Illustration of six species of crocodilians (from top to bottom, left to right: american alligator, freshwater crocodile, chinese alligator, morelet's crocodile, dwarf caiman and gharial) in a cutesy simplified style on a flat colored teal background with ripples of water and lilypads.
🐊 It is world croc day! 🐊
Orthosiphon aristatus in two colours 😍
The error of the neo-Luddites is that they have lost the experience Marx refers to; half of them valorise the Chartists & the Luddites as superior examples to follow than e.g. the Bolsheviks. Even that's charitable; for many red liberals it's as simple as "technology bad".
Marx would've eaten them.
Yes. Marx on Luddism: “It took both time and experience before workers learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and therefore to transfer their attacks from the material instruments of production to the form of society which utilises those instruments.”
resisted this rant the other day, but marx was in favor of automation. marx thought automation was good. marx thought the OWNERSHIP of the automation was bad.
it is difficult for me to see how people who think they're on some branch of the marx ideological tree don't get this
Nothing worse than when the manic upswing passes and you failed to capitalize on it
Potentially some daucus glochidiatus - Australian native carrot (?), amongst some invasive species in a garden bed (and among the grass on the curb). They're loving the seed pod mulch from the grevillea.
Vale Pope Francis
Today, high on a rocky ledge in the mountains of China, I found Rehmannia glutinosa: a beautiful hemi-parasitic plant with large, upside down flowers that seem afloat.
Red, brown, and green seaweeds #PhycologyFriday
Close up of the bright greenish yellow pompom blooms of the Xanthostemon chrysanthus - Golden Penda, contrasted against its dark green pointed leaves and some blue sky peaking through the branches in the background.
Xanthostemon chrysanthus "Golden Penda"
#brisbaneplants #qldplants #australiannatives #horticulture
A Soviet propaganda poster depicting a collaboration between a scientist in a suit and a worker in overalls and goggles. The scientist, holding a ruler, appears to be guiding the worker, who is engaged in industrial labor. The background features an industrial setting with machinery and metal beams. The slogan in bold blue letters promotes the unity of science and labor.
"For the creative friendship of science and labor", soviet poster, 1960
Australia needs to start seeing other superpowers
Gouache painting "Lenin", by Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov, 1946
Photo of a captured Israeli tank in front of a wire fence. Two celebratory Palestinian men stand on top of it, one of them is waving the Palestinian flag and both are flashing victory signs. In the top left is written "Weapons may be important, but the people's spirit of defiance in struggle is decisive!" The logo of the CPA(ML) is in the top right corner. This logo consists of a red star with the Eureka flag superimposed upon it
Cool graphic from the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
