Giant tape recorder mural on bus shelter, The Strand, Tauranga, 1980s. Designed and painted by Mike Ryan and Corolyn Murphy. Photo: Bob Maysmor; natlib.govt.nz/records/5669...

“It’s ONLY coal & mining & social control & lack of privacy & private east India company & conquest & enclosure of the commons with ha-has & hedgerows & polluted waterways & slavery for cotton & opium & gunpowder & silver mining to topple Chinese textiles & time-theft Why do you hate cloth so much?”

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v theatrical clouds in the sky this evening. lots of dramatic shapes and painterly colour happening

"Scientists are toiling day and night to lengthen our lives. We don’t want it, we want it thickened; it’s too damned thin now and if they stretch and stretch it, ’twill break in the middle." T-Bone Slim, Industrial Worker, September 18, 1937

im sorry but why tf is hilary duff doing a comeback in 2025 with a song that sounds like taylor swift ripping off katy perrys teenage dream

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

whats the etymology of "keen" becoming the standard word for describing one's "attention to detail"

omg they're doing it in canada too

that genocide supporting obama speechwriter has the exact same cadence when she says "and i'm obscene" as aunty donna in their real estate agents sketch. ifkyk

shoo bee doo bop www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFe3...

describing your "professional skills" to strangers is such a weirdly infantilizing social ritual

this guy had weird politics. hawkish and imperialist Conservative Party candidate who campaigned against jewish immigration, but was also a marxist and a friend of marx and expelled from IWMA for being a possible spy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltman...

A moment of silence for the lads I got to witness realising they’d hung their billboard upside down 🙃🥲

i'm not smart enough to properly theorise about this but it seems to me that much of the thinking behind the widespread adoption of "AI" (besides just the controlling and replacing workers stuff) replicates the "markets as automatons that solve knowledge problems"

There is a famous mantra from the movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." This applies very well to the punishment bureaucracy. It is not the solution to what ails the human spirit, our collective society, or the desperate planet. Never let anyone scare you into forgetting that.

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i kinda hate that subway takes guy

this kinda rules (they went with "A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen")

fuck job hunting* is such a degrading process *and job having, and job not-having

After years of folks asking me and Modibo Kadalie to record a podcast together, we finally caved! Episode 1 is up now! Episode 2 coming soon!

trying to learn about economics is wild cos i'll be listening to a podcast and something will finally click for me about money, then it will cut to an ad for palantir

the thunder is really getting to cracking

surely a violet crumble "protein bar" doesnt belong in the medicine aisle

We've been passing cruelty-driven policies for literal centuries, going back to the English Poor Laws, so at this point it seems status quo and reasonable. It gets whitewashed as reasonable tough-love vs. bleeding-heart idealism. Never mind the compelling evidence for more generous social policies.

shady shit from the joy division shirt wearer and his cronies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

#OtD 28 Oct 1879 Puerto Rican workers' and women's advocate Luisa Capetillo was born. Working in textile and tobacco factories, she also helped organise a farm workers' strike and fought for women's suffrage, free love and anarchism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1005...

A row of ceramic figures of Mayan ball players from around 600 to 80O CE. At the newly reopening Princeton University Art Museum.

can someone lend me two bucks so i can buy some citizenship

you'd think seats and benches and chairs were the most expensive things in the world the way governments and corporations never want to install them anyfuckinngwhere

sadness really hits different in humidity. its an odd mix i guess both are a bit inevitable when you live in queensland tho

old boy on the train today talking on the phone about the witnessing opportunities on the train, cos he doesn't have many other places to meet people and invite them to church

death to punditry

not every trending news story has to be latched onto to teach an object lesson about something vaguely related

Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media… Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today. tinyurl.com/29atd26y via @theguardian.com

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the birds are outta their fucking minds lately dude. i love them sooooo much but why do they gotta swoop and fly around so recklessly in the parks

saw a very cool brown and mauveish pigeon earlier stopped me in my tracks