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Toby 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I’m the guy who goes out early to walk through all the cobwebs, so you don’t have to

dee_le_brun 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Trump: I'm going to end democracy.
MSM: Trump has some controversial opinions on the political system.
Trump: No, I'm literally going to end democracy.
MSM: Yawn. We've covered that already. Old news.

#trump #uspol #uselection2024 #democray #auspol

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Luci Scissors 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“son! how?! how could you become a woman?”
“I learned it from watching YOU mom!”

HeavenlyPossum 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It’s easy to conclude that because states are dominant across the globe today, they *had* to be dominant across the globe. That this was the inevitable outcome of the emergence of the first states, five or six thousand years ago.

I’ve even seen people point to a sort of folk-Game Theory approach, arguing that states can mobilize resources and labor more ruthlessly than non-state societies, so they will inevitably “out-compete” and replace non-state societies.

What this teleological approach misses is the enormous difficulty that states faced in achieving dominance. States throughout history are constantly collapsing. Sometimes state systems disappear entirely. States have spent millennia trying to assert dominance over decentralized non-state peoples. There are even a few still left in the world! Things very easily could have done another way.

“Until surprisingly recent times, spaces of human freedom existed across large parts of our planet.”

https://aeon.co/essays/an-archeological-revolution-transforms-our-image-of-human-freedoms

An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays

A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms

^{David Wengrow (Aeon Magazine)}

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

People usually go to Graeber for this kind of thing now but I think Gelderloos' _Anarchy Works_ is also pretty good for "how do people or did people handle [common problem] without a state"

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Esslar2 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

2 writings that have helped me with understanding this are James C. Scott's "Against the Grain," and Charles Tilly's paper, "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime." Then there is the wonderful, "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow. What is really hard about all this is to think it through and come up with some sort of understandable framework to deal with. The idea of religion as ideology dreamed up for use as a tool to keep people in one place and easier to steal from is still something I'm working on in my mind.

D. G. Fitch 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

as Friere put it: "The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be [human], but for them, to be [human] is to be oppressors. This is their model of humanity. This phenomenon derives from the fact that the oppressed, at a certain moment of their existential experience, adopt an attitude of 'adhesion' to the oppressor. Under these circumstances they cannot 'consider' [them] sufficiently clearly to objectivize him—to discover him 'outside' themselves. This does not necessarily mean that the oppressed are unaware that they are downtrodden. But their perception of themselves as oppressed is impaired by their submersion in the reality of oppression..."

Barry Goldman 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

maybe they spread so thuroughly BECAUSE they collapse so easily! a state collapses, the people scatter, each group can't imagine any other form of life, and replicate their beloved states, repeat.

like Rindos' analysis of spread of agrictulture through instability (maybe went hand in hand)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/202569

HeavenlyPossum 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@barrygoldman1

No. States are elite projects, not mass movements. Historically, people have worked to *escape* state rule, and people liberated by state collapse have tended to just go about their lives.

@Barry Goldman

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1365614/ Daily Discussion 💬 Sunday #Football #france #ParisSaintGermain #Soccer

Daily Discussion 💬 Sunday - EUROPE SAYS

This thread is for general football discussion and a place to ask quick questions. Quick links: New to…

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#france #Soccer #football #parissaintgermain

7B'JaJaDa 4 months ago • diaspora

Bonobo

2024-07-28 00:09:45

https://youtu.be/WfGMYdalClU

MAN
Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at mans relationship with the natural world.Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg."Hal...
^YouTube

2 people like this

N. E. Felibata 👽 4 months ago • diaspora

Sam 4 months ago • hometown (AP)

Black person on Fedi: *breathes*

White person on Fedi: Now this is just my opinion and I know people are gonna jump down my throat for this but if you just breathed a little differently maybe you wouldn't get so much hate...

fivestone 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

哈哈哈哈

遥知兄弟登高处
遍插茱萸少一人
三缺一
维尼快来~

https://x.com/KimJongUnDouble

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乌云 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

