Solarpunk in a City

“In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.”

THIS WONDERFUL MOVIE WAS MADE BY LOTTE REINIGER! SHE WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ANIMATION!!!! SHE MADE OVER 40 FILMS IN HER CAREER USING A TECHNIQUE SHE INVENTED WITH HER HUSBAND! WALT DISNEY ENDED USING HER MULTI PLANE TECHNIQUE IN HIS OWN MOVIES! AND SHE FUCKING MADE THE FIRST FEATURE LENGTH ANIMATED MOVIE!! (she ended up fleeing Nazi germany eventually work in north america, both us and canada, on other movies.)

 This woman is one of the most important figures in animation HISTORY!

A Canadian publisher is drawing attention to the hundreds of independent booksellers embracing online sales during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Don Gorman, the Victoria-based publisher of Rocky Mountain Books, created a Google Map of independent booksellers operating online and offering delivery or curbside pickup.

The map now includes more than 250 bookstores and has been viewed more than 35,000 times.

Gorman, a former bookseller, said he created the map after noticing how many bookstores were moving online and delivering goods to customers’ homes for the first time.

“A lot of independent booksellers and publishers have realized that they need to have a stronger online presence,” he said.

Thank-you notes and requests to be added to the list have flooded the publisher’s inbox over the past few weeks.

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A suspected gunman who dressed as a policeman killed at least 10 people, including a police officer, in Nova Scotia, Canadian police say.

The 12-hour rampage ended in a car chase and the attacker is also dead.

Residents in the rural town of Portapique had been advised to lock themselves indoors after the attack began on Saturday.

Police earlier said the suspect drove what appeared to be a police car.

The gunman shot people in several locations across Nova Scotia which means authorities are still trying to establish the final death toll, police said on Sunday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described it as “a terrible situation” and Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil told reporters “this is one of the most senseless acts of violence in our province’s history.”

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The largest actual anomalocaridids known from the fossil record were more along the lines of 2m/7ft long—certainly giant for an arthropod, but nowhere near this size. (It’s doubtful an arthropod could actually reach this size due to issues in getting oxygen to its tissues efficiently).

The animal this is based off of is probably Aegirocassis! It’s a filtre-feeding ordovician anomalocaridid from Morocco.

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Astronomer by Candlelight (c. 1650)

There may be clashes of interest among the components of private finance, but  these  still  form  a  single  totality  (‘the  markets’)  since  all  their  top personnel have certain opinions in common. Trained in the same school of thought, reading the same texts, meeting in the same forums, they share the same vision of what is good for the world, and especially for themselves.Moreover,  there  is  a  complete  osmosis  between  private  finance  and national governments, central banks and the European Commission. This involves a dual mechanism of highly official lobbying and revolving doors. In  France,  the  big  career  move  for  finance  ministry  inspectors  is  to  join the  top  echelons  of  private  banks,  with  a  tenfold  or  twentyfold  salary increase. This  explains,  for  example,  the  shameful  retreat  of  the  Socialist government  from  Hollande’s  electoral  promise  of  banking  reform—a policy  that  was  supposed  to  separate ‘investment  business’  from  deposit account functions, so that money belonging to savers would no longer be mixed  up  with  the  toxic  sums  resulting  from  financial  deregulation.  But the finance inspectors who planned its implementation were not keen to upset  their  future  employers.  Money  in  deposit  accounts  will  therefore continue to cushion the speculative disasters of liberalized finance.

[screencapped Tumblr post that reads: “My daughter can’t quit the job that earns her money because then she wouldn’t have money. This makes her a slave”

Honey, if you really think that socialist societies weren’t structured around the mass sacrifice of the worker to the elites then I’ve got a little country called the USSR to tell you about.

Tags read: boo hoo hoo people have to work to eat why can’t we just have everything for free why is capitalism so mean to me]

Apparently, some liberal responded to my post and then blocked me, but I felt the response was important enough to post because so many liberals don’t understand work under socialism/communism. I remember my junior year of high school when I got into a Naval Science course (yes, the US public school system is THAT deep in propaganda), my teacher told us that communism is bad because it destroys any incentive for people to work, which is horse shit.

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Capitalism has severely propagandized you if you truly believe that a) communists/socialists are opposed to work and b) the USSR encapsulates all of socialist/communist theory. (I doubt you want me to lay at your feet the countless crimes of capitalism, such as the Atlantic Slave Trade or the countless invasions the United States has perpetrated in its history)

One of the most popular slogans from communist theory is, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, showing that work is considered a necessity. To act like leftists are against work only betrays the fact that you do not understand the theory, that your only exposure to it is through capitalist propaganda.

The difference between work under capitalism or socialism/communism is the end goal of said work. The goal of work under capitalism is to increase the wealth of the capitalist class. Because of this a state is necessary to violently enforce the will of the capitalist class (look up cointelpro or any violence visited upon striking workers or people marching for civil rights).

By contrast the desired end result of communism is a stateless society. Work under leftist theory is done out of necessity, out of survival, both in a socialist transitional state or the desired stateless communist society. Capitalism is structured around the wants of the capitalist class while leftist theory is structured around the needs of the people. This means that work would be often difficult, but only 15-20 hours a week. The rest of that time would be dedicated to being with family and friends, doing crafts, learning, hiking, whatever we need to be well rounded, whole people.

So when people like the woman in this tweet criticize the way capitalism is sacrificing her daughter, she is talking specifically about the way in which capitalism has left her daughter desperate and destitute and dead in many scenarios. We have no idea what this pandemic response would look like under a truly stateless communist society because The United States destroys any country that prioritizes its people rather than the capitalist class, so nobody has been able to get rid of the state apparatus as of yet. However, we can theorize different ways the danger to her daughter would be minimized in such a situation, like dispersing the work amongst large groups of people so that people are working only 20 hours in a week and then having a minimum of two weeks off at home in isolation to prevent spread and exposure, while the work that’s necessary for survival is still performed. And her daughter would still be fed, homed, clothed, and have access to medical care if she does get sick.

There will be a general strike on May 1st. Influential people and organizations are already miles ahead of you on getting the ball rolling for it. You won’t get to choose whether people stay home from work - only whether they get fired. You won’t get to choose whether people refuse to pay rent - only whether they get evicted. You won’t get to choose whether people take direct action - only whether they get arrested. You no longer have the choice between having a general strike or not, your only choice is between having a failed general strike or a successful one - and for a success we need your voice, organizing, and participation