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Had a pretty good day today. Got the chipper/vac running so I can start mulching leaves, got the flowers cut back (still have the hostas to do) then watched GB win (not great but a W is a W).
As the government shutdown continues with no end in sight, hundreds of thousands of Coloradans are at risk of going hungry with the potential loss of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
"As we may all know, lanolin is commonly used in skincare products due to its ability to moisturize and protect the skin. However, it has many other uses around the home that you may not have known and considered.
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As we may all know, lanolin is commonly used in skincare products due to its ability to moisturize and protect the skin. However, it has many other uses around the home that you may not have known and considered.
@futurebird Yeah! Lanolin sounds like a good way to rust-proof stuff! I read about some recipes involving lanolin and beeswax that I'm going to try out.
@futurebird That is so cool that you were in NZ. I had a chance when I was in the area (Australia), but turned it down to visit the outback instead -- which was also pretty cool. I hung out with a friend who was of the Arrente people, and learned about bush tucker first hand! But still. And yeah. I don't see myself flying for 20+ hours to get there any time soon. Oh well...
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced the activation of the Great Plains Corridor as part of the Independence 200 military drill that is being carried out to defend the nation against the threat posed by the Unite…
@IcyGrillz I saw kid rock in 1999 a night club small venue right as he was about to blow up. Always respected him after seeing him perform live.
Also, saw Eminem in 1999 in a very small venue on the slim shady tour. We went to see "The Beatnuts" who were supposed to open but they weren't there because "one of them was in jail" they said. Eminem rapped over his own voice on the audio track. It sounded terrible.
i saw eminem at a rave in either 99 or 2000 in toronto. Then at clubs i saw Mobb Deep, Foxy Brown, Choclair, Necro and Akinyele. Might have missed a couple but never been to a stadium or concert hall for a show.
"Enshitiffication is when you combine the banality of evil, with an internet connected device, and a federal law that criminalizes doing anything with that device that the manufacturer dislikes."
Andrew Cuomo pitches crypto-fueled comeback in NYC mayoral bid - NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo wants to make New York City the world’s leading crypto... - cointelegraph.com/news/andrew-…
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reportedly seeking to make New York City a crypto hub as part of his campaign to replace Eric Adams as NYC mayor next month.
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A motorcycle that is part of Vice President JD Vance's security detail and a California Highway Patrol car were hit with shrapnel on Saturday after a 155-m
Them: WE WILL SHOW OUR MILITARY STRENGTH!! Also them: shoots a chippie
(CHP (California Highway Patrol) somewhat derisively called "chippies" because they had a TV show and they're like.... the mall cops of highway patrols)
take this song for example. it's something like a détournement of eurodance, with a refrain calling for all the peoples of the world ('deutsche kamerad / amerikano freunde') to come together and dance — except, of course, when put to such music and performed by people in uniforms it starts to sound a bit fascist, even before you get to lyrics like 'wir tanzen mit faschismus / und roter anarchie' ('we dance with fascism / and red anarchy') youtu.be/rqfw8clk6NE
Part 4 of 11Laibach live at Exit Festival's Main Stage, Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia - 07 July 2005.Vocals: Milan FrasPercussion & Vocals: Eva B...
what are they doing here? cocaine superconsumer and international dumpster diver slavoj žižek has put it forcefully that it's far too simplistic and liberal-minded to regard laibach as a parody of fascism or authoritarianism or whatever word you want to use. instead, they absorb it into themselves to show its face and how it can become attractive
this is reflected in their name, the german name of the city of ljubljana, in yugoslavia readily taken as a reference to the period of nazi occupation. yugoslavia, of course, was a nation founded on antifascism: the yugoslav partisans, led by tito, had been ww2's most effective resistance movement (perhaps the only effective one)
here's the partisan stjepan filipović with a noose on his neck, seconds away from being hanged by collaborators, shouting the partisans' motto of 'smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu' ('death to fascism, freedom to the people'). if you fancy yourself an anti-fascist this is the image you want burned to your cortex
so the 'point' of laibach perhaps is this: fascism can resurface even in a nation expressly founded on fighting it. as, of course, during the breakup of yugoslavia it did
i know most of you are americans and consider yugoslavia at best a punchline to your lack of cartographic knowledge. here's the relevant part: supposing these protests or the next ones or the ones after that succeed and do oust trump, or if he just leaves office at the end of his term — what will it take to keep fascism from resurfacing in america?