怎么的？习近平这次没去啊？

fivestone 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@DarkClouds_Sin 那个组合已经有习近平了吗？

@乌云

Reticent Turnip 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I am writing a new software program. It is called RunExecLaunchStart.exe and its function is to provide a useful service

Cromley 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I need this now

Reticent Turnip 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@VoiceofDuum Please download from DefinitelyNotRansomware dot scammers dot russia

@Cromley

Matt Mullenweg 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Happy Birthday, Charleen

I've had many blessings in my life, but the very first was the family I was born into. Today, I'd like to tell you about my only sibling, favorite sister, and best beloved, Charleen Mullenweg. With a gap of nine and a half years between us, we could have easily been distant from each other, but it was almost like I had a third parent, one who was just the coolest person I could imagine in the universe.

https://ma.tt/2024/07/happy-birthday-charleen/

Happy Birthday, Charleen

I’ve had many blessings in my life, but the very first was the family I was born into. Today, I’d like to tell you about my only sibling, favorite sister, and best beloved, Charleen Mul…

^{Matt (Matt Mullenweg)}

Michael Perry 4 months ago • pixelfed (AP)

The fierce, tiny Wrentit is neither a wren nor a tit; it is the only species in its genus, Chamaea. So local to the West that the Pasadena Audubon Society calls its newsletter The Wrentit. #naturephotography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birdwatching #naturephotos #LAWildlife #losangeles #GriffithPark #GriffithParkBirds #BirdsOfPixelfed #TheWrentit #Wrentit #Chamaea

A tiny bird with the fierceness of a dinosaur.

#birds #LosAngeles #naturephotography #birdwatching #naturephotos #birders #birdsofpixelfed #birdwatchers #griffithpark #LAWildlife #GriffithParkBirds #wrentit #TheWrentit #Chamaea

AmiW Streetart 🍃 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: #JackDavison in Loc.: #London UK 🇬🇧 2012 - Title: untitled - #Art #Streetart #PhotoArt #Fotografie #Photography #Portrait #BnW #Mirror #Surreal #Artist ➡️ #APhotoLove

Photography. A black and white photo of a woman's face in the mirror. A hand with painted fingernails can be seen in the foreground. She is leaning on a white background and her fingers are spread out as if she is trying to grasp something. Between the fingers is a round mirror in which the face of a young Asian woman can be seen. A confusingly beautiful portrait.
Info: Jack Davison is one of Britain's leading portrait photographers, but that is too simple a description, as his love of experimentation is multi-layered. He started out looking for inspiration in Flickr images and the photos of famous photographers and remixed everything. He finds the surreal in the everyday, his mysterious images blurring the boundaries between reality and the dream world.

#art #photography #london #Fotografie #streetart #portrait #Artist #mirror #surreal #bnw #photoart #aphotolove #jackdavison

Mx. Luna Corbden 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There’s nothing but birds and cats in my feed!!! 😻😸🦜🍗

simplycorbett 4 months ago • iceshrimp.net (AP)

Cats are awesome!

Mx. Luna Corbden 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@simplycorbett we are😻

@simplycorbett

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1365608/ Severe heatwave in Iran forces shops and public institutions to close. Temperatures exceeded 45C (113F) in 10 Iranian provinces on Saturday, with the highest temperature of 49.7C (121F) recorded in Delgan #Climate

Severe heatwave in Iran forces shops and public institutions to close. Temperatures exceeded 45C (113F) in 10 Iranian provinces on Saturday, with the highest temperature of 49.7C (121F) recorded in Delgan - EUROPE SAYS

Severe heatwave in Iran forces shops and public institutions to close. Temperatures exceeded 45C (113F) in 10 Iranian…

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#Climate

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1365606/ Apple Drops To Sixth Position In China’s Smartphone Shipments, As The iPhone Faces Immense Competition From Huawei, Vivo, More #Economy

Apple Drops To Sixth Position In China's Smartphone Shipments, As The iPhone Faces Immense Competition From Huawei, Vivo, More

#Economy

Mx. Luna Corbden 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

become unmarketable 😂

Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The choice should not be difficult.

