Guido Vittorio Salamdien
@rasgrondwerk.bsky.social
Pig farmer, Urbino
Pinned
Chumbawamba & Credit To The Nation - Enough Is Enough
YouTube video by RileyELFuk
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Stop reducing Chumbawamba’s music to a misunderstood song (Tubthumping). Here’s an anti-fascist song with Credit to The Nation - youtu.be/cD0Rf-N_FVE
Yas, julle naiers. Wat klap soe?
September 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Yas, julle naiers. Wat klap soe?
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First as tragedy, then as farce, and eventually as extinction. Here we are, again, and also, still: "This is the world we made . . .'
youtu.be/jaIQj76l_00?...
youtu.be/jaIQj76l_00?...
Years and Years Episode 6 | "This is the World we Built"
YouTube video by Benjamin Nealon (Sky)
youtu.be
June 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
First as tragedy, then as farce, and eventually as extinction. Here we are, again, and also, still: "This is the world we made . . .'
youtu.be/jaIQj76l_00?...
youtu.be/jaIQj76l_00?...
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The hate you give: On being queer and Muslim in Cape Town - Bhekisisa bhekisisa.org/featured/202...
The hate you give: On being queer and Muslim in Cape Town - Bhekisisa
Following the killing of Muhsin Hendricks, the openly gay imam who created safe places for queer Muslims to practice their faith, Zackie Achmat reflects on the dangerous ways religious communities som...
bhekisisa.org
March 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The hate you give: On being queer and Muslim in Cape Town - Bhekisisa bhekisisa.org/featured/202...
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Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84
Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84
Family announces on Facebook that the musician died in New York City after a long illness
Roy Ayers, the jazz-funk pioneer whose hit Everybody Loves the Sunshine has become a summer staple across the globe, has died aged 84.
A post on the musician’s…
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84
LKJ, "Di eagle an di bear"
And you can see it all around,
the massacres abound,
dead bodies all around,
the atrocities abound,
missing persons can't be found.
Dictators get dethroned,
new clowns are quickly found...
youtu.be/d9CAs1GMorM?...
And you can see it all around,
the massacres abound,
dead bodies all around,
the atrocities abound,
missing persons can't be found.
Dictators get dethroned,
new clowns are quickly found...
youtu.be/d9CAs1GMorM?...
Linton Kwesi Johnson 'Di Eagle an Di Bear' live with Dennis Bovell
YouTube video by Gazely Gaze
youtu.be
February 23, 2025 at 5:56 AM
LKJ, "Di eagle an di bear"
And you can see it all around,
the massacres abound,
dead bodies all around,
the atrocities abound,
missing persons can't be found.
Dictators get dethroned,
new clowns are quickly found...
youtu.be/d9CAs1GMorM?...
And you can see it all around,
the massacres abound,
dead bodies all around,
the atrocities abound,
missing persons can't be found.
Dictators get dethroned,
new clowns are quickly found...
youtu.be/d9CAs1GMorM?...
Billy Bragg, "Help save the youth of America":
And the cities of Europe have burned before
and they may yet burn again.
And if they do I hope you understand
that Washington will burn with them,
Omaha will burn with them,
Los Alamos will burn with them...
youtu.be/BZtU1u4Okoo?...
And the cities of Europe have burned before
and they may yet burn again.
And if they do I hope you understand
that Washington will burn with them,
Omaha will burn with them,
Los Alamos will burn with them...
youtu.be/BZtU1u4Okoo?...
Help Save the Youth of America
YouTube video by Billy Bragg - Topic
youtu.be
February 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Billy Bragg, "Help save the youth of America":
And the cities of Europe have burned before
and they may yet burn again.
And if they do I hope you understand
that Washington will burn with them,
Omaha will burn with them,
Los Alamos will burn with them...
youtu.be/BZtU1u4Okoo?...
And the cities of Europe have burned before
and they may yet burn again.
And if they do I hope you understand
that Washington will burn with them,
Omaha will burn with them,
Los Alamos will burn with them...
youtu.be/BZtU1u4Okoo?...
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Spotted on the web.
February 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Spotted on the web.
The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. - Gramsci
February 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. - Gramsci
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The US president’s executive order on South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s a cynical ploy to stoke racial paranoia and shore up his right-wing base, says @hwasser.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/02/trum...
Trump’s fake refugees
The US president’s executive order on South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s a cynical ploy to stoke racial paranoia and shore up his right-wing base.
africasacountry.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The US president’s executive order on South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s a cynical ploy to stoke racial paranoia and shore up his right-wing base, says @hwasser.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/02/trum...