I had been considering pulling one of my favorite Christian meditation books, [url=https://sophiainstitute.com/?product=light-of-the-world][u][b]Light of the World[/b][/u][/url], off the shelf when Advent Season begins, and using its meditations to replac
I had been considering pulling one of my favorite Christian meditation books, Light of the World, off the shelf when Advent Season begins, and using its meditations to replace those I've been using from the excellent Benedictus Magazine. My monthly subscription to Benedictus will be expiring at the end of November, so that seemed the perfect time to make the switch.
With the book off the shelf and in front of me this afternoon I thought, “What the heck, Why wait?” So, as time permits, I'll be using meditations from both the Light of the World book and from Benedictus Magazine in my daily prayer regimen.
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People: Your signs are cute but what's your plan?????? What are you going to doooooo?
BIPOC Communities: We're organizing, mobilizing, and getting ready.
People: But I don't see you doing it. What are you *doinngggggg*? What's your plan?
This is what a lot of snooty fucking lefty bros/people sound like. Like, bro, wtf are YOU doing?
Folks demanding a plan like they want to copy someone else's homework.
Fuck, *do your own homework.*
Yesterday, I listened to a tiny trabajadora describe in Spanish the work she and the other trabajadores are doing to protect each other while ICE kidnaps them and decimates their families. She asked for people to join them and help them.
THAT'S THE FUCKING PLAN.
FUCK. Ypipo, man.
FUCK! What are you looking for? Some Project 2025-like outline for a radically different social order? No one has time for that! FUCK.
People who ask what the plan is, either have 0 belief that any plan is possible and want to insult and undermine any attempts, OR, they want to know if you're familiar with the various strategies that are available.
The first kind is belligerent and snide, and will shoot down whatever answers they get while yelling the same demanding questions over and over again. The second kind move on very quickly from the question to offering examples, feedback, and suggestions. If they're burnt out they may not be as friendly about it as they should be, but still.
One of the easiest things to do is find a mutual aid Society; most of those groups do have some kind of plan and volunteers can plug themselves in where they fit in.
In the Sacramento area, NorCal resist does things like fixing people’s brake lights so they don’t get pulled over for tickets, accompanying people to their immigration hearings, distributing food etc etc NorCalResist.org
This is one of the slides from the big Bay Get Ready community NonCooperation training some friends went to a couple weekends ago.
I would posit that this looks like A Plan. It's not the only Plan but it looks good for right now.
I would also posit that it's a hard plan. It's not a technical plan like Project 2025. It's a difficult adaptive challenge. And that's why folks will be like, This isn't a plan; this isn't going to work. They're looking for technical rubrics. Sorry, dude. Shit is hard.
💯 it’s easy to complain and whine on SM, but that’s just bad air. [the following rant is not for you, but to those you are frustrated with] Shut up and Do Something—really, Anything. You aren’t able to do ICE protests? Well, the Food Banks are in crisis—volunteer, or organize a fundraiser for the Food Bank. There are so many ways to help, pick something and DO something.
Re: "Some Project 2025-like outline", we had the Green New Deal and related plans inspired by it for sweeping progressive visions. I think we could have won a GND if COVID hadn't killed the momentum behind groups like Sunrise Movement.
