#Caturday #Spooktober #HalloweenSeason One of the most iconic Poe stories ever. The rawness of the narrative, the pacing of the action-the exposition hurtling one towards the abyss of the soul.... Poe simply murks it royally. Chef's 💋 poestories.com/read/blackcat

#Caturday "The Black 🐈‍⬛ Cat"/ Poe is a fresh, modern horror story, one that many live out each day. The titular cat is besieged by the machinations of an unreliable narrator who both projects their fears onto the cat whilst simultaneously ascribing to the cat the most heinous of actions. Familiar?

It does not have to be this way.

#mushrooms #shroomfest #AnthropologyIRK Concentric multicoloured rings announce the presence of trametes versicolor. This immune-booster is a boon to humankind as assists in cancer therapy. #SocraticQuestion Why is this fungi not more widely cultivated as a means of universal cancer treatments?

#shroomfest #mushrooms #AnthropologyIRL #fungifest Amanita muscaria.🍄 #SocraticQuestion Are there lessons to be learned from 🍄 regarding adaptability and harmonious living? #HomoNonSapiens

#mushrooms #shroomfest #AnthropologyIRL #fungifesr Amanita muscaria is one of the most famous fungi species ever.🍄From starring in "Fantasia" to powering through the Mario franchise, this 🍄is distinct and recognisable. Although psychoactive, these mushrooms are complex in their genetic diversity

#shroomfest #fungifest #mushrooms Grifola fronderosa, "hen of the wood" is a fungi most welcome in tasty dishes. A healthy addition to diets benefitting the immune system, this 🍄is often found growing in clusters at the base of hardwood trees. #SocraticQuestion What oak tree sustains your life?

#mushrooms #shroomfest #fungifest Known for bell-shaped caps and versatility in culinary circles, harasmius oreades is also beloved fir growing in spaced clusters known as fairy rings.🍄🍄🍄🍄 #AnthropologyIRL #SocraticQuestion When you look around your personal fairy ring, who grows in your circle?🍄

#mushroommonth #AnthropologyIRL #fungifest #mushrooms Psilocybe hoogshagenii. Psychoactive. Bell-shaped. They grow singly/ small groups. They enjoy clay soil from Mexico to Brasil. Used in entheogenic manners/ spiritual development. #SocraticQuestion How are you at finding the lost or the stolen?

“When people ask me what sorts of organization could exist in an anarchist society, I always answer: any form of organization one can imagine, and probably many we presently can’t….” ~David Graeber (1961-2020)

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

#shroomcramschool #AnthropologyIRL #mushrooms #mushroommonth #shroomfest Laetiporus sulphureus/ "the chicken of the woods"(COW). A bracket fungus which grows higher up. One has to be careful: the type of tree influences the amount of poison that the fungi absorbs. What toxins do we absorb daily?

#integrity #AnthropoligyIRL #AbsoluteBritish .... a brighter, Thatcherite world redux where the rich became richer and the working class, like Atlas, supported both imperialism and monarchy flawlessly. The working classes were duped into believing that a sanitised UK would benefit them. It has not.

#Integrity #AnthropologyIRL #AbsoluteBritish The working classes are the spine and the soul of the UK. From culture to politics, the working classes are the heartbeat of the Union Jack. Brexit was every bit an anti-working class movement. It was a "downton abbey" fever dream of lost empire...

#mushrooms #mushroommonth Far from being a nuisance or revolting, 🍄 mushrooms reveal their deeper side to those who follow the magic spores. Let us go on a journey of discovery, of a deeper understanding of homo sapiens and their connections to the remnants of the natural world. #shroomcramschool

#FoodforThought This is a powerful and impressive testament. This is the true warriors code. Semper fidelis is not just a cool tattoo. These words sear into the heart as they are uttered from the heart by one with their heart, soul and skin in the game of life.

#BullshitJobs Every month, the United States parades a roll of statistics trumpeting jobs, the numbers of jobs, how these mythical jobs have swollen the economy. Then, quietly, like a thief in the night, there is a revision of jobs and numbers.Who has these phantom jobs? Define these phantom jobs.

#Debt #DsvidGraeber Debt is what the Global North imposes upon the Global South in order to fund so+called "first world" lifestyles. The poor/ vulnerable of the world are pawns in the chess game of kapitalism. Global commons are devoured in order to fuel kapitalism. Debt silences morals.Debt kills.

#FoodforThought When people exist in a secure bubble, they are unable,also, unwilling to admit that danger exists at their door. Not until danger reaches their doorstep do they spring into action. A caller into a political programme was unable to understand protestors. Their own life was good....

#Fiodforthought When an argument ensues, what are meaningful ways of de-escalating same? How can both sides feel safe, secure and heard? Are these questions essential to continued human existence? From Israel, the United States come waves of examples of violent rhetoric and actions. Is this peace?

#Identity The police within the United States are seeded in the culture of slavery/slavecatching. This mentality persists despite "police reforms" and heinous examples of where this mentality leads. "Police culture' is a culture of violence and sadism infused by genderisn, sexism,racialism.

#Identity Whenever anyone of any political party speaks on the poor, it is cringe. "The poor" are a lump of ill-defined people who mysteriously are without means. So long as there is an immigrant "success story" or a JD Vance to assure that 'hard work" is all that matters, then the lies persist.

#power When quotas are instituted, the quest to comply with quotas becomes a machinery unto itself. Get familiar for yourself. It transcends time, location, cultures. Recall the classic "I Love Lucy" episode where the chocolates became an uncontrollable force. Driving quotas drive up violence.

