Shout out to the USA for pissing Canadians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7
Shout out to the USA for pissing Australians off so bad it flipped an entire election that was supposed to be a landslide for the center-right, forever in your debt o7
Today, May 1, is International Workers’ Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of seven anarchist workers in Chicago who were wrongly convicted for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886. 80,000 workers in Chicago had walked out on May 1 demanding a maximum 8-hour working day, alongside over 200,000 other workers across the US. Employers and the government were determined to crush the movement, and four of the anarchists were executed, with the fifth cheating the hangman by killing himself. An eighth was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. The surviving three were later pardoned, and the fight for the 8-hour day continued. Before his execution, defendant August Spies told the court: “if you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labour movement – the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery, the wage slaves, expect salvation – if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but here, and there, and behind you, and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.” Socialist and workers’ organisations later chose May 1 to be celebrated as International Workers’ Day, and today it is celebrated as a national holiday in many countries around the world, and an unofficial one in many others. Learn more about the history of May Day in this book by Peter Linebaugh: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-incomplete-true-authentic-and-wonderful-history-of-may-day-peter-linebaugh Pictured: the eight so-called Haymarket martyrs https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1976576462527494/?type=3
Mayday
I wouldn't say I'm a lapsed cultist. I still accept the basic worldview--I believe that Cthulhu lies in R'lyeh in a deathlike sleep, I believe his Star-spawn shall one day cleanse the earth and usher in an age of shouting and killing and reveling in joy, yada yada--but I'm not, y'know, religious about it. Cthulhu has lied sleeping for, like, countless aeons, he's probably not waking up in my lifetime. I doubt giving up my Friday nights to chant "Cthulhu fhtagn" with a bunch of naked old guys in a basement is gonna wake him up any faster. I mean, if I ever have kids, I'll probably start going again, but that's more about teaching good morals.
just had an absolutely atrocious thought
Notes are in complete agreement
This person clearly doesn’t belong here. From Ask Historians on Reddit.
the thing about "likes do nothing" is that they actually do: they let me know that someone enjoyed, related to, or sympathized with the things I made
the thing about "reblogs cost nothing," "wouldn't you want to show your appreciation by sharing it with your followers?" and so on is that I don't actually share everything I like with the people around me. do you want me to link every youtube video I watch and make a post every time I eat a good chocolate bar, too?
Couldn't be me, I make a post every time I eat something yummy
I mean no disrespect, Fat Fuck Hairy Belly, but I suspect that there is a secondary factor involved.
*putting the finishing touches on my Puppy Torture Device* Technology isn't inherently good or evil. It's just a tool. What matters is how you use it. *coding an app that gives your phone syphilis* If this kind of research were regulated here, it would still get done, it would just move to a different country. *submits a patent for my Machine That Kicks You In The Balls* You can't stop progress!
me, unloading a fitted sheet from the dryer: *squinting* what's that you've got in your mouth
fitted sheet: nothing :)))))))
me, prying open its twisted jaws: na-ah!!! give it to me RIGHT now!!
fitted sheet: *resentfully spits out a wad of 3 very damp dishtowels, a pillowcase, and a pathetically sodden washcloth*
