Radio Blue Heart is on the air!

giallolooks:

Shock (Mario Bava, 1977)

workingclasshistory:
“On this day, 22 January 1969, Black workers at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit marched on the autoworkers’ union with a list of grievances. The workers had formed ELRUM - the Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement - and they...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 22 January 1969, Black workers at the Eldon Chrysler plant in Detroit marched on the autoworkers’ union with a list of grievances. The workers had formed ELRUM - the Eldon Revolutionary Union Movement - and they called a strike the next day, keeping out two thirds of the workforce. The company retaliated by firing and disciplining dozens of militants. But ELRUM was able to rebuild its presence at the plant by the following year.
This is our podcast episode about the group, part of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/28/e12-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1330843190434161/?type=3

thelittlefreakazoidthatcould:

Ecologia del delitto (1971) // dir. Mario Bava

theancientwayoflife:

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~ Bronze figure of the cat-headed goddess Bastet.

Date: 900-600 B.C.

Period: Late Period

Medium: Bronze, gold

biodiverseed:

A Top Bar Honeybee Hive (a.k.a. the “Honey Cow”)

I’ve been building all sorts of beneficial insect habitats and hotels over the past few months, as I finish installing a food forest design. One of the last components of this little edible ecosystem I am going to add is a top bar beehive.

This subset of beehive designs is one of the oldest modes of beekeeping, and mimics the way bees build their combs in nature. A beeswax-coated bar is placed over a protected cavity, and the bees build the rest in the form of the vessel.

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Short top-bar hive from Greece, as depicted in 1682: Wikimedia Commons

It is both a productive, and apicentric mode of beekeeping. Designs can be adapted to account for what materials are locally available, and the system can thrive with little to no upkeep. 

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An interpretation of “The Honey Cow,”
by James Satterfield in Canton, Georgia, USA

My father-in-law works at the municipal recycling station, so I am going to try build a simple small top bar hive with a window, using what recycled materials and timber he can find for the project. After which time, I just need to come into some European Honeybees!


Images:  Medina Beekeepers User: Mike Rossander/Adventures with a Top-Bar Hive; Talking with Bees

dappermouth:
“ The hunter in the lobby heard your footsteps on the stairs.
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dappermouth:

The hunter in the lobby heard your footsteps on the stairs.

filmaticbby:

Opera (1987) dir. Dario Argento