they have flowers for you!
Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989
“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”
- part of kayapó’s speech during this event
also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:
I just checked, she passed away in August 2024 - but not before working with a filmmaker to make an hour long movie where she explains her life and her activism. If you want to hear what she has to say for herself, here’s the opportunity.
Movie is ‘Tuire Kayapó’ (First Contact) by Pınar Yolaçan, in case the link breaks
its funny when people are like "life hack: to get yourself/your child to eat more vegetables try using dips and seasoning to mask the flavor" babes thats not a life hack thats just cooking. i dont know who told u the only way to eat vegetables is great grandmas war rations boiled sprouts recipe but i prommy you can and SHOULD be seasoning.
Exactly how I’ve been cooking this past year. The amount of pushback I got from my extended family was hilarious 😂
history fucked me up
oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
You mean like this?
The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun
I grew up with this book, which is frickin’ enormous, and it was endlessly fascinating to young me to pour over the side by side comparison of events taking place concurrently under different headings and in different parts of the world.
Or if you want something you can put on your wall, there’s this:
I had this book! My grandpa gave it to me and it was really freakin useful!!
I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.
Same for The Timetables of Technology: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Technology. Great references!
okay but here’s an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500
✨️with a special focus on colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure✨️
You can spend hours upon hours exploring this
If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading
Currently listening to an audiobook and reading two ebooks! Thank you Books Unbanned Library and Queer Liberation Library 🩷
I plan on tackling my physical TBR once I’ve finished those, starting with Stephen Graham Jones. Also trying to catch up on some podcasts lately ☺️
hey Seattle people! you have a few more days to check your mail for your ballot, fill it out, and drop it off at one of the many convenient drop off locations so we can oust our local Eric Adams!
everything seem like it's coming apart? you can shape the next DECADE of seattle politics if we vote out our mayor (described queer beachgoers as "disgusting"), our MAGA republican city attorney, and councillor Sara Nelson who tried to change the rules so she could vote in her financial interests!
you have till TUESDAY to return your ballots, people, and I WILL be asking how your last local election went if you decide to take issue with how I do or don't vote in the next federal election. this is your last chance to smugly reply, "I helped end the career of Bruce Harrell."
as I've said before, you may not feel like your vote matters on the big stuff, but you would be shocked how few people vote in a lot of local elections. Your vote really really counts there. For the sake of the city, for the sake of making seattle a better sanctuary in this time of national crisis, please do vote.
seattle politics, because of the deliberate voter suppression tactic of running local races on off years, is also overwhelmingly dominated by reactionary retirees who just don't represent the economic or social circumstances of the vast majority of Seattle residents. I'm plenty skeptical of elections in america, but Seattle is a place where socialists win when young people are ACTUALLY REPRESENTED, instead of having their interests suppressed by the biggest voting bloc in the city: old suburbanites with nothing better to do than vote and watch local ultra-right-wing news all day.
I do think we owe it to ourselves to at least say fuck you, you don't own Seattle.
since I know for a fact survival theft will be going up this month, do not steal from Target, they have some of if not The highest end security measures in place, even if they don't call you out on your first theft, they know you did it, and they're waiting until you've stolen enough to get the law involved.
I am dead serious. Do not fucking steal from Target, you Will be caught.
i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy
reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy
Trick-or-treat! Take one and pass the basket (reblog)!
Milky Way
3 Musketeers
Snickers
Twix
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Trick-or-treat! Take one and pass the bucket (reblog) to your mutuals!
Starburst
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There's money for SNAP btw, there is explicitly contingency funding in place for this exact scenario and that the Mad King is choosing to instead build his fucking hall of mirrors tells you everything that you need to know.
Here's an archived version of the plan that Trump's USDA deleted from its website to try to hide the fact that cutting off SNAP and letting 40 million people starve is a voluntary decision they're making on purpose.
To excerpt the relevant portion: "Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds that can be used for State Administrative Expenses to ensure that the State can also continue operations during a Federal Government shutdown. These multi-year contingency funds are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs in the middle of the fiscal year."
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