On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

• 1984, George Orwell

In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.

Available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

All they’ve got is Diamonds And Rust

136 upvotes to 6 downvotes for a piece of shit like The Telegraph and a bullshit divisionary piece? I thought Lemmy was better than this

He lost, it’s been generating power since 2018! 😄

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre#Objections

What does this mean?

Originally I thought you meant 2 million out of 15 million people but Turkey’s population is 86 million

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Inches closer every day

The good news, if you can call it good news, is that Trump and co are so evil, and incompetent, that it’s waking people up to the awful system they live under.

Harris and The Democrats would’ve been able to continue with business as usual and nothing would change. At least now there’s some hope of a left surge in the wake of all this right wing hatred, pain, and suffering

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It’s only crazy effective if it’s not expected. If it becomes the norm then everyone just starts wearing foam ear plugs, maybe ear defenders if they’re fancy.

It’s easily defeated and incites the wrath of the populace. It’s dumb to use, especially during a moment of silence for the dead.

13. Make a list of necessary gear before your trip, then check it off the list as you pack. This helps ensure you don’t forget anything. You can even categorise the list, so you can easily see what kit is in which pockets/dry bags.
14. Dry bags are incredibly useful if you hike in wet weather or ford rivers. Different coloured bags can help with categorisation, for example, you know the yellow bag is fresh clothes, the green bag is camp kit, the blue bag is water filter and chlorine tablets, the red bag is electronics, etc. This makes finding stuff a piece of piss and saves rummaging.

https://youtu.be/-1uSSRcn7UE

The lyrics for this song, particularly the finale quote, are pretty apt to your point. NSFW if your boss doesn’t like the word fuck.

As Tywin Lannister said “Any man who must say, “I am the King”, is no true king.”

Any man who goes around telling everyone they’re brave, probably isn’t brave. In fact it’s incredibly cringe.

A cringe country full of cringe people who say one thing but do another. Claim to stand for freedom, democracy, and liberty whilst oppressing all of those things both at home and abroad.

Land of the cowards.

Fuiam Catha by Oi Polloi from 1999.

Despite the Gaelic name, only one song is in Gaelic. The rest is in English.

Pro-environmentalism, anti-fascist, Scottish anarcho-punk.

Fuiam Catha means Sound of Battle.

I don’t know what your experience with gardening is, so I might be preaching to the choir here. But if it helps, No-Dig Gardening is a method that lets nature do a lot of the hard work for you.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/soil-composts-mulches/no-dig-gardening