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structuralfract.bsky.social
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structuralfract.bsky.social
you really gotta invert that crown
diy sharpie drawn patch that reads: no gods no masters no presidents no kings sitting atop a table with bouquet making paraphernalia
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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German liberals in 1933 after a high ranking Nazi propagandist is assassinated:
@_stillwerise: I don't want anyone to get shot, even those I vehemently disagree with. I want guns out of the hands of people who will use them to kill people.
September 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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July 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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imagine how glorious she feels
ladybug on a yellow ranunculus flower
May 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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hard to pick favorites but as far as stages of ladybug go, larva is a top contender
ranunculus flower with a ladybug larva
May 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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not sure where the billboard on that photo is but I'll be damned if I've seen a more Molotov cocktailable sign

it literally begs for the flames
May 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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I guess one small upside to our grimdark timeline is the accompanying dark humor.

would be cooler if the guy had followed up his epic win by hurling Trump from the parapet @joeabercrombie.com style but we have to be realistic about these things.
headline from the Irish star: Pro-Hitler UFC star who would 'die' for Donald Trump choked out in front of President UFC star Bryce Mitchell claimed he would "take a bullet and die" for Donald Trump - but instead got manhandled and choked out on the canvas with the U.S. President watching on
April 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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reminds me of this recent sanders interview. like bro you just picked one of the most abhorrent aspects of trumps freedom crushing program of persecution and lauded it as good and necessary.
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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LaVeyanism and all its hokey offshoots have definitely had meaningful ties to and influence on countercultural fascism. Makes total sense that dude directly lifted ideas from a proto-fascist, social Darwinist text beloved by Nazis.
March 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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"For this was the other thing that Elric knew; that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance. This knowledge gave Elric his strength – his profound anger at injustice and inequality"
art of Elric of Melniboné plunging the demon sword stormbringer into a foe
March 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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not to mention the fatphobia. tried to fix that part a few years ago
March 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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So fucking rad lol
"Ah!" said Wheldrake, as if he shared that death also. "This is an evil parody of freedom and justice! It is a lie of profound dishonesty! For while one soul in this world suffers what hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, now suffer, they are culpable." "They are fine fellows all, in Trollon," said Fallogard Phatt ironically. "They are persons of good will and charity. They pride themselves on their wisdom and their equity ..." "No," says Wheldrake with an angry shake of his flaming comb, "they may accept that they are lucky, but cannot believe themselves either wise or good! For in the end such folk agree to any device which keeps them in privilege and ease, and so maintain their rulers, electing them with every show of democratic and republican zeal. It is the way of it, sir. And they do not ever address the injustice of it, sir. This makes them hypocrites through and through. If I had my way, sir, I would bring this whole miserable charade of progress to a halt!" "Be careful, my dear sir. Here you are amongst friends-but in other circles such sentiments are the sheerest heresy! Be silent, sir. For your own sake!" "Be silent! That is the perpetual admonition of Tyranny. Tyranny bellows 'Be silent!' even to the screams of its victims, the pathetic moans and groanings and supplications of its trampled millions. We are one, sir—or we are fragmented carrion which worms permit the false appearance of Life-corpses that twitch and tremble with their weight of maggots -the rotten carcass politic of an ideal freedom.
March 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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this quote from Michael Moorcock's 'Revenge of the Rose' had me literally laughing out loud
I, too, was taught schoolboy litanies to explain the follies of my own country," said Wheldrake, turning away. “I have no quarrel with such wounded, needy souls as yourself, who must chant a creed as some kind of primitive charm against the unknown. I, too, was taught schoolboy litanies to explain the follies of my own country," said Wheldrake, turning away. “I have no quarrel with such wounded, needy souls as yourself, who must chant a creed as some kind of primitive charm against the unknown.
March 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I agree that the prevailing factions certainly were the American landowning elite but they definitely were not the only group or people participating in and contributing to revolutionary events. Here's a couple passages from The Many-Headed Hydra:
The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic.
CHAPTER SEVEN A Motley Crew in the American Revolution IN OCTOBER 1765 a mob of sailors wearing blackface and masks, armed with clubs and cutlasses, visited the home of a wealthy Charleston merchant named Henry Laurens. Eighty strong and warm with drink and anger, they had come to protest the Stamp Act, recently passed by Parliament to raise tax revenues in the American colonies. Responding to the rumor that Laurens had stored in his home the stamped paper everyone would be forced to buy in order to conduct the business of daily life, they chanted, "Liberty, Liberty, & Stamp'd Paper," and demanded that he turn it over so that they could destroy it in an act of defiance. Laurens was rattled, as he later explained: they "not only menaced very loudly but now & then handled me pretty uncouthly." Finally convinced that Laurens did not have the paper, the men dispersed across the waterfront, shedding their disguises and straggling into the smoky taverns and bare boardinghouses, onto the damp wharves and creaky ships. Their protest had consequences. Parliament, taken aback by colonial resistance, would soon repeal the Stamp Act. And in Charleston, one thing would lead to another, as another mob would meet in January 1766 to cry again for liberty. This time the protesters were African slaves, whose action caused greater fear and Charleston's harbor was crowded with ships, the seafarers were soon "in motion and commotion again," styling themselves, said a cynical Laurens, the "Protectors of Liberty." South Carolina Governor William Bull would later look back over the events of late 1765 and early 1766 and blame Charleston's turmoil on "disorderly negroes, and more disorderly sailors."1 Laurens and Bull identified a revolutionary subject often described by contemporaries as a "motley crew," which has rarely been discussed in histories of the American Revolution. It is a subject whose history we have traced from the hydrarchy of the 1710s and 1720s to the slave revolts and urban insurrections of the 1730s and 1740s. The defeat of these movements allowed slavery and maritime trade to expand, as gangs of slaves extended plantation acreage and gangs of sailors manned evergrowing fleets of naval and merchant vessels. Britain confirmed its primacy as the world's greatest capitalist power by defeating France in the Seven Years' War in 1763, protecting and enlarging its lucrative colonial empire and opening vast new territories in North America and the Caribbean for the hewing of wood and the drawing of water. And yet at the very moment of imperial triumph, slaves and sailors began a new cycle of rebellion. liberation. By energizing and leading the movement from below, the motley crew shaped the social, organizational, and intellectual histories of the era and demonstrated that the American Revolution was neither an elite nor a national event, since its genesis, process, outcome, and influence all depended on the circulation of proletarian experience around the Atlantic. That circulation would continue into the 1780s, as the veterans of the revolutionary movement in America carried their knowledge and experience to the eastern Atlantic, initiating pan-Africanism, advancing abolitionism, and assisting in the revival of dormant traditions of revolutionary thought and action in England and, more broadly, in Europe. The motley crew would help to break apart the first British empire and to inaugurate the Atlantic's age of revolution.
March 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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This isn't Ameri—
March 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture: 1) CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research. 2) 1933: The Nazi regime raids and destroys Berlin's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, obliterating groundbreaking LGBTQ research and advocacy materials They're the same picture.
February 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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i grew up on these streets
January 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Lucy Parsons 1851 - 1942
January 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM