L'anarchie c'est l'ordre

May 31

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The IWW’s ‘Direct Action’

perfectlyqueer:

“natural curls wow you are so lucky i’d give anything for that you must love it huh omg”

#let me explain something to you #you can’t comb natural curls or they frizz out #you can’t go in the heat with natural curls or they frizz out #if you don’t style your hair and put painstaking effort into it it looks like a fucking rat’s nest #and most curls don’t just bunch up all pretty they are like sad half curls that don’t twist and just look bad #and if you cut your hair short you have an afro #and if you let it go long you look like a failed 80’s pop star #also unlike straight hair you don’t have a lot of styling opinions that look good or natural #its like OH DO YOU WANT REALLY NASTY FLAT IRONED/CHEMICALLY STRAIGHT HAIR #OR DO YOU WANT CURLY HAIR #OH YOU WANT A CUTE SHORT STYLE #SORRY BRO YOU CAN’T CUT YOUR HAIR ALL CREATIVELY BECAUSE IT’S CURLY AS FUCK #AND IF YOU DO STRAIGHTEN IT PRAY TO GOD IT DOESN’T GET WET #OR HUMID #i’d give anything to have straight hair that i could just curl at my leisure and make the curls look pretty #also idk about other people but using gel makes me look like i have ramen noodles on my head

You think having straight hair is easy? You think I can do whatever I want to it and it looks like I’m the princess from Tangled? HELL NO. IT’D TAKE ME A FUCKING WEEK TO MAKE MY HAIR EVEN LOOK REMOTELY LIKE I GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IT. I wake up in the morning and my hair is going every which way because I went to bed with it only slightly damp. So I have to spend time patting it down with water, hoping that by the time I’m done it doesn’t look like I went to bed with a helmet on.

But do you think I have time in the morning to deal with that shit? NOPE. So I go running out the door, looking for all the world that I’ve just pulled about 5 Marilyn Monroe poses above heating vents because those motherfucking cowls WILL NOT GO DOWN.

And don’t even get me started on going out with limp hair. You don’t even know how many ponytails have been worn to the band because I couldn’t do anything with my hair.

But say I wake up and I’m not dashing off to work and I get to do my hair. I LOOK LIKE A MOM FROM THE 50s. I’ve got curlers in my hair or a curling iron dangerously close to my scalp and skin, and plenty of times I’ve done my hair AND BURNED SKIN OFF because I think the powers that be hate me. And sometimes? THE SHIT WON’T EVEN CURL. IT’S HARD CREATING CURLS THAT LOOK GOOD. I’VE WALKED OUT THE DOOR LOOKING LIKE I’VE BEEN USING THAT SHITTY CRIMPING IRON FROM CONAIR FOR GIRLS WHO LIKE TO LOOK LIKE THEY’VE DONE THEIR HAIR IN WAFFLE MAKERS.

So no, it is not easier having straight hair. It is a pain in my mother fucking ass. But you know what? I wouldn’t want to have curly hair, either. I’ll just keep it cropped and rock the little hair I have left on my head.

All hair sucks. That’s why I started shaving mine off. :D

All hair sucks, that’s why I just let it do whatever.

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Practical talk:

(grandmother, while making curry, age 71)
Her: I'm tired of listening to young people say that they want a happy life, happy career, happy partner and all that happy stuff without facing pain. When I was young, we admired the person with the most painful life. Wanna know why? Because it made them beautiful. Now this isn't beautiful like those super models on TV and those cheeky girls in movies. I don't like those cheeky girls in those films. No, it made them beautiful because they learned how to endure life and its agony. They knew how to appreciate the little things in life. They were deep, meaningful, beautiful people. Happiness without suffering for a while is hollow. It's empty. Empty is not beautiful. Are you listening? Empty is not beautiful. I'm tired of finding these young people looking to escape when there's so much to learn in this life. One day you're going to thank the pain for giving you the guts you needed to go through life with your head held up high. Pain is important, you understand? It gives you guts, it gives you wings.
Me: Your curry is boiling.
Her: Oh. Yes. Pass me that red spice.

May 30

paxblueribbon:

pres-tige:

Arbejdernes Internationale Kampdag

No Matter What Government - Worker Struggle!

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class-struggle-anarchism:

The world’s nuclear arsenal.

carlsaganshair:

“We call them plants.”

Carl Sagan, the master of wearing two hairstyles at the same time.

