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Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio.

In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory.

CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil.

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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Awful awful massacre in Brazil

Caio Almendra @caioalmendra.bsky.social · 1d

Gente, é o maior massacre no Brasil desde o Araguaia. Entendo quem quer puxar pra Canudos ou Contestado ou etc, mas não podemos livrar a ditadura de 64 só porque ela escondia melhor seus corpos.

Morreram 41 guerrilheiros comunistas e mais de 1200 camponeses no Araguaia.

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 15h

whatever happened to the noble art of skeeting into the void

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jm @jaubertmoniker.net · 1d

should alf become a honorary muppet? | page 2

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 1d

does what it says on the tin, i suppose

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2d

"Lorde maintained her distance from organised activism: unlike Smith or Jordan, she never had to persuade her comrades... or undergo any of the tricky experiences that make politics the complicated business that it is."

Review essay by @keeanga.bsky.social.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

www.lrb.co.uk

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 3d

( . __ . ) . o O ( ⬯ )

SLAM JOHNSON @mlyp.bsky.social · 4d

I've found it - the holy grail of forums past

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 3d

they certainly dont and its exactly this kind of sex abstinence education that has lead to so many problems

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

i appreciate everyone who took the time to explain why that bad tweet from homeland security doesn't even get the halo lore right. those of us who weren't on the losing side of the console wars are grateful for the info

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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 3d

South Side. S14th Street. Caller said a guy is outside on the sidewalk shredding guitar way too hard for a Monday afternoon.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4d

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 4d

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...

Spadework | Alyssa Battistoni

Your job as an organizer was to find out what it was that people wanted to be different in their lives, and then to persuade people that it mattered whether they decided to do something about it. This...

www.nplusonemag.com

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 4d

alyssa battistoni hit the nail on the head in her "spadework" article for n+1:

We were all too busy, but the too-busyness wasn’t really about time, or at least not only. Being too busy meant people didn’t see why the union was worth making time for. Your job as an organizer was to find out what it was that people wanted to be different in their lives, and then to persuade people that it mattered whether they decided to do something about it. This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t.

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Nomi @whatsoperadoc.bsky.social · 4d

My gut feeling is that "people overworked and tired" accounts for 90% of what appears to be apathy.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

I try to avoid "real organizers vs. fake/keyboard organizers" framings for the most part but one thing you learn quickly from organizing is how difficult it is to get people to do anything at all, how much you're competing against sociologically. people are overworked and tired

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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 6d

yea ok gimme that shit

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 6d

a game of chess is like a sword fight. you must think first, before you move.

final fantasy tactics units as pieces on a chess board

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

Pete Buttigieg endorses aid restrictions to Israel, Seth Moulton is running away from AIPAC at full speed, Mallory McMorrow says it's a genocide, meanwhile Cory Booker says that asking if Netanyahu is a war criminal is unfair.

What the hell is happening? I take a stab at it in the piece below.

Democrats Are Getting a Brutal Lesson in How Much the Politics on Israel Have Changed

From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

www.thenation.com

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · 8d

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

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TYPE I • NORMAL POSITION @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · Nov 12

one cool site i like to push occasionally is Evan Collins' project of cataloguing and annotating aesthetic movements of the late 20th century, really excellent stuff here for artists or pop culture/nostalgia browsing
www.are.na/evan-collins...