squareallworthy:

squareallworthy:
squareallworthy:
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squareallworthy:
Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?
Well, you see, kids, almost twenty years ago Apple produced a portable audio player called – wait, I need to go back further.
Okay, so in the 20th century, the new inventions of radio and television were known as broadcast media – no, wait, that’s not really the start either –
Broadcasting originally refers to throwing, or casting, handfuls of seeds onto prepared ground, typically used with grain crops, which, uh –
– the Agrucultural Revoution, which begain circa 10,000 BC in the Levant, was when humans began preserving seeds for replanting –

reidio-silence:

Women worked hard to supplement a diet that consisted largely of bread and potatoes, corn and peas, beans and cabbage, and milk from cows fed on “swill”—byproducts of the city’s distilleries. In good times, they might add salt meat and cheese, a little butter, some sugar, coffee, and tea. But meat and poultry, though widely available in city markets, were expensive, even when purchased for a reduced price at the end of the market day. Many working-class wives therefore kept their own animals, notably pigs; lacking the space to board them, they let the hogs run free to scavenge for themselves. New York had long been infamous for its thousands of porcine prowlers, and when city fathers once again tried to sweep them from the streets, they touched off a raucous confrontation with poor mothers.
In 1818 Mayor Cadwallader Colden regretted that “our wives and daughters cannot walk abroad through the streets of the city without encountering the most disgusting spectacles of these animals indulging the propensities of nature.” Copulating and defecating porkers were a decidedly ungenteel sight, and their “grunting ferocity” could be dangerous to children. Colden empaneled a grand jury, which indicted a butcher, Christian Harriet, as a public nuisance for keeping hogs on the streets. He hired a lawyer, who contended that customary social practices, especially those “of immemorial duration,” could not be declared a public nuisance unless they violated standards held in common by the entire population. Pigs might offend ladies and dandies, “who are too delicate to endure the sight, or even the idea of so odious a creature.” But “many poor families might experience far different sensations, and be driven to beggary or the Alms House,” if deprived of this source of sustenance. Mayor Colden, in charging the jury, ruled the food factor irrelevant, and Harriet was convicted, establishing the absence of a legal right to keep pigs in the street. In 1821 the Common Council ordered a roundup of the swinish multitudes, but when pig-owning Irish and African-American women discovered city officials seizing their property, they mobilized, hundreds strong, and forcibly liberated the animals. Further hog riots broke out in 1825, 1826, 1830, and 1832, invariably ending with the women saving their bacon.
— Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998)

thearrogantemu:

elodieunderglass:
punk-de-l-escalier:
fuckyeahnaturalphilosophy:
rosslynpaladin:
bull-business:
promithiae:
If you like the wellerman, try on this classic
this is a pathologic ass song
The Chemical Worker’s Song. Not far off our current days’ wage slave experience. I’m telling you, you need Union Songs.
Sailors aboard a ship used to hum to warn the captain they were THIS close to a mutiny and didn’t like conditions AT ALL. Because humming was something others could keep doing when you stopped. Anyone comes close you stop, but the hum of the rest keeps on and they can’t prove who, exactly, is doing it.
Just saying.
Sea shanties are a gateway drug to work/labour songs of all kinds, labour songs always end up including union songs, and that’s how you end up extremely hardcore for organised labour.
And if people want more information, this particular song is called “The Chemical Worker’s Song (Process Man)”, written by the Canadian folk group Great Big Sea.
Sea shanties and labour songs are an active tradition! Are you pissed? Sing about it.
Small point of clarification: The ICI Song, aka The Chemical Worker’s Song or The Process Man, was written by Ron Angel in 1964. Great Big Sea’s version is gorgeous and raw, but they stand on other folkies’ shoulders here and it’s worth remembering. http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?p=19619
I went in the notes to find a mention of Great Big Sea so I didn’t have to say it, glad my friends and mutuals can always be trusted
#WHOM is going to cover the Digger’s Song for me
Chumbawamba, of getting-knocked-down-and-getting-up-again fame!
From “English Rebel Songs 1381-1984″, which is exactly what it says on the tin.

robertevansfan:

your daily dose of “orwell and the spanish civil war” tweets

veeaziel:

they keep adding bits and it even better

smallest-feeblest-boggart:

arrghigiveup:
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can you take a moment to appreciate that across all times and languages humans have apparently been calling cats things like Snowy and Pinky

mummified-priest:

