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I used to work in tech (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ but now I design with labour groups, run workshops with activists, occasionally make games and comics. 🚨 support fundraisers 🚨 The govt won't save us, but mutual aid will

Poster for the general strike on 11th December, 2025 in Portugal Poster is red with a yellow dude in a soviet poster style holding a hammer with the words Greve Geral on it (general strike)
Text reads: The result is a film that, as its opening credits announce, was produced by 500,000 farmers. Each paid two rupees in order to finance the film, and when it was released they flocked to see it. The booklet accompanying this Blu-Ray contains a deeply moving interview with the late Benegal, who remembers seeing farmers’ carts and wagons making their slow way from tiny villages to the nearest cinema showing their film. The twenty-first century has made Benegal’s achievement even more noteworthy: it may well be the birth of crowdfunding. Equally, focusing too much on how Manthan was made can lead us to overlook its other accomplishments. A committed Left-winger who had, as noted above, been present at the birth of Indian farming’s “White Revolution”, Benegal knew exactly what his film was about, and the result has a ground-level authenticity.
Natalie Greene, a Rutgers law student, allegedly concocted the hoax in July, with an accomplice making a late-night 911 call to report that she had been ambushed by three men on a nature trail in Egg Harbor Township. Police officers found Greene bound with black zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, and the political slurs scrawled across her torso. She told police that her supposed attackers had a gun and threatened to shoot her, and struck her in the head. Prosecutors say nearly every detail was fabricated. Greene allegedly drove to Pennsylvania and paid a body-modification artist $500 to carve the wounds on her face, neck, and upper body, using a pattern she had provided in advance. Investigators later found matching zip ties in her Maserati SUV. Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for “zip ties near me,” a discovery authorities cited as further proof that the incident was staged. Two images of a woman's torso mutilated with aesthetic scars, with the words "trump whore" written on them
A Portuguese inspired bread bun cut in the middle with a bright green cilantro and mint chutney spread on the bread, with a red garlic and chickpea flower crunchy powder, with a deep fried spicy potato mash ball in the middle, with the most impressive part: a fried whole green chilli in front. This beautiful contraption is on a wooden board with a green cup behind it that seems to be there for background texture only (it's empty)
Artful shot of a mix of noodles, veggies, a fried chicken piece smothered in a bright red gravy with crunchy bits of noodles and a garnish of cilantro on top. Popular college canteen slop, and generally wonderful post drinks
Text says: would a centaur big spoon like this? Image shows a top view of a bed with blue human being spooned by the top half of a centaur (human part) so the arms are around blue human. Horse part is off the bed. Text reads: ...or like this? Image shows: top view of a bed, blue human being dangerously wrapped in the front legs of the horse part of the centaur. However, the centaur is mostly on the bed.
6 frame grid of a galactic style with a red yellow circle in the middle. Yellow text box on top left corner, white text bot a bottom right corner with ... Representing the responder has not replied. I shouldn't bother you with this, you are Mya student not my therapist. I was fucking bleeding when I wrote that poem Oh for I'm in love with her :-( I'm just so happy to have a female grad student who is actually sane and I can talk to Do you think I'm shady person because I let myself be emotionally involved with my student It's not good if a person in power is out of their fucking mind
Terracotta colored clay sculpture of a satyr holding an apple, some beige vertical wall panels in the background
The Orbs are gifts because “Neri as the designer of the MediaLab was asked to produce nearly all, if not all, physical gifts for donors — using her and her student’s time and resources,” wrote her husband, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, in an urgent email to MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito in the summer of 2019. The Orbs were reported in the Boston Globe in September 2019, when it became known that convicted sex predator and billionaire blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein met with Ito and Oxman, funded Ito and Oxman, and donated or arranged for Leon Black and Bill Gates to confidentially donate $7.5 million to MIT and the MIT Media Lab on the condition that his donations or involvement or the meetings, favors and influence afforded him by Ito and others at MIT not be disclosed. The Orb being made for Epstein caused one of Oxman’s students being asked to fabricate it to speak out, then to cave, then to apologize in a public email for ignoring their pangs of conscience to complete the order, pangs their teachers and leaders were unaffected by, until the disgraceful connection became public. https://greg.org/archive/2023/12/12/pay-no-attention-to-epsteins-orb.html
