kzz
@cruciferous.bsky.social
gardener / headache haver / historian and union man (she/they)
i am defending my dissertation this term and then getting the absolute fuck out of academia, please pray for me
December 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i am defending my dissertation this term and then getting the absolute fuck out of academia, please pray for me
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#OtD 30 Dec 1936 the great GM sitdown strike in Flint, MI, began with a wildcat strike of 50 workers against transfer of 3 inspectors. Workers occupied the plant until February, winning union recognition and decisively changing the balance of power. More: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/str...
December 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#OtD 30 Dec 1936 the great GM sitdown strike in Flint, MI, began with a wildcat strike of 50 workers against transfer of 3 inspectors. Workers occupied the plant until February, winning union recognition and decisively changing the balance of power. More: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/str...
ok actually the worst thing is that all the pesto i made and froze in little muffin tin pucks this year is up in this freezer instead of the chest freezer downstairs so i’m gonna have to pitch that. gutted
like i mean congratulations but if I don’t get electricity before noon or so (generously) i’m gonna have to throw out everything in the fridge for the fourth time this year
August 28, 2024 at 11:59 AM
ok actually the worst thing is that all the pesto i made and froze in little muffin tin pucks this year is up in this freezer instead of the chest freezer downstairs so i’m gonna have to pitch that. gutted
i don’t think it’s how they intended it to be viewed but DTE’s outage tracker map label that claims 90% of customers still have power is more like rubbing your face in it than reassuring me of their competence
August 28, 2024 at 6:25 AM
i don’t think it’s how they intended it to be viewed but DTE’s outage tracker map label that claims 90% of customers still have power is more like rubbing your face in it than reassuring me of their competence
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and the dot of authoritarian tide
academia as we know it is in the process of being dismantled and not enough people are connecting the dots between the anti-education legislation coming out of the red states, the consolidation of power in regents and presidents, and the systematic defunding of humanities departments
UW-Milwaukee will lay off nearly three dozen faculty, using the provisions of the decade-old law eliminating tenure.
wiscnews.com/news/state-r...
wiscnews.com/news/state-r...
August 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
and the dot of authoritarian tide
academia as we know it is in the process of being dismantled and not enough people are connecting the dots between the anti-education legislation coming out of the red states, the consolidation of power in regents and presidents, and the systematic defunding of humanities departments
UW-Milwaukee will lay off nearly three dozen faculty, using the provisions of the decade-old law eliminating tenure.
wiscnews.com/news/state-r...
wiscnews.com/news/state-r...
August 24, 2024 at 7:38 PM
academia as we know it is in the process of being dismantled and not enough people are connecting the dots between the anti-education legislation coming out of the red states, the consolidation of power in regents and presidents, and the systematic defunding of humanities departments
gathered a bunch of the wild grapes in my backyard and made jelly out of em, crazy tart but tasty
August 23, 2024 at 3:20 PM
gathered a bunch of the wild grapes in my backyard and made jelly out of em, crazy tart but tasty
ahhh i love big orb weaver season
August 14, 2024 at 1:01 AM
ahhh i love big orb weaver season
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This week, workers are organizing actions in 13 cities across the country focused on heat protections.
“We have to keep struggling until the right to water, shade and rest is given to all workers in this country,”
said Lourdes Cardenas of United Farm Workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
“We have to keep struggling until the right to water, shade and rest is given to all workers in this country,”
said Lourdes Cardenas of United Farm Workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
US workers launch Heat Week to fight for ‘the right to water, shade and rest’
In likely the hottest summer ever, workers are organizing in 13 cities to raise alarm about workplace heat exposure
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2024 at 5:06 PM
This week, workers are organizing actions in 13 cities across the country focused on heat protections.
“We have to keep struggling until the right to water, shade and rest is given to all workers in this country,”
said Lourdes Cardenas of United Farm Workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
“We have to keep struggling until the right to water, shade and rest is given to all workers in this country,”
said Lourdes Cardenas of United Farm Workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Omer Bartov engages with the history www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
The long read: This summer, one of my lectures was protested by far-right students. Their rhetoric brought to mind some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history – and overlapped with mainstream ...
