.neocities.org/Essays/W

  4. "Entre todos los homínidos, los Humanos o Homo Sapiens, somos los más “lamentables”, en comparación a nuestros primos más cercanos. Sin carras para defendernos, colmillos para rasgar la carne, pelaje para combatir el frio, [...]. Somos dolorosamente conscientes de esta debilidad, es por eso que nos buscamos entre nosotros."

    - Sangre & Ceniza (Ensayo"

    ---

    "Among all hominids, humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most "lame" compared to our closest cousins. Without claws for defense, canines for tearing flesh, fur to combat the cold, [...]. We are painfully aware of this weakness, which is why we seek each other out."

    - Blood & Ashes (Essay)

    #Ensayo #Essay #Blog #booktodon #literature #literatura #antropologia #narrativa

    none-dc.neocities.org/Essays/W

  5. "Entre todos los homínidos, los Humanos o Homo Sapiens, somos los más “lamentables”, en comparación a nuestros primos más cercanos. Sin carras para defendernos, colmillos para rasgar la carne, pelaje para combatir el frio, [...]. Somos dolorosamente conscientes de esta debilidad, es por eso que nos buscamos entre nosotros."

    - Sangre & Ceniza (Ensayo"

    ---

    "Among all hominids, humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most "lame" compared to our closest cousins. Without claws for defense, canines for tearing flesh, fur to combat the cold, [...]. We are painfully aware of this weakness, which is why we seek each other out."

    - Blood & Ashes (Essay)

    #Ensayo #Essay #Blog #booktodon #literature #literatura #antropologia #narrativa

    none-dc.neocities.org/Essays/W

  6. Jetzt auf deutsch erschienen:
    "Enshittification.
    Wie Tech-Konzerne uns ausbeuten und was wir dagegen tun können."
    Steht ganz oben auf unserer privaten Leseliste. Und im Laden steht es natürlich auch :)
    Mit #enshittification zeigt @pluralistic nicht nur auf, wie Online-Services immer schlechter werden, sondern erklärt auch die epidemische Dynamik, mit der diese Verschlechterung geschieht. Außerdem Anleitung zum Widerstand. :)
    #politics #politik #bucher #books #livres #essay #chemnitz #sachsen

  7. "Today, one of the 1960s machines still plays music, headlining a fascinating annual tradition – every December, the PDP-1 restoration crew at the Computer History Museum in California invites visitors to sing carols with the computer older than most of them."

    unsung.aresluna.org/this-was-a

    #essay #computers #RetroTech #VintageComputers

  8. Recently on Underground Bookshelf:
    Book Release: Fates Alight by A.M. Pennyfeather
    Resources: Nonfiction about ICE, Deportation... (Parts 2 & 3)
    Short Stories: "How Did Yo...Never Mind" (Parts 1 & 2)
    Essay: Ten Braille Facts by Alex Chan

    #books #reading #shortstories #essay #bookrelease #braille

    underground-bookshelf.com/

  9. Update from South Carolina

    The Biden admin's fascist state propagated prosecution of me to "appear as hard on left wing extremists as the right." This kicked off the politicized nature of my case. A "Black, Muslim, militant, extremist domestic terror threat," as my FBI profile says. But I've been designated a "doomed man" in the words of George Jackson, long before the FBI did so. Bo

    malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2

    #General #essay #update

  10. This Sunday is #MothersDay in the US & Germany. Here's a 🧵 on books celebrating #womanhood across all ages - beyond #motherhood
    - starting w #Girlhood by Melissa Febos - a collection of texts at the intersection of #essay & #memoir about growing up as a girl under patriarchy

    #AmericanLiterature

  11. I've generally been suspicious of free speech for a while, so I wrote an essay articulating why. We’ve all likely heard that the freedom to swing one’s fist ends at the tip of another’s nose. I can accept this without argument for this assertion. Your freedom TO violates my freedom FROM. These freedoms should cancel out.

    philosophics.blog/2026/05/05/f

    #philosophy #freespeech #freedom #violence #language #silence #commons #grammar #essay #video #rights #liberalism #blog #YouTube #spotify #podcast

  12. This week's Top 5:

    - Bottles ashore, The New Yorker
    - Benches awaiting, Places Journal
    - Boundlessness disputed, Quanta Magazine
    - Books aplenty, Cabinet
    - Batons bought, The Baffler

    longreads.com/2026/05/01/top-5

    #Longreads #Reading #Essay #Writing #Nonfiction #Journalism

  13. "We have been raised on films that end with cathartic tears and hugs, and promises never to hurt each other again. In real life, that’s not where most of my friends are with their mothers."

    Rebecca Liu for The Guardian: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

    #Longreads #Essay #Mothers #Chinese #Asian #Parents #Diaspora #Film #Literature #Books