Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
If you want to boil down John Browns message it isn’t “rebellion” it is “slavery is against gods laws and must be fought by any means necessary.“
It was not “vote against the chief executive who is a dang Cheeto”
The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.
How To Live A Good Life #oldknees
Taxing the rich is using what is historically their tool of wealth extraction from the poor to try to get back a portion of the surplus value that doesn't belong to them in the first place. I don't want to tax the rich, I want to remove the means of production from their control.
Orange fluffy cat inside my car.
I have to go to work and this is not my cat.
Your phone will never take a good photo of the moon except for this one rare exception.
The economy is bad and has been for decades. You don't have to listen to online vibeconomists pretending it's good. They don't matter and most are lying for attention/money. Just do what you can for your friends and community and disregard what financially comfortable internet pundits say about it.
Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, laying on his back in a sunny windowsill. His head presses against the ground and his canine teeth peek out from gravity. Behind him is a black cat in a yellow cat bed. Next to him is another tabby cat. Fish's body is curled to fit himself in between them, and his front paws are tucked towards his body.
Fishtopher in the same position as the last photo, but now has his front legs stretched out. He shows off his underbelly.
oooh big stretch
Whatever peckerwood said "you get more conservative the older you get" was huffing paint. He was just a racist bitch that needed an excuse to be more racist. I'm old as hell and have been getting more radicalized every year.
I just love being forced out of the neighborhood I’ve lived in for half a decade just so my landlord can make a fuck ton of money doing nothing. I think we should be able to hang these people
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish
WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS
We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.
Is mandating an increase in the amount of corn and soy we burn in vehicles good for food security? No. Is it good for nature? No. But is it at least good for the climate? Also no. Read the latest from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 👇🏻
Painted the man
#art #heavypaint #adonis
A tiny grey tabby kitten, 3 weeks old, so incredibly cute and sitting on a cardboard scratcher mat
Oh my GOD look at this kitten
In 2023, Yoav Gallant called Palestinians "human animals." This belief is held implicitly or explicitly by much of American society. And American institutions engage with Palestinians on that basis, like our mere presence is an affront to decency.
Please read this excellent essay by @chanda.blacksky.app for more on why Artemis is complicated and why it's important to acknowledge this fact.
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Simpsons meme saying Artemis is a symbol of hope but also propaganda
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To believe that the capitalist class will “mend its ways”, will cease to be a capitalist class, will give up its profits, is a fatuous hope, an idle dream, and in effect a deception of the people.
Stella the bicolor tabby sits on an absolutely maximally decimated upholstered chair with her little front paw out
look at this distinguished gentleman dot mp3
Look at that sleeping pose… so cute
This is a fantastic piece.
“If you take at face value what the AI executives themselves have been saying for the last decade, that an AI powerful enough to make humans go extinct is nascent, then acting with force to stop it would be a rational action.”
Brian really nails it, once again.
A ginger cat sits with all his paws tucked and looks like a little ducky
I see there’s some discourse but my cat just perfectly folded up so he looked like an orb
No one is going to give the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free. – Assata Shakur
what actually makes a community safe are better economic conditions, walkable cities, properly funded schools, a robust social safety net, even properly funded libraries! ever dollar poured into the police is a dollar that could be better used just paying people and bettering lives.
it’s not just the imperial boomerang, it’s the anticommunist boomerang. like how many of the us’s current problems are directly traceable in significant part or whole to its fervent commitment to anticommunism
Time series plot showing the regional mean of TMAX in the Western USA for the hottest March day of each year 1940 to 2026. Data from ERA5. Historical statistical estimates of the evolving probability distributions are also shown. The warmth in 2026 and the relative cold in 2023 appear as stark outliers
A chart like this, with its suggestion towards increased variability, is the kind of thing that can keep climate scientists up at night.
Complex & unexpected shifts in dynamics can be deeply troubling, as they may give rise to extreme events beyond what anyone anticipated.
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