cerement

relevant xkcd: Felsius

oil companies regularly blowing their load all over the Gulf

but the toaster just wants to talk about toasted bread products – it just really, really wants to talk about toast

Year Zero

long haul flights before they banned smoking on planes …

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“But”, interjected van Paasen, “You will be sitting on a pile of ruins.”

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. The world is growing this minute.”

—Buenaventura Durruti, interview with Pierre van Paassen (1936-07-24)

after MKUltra and COINTELPRO and Salvador Allende and who knows how much other crap our intelligence agencies have pulled …

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

IWW – One Big Union

I’ve gotten really wary of people when they start splitting hairs:

• “Nazis were a specific group in Germany”
• “What’s happening is Gaza isn’t a real genocide”
• “Hebephilia is not the same as pedophilia”

when you realize your parents were just winging it