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When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik
When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik
Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik
I hope South Africa just fucking de-links from the US market. Fuck them.
South Africa’s agricultural exports market by share. The export value in 2023 was US$13,2 billion.
— The African continent remained a leading market, accounting for 38%.
— Asia was the second largest agricultural market, accounting for 28%. /1
— The African continent remained a leading market, accounting for 38%.
— Asia was the second largest agricultural market, accounting for 28%. /1
February 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I hope South Africa just fucking de-links from the US market. Fuck them.
How does it feel to be powerless in the face of such bastardry? And not a single moral outcry from the mainstream media in the allegedly enlightened western democracies.
February 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
How does it feel to be powerless in the face of such bastardry? And not a single moral outcry from the mainstream media in the allegedly enlightened western democracies.
You must be fucking joking.
Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg
Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg
Linda Geddes tests new approach developed in Italian lab that involves alternating egg between different temperatures
Delia Smith demands one minute of simmering plus six of standing with the pan lid on. Heston Blumenthal brings his to the boil from…
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You must be fucking joking.
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack while agency transitions to a records system not subject to FOIA
🔗 www.404media.co/doge-employe...
🔗 www.404media.co/doge-employe...
February 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack while agency transitions to a records system not subject to FOIA
🔗 www.404media.co/doge-employe...
🔗 www.404media.co/doge-employe...
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How to subscribe to The Continent, Africa's best newspaper
Subscribe | The Continent
Subscribing to quality African journalism is easy and free.
www.thecontinent.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How to subscribe to The Continent, Africa's best newspaper
Read the thread...
This is it. This is the one. I think this is my most important report on Elon Musk as a Musk biographer.
Read this and you will understand the man.
Warning: dark stuff inside.
Read this and you will understand the man.
Warning: dark stuff inside.
Two Viral Essays From Longtime Elon Musk Friends Have Just—Yes, Really—Revealed Musk’s Origin Story As a Global Supervillain
The ten most stunning revelations from the Low and Harris Letters—documents unlike any other this Musk biographer has ever seen—lay bare what really happened to make Musk a threat to the world.
sethabramson.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Read the thread...
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This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
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jfc
An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla car that Elon Musk launched in 2018 as part of a publicity campaign.
Newly discovered ‘asteroid’ near Earth turns out to be Elon Musk’s car
Cherry-red Tesla Roadster was launched in 2018 during SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s inaugural flight
www.independent.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
jfc
John Robert Lee, "White Cedar", in commemoration of Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
they mock the memory of your protests...
...and we want your grey-eyed fierceness here
not in the torch-lit catacombs of your head"
(@rahlooho.bsky.social)
soundcloud.com/user-9991951...
they mock the memory of your protests...
...and we want your grey-eyed fierceness here
not in the torch-lit catacombs of your head"
(@rahlooho.bsky.social)
soundcloud.com/user-9991951...
White Cedar poem
Remembering the late Nobel laureate for literature (1992) Derek Walcott of Saint Lucia 1930-2017. Saint Lucian poet John Robert Lee pays tribute in a memorial poem titled
soundcloud.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
John Robert Lee, "White Cedar", in commemoration of Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
they mock the memory of your protests...
...and we want your grey-eyed fierceness here
not in the torch-lit catacombs of your head"
(@rahlooho.bsky.social)
soundcloud.com/user-9991951...
they mock the memory of your protests...
...and we want your grey-eyed fierceness here
not in the torch-lit catacombs of your head"
(@rahlooho.bsky.social)
soundcloud.com/user-9991951...
It's that laugh-or-cry dilemma again.
Trump again demands to buy Greenland in ‘horrendous’ call with Danish PM
Trump again demands to buy Greenland in ‘horrendous’ call with Danish PM
Source says: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode’ after US president’s call with prime minister Mette Frederiksen
Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European…
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It's that laugh-or-cry dilemma again.
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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
#3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
#3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland
One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...
www.openculture.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
#3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
#3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
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U-1. 7 September 1939.
Wilhelmshaven. Arrived early in dark.
Wilhelmshaven. Arrived early in dark.
January 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
U-1. 7 September 1939.
Wilhelmshaven. Arrived early in dark.
Wilhelmshaven. Arrived early in dark.
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Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal data has just been exposed to thousands of advertisers & data brokers through a process called "real-time bidding" (RTB).
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)
January 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal data has just been exposed to thousands of advertisers & data brokers through a process called "real-time bidding" (RTB).
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)