Narrow walls on left and right and a luminous blue and pink sky in between. A person with an umbrella to the left, and a car with it's headlights on (in red) coming towards you
A white stork like bird standing in a green field with a bend tree behind it
Horizontal snail body facing camera, it's shell has fallen to it's side, on a white wall with green plants bookending the frame. Some darker moss on the top of the wall. Picture from Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
Dark night sky with full moon surrounded by clouds. A rainbow glow around the moon gives it an otherworldly look
Screenshot from the NDTV website, text reads: "Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawaharlal Nehru. A moment comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Tonight, we have stepped out from the old into the new," Mamdani said, echoing Nehru's words. The newly elected mayor said the victory symbolised a new era for New York, promising to lead with boldness. "This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt," he said. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/indian-origin-democratic-socialist-zohran-mamdani-quotes-jawaharlal-nehru-after-winning-new-york-polls-9578123
4 part image of a small black and brown dog sleeping on her side, and her back on a grey brown road. Top two images have a white car part on the top of the images
Hand holding a copy of the book Last Dragoners of Bow Bazar, below the title is an image of a dragon intertwined around a tree. The cover is in tones of blue and purple. Below the image is the authors name, Indra Das. The text below says "a love story to growing up weird" by Vajra Chandrasekera. The room beyond it is in yellow and orange. You can see a bit of my hand holding the book in the bottom left hand corner.
Screenshot of an article from the Himal newspaper digital edition, text reads: At least since the 1970s, however, the company knew that the talc used in its baby powder was contaminated with trace amounts of asbestos, a known carcinogen. Yet the product was only pulled from the shelves in the United States and Canada in 2020, and across the world in 2023. A similar pattern of concealing critical information extended to several other drugs and medical implants the company produced. The number of patients who have died over the years as a direct result is estimated to exceed two million. What makes J & J’s story so complicated is that, amid this, many of its products are truly lifesaving, including medicines for HIV, cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. In The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, the New York Times pharma reporter Gardiner Harris provides a sweeping account of the company’s origins and global impact since the late 1800s, told primarily from an US-centric perspective. Another recent book that scrutinises the company’s operations and impact is The Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, by the Indian Express journalist Kaunain Sheriff M. This focuses on J & J’s faulty hip implants in India, documenting heartbreaking testimony from patients whose lives were upended by them.
Screenshot from the online edition of the Wire newspaper, text reads: Dutt’s dealings with Madame Cama were anything but harmonious. When she ordered him to travel to India as an emissary, he refused, earning an expulsion from the cell. Believing he knew enough about the group’s secrets, he attempted to blackmail one of its members, G.A. Bhawsar, a Bombay pearl merchant, for the sum of £40. Bhawsar called his bluff and Dutt was arrested by French police and spent six months in prison. On his release, he travelled to Argentina where he again worked as a magician. In 1909, he was marching in a May Day parade through the streets of Buenos Aires when police opened fire, killing more than eighty people. people. As bullets whistled overhead, he dragged a French woman to safety. Her name was Charlotte Aubert and they married soon afterwards. Two years later, the couple returned to London where Dutt relaunched his magic career as ‘Rambhuj, the necromancer of the Himalayas’.
An image with 5 sections, 4 images around and one in the center. (In clockwise order) Text in the top left hand image reads HornPub with riker playing the trombone with other unclear members of TNG (I think), second image has ricker playing the trombone into the year of someone going SKAAAAAAAAAA!!!!. Riker and troi looking intimate with large trombone, ricker looking intently at camera as text says {horny trombone music}, central image is troi holding her head in pain
Warm tones watercolor of a Thaiyyam performer in painted face, with dramatic headgear, wearing a complicated layered pleated skirt like costume with flaming swords dancing through flames. It's signed Baby, the name of the artist.