You are either with the democracy of our United States and its constitution…

Or you support ending that replacing government with an autocratic theocracy enshrining one state religion using racial and loyalty tests for citizenship in service of an oligarchy modeled upon Russia and other authoritarian nations oppressing people for profit and power.

#OneManAboveAllLaws
#AmericanFascism
https://climatejustice.social/@notwhatwethink/112860687492563457

swtyndall.notwhatwethink

2024-07-27 21:57:03

#AmericanFascism #onemanabovealllaws

Alexis 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

the furry fandom's best trait?

we're unapologetically ourselves.

to all other fandoms, I say this:

reject capitalism.

embrace cringe.

become unmarketable.

jonny (good kind) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

My neighbors have an Alexa and it is the defining feature of when they have people over. The alley is all plaster and concrete so we hear basically everything in each others apartment. I try to tune out but the yelling at Alexa is so intense its hard to ignore.

They are in the middle of a 10 minute command session trying to get it to play a song from an album, and this happens maybe once every hour on average. They are arguing with each other about how to command the Alexa, interrupting and ruining each command. If they just had a Bluetooth speaker hooked up to their phone it would be done in 10 seconds without yelling, but here we are.

Voice interfaces are misery makers

Jon F 4 months ago • pixelfed (AP)

Grey butcherbirds seem to be increasing in prevalence. This one was very interested in my gardening work as I dug up some weeds, exposing delicious grubs. It sat at my feet waiting for the next course. There seem to be two types, this one has more brown colouring than the others which have plain grey.
#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Birds #AustralianBirds

#birds #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #australianbirds

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Melissa Salmela 4 months ago • pixelfed (AP)

#cat #drawing

Piirretty kuva kurkkua syövästä kissasta.

#cat #Drawing

Ministry of Floof 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Posey boi

#birds #malaysia #tootsea #frasershill #birdsofmastodon #featherverse #birb #bied #birding #wildlifephotography #nature #photography #borb #forests #cute #yellow #art #bird

Silver eared mesia knows his poses and has perched

Silvered eared mesia in another pose perched on a stalk

#art #photography #cute #birds #nature #forests #bird #Malaysia #yellow #birb #birding #wildlifephotography #bied #birdsofmastodon #borb #tootsea #Featherverse #frasershill

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Rebecca 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Khurram Wadee 4 months ago • diaspora

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@Om* 4 months ago • diaspora

run...

#computers #in #run #our #lives #animatedgif

#animatedgif #LiVES #in #computers #run #Our

4 people like this

HP van Braam 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I went #thrifting yesterday. I found a #modem. It looked different than any other modem I had seen, so I got it.

First off, lovely color scheme!

🧵

#retrocomputing #hotpink #modem

Front of a modem, showing two rj11 phone jacks and two 25DIN connectors

#retrocomputing #Modem #thrifting #hotpink

Katy Swain 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The difference between memorising something and learning something is understanding.

If you don't understand something, you can't learn it, but you can remember it.

This is why redefining learning as memorising is so popular among people who want you to believe things that don't make sense because they aren't true.

Ruben 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'll try and remember that... No I mean.., yes I understand

littlemiao :jewish_pride_flag: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Sprockles spent #Caturday napping in a cloud of floof. How about you?

#ThreeLeggedCat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Sprocket

Top down view of a napping black and white kitty with three legs and a short tail puff. He is on his cooling blankie, his head pillowed on the arm of the couch, fast asleep. He has a super floofy ruff and his tummy floof puffs up around his edges.

#cats #caturday #catsOfMastodon #sprocket #threeleggedcat

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Laura :bongoCat: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

For the first time in the history of the Games, the Olympic Flame will glow without fuel.

The ring of flame, which is almost 7 metres in diameter, incorporates 40 LED spotlights to illuminate the cloud created by 200 high-pressure misting nozzles.