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Omer Bartov engages with the history www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Perfect action and words. 10/10 no notes. uaw.org/uaw-files-fe...
August 13, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Perfect action and words. 10/10 no notes. uaw.org/uaw-files-fe...
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Proud to publish Mansoor Adayfi’s eulogy for his friend Emad Hassan, who died last week, in part because of injuries he sustained from US torture at Guantanamo Bay. Emad was an innocent man who happened to come from a town in Yemen with the unfortunate name “Al-Qaidah.”
Remembering My Friend Emad Hassan, Who Should Never Have Been in Guantanamo
Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantanamo detainee who now leads CAGE's Guantanamo Project, eulogizes the Yemeni man beyond the shadows of the torture prison. Part 2 of a 2-part series
www.forever-wars.com
August 13, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Proud to publish Mansoor Adayfi’s eulogy for his friend Emad Hassan, who died last week, in part because of injuries he sustained from US torture at Guantanamo Bay. Emad was an innocent man who happened to come from a town in Yemen with the unfortunate name “Al-Qaidah.”
a squirrel just scampered by on the power line carrying one of my tomatoes in its mouth
August 13, 2024 at 1:41 PM
a squirrel just scampered by on the power line carrying one of my tomatoes in its mouth
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
August 12, 2024 at 8:00 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
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CNN confirms: a US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb was used in an Israeli strike this weekend on a school and mosque compound in Gaza which killed at least 93 Palestinians according to local officials
August 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM
CNN confirms: a US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb was used in an Israeli strike this weekend on a school and mosque compound in Gaza which killed at least 93 Palestinians according to local officials
i think i would have been a much happier historian if i had focused on any period before the 1960s so there would be no expectation of my doing oral histories. i do not like speaking to people and i don’t find them worthwhile for the kind of history i do and yet i must do them anyway
August 9, 2024 at 6:59 PM
i think i would have been a much happier historian if i had focused on any period before the 1960s so there would be no expectation of my doing oral histories. i do not like speaking to people and i don’t find them worthwhile for the kind of history i do and yet i must do them anyway
i think it’s good on a rhetorical level for the left to join in on the popular front vibes but i also don’t see any indication that another dem president is going to meaningfully disrupt the neoliberal order, which means that the fascists will always be on the horizon
August 9, 2024 at 5:24 PM
i think it’s good on a rhetorical level for the left to join in on the popular front vibes but i also don’t see any indication that another dem president is going to meaningfully disrupt the neoliberal order, which means that the fascists will always be on the horizon
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the thing about “obamaism forever bidenism was a mistake” is that there is a strong case that trump was the direct product of the original sin of the obama administration — a too-small stimulus leading to an anemic recovery and stagnant labor market for the first half of the 2010s
August 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM
the thing about “obamaism forever bidenism was a mistake” is that there is a strong case that trump was the direct product of the original sin of the obama administration — a too-small stimulus leading to an anemic recovery and stagnant labor market for the first half of the 2010s
the squirrels are absolutely annihilating my tomatoes this year
August 9, 2024 at 1:44 AM
the squirrels are absolutely annihilating my tomatoes this year
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this is from today. i'm the first person to insist on pragmatism and realistic expectations in politics but if you're confused about the intractability of pro-Palestine activists while the bombs are still dropping you're also confused about what all of that is for
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
‘Especially bloody day’ in central, south Gaza as Israeli attacks kill 27
Victims in Khan Younis ‘incinerated’ as Israeli bombs hit displacement tents, most of those killed women and children.
www.aljazeera.com
August 8, 2024 at 1:18 PM
this is from today. i'm the first person to insist on pragmatism and realistic expectations in politics but if you're confused about the intractability of pro-Palestine activists while the bombs are still dropping you're also confused about what all of that is for
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...