technology related sensory memories from my childhood
- sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
- the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
- ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper
- rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo
The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint
Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked
The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass
The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover
The sound effects in kidpix
Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands
…God, it is so weird these things aren’t around any more. Cause it’s true, the sensations are so distinct. It’s bizarre to think about missing these tiny relics.
serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty:
Boss made a dollar
I made a dime,
That was a poem
From a simpler time.
Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he’s got employees
Who can’t pay the rent.
So when boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
Then that’s when we riot
And take our lives back.
#WorkingClassSolidarity
Friendly reminder that Kellogg and John Deere workers are currently striking.
December 7, 2021
12:00 PM PST
Last Updated 8 hours ago
United StatesKellogg to permanently replace striking employees as workers reject new contract
welp.
Also reminder that if “boss makes a thousand, I make a cent” were true, Amazon workers would all be making millions of dollars. ($66 million if I’m remembering that post right.) It’s more fucked than you can possibly imagine.
… in fact, if it were “boss makes a million, I make a cent”, that’d still leave Amazon workers making $66,000, which- given that that ought to let them make rent? I’m gonna go with that qualifies as “boss makes a million and the workers make jack”. Which means… well.
the same
its christmas time and i want you all to look at this again
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He’s a missing native child and at EXTREME RISK! The cops aren’t doing SHIT!
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He went missing 10 days ago!! & I need help to be able to focus on my family
I miss him so much 😞 it’s been very hard too eat or sleep or do anything.. I am my families support system so I haven’t been able to rest. I’m also worried about trying to find a lawyer & not having the $, & how I’m going to afford to pay for anything as I’m on my own in this.. SIGNAL BOOST
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Every time i see a post or tweet about twilight being gay culture or hilarious I just think about how the Quileute tribe of Washington had to set up a website specifically to combat racist misinformation that was being spread about their history and customs by stephenie meyer. Like she really just took an existing group of people with millennia of actual history and an actual mythos and culture and then just made shit up to fit her sexy mormon abstinence only tract
Donate to help the Quileute Nation move their culture and community center to higher ground now that climate change is threatening their current infrastructure.
While it would be horrifying regardless, this post fails to mention (although the source does) that Phi Pham is not from Vietnam. His parents were Vietnamese refugees who ended up in the Philippines, where he was born, and from there he legally emigrated to the US where he has lived the majority of his life. He is facing deportation to a country that he is not a legal citizen of, that he has never been to, and where he knows no one. He is not unique in this situation, the US government increasingly deports refugees to “countries of origin” that they have never been to.
punks of color bc this website is slacking
Some more from my collection
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good animation, terrible everything else
Mosaic glass and decorative plaques, 1st century B.C.E./C.E. The majority of the decorative panel motifs were widely used as decoration in Greek architecture, or in the wall paintings and stucco of the Roman period. Via Miho Museum Kyoto/ flickr.
African Canvas Margaret Courtney-Clarke
The Art of Africa is a casualty
of colonial exploitation, surviving
principally in the museums of
other countries. ~ Nadine Gordimer“My objective in this work is to document an extraordinary art form - vernacular art and architecture in West Africa - that is not transportable and therefore not seen in museums around the world. It is an attempt to capture the unseen Africa, a glimpse into the homes and into the spirit of very proud and dignified peoples. In much the same way as I photographed the art of Ndebele women, I have drawn on my personal affinity for the art itself, for methods, design and form, rather than the socio-anthropological or political realities of a people or continent in dilemma. These images portray a unique tradition of Africa, a celebration of an indigenous rural culture in which the women are the artists and the home her canvas.”
Global conceptions of Antarctica are dominated by colonial narratives […]. The politics of Antarctica remain firmly rooted in notions of discovery and sovereignty on a ‘tabula rasa’, where the intersection of nationalism and resources leads to particular challenges and consequences. Over the last 200 years, heroism, risk, strength and self-sufficiency have been at the heart of dominant historical Antarctic narratives and claims, and these characteristics have far-reaching consequences for present policy and governance. […]
Despite Indigenous involvement in fishing and science in Antarctica, scientific practice, state-centric governance and decision-making has excluded Indigenous knowledge, interests and aspirations […].
In the Southern Ocean, the migratory pattern of whales, and the humans that have charted and followed them, is just one relationship that connects Indigenous peoples and Antarctic seascapes.
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Humpback whale migrations through the seascapes of Tahiti, Tonga and other Polynesian islands across the Pacific have led to strong cultural associations and non-human kin relationships with migratory cetaceans that are embedded in many Polynesian stories.
Human voyaging into Antarctic waters by Hui Te Rangiora and his crew on the vessel Te Ivi o Atea in around the seventh century may have followed cetacean migratory routes from Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. In so doing, they were perhaps the first humans to set eyes on Antarctica; evidence of their likely discovery lies in its name Te tai-uka-a-pia which denotes the frozen ocean, as well as oral accounts handed down through the generations.
Similarly, accounts of the flora, fauna and physical geography indicate sub-Antarctic as well as likely Antarctic visitation by Hui Te Rangiora and his crew; thirteenth century Māori sub-Antarctic exploration is well-established […].
Other noted Māori explorers of the Antarctic region include Tamarereti, who pursued the origins of the aurora australis.
These traditions record enormous ice cliffs with towering mountain ranges behind them, with nowhere to gain a footing, and suggest that those with Tamarereti gained an understanding of the physicality of the Antarctic region, including the Antarctic Circle. Hui Te Rangiora’s descendant Te Aru Tanga Nuku hundreds of years later also journeyed far into southern waters.
In Aotearoa New Zealand, these explorers are of such importance that they remain commemorated in elaborate carvings and recalled in navigational and astronomical knowledge. For example, Hui Te Rangiora’s voyage and return are depicted in carvings at the source of the Riuwaka River at the top of the South Island, as well as on the meeting house of the Ngāti Rārua people. For Māori, the Milky Way in the night sky is more than a navigational system; it represents Tamarereti’s seafaring vessel, or waka, Te Rua o Maahu. In this visualization of astronomical knowledge, the Southern Cross is the anchor and the two pointers the rope for the waka.
These visual memory aids underscore the skills required to navigate southern oceans, and place Māori firmly in relationship with the southern oceans. […]
Aotearoa New Zealand, one of the 12 signatories to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, is currently re-setting its national research strategy for future Antarctic and Southern Ocean research, as will other countries that have an interest in this ‘no-man’s land’ governed collectively in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). Ahead of a likely review of the ATS in 2048, with mineral rights just one issue that is open for amendment, now is the time […] to reimagine decision-making processes to ensure future protection of its ecosystems. We argue that an Indigenous paradigm from Aotearoa New Zealand offers a relational perspective that can inform better Antarctic management. By highlighting Māori connections with Antarctica the continent, Antarctica the seascape and Antarctica the living entity of human-kin relationships, we challenge the intellectual legacies of Antarctica framed within existing mindsets and expand these to grow alternative conceptions of human relationships and responsibilities to Antarctica and the seas that surround it.
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Figures, captions, and text published by: Priscilla M. Wehi, et al. “Transforming Antarctic management and policy with an Indigenous Maori lens.” Nature Ecology & Evolution. May 2021.