1990 - When developers and the town of Oka wanted to start building a golf course on stolen land that belonged to them and that contained a sacred grove and a burial ground, the Mohawk tribe around Kanehsatake, Quebec, rose up and occupied the area. The mayor of Oka sent in SWAT teams to make the construction possible.
After chasing off the police and construction workers, members of the tribe use a front-end loader that was left behind to build barricades from the abandoned police vehicles, blockading a highway. Ultimately the stand-off with the police and the Canadian army lasted 78 days.
Gotta love some great vintage horror paperback cover art!
Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?
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Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (via philosophybits)
“Now let’s talk about safety when it comes to helping a turtle across the road. You always wanna pull your vehicle to a stop, put on your hazard lights, and make sure that there are no cars coming in either direction. Move quickly, pick the turtle up gently, and then move it exactly in the direction it was headed. Even if it’s a water turtle, like a painted turtle, if you see a body of water on the side of the road from where it was coming, don’t place it back in that water. It’s likely a female on her way to lay eggs.”
disney is heavily monitoring pirating, probably partially cause they’re just disney and cause the show is so new
people have been getting notices from their isps that they have infringed copyright by illegally streaming or downloading content without permission from the owner. they had the file name and date and time and everything of the downloads.
i BEG you to BE FUCKING CAREFUL. use tor, use onion browser, use a FUCKING VPN but BE AWARE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING.
im not going to tell you to stop, because. you can glean from this post how i know this is happening, but i do urge you to password share when you can because it’s infinitely safer and also a way to protest against disney for their greed.
BE AWARE. PLEASE STAY SAFE. AND REBLOG THIS FUCKING POST TO LET OTHER PEOPLE KNOW.
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