#TMBU A book that every single person needs to read. #Mindfood for each and every one of us who are #anthropologists. #anthropology #humanlife #ELE

#integrity #power #identity Many who "ought to know better", those who have lived through World Wars, "conflicts" abroad, domestic unrest, the violence of the state(Kent State?), the political racialism and hatreds of Reagan, the cementing of kapitalism as the god of this nation, support 4547.

#Truths Violence is a sweet poison. 4547 promised to be "your retribution". 4547 promised "law and order". 4547 promised "peace,respect from the world". 4547 uses troops,not words. Power unleashed is not easily abashed. The effects of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan has generational effects.

#Integrity When "peace officers" contribute to violence, there is a problem. When "lethal force" troops receive training in "de-escalation" tactics, are being deployed for federal immigration raids, there is a problem. When an unethical man is given unchecked power and adoring support...problem.

#Truth. That powder clings to every surface. It works its way into the threads of the fabric of clothing. It adheres to the skin for long periods of time. It is still live so contact with mucosa is quite painful. The pain is the point. Hobbling as a corrective to courageous actions-864557

#NoKings Since when do the rich cry for the poor? When does the citizen assist the migrant to become a citizen? When do those with power and wealth decide to share those gifts with the powerless? When do those paid too well share their kapital with those who are underpaid? Seeds of violence.

#peopleoverproperty The police within the US have always been a force for the State. The police force have always been a tool of keeping marginalised,abhored populations in check.Please draw a line between the oppression of "minorities" during Jim Crow+ the current mobilisation of troops in L. A.

#peopleoverproperty There are no rules in a society fuelled by kapitalism, by hatred, by violence, by deprivation. Violence, the violence of greed, of taking care of number one, supercedes, replaces all loving kindness. Human interests, species survival, global existence all pale behind the power

#peopleoverproperty When the State employs the Authority of Violence in order to silence the people, it is up to the people to understand what is happening and then to remove the Authority, then the State. If not, the cup of violence overflows and there is no end of its depths.

This is anarchy-always welcome here, always workable into the human condition. #anarchy #anthropologyIRL #anthropology #anarchistantrhropology

Professor Graeber is both a hero and a prophet. A hero for having the courage to take moral stands in the face of apathy/ utter aversion to truth. A prophet for stating a clear perspective wedded to centuries of intellectual advancement without waffling, without doublespeak, without fear nor favour.

#Integrity The stories we tell ourselves reflect our values and our morals. If our stories are strong and true, we orient ourselves towards the positives of humanity(caring for others, sharing the common goods). If our stories are dark and sordid then so, too,will our lives reflect these beliefs.

#Identity The choices we make and the energies we use during our lifetime speak volumes as to who we are and what our mission in earth is.

#Integrity Knowing the truth/speaking it are two of the most difficult issues for humanity. Not speaking the truth to Biden, to his staff, to the Democratic leadership-created opportunities for doubts/fears to take over reasoned debate. Those who kept mum about Biden are guilty of cowardice.

#TheResistance Rule of law? Isn't open bribery a thing that the US always put down in other countries as a moral failure? The SCOTUS openly defined and set aside. Troops in the streets and police checking toilets whilst people are disappearing into gulags. What rules? What laws? 864547.

#Integrity #Identity Stripping and sex work reduce the body to quantifiable parts to digest in the maw of kapitalism. Self-gratification comes not just from the sexual act itself, but from the unconscious knowledge that the sex worker is stripped of dignity and agency. Power imbalance adds savour.

#Identity Sorry-mistrust? When humans put more energy into the love and care of others above war and destruction, then perhaps those who create AI/machine learning will have earned some faith. Plastics/nuclear weapons, the Internet,AI/machine learning were unleashed upon humanity without control.

#Identity When one wants to examine an issue, one generally begins at the beginning. Who are Afrikaaners? What is their philosophy of life and land? Why are Afrikaaners not classified as "white South Africans?"(There are "white S. Africans, btw). What is a Boer and what are the connotations?

#Integrity UBI is a ticket to a different society, one in which the tyranny of kapitalism and its attendant stripes of shame and cruelty are eliminated. There is no need to keep up with the Jones' if we all have what we need and we support our neighbourhoods/communities with superfluous funds.

#Identity Yes. This is your country. This has always been your country. When those not being oppressed do not join forces with those being oppressed, then the result is a steady march towards fascism. Unfortunately, unity and solidarity are not the building blocks of mainstream US society.

#TheResistance Citizenship is synonymous with "how much do you want to participate in the oppression and subjugation of others". Would Einstein have been able to enter the US based on this? What sort of country are you running here, anyway?

#Identity As the DisUnited States of Amerikkka approaches its 250th birthday next year, it is important to keep firmly in mind that the foundation of this country is slavery, is genocide, is racial/ethnic hatreds, is pitting one group against the other, is elevating money over people.

#TheResistance In every point of human panstory, there comes a time when every person must ask themselves "Are these events for the greater good of the maximum amount of people?" Also: "If what I see is wrong/hurts many-what am I going to do to stop such actions?"

#MayDay Walking away from the grip of kapitalism and the terrors of bias would improve humanity greatly as well as advance homo sapiens to the next stage of social evolution.

Pretty soon? From slave-catcher origins to the thin blue line of corruption in Tammany Hall and the collusion with the Klan, the US police force has had a dubious and dangerous outlook and perspective on its role within society.

When people realise that cutting away their shackles dramatically and instantly improves their lives, then shall kapitalism fall and the 1 per cent will be dethroned from their comfortable places of power. #MayDay #MayDay #MayDay