Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Oh sheep!
#caturday

Today I got to play BattleTech: Alpha Strike with my kiddo, Lark.

Pure. Joy. 😀

More pics and a short battle report are on my blog.

https://www.martinralya.com/miniatures/pure-joy-playing-battletech-with-my-kiddo/

#BattleTech #miniatures

How are you all finding Mastodon? Is it functioning the way you thought?

Systemic racism isn’t cops being assholes—it’s you, middle-class white person, not fucking saying anything and shrugging it off as not your problem when cops murder someone for the umpteenth time.

@RIDDLES #caturday #silence #suspicious

After raking in record profits, Chevron has announced that the company will buy back $75 billion of its own shares.

Oil and gas companies jacked up prices to line their own pockets at the expense of the American people.

Among those murdered in the Holocaust were 20,000 Hungarian Jews, shot on the banks of the Danube, having been forced to remove their shoes. The shoes were deemed to hold value. Sculptor Gyula Pauer’s monument is composed of 60 pairs of shoes in iron. #HolocaustMemorialDay 

Story time, so my grandfather was a cop.

He also was a bona fide Nazi, like an actual one in World War II, fighting for the third Reich and everything.

After the war he was looking for job where (in his words) he “could still beat people up”.

I strongly believe that being able to commit violence without consequence is a strong motivator for many or most people working in “law enforcement”.

We’re all paying taxes in order to arm a bunch of violent psychopaths to terrorize ourselves.

@anamariecox In countries other than America there certainly isn't.

In other English speaking countries we have these crazy rules about evidence..

a) you need to have it to stop people
b) if you do stop people, you can only question them or investigate about THE THING YOU ACTUALLY STOPPED THEM FOR.

If you stopped them for a taillight that's busted... then ONLY TAILLIGHT RELATED QUESTIONS.

It's an innovative system. Based on this thing called 'civil rights'.

America should give it a try.

Taken a few minutes earlier, a wider angle from a higher elevation:

A Tatar family in front of their home in south-central Russia, 1885. These people were the majority residents of Crimea until the 19th century, when Russia forced hundreds of thousands to leave. We believe that pictures say it best.
https://look.substack.com/subscribe
#Ukraine #Crimea #history #Russia

seems like whoever came up with the phrase “out like a light” was unaware of the most interesting feature of lights

@hannu_ikonen I can relate. I am 82 and have been a very angry young man and then a very, very angry middle-aged man and now a super angry man at the state of affairs. They said: "Never again - after WWII and the #Holocaust!: And guess what - the inhuman cycle of war against all continues. See Thomas Hobbes about "War against all..."

Imploring people to care about others and communities other than one's own shouldn't be radical.
We are all humans.
We are connected in our shared humanity & our joint liberation.
Solidarity & love to all those (including me) feeling the weight of this oppressive world.

Some scholars conceptualize the practice of replaying police brutality videos via media/social media as a modern parallel to how slave patrols maintained control by inflicting psychological terror. This has always stuck with me.
https://www.proquest.com/openview/9b7c9ac6bd5823ed6543849d14ad3577/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344273068_The_wounds_that_do_not_heal_Black_expendability_and_the_traumatizing_aftereffects_of_anti-Black_police_violence

Most folks know about da VInci's Vitruvian Man. But few know about his Cheetodesic Dome.

Billionaires lost $1.9 trillion in 2022.

Elon Musk lost $115 billion.

Jeff Bezos lost $80 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg lost $78 billion.

None of this has any real consequence on their daily lives.

Hoarding wealth like this is grotesque.

Dear corporate media: the man who attacked Paul Pelosi is a MAGA TERRORIST. In audio of police interviewing him he ADMITS he waged attack on Pelosi's for political reasons. That is the DEFINTION of domestic terrorism under federal law. Please call him a MAGA TERRORIST!
Thanks.