the LA mask bloc is having a fundraiser, and is looking for vendors and / or donations for their raffle / silent auction ! you do not have to be in LA to donate ! for more info, see this reddit post. further information to be posted to their instagram tonight. www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidC...

The nitrogen fertiliser crisis is gonna be fucking awful.

One of the all time great tweets from the last days of Old Twitter

#OtD 5 May 1926 over a thousand people gathered outside Leeds Corn Exchange to stop any trams and buses being driven by scab labour during the British general strike. A scab tram was stopped and its windows smashed by demonstrators. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1055...

Actually fuck that - Jordan's fucking bang on with his analysis of why The Onion takeover of InfoWars is bullshit - youtu.be/3WPsy6PSMi8 Absolutely the right take. Fuck grifting for subscriptions in the name of solidarity with Sandy Hook families. And fuck The Onion for this.

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

One of my favourite ever images from space, up there with the eerie images of the surface of Venus - a tiny glimpse of the crags of a Gothic, fleeing micro-world in a whirlwind of stars, made all the moodier by the Lumiere-Brothers scratchiness

The history of colonialism in the land we now call Australia is one of massacres and genocide. Learn it, and fuck the consequences of empire everywhere.

Reporting that includes the two Jewish men that the Golders Green attacker is charged with attempting to murder but does not include the Muslim man he is *also* charged with attempting to murder is wildly inaccurate and distorts the story hugely. Sky News and the BBC have both done that.

Womp womp Old person with fascist ideals knows not of infosec. Gutted, mate.

The fuck

NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.

It's actually very concerning to me that we're seeing a sudden explosion of terrible philosophy of mind positions. Every dead current is alive again. Anything so that random folks can confidently assert brains/humans are magic and the manifest image has nothing to fear from the scientific image.

Eeesh. That is a lot of troops.

Yay! Malthusian Malthusianist be Malthusianisming all over his Malthusian until I Population Bomb

Brilliant stuff. Really worth your time

Galaxy-brained takes from site today: We shouldn't celebrate workers' day, we should celebrate St. George's Day because of the symbolism and Workers should thank speculators for the creation of business. The site is full of European and international workers that all have May Day off back home.

#OtD 1 May 1886 300-500k workers went on strike and rallies were held across the US, with the cry: "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." The strike led to the Chicago Haymarket Affair and the start of May Day itself. More in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

“May Day, Haymarket, and the Erasure of Anarchist History” - Alissa Azar

Starting to think this guy might be some kind of huge moron 🤔

Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen / Famicom / Tokuma Shoten / 1991

If you put a towel over Bari Weiss's head she would go to sleep like a bird.

“Some administration officials believe that continuing the blockade for 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 would cause significant long-term damage to Tehran’s energy industry” (emphasis mine)

As if we ever believed these private donors existed. We've known since day 1 that we'd be left holding the bag for this abomination

this would fix the website

Happy Mussolini Upside-down Day ! On this day, 28 April 1945, Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans in the village of Giulino de Mezzegra, northern Italy.

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

this is the same woman who went crying to the police when someone knocked her phone out of her hand because she wouldn’t stop filming the bleeding victims of the charlottesville car attack. on the scene of a mass casualty incident, feet away from a woman’s dead body, it was all about her.

the worst thing about all of this stupid mess is how it will serve as the perfect justification for the unforgivable act of having been there at all. journalists should not have attended the president’s party, but now they can say, thank god we did. we covered the news there.

Sigh, I guess I’m doomed to keep seeing people repost that fake AI photo of Trump with his head slumped over, no matter how many people point out it’s a fake.

No clip has ever captured the essence of born again Christians quite like this

Antifascists like me kept saying, for a year and change, that Avon & Somerset Police's political decisions and use of force to enable Bristol Patriots would end up with someone dead. Well, the cops got what they wanted.

only screenshotting cuz QTs are disabled (which is fine). you don't have to be nostalgic for this. a lot about this era sucked but most of the good parts of this era of the computer are still around, if you ditch mainstream big tech. this is how it feels to have a linux desktop in the 2020s.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

The White Wolf expanded universe just went haywire post-Covid, huh.

My overall sentiment on the Zizians and their fellow travelers is: It's deeply bad for you to think your own beliefs matter that much.

this is aaron swartz' opinion of lesswrong, by the way! from his lesswrong account, no less

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Encrypting Encrypted Traffic To Get Around VPN Bans

I think you Yanks are going to have to start shooting ICE employees into ditches after this. Start at the top and work down. Get them all. Might as well thrown in CBP as well. And the Republican Party apparatus, while you're at it.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

This shit is exactly why the centrality of identity in political analysis is so dangerous and is exactly what people like Mark Fisher tried to warn about. Mahmood legitimises racism against brown people, and if you disagree with her, she gets to write you off as a "white liberal".

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Thought that maybe, just maybe, @seattletimes.com would do the right thing and slip a bare-minimum credit into their piece on the story I broke, including my screenshot of the IG story, shortly before it vanished. Nah. They don't care. Still pretending they got the story on their own.

"If the strait is opened tomorrow, we're not really going back to the previous energy world, we just can't. This is sort of like one of those the toothpaste can't be put in the bottle kind of moments." Bloomberg's Tracy Alloway on the long-term energy impact of the Iran war.

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