@Rhube 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Looking for some bedtime reading ahead of the election? Check out How To Be Free, an introduction to democratic communism my girlfriend Alex and I wrote, that you can read for free here: https://maryjamesauthor.wordpress.com/

I'd love for you to take a look at How To Be Free, a short introduction to democratic communism my girlfriend and I wrote. You can read it here for free: https://maryjamesauthor.wordpress.com/

We did it! My girlfriend and I have published the democratic communism book!

How To Be Free is available as a series of blog posts on our WordPress site, or you can get it as an ebook (at 4 different prices including free), pdf, or paperback via Shopify.

General elections are times when more people pay attention to politics, and think about what they want the future to look like. This is our contribution to that conversation.

It's short, it's radical, and it's deliberately written for people who don't normally read political books. Give it a try, and share with others you think might find it interesting!

We'd love to hear what you think 😊

The Shopify link is https://7c1451-5d.myshopify.com/ and the online version is https://maryjamesauthor.wordpress.com/

We did it! My girlfriend and I have published the democratic communism book!

How To Be Free is available as a series of blog posts on our WordPress site, or you can get it as an ebook (at 4 different prices including free), pdf, or paperback via Shopify.

General elections are times when more people pay attention to politics, and think about what they want the future to look like. This is our contribution to that conversation.

It's short, it's radical, and it's deliberately written for people who don't normally read political books. Give it a try, and share with others you think might find it interesting!

We'd love to hear what you think 😊

The Shopify link is https://7c1451-5d.myshopify.com/ and the online version is https://maryjamesauthor.wordpress.com/

If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.

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Rowling: they're making a new harry potter ssseriessss
Rowling: people are hungry for more about the boy wizard!
Joyce: ravenously hungry!!
Joyce: god yes please more harry potter!
Joyce: GOD i'm so hot for more harry potter content
Joyce: i need it in my body now!!!
Rowling:

The upward redistribution of wealth https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/02/26/the-upward-redistribution-of-wealth/. Non-mortgage debt charges are redistributing wealth upward in society at rates that are bound to result in economic instability. We need interest rate cuts, now.

No, it is not life that is bad, but the conditions in which we live. Therefore we shall address ourselves not to life, but to these conditions: let us change them.
-- Albert Libertad

#anarchism #quote #bot

Of course people are angry: we have totally useless politicians whose sole aim is to destroy government services. Why wouldn’t people be angry? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/02/26/of-course-people-are-angry-we-have-totally-useless-politicians-whose-sole-aim-is-to-destroy-government-services-why-wouldnt-people-be-angry/. Politicians wonder why people are angry with them and want to crack down on protest whilst the likes of Ed Balls and George Osborne suggest that the real answer is to deny people any political choice for 20 years. Why wouldn’t people be angry when faced with arrogant incompetence on this scale?

Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried Over and Over Again. It Works Every Time.
gizmodo.com/universal-basic-income-has-been-tried-over-and-over-aga-1851255547

@miff Yeah! I can't imagine the horror of being stamped forever as the person I was at 16! I've been so many people since then

@Brielle Probably eye shadow if they're small pans, face powders if larger pans

Hidden Palace is back on @RadioSEGA today where I will be talking about the localisation efforts of the infamous Working Designs. Please send me your related music requests and tune in at 9pm UK time.

Meanwhile in #Scotland, an altogether mire enlightened approach to dealing with unused & 'ownerless' #property is underway.... as the Guardian points out this is a massive contrast to the (still) feudal approach in the rest of the UK which sees the state & the Crown capture 'ownerless' assets for their own profit.

Sadly, I doubt we'll see anything like this south of the border.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/23/community-capital-ownerless-scottish-properties-to-be-offered-to-local-schemes

As previously mentioned, here's what Einstein had to say about segregation:

"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."

For the last 20 years of his career, Einstein declined almost all public speaking engagements, except those at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

This photo was taken at Lincoln University, an HBCU.