"What this story highlights is that #socialmedia is not a neutral global town square, but rather a battleground being silently fought over. Over the past decade, the U.S. national #securitystate has infiltrated major social media platforms, in a successful attempt to manipulate the public debate and influence what the world sees and does not see. This influence operation dwarfs any schemes of which official enemy nations are accused."
https://www.mintpressnews.com/social-media-spies-exposed/290506/
I've become obsessed with #fermentation but, like, organically. I mean, all these projects started pretty much independently within a matter of weeks before I fully realized the theme. #levain #sourdough #kimchi #tej #mead #perique #tobacco
"Opposition to the #Gaza holocaust is the very first step in assessing if someone is worth my time. If you can’t even meet the basic, bare-minimum expectation of opposing an active genocide, then you are too callous and apathetic to be my friend. If you can’t even get this basic, kindergarten-level moral question right, then your mind is too shallow and your heart too hardened for me to be interested in your analysis, your ideas, your politics, or your art."
"Nothing fundamental has changed. Only the rhetoric.
The flow of arms continues.
The flow of funds continues.
The flow of lies continues.
If the West truly believed in Palestinian statehood, it would start by ending the military, financial and diplomatic support that fuels apartheid and occupation.
Recognition without consequences is not a step forward - it’s a step around the truth."
Bowie, Neil Peart, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, I could name a dozen major influences on my life - my LIFE - that have passed and y'know I added a couple songs to my repertoire when they did and I miss them and was just grateful to share the earth with them for a while. I just don't weep for celebrities.
But adding about a dozen Sabbath and #Ozzy numbers all day today, some moments it was difficult to see the lead sheet.
"most people who use these apps will have downloaded them in good faith with little idea they are contributing to Israel’s occupation-apartheid-#genocide economy. In addition, these apps will be gathering information and data, including large amounts of personal images, and delivering them to devotees of Israel committed to maintaining the country as an apartheid state." #gaza
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/07/02/best-selling-apps-made-by-israeli-spies-revealed/
The #IWW was founded on #HelenKeller's 25th birthday, June 27, 1905.
She joined 7 years later, saying "I became an IWW because I found out that the #Socialist party was too slow. It is sinking in the political bog. It is almost, if not quite, impossible for the party to keep its revolutionary character so long as it occupies a place under the government and seeks office under it. The government does not stand for interests the Socialist party is supposed to represent."
"I regret this war, but I never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the French Revolution. And the workers are learning how to stand alone. They are learning a lesson they will apply to their own good out in the trenches. Generals testify to the splendid initiative the workers in the trenches take. If they can do that for their masters you can be sure they will do that for themselves when they have taken matters into their own hands." --#HelenKeller
#IWW
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/HKeller/why_I_became_an_IWW/
Guess what I'm doing. Give up? I'm #SEWING. Again! The effort-to-results ratio is still just thrilling to me.
"In every real #science, a rule is tested across symmetrical cases to see if it holds under transformation. In physics, that’s called invariance; in law, it’s precedent; in logic, consistency. But in political 'science,' it’s blasphemy.
" […] And the UN system encodes it: five countries have permanent Security Council vetoes – perpetual immunity for the victors of 1945. That’s not #internationalLaw. It’s structural privilege masquerading as justice."
"the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions — the first time an occupied people have been so treated. This is difficult to understand. Israel is in violation of major Security Council and General Assembly resolutions dealing with unlawful territorial change and the violation of human rights and has failed to implement the 2004 advisory opinion of the ICJ, yet it escapes the imposition of sanctions."
— John Dugard, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, *2006*
