(Any/Comrade, Tankie for the unserious)

Marxist-Leninist with Meowist leanings (cat supremacy, but love all animals)

Labor organizer. USian.

Scientist, experience in vaccines/drug delivery/chemistry/analytics/biochemistry/protection of eggs dropped from tall structures

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  • You need to treat them nicely and maybe show a bit of romance. Poems, flowers, even a printed picture of flowers, something nice that will last is all it takes and your instruments will work perfectly for you. Each person may need to contribute individually to the shrine.

    I swear, some damned tech came in on a PM and removed my poem from my favorite HPLC and now it’s been acting up for me nonstop.



  • Oh, this shit is funny!

    Offset is a platform that aims to generate high integrity, premium carbon credits from industrial sabotage and direct actions. At the heart of our work is an innovative new methodology for quantifying the climate benefits of political actions that publically disrupt carbon flows.

    Our Approach

    Carbon offsets apply the logic of capitalism to atmospheric interactions. This logic assumes that all activities on earth can be quantified and abstracted, and therefore exchanged. Offsets produce the capacity to outsource the effects of one’s consumption—at the scale of the individual, the corporation, or even the nation state—to someone, somewhere else, even to the generations of the future. In short, many existing carbon offset markets act to maintain a status quo rather than address root causes of the climate catastrophe.

    In contrast, the Offset platform includes a registry of alternative offsets that focus on social exchanges and political actions in order to contribute to a program of highly financialized radical change.

    Institutional Support

    Offset (version 0.1) was commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, for Data Relations.








  • Lol, what? WTF kind of advice is this?

    NO. You talk him like a peer and respectfully say “stop,” you don’t run to the fucking work police and try to get his ass in trouble because he’s annoying you and you never told him you were annoyed. Why would you complain to HR because someone annoyed you when they don’t even know they did it?

    Sure, let’s just escalate this shit and make his life worse, guarantee he’ll be pissed off at you because you didn’t react like a reasonable person, you did what the institution that most alienates you from your humanity suggested ( your workplace, complain to HR), and make the entire situation worse than it ever needed to be. Let’s just jump to firing the guy while we’re at it, because a negative tip to HR for a person in their probationary period might be that anyway!

    Fuck off with this advice.

    Going to HR at this point in this situation DOES mean you aren’t a team player. It’s like shooting your teammate’s knee out instead of passing the baton if you were running in a relay race.

    Talk to the man like a human.




  • In 2023, the US government returned the remains of some children who were sent to the boarding schools (it’s still ongoing). Aside from the bones of children, there were also animal bones. Why were there animal bones mixed in? Because the children’s remains were pulled from where the school’s rubbish was buried. Separating the bones after all this time would be difficult.

    I can think of no better reflection of how the US government treats indigenous people wherever it encounters them. Indigenous Americans have probably received some of the worst treatment. As always, actions speak louder than words.



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    As smug and insufferable as Adam Conover’s character was in that show, IRL he’s making progress leftward and has been an active labor organizer for years, so he’s earned my respect.

    Wish he would read some theory. He’s sooo fucking close and would make a good ally.


  • I’ve had political campaign volunteers knocking on my door multiple times a day and calling me non-stop, mainly to try to get me to vote Democrat for the last week. The amount of political flyers they send to each house is obscene. I had a good sized pile of them I collect just from last week. Talking to the volunteers is ok. We’re always respectful with each other and I participate in their surveys, but their campaign has reached the levels of harassment, so in a moment of mischief, I acted out to entertain myself a bit.

    I’ve made my own version of the little free library, for all the political flyers I collected and posted it outside my home: Little propaganda library. Take a flyer, share a flyer.

    They’ve stopped knocking on my door.


  • No, you got it exactly right with

    China invests in many African and Latin American countries

    Western countries don’t invest, they exploit. They can’t even conceive of working with other countries as equal partners. People who project the same intent on China’s Belt and Road projects do so out of either ignorance or ill intent.

    It’s quite clear that what China is doing is building up the industries and infrastructure of other countries under very favorable terms for their partners so as to build an international community that mutually benefits from trade. It just undermines US hegemony, by which I mean the insidious, parasitic stranglehold on global trade created by Western monopolies, cartels, and mob-like financial institutions intent on sabotaging the economies of most countries for US benefit.

    If Western European countries embraced the Belt and Road Initiative, they too could see a great benefit, but not nearly as great as what China and West Asia would see. This is part of why the US works so hard to destabilize West Asia through war: they know that the Silk Road was the greatest trade route in the world and the vast amount of wealth it created all along its length. This would be the Silk Road 2.0, resplendent with modern modes of transportation that would completely change how trade is done throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe, let alone the effects on other continents.

    Combine these efforts with BRICS leading to the decline of the petrodollar and you’ll see that the efforts of China to unite the world are about to kick the shit out of the sand castle that is the US’ dominance over the global economy. All of the nasty trucks they’ve used to devalue foreign currencies while artificially bolstering the dollar have become precarious. This is why the US is upping its aggression towards China despite having no chance of coming out ahead in a direct war with China. They see the writing on the wall and are desperate to prevent this. Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but with all the momentum behind BRICS and the extent to which their military might is overextended right now, I don’t see any way the US can prevent the erosion of their global economic power in the decades to come. I just hope we can prevent it from doing the damage they will try to inflict while fighting this downfall.

    I would bet that most countries only continue to put up with the fits the US throws out of a fear of military or economic retaliation and we already see the later eroding. Give it time and you’ll see them put up with less and less as alternative power structures begin to dominate.

    China is proving Mao right, that the US was a paper tiger all along.

    The United States has set up hundreds of military bases in many countries all over the world. China’s territory of Taiwan, Lebanon and all military bases of the United States on foreign soil are so many nooses round the neck of U.S. imperialism. The nooses have been fashioned by the Americans themselves and by nobody else, and it is they themselves who have put these nooses round their own necks, handing the ends of the ropes to the Chinese people, the peoples of the Arab countries and all the peoples of the world who love peace and oppose aggression. The longer the U.S. aggressors remain in those places, the tighter the nooses round their necks will become.