…under the present capitalist system, all working folk possess no property: all the machines, instruments, raw materials, land, and bread belong to the rich. The workers have to sell themselves to them so as not to starve.
Greg joins the X-odus 🌹🌍✊
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Lone Socialocust of the Carpocalypse. Saxophone @ The Hard Modes. Cville politics, Gundam, and Raising Cane's. he/him
Quick, someone tell Angola and Namibia that the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa was bloodless
Sandy Hendry@sandyhendry.bsky.social · 6d agoMartin Luther King was much more successful than Malcolm X for example. Before that, there was no need for a bloody civil war in most countries that abolished slavery. Just votes. Independence can also be bloodless. Gandhi in India, Walesa in Poland, Mandela in South Africa. The list is long.
holy shit well I guess I’m a MapQuest guy now
MapQuest@mapquest.com · last wk.The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.
On this day 39 years ago, one of the greatest African revolutionaries of all time, Thomas Sankara, was assassinated in a French-backed Coup and buried in an unmarked grave. All because he dared to free his people from western colonialism and provide them with basic rights like food and healthcare. 🇧🇫
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2w agoStill trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
Kyle Schwarber, welcome to The War on Cars.
Liz - High and Inside@lizzierie.bsky.social · 2w agoSchwarbs being a transit guy is elite stuff
The only correct analysis is to support the Alliance of Sahel States' Pan-African project against western imperialism.
Rachel Fairbank@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 2w ago“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
If @stevenljohnson.org hasn’t posted the gif yet it’s still just the week what is happening
Dems are betting (again) that anti-Trump rhetoric is enough as well as that Americans are stupid enough to not see through their hollow sentiments.
Citations Needed@citationspod.bsky.social · 3w agoIn this News Brief, we discuss the Drop The Genocide 20 campaign, efforts to water down progressive demands around Israel and whether or not progressive electeds are following through on the implications and obligations inherent in their use of the word "genocide" to describe the destruction of Gaza
Raise your hand if you forgot that Lindsay Graham is dead. Proof of how much the “one bad man” affectation is total shit.
New blog post reflecting on performing the music of Silvio Rodríguez for the @wtjuradio.bsky.social Jazz Marathon this week, including some remarks I had prepared but didn’t have time to say on stage.
I Will Die as I Lived
The meaning of performing the Silvio Rodríguez songbook for my community
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Fuck it; why even have the kid? Just make an AI child! Much cheaper
The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3w ago🫤
Great gig last night playing the music of Silvio Rodríguez as arranged by @zorakc2c.bsky.social last night. In case interested, @wtjuradio.bsky.social has audio online - www.wtju.net/recent-shows... Video (you get to see me play double shakers) - youtu.be/fO0fooztcvQ?...
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The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Hey! This is tomorrow night (Wednesday)! Come to the station if you're local; otherwise, stream live on YouTube (www.youtube.com/wtju) or on wtju.net
Greg joins the X-odus 🌹🌍✊@zorakc2c.bsky.social · last mo.For this year’s @wtjuradio.bsky.social Jazz Marathon, I’ve gathered a 7-piece ensemble to tackle some staples of the Silvio Rodríguez songbook. The show is FREE however you listen: 🗣️ Live at 2244 Ivy Rd. 📻 91.1 FM Cville 📡 Streaming on WTJU.net
it’s got everything: transphobia & sinophobia, pathetic partisanship, and a complete lack of actual humor.
its considered uncouth to post screenshots from twitter but this is a marvelous example of Democratic party messaging.
We're on the brink of the WTJU Jazz Marathon, beginning Mon, Sept 28, & running through the early hrs of Mon, Oct 5. Mark your calendars & join us for 7 nights of live music & a full week of jazz & blues programming on 91.1FM & streaming at wtju.net. Please donate at wtju.net/donate
For this year’s @wtjuradio.bsky.social Jazz Marathon, I’ve gathered a 7-piece ensemble to tackle some staples of the Silvio Rodríguez songbook. The show is FREE however you listen: 🗣️ Live at 2244 Ivy Rd. 📻 91.1 FM Cville 📡 Streaming on WTJU.net
Spite. And the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism
Written by Uju ✍🏽@writtenbyuju.bsky.social · last mo.How are y’all keeping yourselves together with everything going on right now?
Calling all Cville weebs: video game music jazz is on tap at Miller's tonight come hang
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Robert Kraft is worth $15.4 billion. Let’s say you make $50,000 a year—a little higher than 2024’s median. In terms of your money: - For you, $1mm is twenty years labor - For Kraft, $1mm is $3.29. A fuckin box of Boo Berry cereal.
Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism@feralcommie.bsky.social · last mo."Holy f*ck this has gone badly! Can we buy our way out of it? Yeah, that's bound to work."
I’m bad at jokes how do I word one about Kraft targeting Macklemore because he’s clearly the superior macaroni
Will never not be amazed by how much grace the Cuban people show us. Fidel on 9/11/01:
It’s been 53 years since the US backed military coup of Allende’s government in Chile. A democratically elected socialist was attacked. the fascist Pinochet took power and then tortured, arrested and killed socialists and teachers and labor leaders around the country. youtu.be/IZVWOWA2Hpk?...
Allende's Last Words: The First 9/11
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Carpenter at work just got teary recounting how her daughter got a book a month from Dolly and it was her favorite thing, to open that package and read with her parents.