Cover of a book in black and white called "Deserts are not empty" using a pointillism style texture. Edited by Samia Henni in the bottom right hand corner
Two pictures, Left: Detail of AMBOS, “Con Nuestros Manos Construimos Deidades (With Our Hands We Build Deities)” (2023) (photo by Henry Adams, courtesy Pepperdine Graphic); Right: Installation view of AMBOS’s work (photo by Paul Salveson, courtesy Weisman Museum) School administrators also took issue with an embroidery that read “Save the Children” and “Abolish ICE,” part of “Con Nuestros Manos Construimos Deidades (With Our Hands We Build Deities)” (2023), a large collaborative sculpture by the group Art Made Between Opposite Sides (AMBOS). According to Natalie Godinez, executive director of AMBOS, officials turned the fabric swatch so that the text was no longer visible and removed a sign informing visitors they could touch the artwork.
By Mordecai Ogada 2 October at 14:17 So, Jane Goodall has left us. I watched the BBC article on her passing and the opening line said everything. "Jane arrived in Africa aged 26 with no scientific knowledge..." As a black African conservation scholar, this is what I've learned over the years; 1. She retained Gombe stream national park as her private research site since 1975. This was easy because she was then married to Derek Bryceson the director of Tanzania national parks 2. She used her power to protect the reputation of chimps, suppressing news articles of predation on human babies, including one belonging to one of her staff. 3. She talked constantly of "overpopulation" in Africa, but created children's programs in India, knowing that Indians wouldn't stand for that shit. Her stand on African population resonated with the western oligarchs and she became a regular greenwashing prop at the world economic forum. 4. In her own words, she was inspired by the racist myth of "Tarzan" that showed communion between a white noble and African apes in Africa without any black people. She talked so much about our carbon footprint, but I personally heard her say she travelled for over 300 days every year (mostly to give talks) and she even passed away while on one such trip. 5. I personally met her and understood why people said she was "humble", because talking to her felt like talking to your mum, or grandma. She would even offer you a chance to cuddle her little toy stuffed chimp. However, she ran a global organisation centered on her name and persona, even the logo was her image. No decision was made independent of her opinion (hence the constant travel) She was one of the last symbols of the grand absurdity that Mbaria Wa Mbaria and I referred to as "The big conservation lie". I will always remember Jane Goodall, but I won't miss her. I am too old, too African, too educated and too honest for that. Kwaheri Jane
Painting of an execution by guillotine during the French revolution. Engraving after drawing by Fious. 18th century. Paris, Musee Carnavalet
The seekers in these stories travel through worlds both ancient and modern, worlds of symbol and fantastical allegory, on their paths to greater truth. The state of Maharashtra is famous for its ancient Buddhist cave complexes. It's also known as the birthplace of leaders in the struggle against caste oppression: Jyotirao and Savitribai Phule in the early 1800s, and B. R. Ambedkar in 1891. It is here that Dr. Ambedkar, architect of the Indian constitution and warrior against the practice of untouchability, led marches for the right of Dalit people to draw water from community wells, to enter temples, to live with dignity. The Seekers consists of five stories that hold Phule-Ambedkarite thought at their core, weaving together the history of ideological conflict, the pursuit of artistic excellence, and the unquenchable human thirst for freedom. The book tells of ancient revelations, of flood and fire, of vast deadly deserts, of people turned to stone. It is a unique work of anti-caste Marathi literature that feels both timeless and sparklingly new. "...Gautamiputra’s stories shun the beaten path, chart their own course, and leave indelible footprints for others to follow" —Raja Dhale (1940-2019), writer and activist, co-founder of the Dalit Panthers
Image of a white american farmer wearing denim overalls and a plaid shirt with a cap on that has text under it saying "it ain't honest, but it's much"
Broken wall, through the rubble you see a huge mural style painting of the revolutionary Laila Khaled holding a Kalashnikov, wearing a green uniform and a red keffiyeh.
