CalidusCandeo

as per my last straw,

I should like. Collect together all my stories over the last few years. The 6 month strike by delivery drivers against a 25% paycut while the CEO gave himself an 1000% payrise. The peasants getting kicked off their land in Honduras, showing me the place a two members of the community, a husband and wife, were shot in broad daylight by an assassin. The farm worker and her children in Huelva living in a shanty made out of old polytunnels, collecting green rain water to drink using plastic stained with agrichemicals. The shanty town that the farmer burned down when he was done with the workers for the year. The GPS trackers fixed to workers to make sure they didn't leave the farm and break their visa conditions, a union organiser described them as the shackles of 21st century slavery. The UK farm workers who went on strike on their farm, got dumped at an airport, and then got trapped in the asylum system for years. The massacre on the Moroccan border by the police when migrants made a charge at the fence. The shanty town in Manila being demolished to make way for a casino, the community's resistance slowly broken by police executions and placing the organisers under a 24 hour watch. The army occupation of peasant communities resisting eviction. The massacre by the army in Negros of sugar workers and international visitors visiting a collective farm that the workers had set up because they weren't being given the land titles the government had promised them. The death of Sabah Dinah, a tomato picker in a massive Moroccan agribusiness, on the picket line in the second month of a strike against union busting at her farm. She was 30 years old, gave 9 years of her life to the company, and left behind four children aged between 3 and 12. They will be between 16 and 7 now. I wonder how they are doing. I wonder how they are all doing.

Some of the scraps I have to hand. Here are some articles and photos from the Just Eat couriers strike. Here are peasants in Guaimaca, Honduras, facing land grabs by the owner of the local gas station. Here is the worker holding up the green water she has to drink in Huelva. Here is a webinar I did following the visit to Huelva, there's lots in there but I speak about the GPS trackers and the burned shanty town around 27 minutes in. Here are photos from the farm worker protests in the UK, you can see some videos here. A contribution my colleague made at the memorial to the Melilla massacre that we attended in 2023. San Roque in Manila and their fight against demolitions. The struggle of the Bulacan Farmers Association in San Jose Del Monte against land grabs and militarisation. A friend of mine got to the site of the massacre in Negros and is currently making a film about the murders. The strike at Azura where Sabah died in 2021-22. And I'm conscious as I am writing about this this is only the surface, that there are more stories that I am missing here. I will get them all together

You're not alone in this! These are big problems and they're difficult for individuals to solve, but people are coming together in various groups. One example is Dark Sky, there are chapters all over the world where people are working to improve things in their communities.

bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

I really really really appreciate people who share videos on posts like these, because almost without a doubt every time I love the music but I’ve never got the spoons to click on links and look through a bunch of music or worse google the artist I always end up too overwhelmed to start and I hate that

a lot of your suffering comes from treating your nature like a problem to manage instead of a design to understand

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

maturing is realizing none of us are easy to be with. it's about who's willing to stay committed to understanding you and actually wants to grow with you

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!