Above all, they have achieved the feat of guaranteeing the flow of electricity and water 60 metres above the ground, when the cauldron is in flight.

No Gods , no Masters! RESIST 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Let's see, Netanyahu, comes to America to meet with a knucklehead here while Hezbollah is bombing Israel and Trump calls them very smart.

Somebody is getting played!

Donald Trump held a SUMMIT with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

As a private citizen. At Mar-a-Lago.

The Logan Act is a federal law forbidding private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments.

TRUMP IS BREAKING THE LAW — YET AGAIN

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Kevin Leecaster 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I so hate that influencers like @tristansnell and now others are spreading these easily debunked lies about the Logan Act!

These are the type of ridiculous and damaging #BlueAnon lies that hurt the left side of the aisle so damn badly.

I'm not going to cite the Logan Act for you since if you yourself are citing it than that shouldn't be necessary, so I'll just ask you when was the last prosecution of a violation of it and what were the outcomes of every example?

@Tristan Snell

No Gods , no Masters! RESIST 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I don't know about the rest and I will try to dive into it.
Tristan Snell is also an attorney with a very good record.
He may have a grudge against the convicted felon...
But so do I!!

The Logan act and is the convicted felon guilty by meeting with Netanyahu and Orban.

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1365600/ A common day as a Spaniard in Benidorm #2WesternEurope4u #2WesternEurope4u #europe

A common day as a Spaniard in Benidorm - EUROPE SAYS

A common day as a Spaniard in Benidorm by fernandopas

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#europe #2westerneurope4u

Cainmark 🚲 🥥 🌳 🧱 🫛 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Neat little video of the physical process of publishing her book "Allotabotz" by Lynn Johnston, known firbher com8c strip "Fir Better or Worse".

https://youtu.be/Cb9296JtYi0?feature=shared

#nc_comicstrips #ComicStrip #LynnJohnston

Alottabotz: At The Press

Lynn Johnston visits Hemlock Printers to watch her first Alottabotz book, The Botshop, as it goes through the printing press. We appreciated the tour, and to...

^YouTube

#comicstrip #nc_comicstrips #lynnjohnston

cobalt 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This is terrific! I hope @glennf notices this video since Lynn is in the book he's finishing up right now on comics and comic art.

@Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Thanks for the cc! This is in fact the same printer I’m using!

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1365431/ Kamala Harris erases Trump’s poll lead in one week – Turnaround since vice-president took election frontrunner spot from Joe Biden described as ‘astounding’ #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates

Kamala Harris erases Trump’s poll lead in one week – Turnaround since vice-president took election frontrunner spot from Joe Biden described as ‘astounding’ - EUROPE SAYS

Kamala Harris erases Trump’s poll lead in one week – Turnaround since vice-president took election frontrunner spot from…

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#UnitedStates #Politics #U

Holeintheheadesign 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

bagpie 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

You can’t get to the bows on the deck of this ship so this was the best pic I could get through the dirty windows. #sunset #scotland #travel #ferries

A photograph of a sunset taken from a ferry on Loch Ryan, Scotland. Calm water, intense orange at the horizon, dark blue above, reflected on the water, a ship’s bow dead centre in the lower section.

#travel #scotland #sunset #ferries

Sue Stone 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It has not been proven that JD Vance is a dolphin porn fetishist

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/it-has-not-been-proven-that-jd-vance-is-a-dolphin-porn-fetishist/

It has not been proven that JD Vance is a dolphin porn fetishist

It is important that we keep the record clear. Although I do wonder what kind of rhetorical purpose Vance had in mind when he posted this. What a weird sicko.

^Pharyngula

Paul_stilgar 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Written by a couch potato ?

#harris2024 #voteblue

Capt. Tony 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Any self respecting marine mammal would deal with him like an aggressive shark, and take him out in short order. They're smarter than we are, and stronger

Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If anyone really wants to says, "Well, all politicians are basically the same.", at this point, you're either willfully ignorant or a Russian bot, and I'm blocking you either way.