A GND may not be sufficient to address the climate crisis, but it may be the best we could do to mobilize the populace given our current system of government and culture. More radical change requires a more radical people.
seems Project 2025 is working - so yes, figuring out What Is To Be Done might be a very good use of time.
As for the left - you don't have to agree with us, but from general strike to vanguard revolution to library extension, different factions have been quite open about their plans and strategies. Because they have them.
I think it is time for state governors and like minded members of Congress to form a shadow government that uses the power residing in states to build an alternate government for the next three years. States have their own taxing power, and can tax billionaires and use the money to fund their own low income medical benefits until Medicaid is fully funded. They can restrict their police from aiding ICE. And they can provide state funded assistance to noncitizens
California, Oregon, and Washington alone are a prosperous country with the constitutional power to pick up the money from the upper class that Trump is leaving on the table, and to use it to bridge the gap in social services, with laws, taxes, and budgets set to expire on December 31, 2028. A dollar is a dollar, whether federal or state.
@patrick This would be great, if the vast majority of them weren't already in the pockets of people building the WRONG kind of shadow government-- that is, technofascist corporate feudalism.
@violetmadder I don’t think we can form a shadow government by ourselves. I think we have to do it together, with a substantial number of people who already hold office. But states already have a great deal of power, including taxing authority, to compensate for Trump‘s tax structure. The Trump administration policy is to reduce the economic authority of government in relation to the authority of corporations. States can expand their own authority.
@violetmadder I do not think that Trump‘s economic people really care about his social policies. They’re in it for the money, less taxes for corporations, protectionist economic policies, theft and extraction of publicly owned natural resources for pennies on the dollar. But social policies like abortion, immigration, diversity, and trans issues are just red flags to manipulate voters. Follow the shift of obscene wealth. Not the red flags.
Have you followed recent events in Madagascar? The Plan was to show up -- sustained direct action. The klepto president sent in the military. The military sided with the people. The president and his crew grabbed their bug-out bags and bugged out to parts unknown. Last week! #GenZMadagascar
"Back in June, I attended the first “No Kings” rally in Gainesville, Florida, On October 18, I attended the second. Positive differences: While crowd estimates always vary, this rally definitely turned more people out than the last one. Part of that might have to do with University of Florida students having been
reclaimthenet.org/microsoft-on… or archive.ph/30bUx An odd privacy related setting in OneDrive at Microsoft. On by default, it uses AI to recognize faces in pictures to help organize them. Prompt says it can only be disabled 3x / year.
Wow, I didn’t know about that OneDrive setting. These mega techs have become completely out of control. Might have to switch open source or better still, typewritten letters.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision against opening the Rafah crossing point violates the terms of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and constitutes a failure to fulfill obligations, the Palestinian movement Hamas said on Sat…
Dell Is Quietly Selling This 15″ 1TB Laptop for 63% Off on Amazon, Still Full Price on the Official Site
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On October 18, 2019, protests erupted in Santiago, Chile, over a hike in the cost of public transportation.
But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than that. Those in the streets demanded change—real change. They demanded more rights. They demanded a new Constitution.
Police cracked down with impunity. Videos went viral of riot police beating people in the streets. Chemical water guns. Shooting rubber bullets at point blank range. The number of the dead and wounded skyrocketed. Throughout the protests, which would ripple on for almost 6 months, Chilean state security forces would cause more than 400 eye injuries to protesters in the streets.
Many people would never see out of those eyes again.
But some of them also found each other… and began to sew their lives back together, with music.
Hasta La Victoria’s music is rock and punk, hip hop, and circus. They have found an outlet to focus their pain and their suffering. To define it, and direct it back. This is episode 72 of Stories of Resistance.
When the right say that antifa is fascist (the ones who believe it) how I yearn to draw out and force them to elucidate what they think fascism IS without reference to any party or personality. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7f6to…
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Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Adelina Grivalja for this long —much less communicate with those on the other side of the aisle —is a failure of leadership and a stunning betrayal of basic democratic principles
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