Verdigris @verdigris@seizemeans.com

god i fucking hate capitalism

but yeah in case you missed it, US congress just gave the US carte blanche to do pretty much anything it wants to in africa with the justification of "countering malign russian activities in africa" lol

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7311/text

anyway it's fun how the US can just invade somalia and we don't see the world stand up and cover themselves in somali flags

why yes, i DID see that we're having "dont boost your own post" discourse yet again. sorry that you're such a fucking drag no one wants to hear from you, but i love when my friends reboost their shit to make sure i didnt miss them being funny/ hot/ badass/ asking for help

A song sparrow near the Bronx Kill on Randall's Island.

#songsparrow #sparrows #bronxkill #randallsisland #nycparks #birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #canonr5 #Sigma500f4 #luminarneo

#OtD 18 May 2021, millions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Israel went on strike in protest at escalating Israeli state violence against civilians in Gaza.

Remember how China was shutting down again recently due to a rise in COVID? It's almost like the US should have heeded the warning..

The US media was/is too busy pitching their anti-China communism=totalitarianism propaganda. 🙄

#china #COVID19 #covid #usa

Just finding out that berlin cops were arresting anyone publicly supporting Palestinians a couple days ago

https://nitter.net/hebh_jamal/status/1525856722916605952 #FreePalestine

my gender is "stumbling around the house at 2 am holding a bottle of san pelegrino by the stem and taking swigs from it while fully disassociated trying to find small items that i was holding five seconds ago"

Big companies gaslight the public and we eat up their corporate propaganda ever so willingly. Any company relying on the exploitation of the international working class to turn a profit does not deserve to exist.

#OtD 17 May 1959 Kelso Cochrane, a carpenter from Antigua, was killed by racists in Notting Hill, London. Popular outrage at this and other racist incidents in the area led a local activist to organise a community fair which became Notting Hill Carnival

#OtD 17 May 1966 Vassilis Palaiokostas, “the Greek Robin Hood,” was born in Moschofito, Greece. The became famous for robbing banks and the rich and giving to the poor, and repeatedly escaping jail. @Freedom_Paper@twitter.com have published his autobiography: https://freedompress.org.uk/product/a-normal-life/

#OtD 17 May 1972 10,000 schoolchildren in the UK walked out on strike in protest against corporal punishment. Within two years, London state schools banned corporal punishment. The rest of the country followed in 1987. https://libcom.org/history/timeline-uk-schoolchildrens-strikes

#OtD 17 May 1943 Albanian communist partisans attacked the town of Leskoviku which was being held by 1000 Italian troops. After 3 days, the partisans were victorious, killing 100s of fascist troops and seizing equipment and weaponry

@workingclasshistory Dankegon por menciis nin!
Vivu la revolucio!

#OtD 17 May 1935 the Nazis banned the teaching of Esperanto for "weakening… national character". Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language which was particularly popular at the time with workers' groups and revolutionaries. http://libcom.org/library/esperanto-banned-70-years-ago

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#OtD 18 May 1968, despite the brutal dictatorship of General Franco, 10,000 people in Madrid march in solidarity with the revolt happening in France. Barricades were erected and clashes with police occurred

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday!

"She [Hekate] is good in the byre with Hermes to increase the stock."
Hesiod, Theogony

#Hermes Kriophoros, Hermes the Ram-Bearer, of Kalamis, Roman marble copy of a Greek original.

#DayOfHermes #GreekMyths #GreekMythology #mythology

Please remember that “carbon footprint” is a bullshit concept devised by fossil fuel companies to shift responsibility for climate change away from companies and on to individuals