saywhat-politics:

Covid patient’s ‘restless anal syndrome’

A Covid patient who was hospitalised with a relatively mild form of the illness went on to develop a horrifying condition in what could be a

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If this won’t make you get vaccinated, nothing will.

brunhiddensmusings:

disgruntledmenshevikjohnmulaney:

hot take- people who have made a conscious decision to be horrible bigots should understand that they will be treated like people who chose to be horrible bigots

merelygifted:

‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”.

She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the science did not lie.

Carbon emissions are on track to rise by 16% by 2030, according to the UN, rather than fall by half, which is the cut needed to keep global heating under the internationally agreed limit of 1.5C.

“Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah,” she said in a speech to the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders. Words that sound great but so far have not led to action. Our hopes and ambitions drown in their empty promises.”  …

merelygifted:

Kaleb Cole helped organize a campaign to send threatening posters to journalists and employees of the Anti-Defamation League.

merelygifted:

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid, making him the first French head of state in modern times to receive two jail terms. 

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 30 September 2014, Xu Lizhi, a poet and rural migrant who worked at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, died by suicide at the age of 24.
He published poems in the factory newsletter, and on his website, which some friends of ours translated.
This is one example: “The paper before my eyes fades yellow/With a steel pen I chisel on it uneven black/Full of working words/Workshop, assembly line, machine, work card, overtime, wages…/They’ve trained me to become docile/Don’t know how to shout or rebel/How to complain or denounce/Only how to silently suffer exhaustion/When I first set foot in this place/I hoped only for that grey pay slip on the tenth of each month/To grant me some belated solace/For this I had to grind away my corners, grind away my words/Refuse to skip work, refuse sick leave, refuse leave for private reasons/Refuse to be late, refuse to leave early/By the assembly line I stood straight like iron, hands like flight,/How many days, how many nights/Did I - just like that - standing fall asleep?”
You can read an obituary and more translations of his poems here: https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/1819635784888230/?type=3

rcmoore:

156/367: Entombed - Left Hand Path

if you make it to the middle of this song, you get the best 80’s horror soundtrack breakdown in all of metal.

(there’s no way for me to know this; i really know little about the genre)

p-o-s-s-e-s-s-e-d-b-y-f-i-r-e:

• Entombed - Revel In Flesh

amorremanet:

You give me the anger.
You give me the nerve.
Carry out my sentence.
While I get what I deserve.
I’m just an effigy to be disgraced.
To be defaced.
Your need for me has been replaced.
And if I can’t have everything,
well then just give me a taste.