“Heresy is inherent in all of science, is part of the scientific process. If you come up with a new idea, a great idea, it’s probably gonna react badly with the establishment idea.” — Simon Singh: heresy is at the heart of science (via scipsy)

$theamericanbear: The Bin Laden the Obama Administration Wants You to See | Kevin Gosztola Coverage of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s killing has been a prime example of American establishment journalism, a public relations operation designed to validate all the activities of the national security state and the military industrial-complex in the past year. This operation has been bolstered by the official release of documents found in bin Laden’s residence by the SEALs team that raided the compound in May 2011. Most news organizations have published their own glimpse into what the documents reveal. However, few questioned the fact that only 17 documents out of thousands of documents seized in the raid were released. There was one exception: Matt Apuzzo, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his work exposing NYPD surveillance operations against Muslims, challenged the release of only a tiny fraction of the documents. […] The Obama administration … does not want the public to have a full understanding of bin Laden. One can speculate why this may be and suggest, perhaps, there was correspondence between Pakistani government agencies that would make US intelligence agencies look bad. One can speculate that the “far-reaching network” Americans have been conditioned to fear is much more loose and much less threatening than the US government would have Americans believe. Instead, the public gets 17 selected documents that actually could be used in the coming months to promote more drone strikes and wider military intervention in Yemen if necessary. It is overwhelmingly clear that the administration is not interested in transparency and openness when it comes to bin Laden. They are interested in exploiting him for political gain. Like George W. Bush invoking 9/11 to shut down political debates and win support, Barack Obama plans to invoke Bin Laden. And based on the fact that the administration won’t release photos or videos and plans to not release anymore documents, the nature of this seems even more opportunistic. If there weren’t an election, would the American people even get to see the mere 17 documents? Read the rest →$

theamericanbear:

The Bin Laden the Obama Administration Wants You to See | Kevin Gosztola

Coverage of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s killing has been a prime example of American establishment journalism, a public relations operation designed to validate all the activities of the national security state and the military industrial-complex in the past year. This operation has been bolstered by the official release of documents found in bin Laden’s residence by the SEALs team that raided the compound in May 2011. Most news organizations have published their own glimpse into what the documents reveal. However, few questioned the fact that only 17 documents out of thousands of documents seized in the raid were released.

There was one exception: Matt Apuzzo, who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his work exposing NYPD surveillance operations against Muslims, challenged the release of only a tiny fraction of the documents.

[…]

The Obama administration … does not want the public to have a full understanding of bin Laden. One can speculate why this may be and suggest, perhaps, there was correspondence between Pakistani government agencies that would make US intelligence agencies look bad. One can speculate that the “far-reaching network” Americans have been conditioned to fear is much more loose and much less threatening than the US government would have Americans believe. Instead, the public gets 17 selected documents that actually could be used in the coming months to promote more drone strikes and wider military intervention in Yemen if necessary.

It is overwhelmingly clear that the administration is not interested in transparency and openness when it comes to bin Laden. They are interested in exploiting him for political gain. Like George W. Bush invoking 9/11 to shut down political debates and win support, Barack Obama plans to invoke Bin Laden. And based on the fact that the administration won’t release photos or videos and plans to not release anymore documents, the nature of this seems even more opportunistic.

If there weren’t an election, would the American people even get to see the mere 17 documents?

Read the rest →

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Part of an interview with David Harvey on "Urban uprisings"

AMY GOODMAN: You talk about the creation of the urban commons.
DAVID HARVEY: Yes. Well, amazing thing about New York City, for example, is there are all these public spaces, but is there a public space where we can set up the equivalence of the Athenian Agora and have a political discussion? And the answer to that is no. You have to apply for, you know, all kinds of permits, and it’s highly regulated. So the public space is not really open to the public. *A lot of it is now, of course, turned into flower beds, and so we have a great place for the assemblage of tulips and so on, but we don’t have a place where people can assemble.* And so, one of the things we’re going to try to do tomorrow is to set up places of assembly where we can talk about things. So there’s a sort of a free university in Madison Square Park. I’m going to be participating in that. Then many other actions of that kind, one aim of which is to try to liberate spaces in the city where we can have political discussions and where we can have open political dialogue.

i don’t understand how you can call yourself a feminist yet exclude so many people from the feminist movement

brazenbitch:

If your “feminism” upholds white supremacy,cissexism,classism,sexism,sex negativity,ableism, or general backasswards fuckery

you are NOT looking to smash the patriarchy, you are looking to replace your white,cis male,able bodied,upper middle class, counterparts with your own foolishness

That is not feminism.

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May 29

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lotusgurl:

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ~Ernest Hemingway

Work by Jasso.

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