cats-moss-gays:
helloitsbees:
keanurevees:
absolutely-flabbergasted:
portabellogna:
adriensabores:
nevver:
The Muse’s Revenge, Ilya Milstein
So I’m just going to leave this picture of an old Pablo Picasso here for reference.
#I recognized the reference but had assumed it was more of a general influence however they used the same molding and everything #I’m sure it’s supposed to be more of a general statement rather than being about any one artist and I’m sad there’s no caption on her site #but Picasso was certainly one of Those Artist Dudes #which is to say he was an abusive douchebag to most of the women in his life (x)
yeah fuck this dude
Not to be dramatic but this is absolutely the right way to deal with creepy old men whose “art” is just pictures of naked women
By the way if you like cubism but really dont want to look at Picasso, check out Francoise Gilot. She tends to do a lot of really stylized paintings of women but… Yanno. Without the abuse.
She’s also one of Picasso’s exes and consequently one of his muses. She’s spoken at length about her experience. And thus far, she’s had some pretty sweet revenge. She’s free, her artwork is simply gorgeous, and she’s still alive today (as of 2020) at the age of 98!
Edit: i would also like to add that Gilot was already an accomplished artist when she became involved with Picasso, and he completely sabotaged her career when she left him. He discouraged museums from showing her work, and he unsuccessfully tried to block the publication of her memoir, Life with Picasso. To my knowledge, she’s the only one of his “muses” who is still alive, so let’s maybe take this time to explore and celebrate the work of a woman who was overshadowed by her abuser.

allthingslinguistic:

surprisebitch:
memecage:
I am currently studying memes academically. I thought you might enjoy the current proposed “ages” of internet memes
OP please post the link to the academic journal or the paper when your research gets published
One of my favourite things about this taxonomy, and I say this utterly sincerely, is how it completely omits that there were any pre-Advice Animal memes (of which the most popular were lolcats, but fake inspirational posters also had a moment and pseudo rules/laws like Rule 34 and Godwin’s Law can arguably be considered memes as well). (Godwin wrote an article about mimetic engineering in 1994 and it’s unnervingly prescient, I’m just saying.)
The meta point that this omission makes is that each generation of internet residents remakes the concept of a meme itself, considering memes that were around when they first encountered memes to be “Golden Age”, memes when they started making memes themselves to be “Silver Age”, and memes when another generation had started taking up the mantle of memedom to be degenerate. (And of course, entirely forgetting about even earlier generations of meme, unless you write a book about it and end up digging up faxlore or something. *whistles*)
In other words, yes, the meme of memes is itself a meme.

k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9:

Venom

Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.

notcottagecore:

notcottagecore:
This has to be one of the most disgusting things I’ve read in a long time.
TL;DR: Jim Crow white courts couldn’t be trusted so Black people resisted with an alternative legal way of establishing “heir’s rights” and in turn later in the Jim Crow period white lawyers and lawmakers came up with a away to steal the land anyway and this process of racist dispossession of Black people from land they’ve lived on for hundreds of years has only gotten more rapid and violent in the New Jim Crow period.
Just a small reminder that the dispossession of Black land is also one of the root causes of the consolidation of smaller farms into bigger farms. While small farms weren’t exactly ecologically friendly–remember the dustbowl?–big farms are arguably worse.
Take for example hog farming. Pig meat is one of the cheapest meats other than chicken. One reason for this is how pig farms operate. Most pig farmers do not own their own pigs. A large pig conglomerate, e.g. Hormel, rents out land from small farmers in predominately Black and Indigenous areas of the American South, especially in Lumbee and Cherokee Nation territories of North Carolina. Now, pigs shit a lot. Like, A LOT. And they will die and get sick if their waste isn’t properly handled! So what to do with all that pig shit?
Mainly richer/more financially stable, white farmers who often stole Black land by abusing laws which in effect dispossess Black farmers who have “heirs rights” to the land build a pig shit lagoon and then SPRAY THE PIG SHIT INTO THEIR VEGETABLE FIELDS as fertilizer, and consequently into the LUNGS of their predominately Black and Brown workers who are forced to live near the most undesirable (because….flying pig shit) parts of town due to economic disparity and racism.
Even without these pig farms choking out smaller white farmers metaphorically and literally choking out Black farm-workers (who may have literally owned the land prior to white courts just taking it from them!), there’s still the issue of white farmers taking Black land and then using federal subsidies (often to get by or make extra cash) to turn their farms into monocrops instead of somewhat more ecologically friendly gardens and ranges for animals.
In predominately white areas (due to ongoing colonialism, sundown towns for Indigenous people, etc.), the centralization of farms comes a little more from poverty in those areas, better job opportunities in other industries (e.g. mining, fracking, service industry) which also may have horrific impacts on the environment and Indigenous women and girls such as what happens with fracking. Another factor would be better and important technology such as combine harvesters which allow large farmers to harvest wheat and corn quickly, efficiently, and in a higher quality way.
All of these issues are essentially coming from the white supremacist government and its policies privileging white people and white corporations at the expense of the health, safety, and security of Black and Indigenous people of color. And, here’s what else, at the same time these policies have depopulated rural areas and there is both a labor and tax base shortage. So, in order to fix the labor shortage, there is a reliance on migrant laborers–often immigrants–but this has changed the racial composition of these states which were founded to be, essentially, white ethnostates. So many of these governments now want to capitalize on the organic farming movement (which has its own mixed history with racism and anti-racism) to encourage young white people to move back from cities and suburbs to rural areas to be the next generation of farmers and kick out people of color.
This is colonialism all the way down.