Screenshot from the Intercept website: MIT has come under internal and public scrutiny for conducting research on warfare technology sponsored by Israel. In July, the United Nations condemned the school for conducting "weapons and surveillance research funded by the Israeli ministry of defense the only foreign military financing research at the institute." That research included projects on drone swarm control technology which the Israeli military has used during its siege on Gaza pursuit algorithms, and underwater surveillance. Markus Buehler, a professor in the civil engineering department, withdrew the grant earlier this summer shortly after a student pro-Palestine group publicized it on Instagram.
Headless person in the background with tattoos on their left hand holding a plate of food. Similar dish in the foreground. Fish contains rice, eggplant, tomatoes, and crispy onions, with a yogurt sauce on it.
Screenashot from Wikipedia: However, Takahata repeatedly denied that the film was an anti-war film. In his own words, it "is not at all an anti-war anime and contains absolutely no such message". Instead, Takahata had intended to convey an image of the brother and sister living a failed life due to isolation from society and invoke sympathy particularly in people in their teens and twenties. [36] [37] Takahata also describes Japan at that time as "repressive", a time when "totalitarianism at its lowest" was endorsed in social life. He said "Seita defies such totalitarianism and tries to build a 'pure family' with Setsuko alone. Is such a thing possible? No, it is not possible, so he lets Setsuko die. [...] But can we criticize him? The reason why we modern people can easily sympathize with Seita emotionally is because the times have reversed. If the times are reversed again someday, the time may come when many people have more opinions to denounce Seita than that widow. I find it frightening."[36]
4 pictures of increasingly unhinged brain scan visualizations with the text in order of batshit: I wish I was a girl. I can just be a girl. I always was a girl. ✨Destroy capitalism ✨
Doodle of a fem person punching a cowardly ice agent who is wearing a red cap holding a kkk conical hood. A small dog pees on the hat. The text on top says "hope is a muscle" and the text in the center says "chinga la Migra" the little dog is saying "keep up the thwart"
A screenshot from Twitter (?) if user Jonathan Cheng saying "south Korea's largest circulation newspaper this morning: "angry whites overturn america" beneath is a picture of a Korean newspaper with trump awkwardly looking constipated while thumbing the air
Screenshot of user "boyhood" profile pic of a sleeping lady, with text under saying: Did a school visit today and asked a group of 8th graders if they could define the term "contemporary art" for me [for context, I work at a contemporary art museum], and one of them said "is it art that's made with contempt" And unfortunately that's the funniest thing a student has ever said to me in 10 years of teaching
Poster for a screening of the film "Where Olive Trees Weep" with an image of a woman in a kufiya painted on a wall, it looks like she has a tear falling down her face. The details are August 31st, at Rizoma Coop at 5.15pm, free entry
6 panel comic. P1, two people one man in a polo shirt and a woman in a salwar kameez with the dupapta on her neck, both have lotus flowers in orange and green (the signia of the right wing bjp party on their heads) and behind them Arnab Goswami like newscaster spits blood for some new breaking news. P2, the two people are shaking and blurred, formatted like the cover of the magazine India today. P3, the two figures staring at you as hands grab at a coin held by a saffron robed figure. P4, a saffron jail holds human shapes in green (signifying Muslims), the two main figures now have their eyes closed. P5, The same two figures are revealed to be fish, who have been caught now, there is a field if orange lotus flowers behind them. P6, there's a top view of a bowl of fish curry with one of the fish people's heads floating in it.
David Lynch sitting in his office with an old phone behind him, two images, top image he's facing front, the second one he's looking away. The text reads: "One day, the sadness will end." "But I don't think today's the day."
