Jeff 🅱ez🅱os watching the Seattle city council votes roll in:
All glory to Space Empress Kshama
All hail!
@piecesolvingapuzzle Orion was polling ahead by about 8% on election night, but only a small amount of votes cast were actually counted then and those were overwhelmingly early and by-mail votes, aka rich people. Now that they’re actually tallying election day’s ballots (aka poor people), Kshama has had a strong majority in every batch of votes counted, and as of the most recent reports is ahead by about 1000.
It’s basically playing out the same way it did in 2013.
“Militant socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant has become, for the second time in six yeas, the “comeback kid” of city politics.
Sawant, who trailed challenger Egan Orion by eight points on election night, has wiped out a 2,000-vote deficit and pulled ahead by 513 votes in District 3, according to the 4 p.m. vote count by King County Elections. She has risen to 50.45% of the vote and is likely to increase the lead in a later release of returns.”
THE COMEBACK KID
I can’t believe I forgot to mention this in the run up to election day like some kinda brain genius, but check out how Egan “my baby must have an Aryan skull shape” Orion told on hisself in this attack ad:
First of all, that big Amazon smile should tell you everything you need to know about what kinda “““local”““ funding we’re lookin at.
Second of all, the red dot in Florida? I’m a part of that dot. And while Jeff Bezos was able to just idly drop a few million on the election like it was bus fare, a lot of us decided to skip lunch a few days so that we could kick Kshama our last $20. And here we are.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold …
I’m in the red dot from NY!
It still amazes me how some people in the US seem to see socialism as the “Russian Danger“ when nowadays socialist parties are basically from the center, a bit to the left.
It also makes me wonder if there’s actually, a leftist party
Yeah, it’s called Socialist Alternative. It’s the North American section of the Committee for a Workers’ International. We just ran a candidate in Seattle.
Oh that’s great! Almost everything I see in US politics is about the Democrats or Republicans
”For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who have brought so much damage to our forests. What you are doing will change the whole world and will destroy our home – and it will destroy your home too.
We have set aside our divided history to come together. Only a generation ago, many of our tribes were fighting each other, but now we are together, fighting together against our common enemy. And that common enemy is you, the non-indigenous peoples who have invaded our lands and are now burning even those small parts of the forests where we live that you have left for us. President Bolsonaro of Brazil is encouraging the farm owners near our lands to clear the forest – and he is not doing anything to prevent them from invading our territory.
We call on you to stop what you are doing, to stop the destruction, to stop your attack on the spirits of the Earth. When you cut down the trees you assault the spirits of our ancestors. When you dig for minerals you impale the heart of the Earth. And when you pour poisons on the land and into the rivers – chemicals from agriculture and mercury from gold mines – you weaken the spirits, the plants, the animals and the land itself. When you weaken the land like that, it starts to die. If the land dies, if our Earth dies, then none of us will be able to live, and we too will all die.
Why do you do this? You say it is for development – but what kind of development takes away the richness of the forest and replaces it with just one kind of plant or one kind of animal? Where the spirits once gave us everything we needed for a happy life – all of our food, our houses, our medicines – now there is only soya or cattle. Who is this development for? Only a few people live on the farm lands; they cannot support many people and they are barren.
So why do you do this? We can see that it is so that some of you can get a great deal of money. In the Kayapó language we call your money piu caprim, “sad leaves”, because it is a dead and useless thing, and it brings only harm and sadness.
When your money comes into our communities it often causes big problems, driving our people apart. And we can see that it does the same thing in your cities, where what you call rich people live isolated from everyone else, afraid that other people will come to take their piu caprim away from them. Meanwhile other people starve or live in misery because they don’t have enough money to get food for themselves and their children.
But those rich people will die, as we all will die. And when their spirits are separated from their bodies their spirits will be sad and they will suffer, because while they are alive they have made so many other people suffer instead of helping them, instead of making sure that everyone else has enough to eat before they feed themselves, which is our way, the way of the Kayapó, the way of indigenous people.
You have to change the way you live because you are lost, you have lost your way. Where you are going is only the way of destruction and of death. To live you must respect the world, the trees, the plants, the animals, the rivers and even the very earth itself. Because all of these things have spirits, all of these things are spirits, and without the spirits the Earth will die, the rain will stop and the food plants will wither and die too.
We all breathe this one air, we all drink the same water. We live on this one planet. We need to protect the Earth. If we don’t, the big winds will come and destroy the forest.
Then you will feel the fear that we feel.”
- Raoni Metuktire, environmentalist and chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
“
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Preface”, Parnassus (via philosophybits)
It is bright yellow, can creep along at a speed of up to 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) per hour, can solve problems even though it doesn’t have a brain and can heal itself if it is cut in two.
Meet the “blob,” an unusual organism which will go on display Saturday at the Paris Zoological Park, as part of a first-of-its-kind exhibition intended to showcase its rare abilities.
The slime mold, which is known officially as physarum polycephalum (or “the many headed slime”) is neither a plant, an animal or a fungus. It doesn’t have two sexes – male and female – it has 720. And it can also split into different organisms and then fuse back together, according to a press release from the Zoological Park.
The unicellular being is believed to be around a billion years old, but it first came to the public’s attention in May 1973, after a Texas woman discovered a rapidly-expanding yellow blob growing in her backyard…
The slime mold is… believed to be capable of solving problems, such as finding the shortest way to exit a labyrinth and anticipating changes in its environment, according to scientific researchers at the Zoological Park…
Almost immortal, its only foes are light and drought, according to the Zoological Park’s press materials. But it can also hibernate during several years when threatened.
In an October day in 2015, ecologist Meredith Root-Bernstein was watching a family of rare pigs at a Parisian zoo when something caught her eye.
One of the Visayan warty pigs—a critically endangered species native to the Philippines—picked up a piece of bark in its mouth and started digging with it, pushing the soil around. “I said, Whoa, that’s pretty cool,” says Root-Bernstein, a visiting researcher at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris and a National Geographic Explorer. “When I looked up tool use in pigs, there was nothing.”
Intrigued, the scientist returned to the menagerie at the Jardin des Plantes frequently over the following months to try to observe the behavior again, to no avail. She hypothesized that what she’d seen was related to nest-building, which Visayans generally do every six months to prepare for the arrival of piglets. Sure enough, the next spring, a colleague returned to the warty pig enclosure and recorded three of the four animals using tools to complete their nest, an earthen pit filled with leaves
I for one welcome our new porcine overlords
Do you though? Since they all want to kill you?
Shhh I’m trying to fool them long enough to get close with the boar spear
I raised pigs for years. You’ll be fine as long as you give them enough treats to not be too hungry long enough for you to earn their trust and friendship.
Possibly for other folks, but you apparently are unfamiliar with the fact that pigs appear to have an ancient blood feud running with my family.
This blog is mostly so I can vent my feelings and share my interests. Other than that, I am nothing special.
If you don't like Left Wing political thought and philosophy, all things related to horror, the supernatural, the grotesque, guns or the strange, then get the fuck out. I just warned you.