Simple Portuguese phrases transliterated in English and Hindi He is Antonio, Franceses, Spanish, sir, saint you, them, who is he etc
Snug brown and white small dog on a grey couch with green and white cushions on it
Sleepy car dozing underneath a laptop stand that holds a black laptop above her. A cure prayer mat style mousepad on front of her makes her look super giant, like a dragon in her lil electronics jail / lair
Beautiful brown boxer type dog in water paints resting on a yellow pillow on a brown and grey mat on a white sheet of paper. The text in the lower right corner reads "my sweet boy Django July 2024" the sketchbook is on a blue sheet
Grey and white cat sleeping tearfully on a bunch of pillows on a chair made of light wood. The pillow behind her has Palestinian Tatreez embroidery on it in shades of green
Small pug staring at you with giant crossed eyes that hold oceans sitting on a grey couch
Azuleijos style tiles depicting a disembodied hand emerging from a cloud hammering beheaded heads. Lots of swirling patterns surround this oval image
Ridiculous pug dog shaped like a chonky loaf of bread with feets sitting on a grey sofa with a blue and white cushion on it. In the background there are some plants to the left and an out of focus tv cabinet
Thousands of delivery workers marching in the streets of NYC in the background, as one delivery driver on his bike, wearing the union's demands in his t shirt and bandana faces off the NYPD on their bikes as they surround him on all sides. The Mexican flag is visible behind them representing the Latin American members of the union
Small white dog sitting inside a wicker ball with her nose sticking out and tail wagging. There is a carved wooden box behind her and a wooden floor beneath her.
Film poster for Maqbool, an incredible Bollywood film (link in post to Wikipedia page) Poster has a man and woman embracing as 3 floating heads stare dramatically at camera in the top left corner Text reads: Featured on poster Actor names Tabu, Irfan (khan), Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah MAQBOOL
Top of page: duck wearing blue boots stomping a snake dead with a purple fridge with a smiley face on the top door, the door below says "food forge" there are vegetables with smiling faces on the side. The text says "mutual aid duck says" on the top, and below it "fill the fridges! ....and do tread in the filth" some poop under this. Second section has a diamond shape in the middle, 4 corners filled with fruits, veggies, eggs and canned goods in a box. In the middle a duck with a cap attacks a guy wearing a "Biden bae" t shirt in blue with red shorts. Text says "the system isn't set up to help those in need! No one else will save us! Everyone helps! We save our selves or we all fail!" In the bottom right corner "mutual aid is an act of love!" With two hands shaking in the shape of a heart.
Small white dog with brown ears and pinkish brown nose lazily draped on a doggie bed staring at me
Main characters of Evil (the assessors) in church with lights over Mike's head like a halo (as he is a priest)
All of the libraries that Porter consulted for guidance relied on the Dewey Decimal Classification. “Now in [that] system, they had one number—326—that meant slavery, and they had one other number—325, as I recall it—that meant colonization,” she explained in her oral history. In many “white libraries,” she continued, “every book, whether it was a book of poems by James Weldon Johnson, who everyone knew was a black poet, went under 325. And that was stupid to me.”
Small white and brown dog nuzzling a blanket fort
Pikachu Pokemon closeup but instead of a it's face there's a yellow car with lights open
Fighter plane in the sky above Gaza city with explosions as black bombs with the Raytheon technologies logo drop on it with the text: (planned Parenthood logo) pro choice for America. But no choice for Gaza
We call upon our friends and colleagues around the world to resist the ongoing campaign of scholasticide in occupied Palestine, to work alongside us in rebuilding our demolished universities, and to refuse all plans seeking to bypass, erase, or weaken the integrity of our academic institutions. The future of our young people in Gaza depends upon us, and our ability to remain on our land in order to continue to serve the coming generations of our people. We issue this call from beneath the bombs of the occupation forces across occupied Gaza, in the refugee camps of Rafah, and from the sites of temporary new exile in Egypt and other host countries. We are disseminating it as the Israeli occupation continues to wage its genocidal campaign against our people daily, in its attempt to eliminate every aspect of our collective and individual life.
Screenshot from Instagram of @mrionnumber5 asking "let's check mainstream media's latest coverage from gaza" 4 panels of a comic. Panel 1: Atlantic logo, pleasant minimal person character saying Hey Atlantic how's it going? Panel 2: it is possible to kill children legally (underlined in blue) Panel 3: pleasant person looking Panel 4: pleasant person saying "Jesus fucking christ"
Androgynous figure with large earrings holding red flowers with a blade dropping in their body reminiscent of a guillotine with a red cartoon head falling by the feet